I want you to know who these lovely young men are. They are both named mark. Which is very convenient. Mark mario, distinguished president of the National Urban league, and mark steiner, who is a brilliant journalist and a former and current activist in social justice. You will hear a lot more from him. They will be joined by more people you will see shortly. To get us started, i would like to bring to the podium one of my favorite people at the smithsonian. He is a distinguished leader of this institution. His official title is the Elizabeth Mcmillan director of the Smithsonian National museum of American History. He is part of our top collaborators in the work that we do, particularly with the exhibition space we have at the american museum. John. [applause] well, good morning. It is a pleasure to welcome all of you to the interNational Museum of American History. I would say, if ever there is a time in america when we need historic understanding, as well as museums that present hist
Justice. You will hear a lot more from him. They will be joined by more people you will see shortly. To get us started, i would like to bring to the podium one of my favorite people at the smithsonian. He is a distinguished leader of this institution. His official title is the Elizabeth Mcmillan director of the Smithsonian National museum of American History. He is part of our top [applause] good morning, it is a pleasure to welcome all of you to the interNational Museum of American History. If ever there is a time in america when we need historic understanding, as well as museums that present history in ways people can understand their role in democracy, it is today. It shows you the prime example the show you will be discussing is a prime example of that. We have a major show on american democracy. One of the key components is the way citizens can participate in our nation. One of the key ways of doing that is through protest. Honoring protest and understanding it in the context of a
Appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. We will be live from Appomattox Court House National historic park on both april 9 and 12th as historians including ed ayres reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. We will also bring you reenact its of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and we will open our phone lines to take your calls. The surrender at appomattox live april 9 and 12th, here on American History tv on cspan three. Up next, we hear from Staff Members at the three president ial libraries based in texas about their collections documenting the white house years of Lyndon Johnson, george bush, and george w. Bush. The george bush president ial library and museum hosted this event. It is about 90 minutes. As we say here in texas howdy. My apologies to the people from johnson and bush 43, but that is what we do here. Welcome to the bush library. Im the director here. We have t
And the Johnson Library in austin. Since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. Michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein and barbara klein. Christina is the registrar. We have our new archivist and our registrar. What we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three president ial libraries in texas. We are the only state in the country that has three president ial libraries. They will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. If they go too long, they have to leave the stage. Hopefully, we will leave a little bit of time at the end. The ideas to leave time at the end for you the audience to maybe ask some questions you have thought about during the program. We release in question time at the end and i will moderate that. I will pick you out. There are microphones. Tonight is being taped by cspan. There will be microphone so if you raise your hand, you will be passed to microphone so we can get the question on camera
A 14yearold boy arrested for the kidnapping and Sexual Assault of a 65yearold woman. What we learned about the case and the investigation. An aalert Police Officer happens to dine at same restaurant as a suspected gang leader. Twinkies may be a thing of the past. Why you may not be able to buy them anymore. Rain is starting but will it wash out the weekend . We will talk about the first of two systems. And in case you are just joining us this bay bridge drive is terrible. Why we have very long lines coming up to the toll plaza. Mornings on 2 starts now. Complete bay area News Coverage starts right now. This is ktvu mornings on 2. Good morning. Welcome. Its friday november 16th. Topping our news a brutal assault and kidnapping of a 65 yearold woman. The suspect is a 14yearold. We are in vallejo where we have been following this developing story since 4 30. Reporter good morning. Police are planning on holding a press conference later this morning where we expect to learn more details bu