Welcome to the report, good to see you. Folks, i got to tell you, its not just the energy in this room. I feel it too. You know, i love going i love going on vacation. It is great to be back after two weeks. I spent the fourth of july holiday celebrating a steamy anniversary with my lover, america. laughter i got him the same present as every year, scrap meat and explosives. But sadly it wasnt all party time. You see, before vacation i was swept up in world cup fever riding high riding high on team usas thrilling series of winning, tying and losing. laughter but then we faced our h he eternal enemy, belgium. Or as i call it europe rhode island. laughter and those wafflesucking sort of frenchies. Crushed us like we were then in every world war. laughter and with america out of the picture it all came down to a death match between germany and argentina. Naturally i assumed it would be decided based on which country has the post living nazi war criminals. Too close to call. So instead lau
First white house library. Sarah, margaret, and abigail sunday night at 8 00 eastern on first ladies examining the public and private lives of those who influenced the presidency from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama on cspan3. Cspans new book, firstly ladies president ial historians on the live of 45 iconic women available as hard cover or e book, through your favorite bookstore or online book seller. Each week american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. Now we visit the museum in washington, d. C. To review an exhibit to mark the 150th anniversary of lincolns assassination. The New York Herald special Edition Published in 1865 show how the news unfolded after the first Associated Press report that the president had been shot. Im the curator of collections here at the museum, and were in our new lincoln exit, president lincoln is dead. This exhibit has a really tight focus on seven editions of the New York Heral
Significance for the day, but this is on the site of the National Hotel, which is the hotel where booth stayed the night before he committed this horrible crime so you can sort of take a look on the floor of this room after you read through the newspapers and place yourself in all spots being referenced from the National Hotel to fords theater, to petersons house which is where lincoln was taken after he was shot, right across the street from fords theater, the spot where he ultimately died to the telegraph offices and newspaper row where the ap office and the new york office were to the white house so you can place yourself among all these significant spots a part of the story. The First Edition is the 2 00 a. M. Edition, more or less the regular edition, the morning paper at the time, and it covers essentially its the breaking news, the flash moment of the president s been shot. Interestingly enough, it uses the word assassination already in that paper because at the time, that word
Book, through your favorite bookstore or online book seller. Each week american artifacts takes you to museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. Now we visit the museum in washington, d. C. To review an exhibit to mark the 150th anniversary of lincolns assassination. The New York Herald special Edition Published in 1865 show how the news unfolded after the first Associated Press report that the president had been shot. Im the curator of collections here at the museum, and were in our new lincoln exit, president lincoln is dead. This exhibit has a really tight focus on seven editions of the New York Herald, published in the 18 hours immediately following lincolns assassination, so it is the minute by minute story of the news as it happened as people were getting it in this country about the assassination of lincoln. One of the ways we helped people understand sort of not just time, but place, is through this great map we have on the floor in the
The truck fixed. Welcome back to full slate of his room im told is sports. We begin in the iraqi province of anbar and cities off the new genre body which of its strongholds all the sunni insurgents during the us war in the country. The ahead of the police in the provinces the scent so often to check his mouth when competing with hundreds of flights has links to al qaeda slice into res people in the course of today will the iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki gave me transform tv show when it reaches out to eliminate militants in the region. On a piece of baghdad correspondent muhammad bc has limits im going to go the image. He and two. Reply and one. He said. It is. It was an. It is. Did a great sense of laurie. In the iraqi capital but you are. And that the of the Prime Minister promising very decisive action. Yet on who wouldnt it be on remittances the statement is. Now this mention your mind. Heath says. Nobody can stop by to change. No indeed come up. I managed to use these to me