Next House Speaker mike johnson taking part in a ceremony unveiling a statue of the late rev. Billy graham at the us capitol area the speaker joined by Billy Grahams son and the North Carolina congressional delegation. Billy graham was a wellknown evangelical christian figurefrom North Carolina. He died in 2018. This is about 50minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the hon. Mike johnson, speaker of the United States house of representatives. [applause] good morning everyone. Its a true honor to have you here and as speaker of the house it is my pleasure to welcome you here as we honor one of americas greatest citizens and enduring heroes. Our capital as you know is filled with monuments to our history. They teach us about where we were and where we are and where we are going as a nation. The statue of the oldest man in the capital is john winthrop, he was an english puritan lawyer and one of the leading founders ad of the Massachusetts Bay colony of 1630. He symbolizes how our country began m
Of the National Rifle association at their annual meeting in dallas. Watch live at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan now, on online at cspan. Org. Up next, House Speaker mike johnson taking part in the ceremony unveiling a statue of the late reverend billy graham at the u. S. Capitol. The speaker is joined by Billy Grahams son, reverend Franklin Graham, and the North Carolina congressional delegation. Billy graham was a wellknown evangelical christian figure from North Carolina. He died in 2018. This is about 50 minutes. This is about 50 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable mike johnson, speaker of the United States house of representatives. [applause] good morning, every one. It is an honor to have you with us and the peoples house and as speaker of the house it is my pleasure to welcome you as we honor one of americas greatest citizens and enduring heroes which are capital is filled with monuments to our history, they teach us about where we were and where we are and where w
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Graduated in and we had all of 1969. The things the other cities had the panthers, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, the drug culture, the antivietnam phase. Everything was here. All at one time. One thing i learned about kansas city at that point time was we tended to be softer on all of issues than others. Our riots were not as vast. We came together to put those out and we moved forward. We learned how to get along with each other although in my opinion, we still remain too segregated. We have to do more to bring our people together across color barriers, and we are working on that seriously. But the things that i remember are the things i grew up with, growing up in a time in the city where there was a lot of conflict and watching how the city has dealt with that conflict in a way that kept it together without falling apart and moving forward. Baseball museum, his stork 18th and fine in kansas city, missouri. Here we document the story of black baseball in america i
[inaudible conversations] good evening again. For those of you that dont know if you dont know tim tyson, a Senior Research scholar for documentary studies at duke visiting professor at christianity in a professor from american and studies of that is very inclusive and we will not talk basketball tonight. He is the author of a finalist of the National Book award and the book called the radio free dixie. In the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book and i can and. Doing it ever an excellent job to put it emmett till murder and launching into a context of american history. His earlier book that is not a disk similar incident 15 years later in oxford North Carolina and ive learned just a few years ago about another similar incident happening three blocks from here during the war of 1944. That was from philadelphia. Then the bus driver got off to shoot and kill him. The all white jury goes that were found not guilty. So that is a very sad tradition. Were keen on public