Months by pope francis and the world meeting of families. Now including not one but two parades featuring the pontiff. The first parade which will take the holy father from eakins oval to and around city hall will be prior to the start of the festival of families on saturday, september 26th. Reporter second parade happens just before pope francis gives mass on the ben franklin parkway september 27th. Organizers also announced 30,000 tickets for key papal events including 10,000 to see the pope at Independence Hall. Another 10,000 for festivities on saturday 9 26 and a final 10,000 tickets to see the papal parkway mass. They will be first come first serve. Everyone wants to see the pope and we totally, totally get that. Reporter many people we talk with arent sure these changes will make things any easier. We live so close to Independence Hall i thought wed be able to be close enough to see him. Now that theres tickets i dont know whats going to happen. Reporter modifications come after
Months by pope francis and the world meeting of families. Now including not one but two parades featuring the pontiff. The first parade which will take the holy father from eakins oval to and around city hall will be prior to the start of the festival of families on saturday, september 26th. Reporter second parade happens just before pope francis gives mass on the ben franklin parkway september 27th. Organizers also announced 30,000 tickets for key papal events including 10,000 to see the pope at Independence Hall. Another 10,000 for festivities on saturday 9 26 and a final 10,000 tickets to see the papal parkway mass. They will be first come first serve. Everyone wants to see the pope and we totally, totally get that. Reporter many people we talk with arent sure these changes will make things any easier. We live so close to Independence Hall i thought wed be able to be close enough to see him. Now that theres tickets i dont know whats going to happen. Reporter modifications come after
At hall. 10,000 for saturday festivities and 10,000 to see the sunday papal mass. The event itself justifies all of the changes weve seen in recent weeks. Philadelphia is still going to be the best place in the United States to see pope francis. Huge areas are Still Available for tens of thousands of people. But the Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association says the sudden changes have already led people to change hotels if not cancel altogether. You have to think about the people who are booking their trips far in advance, paying a loft non come to the see to see the pope. Executive director ed gross says a third of Center City Hotel rooms are Still Available. Theres a sense of urgency but theres not a panic yet for the weekend. I mean i think that, you know, people theres still plenty of time to book those rooms but you know there is a sense of are you john see. Reporter all right. So the big question w do you get those tickets to see the pope . Well the archdiocese says they will relea
Its about an hour. Good morning. I will prewarn you today you will hear language that we fould repulsive. Im not going to cut it out because it makes us quiver. Well get started. On june 12th, 1864, after fails to defeat robert e. Lees army of northern virginia, Lieutenant General ulysses s. Grant accompanying Major General george g. Meades army of the potomac and a portion of the army of the james pulled away from the fortifications at cold harbor and began the Movement Toward petersburg. Some troops to the bermuda region north of petersburg to begin the attack on the city the following day of june 15th. Petersburg in 1860 had been virginias second largest city. With a population 18,266 folks. Since the war of 1812, it had been referred to as the four railroads radiated from the city by 1860. The Petersburg Railroad which ran south to weldon, north carolina. The richmond in petersburg, obviously connecting those two places. The south side which ran from city point, modern day hopewell
Are spending much time at all training for the crater. I think it gets back to how we tend to want to remember this story. The story of the black Union Soldier is front and center. I couldnt be happier about that. I think theres been a danger in the way the story has been pushed over the last few years. It is the moral narrative of our civil war memory. We want to correct for forgetting about them for so long. I think we tend to gloss over some of the darker sides of black soldiers. I dont think were comfortable talking about black soldiers massacrering others. That doesnt fit into our minds right now. I think we want to believe if those black regiments had been allowed to lead the assault that would have been it. We can imagine black soldiers charging over brandfield hill into petersberg. Thats a very soothing image. Anyone who has studied civil war battles, theres nothing that goes as planned. Is there any surprise given this massive detonation. No one can really predict what it will