Next, as travel for Many Americans is limited or a most impossible, we invite you to america. Lm discover the aerial trip across the u. S. Supported the johnson initiative about highlighting natural and manmade attractions from coasttocoast. Narrator an invitation to discovery beckons from each shoreline of this land, the most diverse upon our planet. So it looked to norsemen who, in ships with dragon prows, discovered the vinland of the year 1000. So it looked to dutchmen who, in weathered galleons, discovered these palisades and founded the settlement of new amsterdam. They made a purchase for an island and bowled upon their village green. The Bowling Green remains today. But time has brought a change. Among the myriad changes, one of the most dramatic is our modern way of travel. The airplane gives visitors from overseas and americans alike a means to answer the invitation to discover america by air. [chatter] [indiscernible radio chatter] narrator it is our plan now to take you on
So it looked to norsemen who, in ships with dragon prows, discovered the vinland of the year 1000. So it looked to dutchmen who, in weathered galleons, discovered these palisades and founded the settlement of new amsterdam. They made a purchase for an island and bowled upon their village green. The Bowling Green remains today. But time has brought a change. Among the myriad changes, one of the most dramatic is our modern way of travel. The airplane gives visitors from overseas and americans alike a means to answer the invitation to discover america by air. 71 now makes the landing [indiscernible] narrator it is our plan now to take you on a most remarkable voyage, a flight on which youll glide over wonderlands from historical new england to the islands of hawaii. Lets begin our voyage where pilgrim fathers dug deep into the shores of freedom. A monument in provincetown remembers them beside the foaming sea where lobster pots line up to point to gray head and nantucket. Before whaling d
Good morning, youre right, late night in senate and Early Morning in the ho house. After the senate made changes to the bill that republicans had already passed. So, celebration in the house was dammingpened a little bit. And this as much confidence theyll be able to celebrate once again later this afternoon. And the senate took up that massive tax cut bill last night a plan that is said to touch every corner of of the american economy. It comes with a 1. 5 twril xwron price tag added to u. S. Debt. Not a single democrats in the house and senate voted yes they warn it will ruin the countrys financial fought tour. Heres how the two sides spun it. What this achievement marks is a promise that this majority made that is promise this majority is keeping. Republicans will be running away from this shame for voting yes this evening. And now President Trump was in celebratory mood sweeting u. S. Senate passed biggest tax cut in the tax cut and reform bill. Also adding that the individual mand
At home in new orleans. And where i lived for 10 years. What i want to do tonight is introduce you to this case that has a kind of that has kind of disfreard the american memory, but at least for the summer of 1870 captivated the nation, newspaper readers across the country and try to explain to it you in the so that you can see what i saw as i stumbled across it. I began writing i found this story while i was doing much more traditional legal history. I was researching the famous slaughterhouse cases, the first case where the Supreme Court intercepted the 14th amendment and i was reading every single day of the new orleans newspapers in 1870 and suddenly theres this story about a bhite baby being abducted by two africanamerican women, and the rumor begins to circumstance late that the baby has been abducted for use as a voodoo sacrifice. Its just like holy smokes, what can that possibly be about . Is that true or is the press just telling a story . They talked about ghost sightings an
Its nice to be here surrounded by pictures of Edgar Allen Poe and books about poe and baltimore in many ways has a feel a lot like new orleans, an old port city with traditions and a quirky and sometimes spooky history. And i always kind of feel at home in baltimore just as i feel at home in new orleans. And where i lived for 10 years. What i want to do tonight is introduce you to this case that has a kind of that has kind of disappeared from the american memory, but at least for the summer of 1870 captivated the nation, newspaper readers across the country and try to explain to it you in the so that you can see what i saw as i stumbled across it. I began writing i found this story while i was doing much more traditional legal history. I was researching the famous slaughterhouse cases, the first case where the Supreme Court intercepted the 14th amendment and i was reading every single day of the new orleans newspapers in 1870 and suddenly theres this story about a white baby being abdu