Station on joppa road to homes in lockraven village. 60 homes have not been bought by has by hess and are expected to be demolished. It is part of a legal settlement between those home owners and hess. I would have preferred some steps earlier by the Gasoline Company to deal with this. They started investigating a fuel leak in 1987 the underground storage tanks at the hess. Those tanks were removed in 1991 and a liquid fuel has been detected since 1995. But the Department Says there are still low levels of fuel contamination in the ground water, resulting in a continued some continued reports of gas odors. You can smell it right here. None of the home owners who settled with talk to us but we did talk to this man and his nephew who were not included in the settlement because they were told they contamination stopped 5 feet from their property. But the fumes and the oil slick and water was gushing from the back coming directly into our backyard. We are right behind the gas station. They
An idea whose time has come looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansas, russia and upstate new york. Washington d. C. And policy work, in addition to waking from the dream he has written inside is of the Civil Rights Movement and prophetic religion in the death of jim crow. He has written numerous articles and essays so our format today i will start by asking a few questions for panelists to discuss and then we will switch to audience questions. Please go to the microphone in the middle. It 3 15 we will move to the activity building fo
Congress is going to keep you up at night because you dont want to put the book down. But i really found it when i said riveting, i meant it. Absolutely fascinating. Okay. Your book emphasizes what you call the complex and contradictory cast of characters who pulled the toward or away from the president s desk. Guest let me just say thank you very much to green lying for having this as jarred mentions this is my neighborhood book store. I lived down the street and was here all the time and in fact we bring our kids to listen to the wonderful sounds of jarred on sunday morning. So its a pleasure to be here to talk about this book. Of course, thank you very much, nell. We have Work Together on essays in the past and i have a deep respect for your work, since ive encountered it. And not so much as a child. So, i have long had a deep respect for your work and its a signal honor to have you read at all the book and then to recommend it so highly and to be here. When i sought to do the book
Golden Spike National Historic Site walking you over to where the transcom no railroad was completed. This spot right here marked by the lower wood tied is within inches of where the original ceremony was held on may 10, 1869. The post that you see right next to it was actually placed than they reserve aid the exact location of establishing the site in getting ready to set rings up so that is marking pretty much the exact location within inches of where the original ceremony was held. This is a replica of what had been lost in the 1950s San Francisco earthquake and fire. All of the items brought up for the ceremony would have been brought up by the Central Pacific out of california. Included on this guy site is a plaque that was many of the dignitaries from that company, the Central Pacific in particular including Leland Stanfords name and the big four are all marked fair. One the Transcontinental Railroad was completed it made a major impact in the Industrial Development of this natio
Whose time has come, eyes on the prize, and waking from the dream this is just under an hour. Nowk festival, a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement with dave chapelle, and Juan Williams. Thank you all for coming. And share of the humanities department. I would just like to ask that you would all silence in the cell phones or other Electronic Devices of the panel is not disrupted. I want to start by acknowledging that yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther king. Would like to ask if we can all take a brief moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. We have an interesting array of books represented year. They cover a chronology of the Civil Rights Movement. I guess i will introduce them in sort of the order of the periods that they cover. Eyes on the price covers the Civilrights Movement from 1954 to 65 offering closeups of the struggles of many of the people who made up the movement. A contributor to fox news since 1997 and has worked for npr, a W