Complicated and controversial building of a memorial to president James Garfield on the u. S. Capitol grounds. Well hear from Matthew Gilmore who edits a washington, d. C. History blog. Those of you probably know matt by name, if not in person. He runs a blog, the matthew b. Gilmore press blog and also hes an author of the column of the intowner. If you follow d. C. History, hes been integrally involved. Anything history in d. C. Oh, you also run the d. C. History list. Thank you for that on behalf of the city. Today hes going to talk about James Garfield, his death and efforts to commemorate his life and death here in washington, d. C. I wont say too much more about it. I dont want to steal his steam. Please join me in welcoming matt. [ applause ] thank you very much. The story im going to tell might be ripped from todays or recent headlines. There was a president ial memorial delayed for years caught up in congressional infighting. Legislation pending. A powerful lobby behind the mem
Service. Thank you for that on behalf of the city. Today is going to be talking about james garfield, his death and efforts to commemorate his life and death here in washington d. C. I wont say too much more, i dont want to steal his steam, please join me in welcoming matt. applause thank you very much. The story im going to tell might be ripped from todays recent headlines. There was a president ial memorial delayed for years. It was caught up in congressional infighting, and replace it with another. A powerful lobby behind the memorial had chosen this site, the designer, the design criticize in the press. The site was very close to the capital on maryland avenue. If the years 1887, not 2017, and the memorial was one to president garfield and not president eisenhower. James garfields death was a national shock. He is been a compromise candidate for the presidency and had won the closest election in american history. It was a difficult life but his rise up was the rags to riches story.
Coverage in the l a new lightning complex fires have now burned more than 46,000 acres overnight. These fires have destroyed at least 50 structures threatening dozens more theres 0 containment. The flames are and solano napa and sonoma counties right now and cal fire has hundreds of personnel on the scene trying to protect as many homes as possible. Mandatory evacuations have been issued for several neighborhoods. Well go over some of them right now this includes rockville road. Sassoon valley road Gordon Valley road Wooden Valley road clayton road. A man casts corner shelton lane northwest Browns Valley road. Also west of blue ridge road to 5 05 and north of cherry glen road. The highway one 28 and it is important also know that 80 is shut between fairfield and vacaville between cherry glen road and air base parkway weve covered that a few times here well get more information on that to you as soon as new information comes in. Now tonight, there are multiple evacuation orders also in
Towards the Eastern Shore and its this activity that im keeping a close eye on and as we continue to head through the evening hours well see area of rain developing. The biggest threat will be heavy rain fall and look at all the ight coloringere on storm team 4 radar. This is moving towards woodbridge and quanting. Light and the city of manassas seeing moderate rain. This is moving towards fredericksburg. Theres about a 40 chance that youre dealing with some rain or a rumble of othunder, not everybody is going to see rain. North of washington you have the best chanre of ining dry. The heavy rain is going to be the biggest concern and that threat for severe storms where im talking about hail and wind gusts potentially is more so to our south. South of the fredericksburg area, so some good news there. Leon this, rain is with a cold front thats going to cool us downor tomorrow. Much more on that and the break from humidity coming up right around 6 20. That will be welcome. All righty. Wel
Thank you very much for being with us. Twin suicide attacks targeting Security Forces stretching his his cap with set this thursday killing a Patrol Officer and injuring at least eight people one attacker detonated explosives in a busy commercial district. In the French Embassy shortly before eleven am. Promptly targeting a Police Patrol one of the offices died from injuries received another was injured along the three bystanders. Freedom in june is the and for terrorism to be stamped out. Anger builds following two separate suicide attacks this thursday. But around ten fifty am local time a fast blast rocks the commercial haunted junis on who showed the gold some two hundred meters from the French Embassy a deadly attack on a police patro. Its also injured several offices and bystanders. I was right near the scene of the first attack close to forgive avenue. Where the bomber detonated his device . We saw body parts strewn everywhere. Almost the same moment a second bomber blew himself