All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff there is breaking news out of chicago tonight. The mayor and the chief of police have just released a video of the shooting of 17 year old Laquan Mcdonald. He was fatally shot last year by Police Officer jason vandyke, who emptied all 16 rounds of his firearm. The Chicago Police department has ordered all police into uniform tonight. The family of the victim has urged people to stay calm. Well have more on this story later in the program. The air war over syria saw a longfeared escalation today, as a russian warplane was shot down by the turks in disputed circumstances. While in washington, president obama pledged american solidarity to french president holland
Pope francis slammed, vatican bureaucrats calling him narcisse stick hypocrite suffering from spiritual alzheimers. The sickness he says is infecting the church and the reaction around the world. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. This morning, new york city mayor is calling for calm following the murder two Police Officers. Facing criticism for the police union and protestors, he hes urging both to put their differences aside until the officer are buried. There were small anti police demonstrates and in manhattan, a larger protest isette set for later today. We are hearing from the man who killed the officers. They say he was emotionally troubled and needed help. There seems to be a big change in tone from police and new york city hall. The Police Officers union, the spokesperson is dialing things back and the mayor is taking the high ground, refusing to get embroiled in a row over the politics of these police deaths. Mayor bill deblasio and the Police Commissioner met with
Friends and intimates and developed a level of selfreliance that increased over the course of a life time and career. Elenor said he had no real confidants. Not me either. A speech writer for fdr was a very asstute observer of rogues roosevelt and wrote the classic bioography of roosevelt and hopkins. That is a bible in fdr history. He got to know roosevelt well. He said he has a thickly forestly interior. He didnt want anyone to penetrate that force to see what was going on inside. We was probably the most solitary president we have ever had. This is the contradiction that is fdr and wife Frances Perkins was such a complicated man and theres no episode in his presidency or his life which underscore is this duality more than this type does. Four days before the Chicago Convention opened on july 11th, 1940, Franklin Roosevelt called Felix Frankfurter down from the Supreme Court. They had a two hour session in the oval study adjacent to the president s bedroom on the second floor of the
Rises in the back of the pavilion. We are here to listen to peniel joseph. I have the pleasure of interviewing and the 11 on the occasion of the 2010 book dark days, bright nights, from black power to barack obama. It was one of those wonderful, and hurried cspan book conversations. I never met him before and i was so impressed not only by intellect but by his ease, he melody and introspection. I left thinking i am going to read all of that dudes books from now on until the end of time. He is the author of the Award Winning waiting until the midnight hour, a narrative history of black power in america but the book he has come to discuss today and why i am sure you are all here is stokely a life which was described in the New York Times review as an insightful, highly engaging affluent biography, of Stokely Carmichael, the man widely seen as heir apparent in the black leadership hierarchy to Martin Luther king jr. And malcolm x following their assassination. And the reporting committee,
Started by washington and continued by jefferson became pa paramount to law. It was a deeply respected practice and very few considered challenging and no one had succeeded. He was going to retire because he said that he was tired and he was broke. And he was both. He had already designed and was then building the first president ial library in america in hyde park new york which has been restored. I urge you to go see that. It is a fabulous experience. He built a retreat called top cottage at hyde park where he could get away from visitors he knew would come. He signed a contract to write regular articles and was going to write his memoirs and two of the top aids were going to come do this. He was thinking about retirement and he was enjoying. There were third term rumbles about whether or not he might run. But nothing to it. He didnt give it any serious attention. Then as kevin mentioned at the beginning of the book he was woken in the middle of the night, september 1st, 1939 to be t