Sent a letter to surviving internees. Letter whereirst he said we are sorry. Here, we say today, on behalf of offerellow americans, i sincere apologies for the actions that unfairly targeted japaneseamericans during world war ii. It was determined by the commission that the betweenamericans lost 810 million and 2 billion in 1983 numbers and they were never compensated for that. Father both asd american citizens always believed in this country. It was, i think, a vindication that we were innocent. And some apology monetary renumeration. It makes it less likely it will happen again, but does not guarantee it. Why is why this collection, books and materials like what my mother wrote are important, so that the next generation understands that unless you protect the constitution for everyone, everybody is still in jeopardy. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring sacramento, california. Our cities tour staff recently toured there to learn about its brief history. About sacr
Capital. West,are in the wild domes and columns in a similar look and style. It was the idea that we were part of this particular government right now. You see a lot of symbolism in the room. Later, here about the internment of japanese americans during world war ii. I remember the day we had to leave. We did not know how long we were going to go. We didnt know where we would be sent. We just knew that we had to leave our farm. We begin the hour with a visit to the Sacramento History Center and a look at the items in the gold rush collection. The concept of where sacramento is is quite ludicrous in many ways. Its lowlying marshland. Probably the worst place to put a city. But the concept that it was more important for the monetary gain than it was for the longterm life of the city. What that caused in the end and what a lot of these things helped us document was how the city had to transform and change for self. It is a story of disasters. You can ask yourself that question, what i hav
Background, the context is the theater. This was an act that occurred in a theater, by an actor, with other actors standing by. And i wanted to look at it through the eyes of those people. And when i was working on the president s book and i was working on the lincoln chapters, i kept coming across this iconic playbill for our american cousin. I looked at it and i kept thinking, these are real people most of whose names have been lost. I mean, if you asked people on the street who the people were involved with the lincoln assassination, certainly people know lincoln, they know booth, maybe 1 in 10,000 would know laura keene. But almost no one would know the names john dyott, harry hawk, billy withers. These were major names in the events of that night. So i started looking even closer to get a sense of, who were these people . I began to find in some cases their names were spelled wrong or the names were a misrepresentation. In some cases its really difficult tracking down actors, beca
Back and forth several times before he actually went up to the box upstairs. So i wanted the readers to feel like, what must they have gone through. Imagine for a moment that the president of the United States has been assassinated in your workplace by one of your most admired, respected colleagues. Fearing for your own safety and the fear of being thought complicit. Reelecting in panic that could be construed as hostile to the president. As well as the times you could be seen socializing with the suspect. The more i start theres a saloon on the south side of fords theater. The star saloon. Theres a saloon next door on the north side, the green back saloon. There were a lot of trips to those saloons that day. Near as i can figure booth alone made seven or eight trips over there in the afternoon or evening which gives you some feeling about working up his courage for what he did. From that moment on, your world would never be the same. You would be intear gated, perhaps imprisoned. You
Artifacts. This painting was rolled up in a tent. In the 1970s, the piece was donated to the library. However, it was just speculation that led to early folks believing that this was john lafitte. It has really caught fire, much like all the history with lafitte. There is a lot of mythology that is difficult to disentangle from fact. If you experts have taken a look at this portrait and concluded that it is most likely not lafitte for a number of reasons, including the cost and that he is wearing. If you notice the hat looks like it belongs more in the 1600s rather than the 1800s. Also, the lack of an undershirt is very sensual for an early 19th century proper portrait. Also notice the way he is holding the dagger. That would be a draw out from which the dagger would be facing down. This is a very foreboding man. He is going to stab you in the back when you are not looking. Some folks have speculated that it might just be a fanciful victorian interpretation of lafitte. Another idea is