Berrys cadillac in sports and music. Several history makers are our guests. General colin powell and congressman john lewis and low Loretta Lynch. And the latest on Hillary Clintons health. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. There is phony strength and there is real strength and its phony strength to not know what youre talking about. Real strength is leveling with the American People. A health scare shakes up Clintons Campaign. The campaign knew on friday that she did have this pneumonia diagnosis. Its clear she was trying to hide this and certainly hurt her certainly in the short term. This comment kind of gets very close to thedictionary bigot. A wave of air strikes in syria. 16 years since the terror tacks on 9 11, the country paid tribute to the lives lost. In the end the most enduring memorial to those we lost is ensuring america that we continue to be. Operations back to normal. A fake bomb found in a screening area which was evacua
Cameras on the plaza where the memorial stands. Investigators think they know who is responsible for this latest incident. Denvers police chief says it is disheartening to see the memorial vandalized a second time. I really felt sick. That memorial represents men and women who have given their lives serving this community and to deface it is a dishonor to those individuals and the men and women in this department and the community. The mayor michael man Congress Said he was hancock said he was extremely upset. A number of people got a rude awakening this morning. Victims tell us vandals were throwing rocks through windshield. Denver Police Say Nine cars were hit about 11 a. M. Officers chase down four juveniles. They were arrested. Damage ranges from dents to shattered windows. A live look at mountain all those lucky people who had the president s day holiday off are now not so lucky in that they are stuck in slow traffic coming down the mountain. This is i70 at u. S. 6. We are expecti
Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. A special couple of other things to show you. The National Museum of health and museum was known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission at the time was to collect specimens of human anatomy. To send them to washington for care and preservation. Staff doing the business of Lessons Learned theyre trying to understand the nature of battlefield surgery and trauma and share those lessons with their colleagues in counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in nearly days museum is housed at the Surgeon Generals office and actually the first few Museum Artifacts were on the shelf behind the Surgeon Generals desk. That is the Riggs Building your the white house. It wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before movi
Making more money off the forced labor of africanamericans than they ever have before. I have seen statistics from economists that study this, and the amount of wealth from cotton exceeds every other investment in america. Tons of money has been made off the cotton empire. And we see how americans have gotten into the cotton empire with the invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s, americas transition from tobaccobased agriculture to cotton agriculture. If there is one thing i want you guys to get out of this class, slavery is not just a southern history topic. It is an American History topic. Scholars who study this subject emphasize the fact that the slave system has its tentacles into every corner of northern and southern society. This is not just down there in the moonlight and magnolias. New york bankers were in the cotton empire up to their eyeballs. As a matter of fact, when the war breaks out, many of the people who sympathize from the confederacy are from new york because they
Americans views on race and slavery both before and during the civil war. Prof. Dirck argues that prior to presidency, lincoln was very much a normal american. This class is a little over one hour. Okay. To look at what we are dealing with this week, and really the rest of the semester we are dealing with the american slave system in roughly a 40 year time period, usually called the antebellum period. This is when the american slave system is in its heyday. This is when americans more americans are making more money off of African Americans than they ever have before. I have seen statistics from economist at study this. The amount of wealth that was going to the con empire exceeded every other investment in america. Tons of money is making being made off of the con empire. We see how americans got the cotton empire with the production of the gin. Americans transform from a largely tobacco based empire to a con based empire. If theres one thing i want you to get out of this class it is