And one more comment id like to make is that my son, who is a white male, was pulled over tonights ago by the police because he had a low beam out. So i think things have really changed in the past 50 years. My main question is how can you say you cant make it today based on something that happened to your family 150 years ago . Id like to hear an answer to that. So i mean for starters, this idea of 150 years ago, its true slavery ended 150 years ago. But the discrimination thats baked into our system continues even today. I tell the story all the time about my father, not somebody i read about in a book somewhere, not some ancient relative. My father was born in 1933 in mississippi. Goes off to fight in the korean war. Comes home to a mississippi where he cant sit at a lunch counter, where he is not allowed to vote, where he does not get to participate in the gi bills that are offered to people coming back from war to go to college where he cant get the home loans that are offered as
Was sent back into the white house where the fbi and secret service conducted a thorough investigation of the vehicle, took many photographs, documented what they needed to for evidentiary purposes. After that the car was sent back to its modifiers in cincinnati. To be completely rebuilt as an armored vehicle. And people are always astounded to think that this car was put back into service after the assassination. You would assume either that it was destroyed or perhaps locked away in a warehouse somewhere. But no, the simple fact is the president needed to have a vehicle. President johnson at this point. There simply wasnt time to go back to the drawing board and build something from scratch. The most expeditious thing to do was rebuild this car. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. In july 1967, five days of rioting erupted in detroit, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar and fueled by longsim
In singapore, midnight in london, and ii 00pm in las vegas, where people are coming to terms with the deadliest gun attack in the countrys modern history. President trump has appealed for unity and peace in response to what he called the pure evil of the shootings there. At least 59 people were killed and more than 500 were hurt when stephen paddock, a retired accountant, opened fire on crowds at a music concert from a room in a nearby hotel. We begin our coverage with the report from james cook in las vegas. In the cold nevada desert, Country Music is warming the throng. The time is 10 08pm. The noise prompts confusion. The crowd, 22,000 strong, hesitates. It takes a moment, a deadly moment, before they realise they are under attack. Gunfire. By now, a second round of bullets is raining down. There is a pause. The gunman is reloading again. He is high above them, in the mandalay bay hotel. Panic follows. It is a scramble to live. There were people hiding underneath my car for cover. A
Rise up to meet you, as the day rises to meet the sun. Humble our lawmakers in your presence that they may delight in the power you provide. Help them to remember that before honor comes humility. Give them also the wisdom to know that their sufficiency comes from you. Teach them your wisdom, as you infuse them with the spirit of reverence for you. May they make the commitment to faithfully serve you and country with their whole hearts. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the branstad nomination which the clerk will report.
Spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. We will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. Would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. It also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. The economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. It was a rebellion. The word i have come to over some time is uprising which captures what happened