Mexican drug lords who are beheaded in the middle of the night. Civil war conspiracies and to bring down the late Martin Luther king. Let me introduce you to this cheery, cheery group of guys. [laughter] ill be going in no particular order so the cspan cameraman will have to move around. This is the First Complete biography of the great gangster that cuts down all the hollywood myth about capone and even about the great heroic, absolutely now as we know nonheroic elliott ness as the gman who brought him down. Hampton sides author of hell hound on his trail has pieced together a dramatic ticking clock narrative of the last days of Martin Luther king going back and forth from the days of kings life to his funeral. To the manhunt which at the time was the largest in history for his assassin James Earl Ray. And most amazing hampton took the title of his book from a Robert Johnson song, probably the First Time Ever thats been done in american literature. And speaking of titles, we now have
Historic places and museums. The National Buildings me see him in washington dc was known as the pensions building in 1885, when Grover Clevelands inaugural ball was held in the building. Composed of 15 million red bricks, it contains a red hall that is 316 feet long, and 160 feet tall. Tv visited they building to learn about the inaugural balls of several president s, including jimmy carter, Ronald Reagan and barack obama. For joining us today and welcome to the national tilting wheezy him. I am a volunteer toward a guide for the museum. We are here to go through what we call the president ial inaugural tors. We do this every four years at inauguration time. , which was built as a Federal Office Building turned out to be a wonderful place to have in inaugural balls. What we want to do is explain to you how this building got dealt, its history and how it ended up being so representative of the and how it ison, being used. We will show you pictures of inaugural balls and the history of
Tvs american artifacts visits Historic Places and museums. The National Building museum in washington dc was known as the pensions building in 1885, when Grover Clevelands inaugural ball was held in the building. Composed of over 15 million red bricks, it contains a red hall that is 316 feet long, and 160 feet tall. American history tv visited the building to learn about the inaugural balls of several president s, including jimmy carter, william mckinley, Ronald Reagan and barack obama. , thank you for joining us today and welcome to the National Building museum. My name is jean, gene and i am a volunteer tour guide for the museum. We are here to go through what we call the president ial inaugural tours. We do this every four years at inauguration time. Because this building, which was built as a Federal Office Building over 120 years ago turned out to be a wonderful place to have in inaugural inaugural balls. What we want to do is explain to you how this building got dealt, that built
Inaugural ball was held in this building. Composed with 15 million red bricks, it contains a great hall that is 316 feet long and 160 feet high. American history tv visited the building to learn about the inaugural balls of several president s. Inaugural balls go back to george washington. The first president in 1789 had a party after his inauguration. The capital was not here, it was in new york city. The party was there. In 1793, the party was moved to philadelphia which was the capital temporarily until the structures were built in washington, d. C. By that time, it was identified by the capital city but under construction. The Capital Building was under works. This was the place you could do that. He liked parties, although martha was not there because she was in mount vernon. He decided he will have no parties at all and went to his boarding house and had dinner. The first ball that we know of in this town was president madison in 1809. Dolly madison loved to have parties. They ha
History promote such a polarization of Public Opinion. Well he has supporters that organize festivals in his honor, they praised him in speeches and song. His detractors portrayed him as a dilettante and a demagogue. Doublefaced and dangerously radical. An atheist, hostile to christianity. Characterizing his believes as unamerican, they target with the extremism of the french revolution. His allies call him the formerly anonymous author of the declaration of independence. His bifurcated image took shape because of his own creation. And because of factors out of his control. America positives about jefferson reflected their views of america. Robert s mcdonald is a professor of history at the United States military academy where he has taught since 1998. He is a graduate of the university of virginia and the university of North Carolina at chapel hill where he earned his phd. A special on Thomas Jefferson and the early republic, he has published several journals and other essays. The aut