I stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your cause and the preservation of american democracy. And as your nominee i expect to conduct by crusading an aggressive, fighting campaign. The republicans in we want willkie, Wendell Willkie ran for president in 1940. And as we watch some of the images of him on the campaign trail were joined here in rushville, indiana with david willkie. I want you to introduce our audience to some of the fervor were seeing from these Iconic Images of the 1940 campaign that really surrounded your grandfather as he ran for president and tried to defeat franklin dellanor roosevelt, who was seeking a third term. What an exciting time in the country. Here wed come out of entering into the great depression, the end of the hoover administration, eight years of the roosevelt administration, roosevelt was president , right at the height of his power and that opened up a time for a dark horse can
Capture, john mccain talks about the impact of the vietnam war on his life and country sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Announcer American History tv is that the main Historical Society maine Historical Society collecting artifacts. One goes back to the 15th century. Welcome to the maine Historical Society, the third oldest Historical Society founded in 1822 and have been collecting at this location since 1907. For the early years, maine Historical Society moved around a bit, the public library, and city hall, and once the house was donated to the society, we built this library. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation where we added 13,000 feet to the back of the 1907 building. The temperature and humidity controls, climate controls. We also have an offsite storage case for larger collections since we have outgrown the footprint of our intown location. We collect specifically on maine , but our materials to reach back to the 15th century
Lobster boats going back and forth all the time, you see the islands, sailboats, all the activities that probably people think of a maine visit would be. We take a boat to fort gorgeous, a civil war era just off the portland kos. We are on hog island ledge. Where they built for gorgeous in 1858 to help defend portland harbor. We have completed an 18 6 it was completed in 1865 and was built with two sister forts off to the south. Its camel on how silent. They were designed to work in conjunction with each other to defend the harbor. Everyone thinks for gorgeous is a civil war fort when it was funded long before, and it was approved by congress. Things that occurred much earlier. We begin our feature on portlands history, talking about lobstering. In 2016, the Maine Lobster industry generated over 500 million. Next, we learn about its history and economic impact. Over here is my gps and radar. Here in the fog, it helps us figure out where we are. Traps with amy gps. I kind of do it by fe
While in delaware, its 54 degrees. Throughout the night tonight, mostly cloudy in pennsylvania, as you see, and Lehigh Valley, just cloudy, and we see rain in new jersey, and jersey shore, and parts of delaware. Theres a lot more rain in the rest of the forecast. Thats coming up in a few minutes. All right, glen. Now to the Lehigh Valley where a substitute teacher is charged with having sex with a student in the middle of the cemetery. Investigators say a Police Officer actually caught them in the act in the Eastern Cemetery in North Hampton county earlier this month. Randy gyllenhaal has more on why the owner says its part of a larger problem. Reporter well, police on patrol found the 49yearold teacher having sex with a 17yearold student in the middle of the afternoon in a place thats meant for respect and remembrance. Buried beneath the headstones is two centuries of local history. We have a signer of the declaration of independence here. Reporter its supposed to be a quiet place for
Positive train control. Technology that would have automatically shed the train down to a safe speed at that curve but was not installed test crash. Ptc had been in place at frankford junction on may 12t 1h 2015 we would not be here today. Reporter amtrak officials were on hand and accepted the ntsbs list of safety recommendations. As for the passengers we immediately said we were responsible. We took responsibility. We know that there is pain and suffering. We understand that. Reporter also on hand an amtrak 188 passenger injured in the crash. Temple University Professor on his way home to north jersey when his world was turned upside down. Part of me is mad at amtrak. Part of me is resigned that theres something that happened and i have to endure and survive and move on. Reporter after all of this carnage, all of the accusations, all of the investigating and all of the conclusions, what has become of the man at the center of it all bon dan bostian . Amtrak Officials Say hes still wit