Would be governor, senator or president , a lot of people would have said ed prichard of kentucky. He was one of those people who worked in the white house when he was in his early 20s. He seemed destined for great things and then came back to kentucky and in the 1940s was indicted for stuffing a ballot box. Went to prison. And so that incredible promise just falmed out. We also visit ashland, the former home of speaker of the house, senator and secretary of state henry clay. The mansion at ashland is a unique situation. Calys original clays original home had to be torn down. It fell into disrepair. His son built on the original foundation. What we have is a home that is a fivepart federal style home as henry clay had with details in architecture and elements and an added layer of aesthetic details added by henry clays granddaughter and so on. See all of our programs will lexington saturday evening at 6 30 eastern and sunday afternoon at 2 00 eastern on American History tv on cspan 3.
Climate crisis and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the u. S. Invaded afghanistan and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color coated. It was really to keep people in a state of fare fear and that we needed another colorcoated alerto that theres another way of dealing with this. Thats when we came up with the idea of code pink. We wanted to be hot pink because we were fivesy women but it was already it was taken by a foreignut group. We game pink. How do you pickos your issues . We started out not wanting to be an ongoing organization. And so we did that, we got involved. We had tremendous support around theme country without without really trying we had hundreds of groups that formed in places around the country and we were part of a much Larger Movement that did things that come out to protest on days like february 15, 2003 which is r
Supremacist rally, was killed when a car ran through some of protesters. The bangor daily news, trump violence in north carolina. Headline on this from the front page of the santa cruz criticism of capitol hill, aides scramble to explain trumps response to clashes and gardner, corey republican from colorado, calls stand with take a conviction. Getting your thoughts this morning. Anne up first in north carolina, republican line, good morning. Good morning. Host go ahead, anne. Caller i would just like to say i think the president s comments ere on spot, he condemned all violence on all sides. I would like to say i do not saying te the media everyone that was there was supremacist or neonazi. A lot of people there, were southern rotect our monument. The southern rights and onuments are being torn down, they should not be. And i just would like to say that i do not appreciate the condemning everyone as ist and neonazi, they were not. Host reminder what the had to say after the violence br
Supremacist rally, was killed when a car ran through some of protesters. The bangor daily news, trump violence in north carolina. Headline on this from the front page of the santa cruz criticism of capitol hill, aides scramble to explain trumps response to clashes and gardner, corey republican from colorado, calls stand with take a conviction. Getting your thoughts this morning. Anne up first in north carolina, republican line, good morning. Good morning. Host go ahead, anne. Caller i would just like to say i think the president s comments ere on spot, he condemned all violence on all sides. I would like to say i do not saying te the media everyone that was there was supremacist or neonazi. A lot of people there, were southern rotect our monument. The southern rights and onuments are being torn down, they should not be. And i just would like to say that i do not appreciate the condemning everyone as ist and neonazi, they were not. Host reminder what the had to say after the violence br
I want to get a few points across please put your cell phone on silent. If you would like to share on social bdm ago to Literary Lawn Party we want to welcome you to the next session on southern history but also thank our sponsor for this session. I will introduce you to robert who will be our moderator for today and is a member of the board of directors as well as the director at Jackson State University where he is also a professor and is also an author. Glad to see everyone here this afternoon. Digital and Television News outlets such as abc, 20 20 and fox news. Her investigation into the life of an american Bounty Hunter in afghanistan is currently in production as a feature film. Although adrienne was raised in the northeast, she does come from a long line of mississippi women, so well claim you. [laughter] at least five generations long are. Her mother was born here in jackson, and she and her husband jesse live on a farm in norge, virginia. Was that close enough . All right. [la