Visit ironworks in richmond that served as the main artillery manufacturer for the confederacy during the civil war. It was an iron foundry that operated on the bank the james river from 1837 to 1957. Its greatest claim to fame was the chief armor, to the confederacy during the civil war producing a large majority of the cannons used by the confederacy. Richmond had a lot of infrastructure that no longer exists from battlefield hospitals to the battlefield themselves. Fewironworks is one of the remaining structures that existed before the civil war, played a. His history dates to the 1800s and southeastern wales in the united kingdom. There was an ironworks that was the main supplier of iron for the British Industrial revolution era when richmond businessman wanted to begin an ironworks here they contacted engineers and millwrights to come over here and design their mills and ironworks here. Francis dean, who started tredegar, had a good amount of imagination but not a good businessman
Virginia for the continuation of the symposium on civil war monuments. We have a museum professional. Anistorian and lawyer, english professor and clergyman, and archivist and historian, and a sociologist. I think this accounts for multiple perspectives. He has published and spoken widely, challenging americans to question sources by which we remember our past. He is best known for his provocatively titled book, lies my teacher told me everything your High School History textbook got wrong. And lies across america what are historian sites got wrong. Students of the civil war no him also for his coedited collection of primary source documents, the confederate and the old confederate reader. His first book, the mississippi chinese, between white and black in 1971 is derived from his harvard doctoral dissertation, his prizewinning 1974 textbook, mississippi conflict and change, was the subject of a Court Decision articulating the right to read. He talked Race Relations for 20 years at the
Better. That five minute in o t. It stunned people there until portland. All of a sudden, people in that arena were just sitting in. Even paul allen. Exactly. Yes. We have dive more into this. Very deep. Beautiful performance. First, we talk politics in San Francisco. The city could soon extend the right to vote to 16 and 17 years old. City board of supervisors is expected to vote on whether to put it on the ballot. Reporter this was first introduced by the city on youth commission. They say the reason is that 16 and 17yearolds are more ready to engage and this would increase voter turnout. The majority of supervisors are supporting the proposal. This would allow them to vote on municipal issues. This would be allowed to be on the November Ballot for vote torres decide. Upon turning 16, young people can drive, work without limitation on five hours, pay taxes, take classes on government in school, are subject to adult criminal charges and, yet, are denied the right to vote. If passed as
A matter of fact, we did not have a lot going on. We have look at tracy traffic that will be busy on 580, i merely coming in over the altimont pass. 205 is okay if you are driving over to livermore. When you hit vasco road it looks better. At the bay bridge toll plaza, not a big delay right now. It is very light coming into San Francisco. Were not sure it will stay this way. On 280 northbound in san jose, it looks good through the south bay. Lets go back to the desk. A fifth Dallas Police officer died hours after snipers opened fire during a march to protest recent Police Shootings. Minutes ago we learn from our sister station in dallas that a total of 12 officers were shot. Five died and seven were injured. Two civilians were also injured. Investigators say the snipers went after police in an ambush style. People who have lived in dallas say theyve never seen such chaos. Alex savidge has been following the latest developments of this from our newsroom. Reporter morning. Lets talk abou
About 100 people right now walking in front of city hall this morning, and again, just like we saw from the frisco five protests in front. Mission police station, they are calling for the residence resignation of police chief sir. This is a group that started on facebook, the boy scott for sfo justice, in honor of the frisco five, and theyre asking the public to skip out on school and worked it and not by anything in the restaurants or businesses. They say they have tried everything to be heard but theyre not getting the results in terms of Police Reform in the wake of High Profile Police shootings. We the community were forced to liberate them from their hunger strike. And we promised them that we would take action so what we have organized is a First Amendment protected picket in front of city hall. Well have hundreds, perhaps thousands of people join us throughout the day and we plan to circle around the entire building. We will do a pro petal hearing against Police Brutality and ra