Its just slowly snowballing. It was like a punch in the gut reporter sins and secrets im mean im gonna hurtchoo im like, damn what did this lady do . This is just like something youd see in a movie reporter carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. The schools are good. Golf courses dot the landscape. And churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. Theres not a whole lot of Violent Crime in that area. Great area to raise kids and a family. Reporter but travel east a hundred miles or so and you enter the piney woods of east texas. Jobs are not as plentiful here, dreams are deferred and some keep bail bondsmen on speed dial. All the people were dealing here with are poor. Theres a lot of drugs, lotta methamphetamine out there. Reporter different cultures worlds apart. And yet one summer those two worlds collided in a most unlikely way. This is the story of that summer when money seemed to fall like tickertape on the p
Its just slowly snowballing. It was like a punch in the gut reporter sins and secrets im mean im gonna hurtchoo im like, damn what did this lady do . This is just like something youd see in a movie reporter carrollton, texas, just north of dallas, is the kind of place where the upwardly mobile go to buy their dreams. The schools are good. Golf courses dot the landscape. And churches are more ubiquitous than starbucks. Theres not a whole lot of Violent Crime in that area. Great area to raise kids and a family. Reporter but travel east a hundred miles or so and you enter the piney woods of east texas. Jobs are not as plentiful here, dreams are deferred and some keep bail bondsmen on speed dial. All the people were dealing here with are poor. Theres a lot of drugs, lotta methamphetamine out there. Reporter different cultures worlds apart. And yet one summer those two worlds collided in a most unlikely way. This is the story of that summer when money seemed to fall like tickertape on the p
Programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on her schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. You are looking at a live picture from Oak Ridge Cemetery from revealed illinois, where the 150th anniversary of president aber cap president abraham we can pause euro. With us is richard hart, a springfield resident and author. Your book is lincolns springfield. Tell us what we are going to see today and whats going to happen behind you this afternoon. This afternoon, you will see a reenactment of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln in springfield 150 years ago. It started on the square downtown and it will take probably half an hour for the procession to reach Oak Ridge Cemetery, which is on the north side of springfield. That procession will be a reenactment of lincolns actual funeral. There will be a number of divisions with reenactors in those divisions. You will se
Springfield. Tell us what we are going to see today and whats going to happen behind you this afternoon. This afternoon, you will see a reenactment of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln in springfield 150 years ago. It started on the square downtown and it will take probably half an hour for the procession to reach Oak Ridge Cemetery, which is on the north side of springfield. That procession will be a reenactment of lincolns actual funeral. There will be a number of divisions with reenactors in those divisions. You will see a replication of the funeral hearse that was put together by a local funeral home. I believe you are going to see a horse which would have in Abraham Lincolns force, bob, led by an africanamerican henry brown coming into the cemetery. And then there is the receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery. It is there lincolns body as well as his son willie, were placed at the time of the lincoln funeral. Why was president lincoln buried in springfield . This was his home for 24 y
Your book is tell us what we are going to see today, what is going to happen behind you and all around you this afternoon. Thank you. Today, youre going to see a reenactment of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln in springfield 100 50 years ago. It started on the square downtown. It will take probably a half an hour for the procession to reach Oak Ridge Cemetery, which is on the north side of springfield. That procession will be a reconstruction or reenactment of lincolns actual funeral. There will be a number of divisions, with reenactors in those divisions. You will see a replication of the funeral hearse that was put together by a local funeral home. I believe you are going to see a horse, which would have in Abraham Lincolns horse, bob led by an africanamerican henry brown, coming into the cemetery. And then in back of me is the receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery. It is there that lincolns body as well as his son with his son, willie, were placed at the time of the lincoln funeral. W