Thanks huge flames destroy the armont inn located in campton the building. Good afternoon. I m erin fehlau. At this point investigators don t know how the fire started, but they say if a neighbor hadn t woken up when he did the owner might not have made it out. Wmur s ray brewer has our top story from campton this noon. Ray it was just after four in 4 00 a. M. When the neighbor heard a noise and thought it was a moose going through the woods but then he looked out his window. That glow turned out to be the armont inn. Andrew gannon lives next door, he called 911 and then went up to inn to wait, while watching the fire spread. It was burning up on the back from mason road i thought it might have been a chimney fire but you could see through the old cracks in the wood and it was definitely engulfed inside. Ray a Police Officer was first on the scene and they kicked the door in. The owner of the inn upstairs asleep. He was very unaware, disoriented. Ray gannon says they carried the man do
The institute of texan culture down in san antonio said that the secondmost wellknown thing in texas is the Texas Rangers, the first thing is the alamo. They have had a long legacy. We are talking about 200 years of history, heritage, and upholding values of law and order. It is something that a lot of foreigners have taken two. We hear about ranger reenactment groups in ukraine, belgium, france. You name it. It all began with the innocent beginnings of just protecting their friends and family members from indians. It has grown and been adapted and it has developed into the Law Enforcement agency that we now compared to the f eif texas. In 1883 the Texas Rangers were established 1823 the Texas Rangers were established. Given permission by the republic of mexico to ring the first 300. When they got here they quickly realized there was a need to protect the settlers. He asked for a group of 10 volunteers. If you didnt earn it, you didnt have it. Basically there was a need to protect from
Leading up to and after his departure from office on august 9, 1974. He recalls working with nixon on his memoirs. This runs about one hour and 20 minutes. Let me not hold up this great program. Director of the linden pain Johnson Lyndon library, and we who was a gannon white house staffer during the nixon administered. Lets not hold them up. [applause] welcome, everybody. Tonight, we are going to see eene very littles interviews with Richard Nixon conducted by frank gannon. What strikes me about these clips is a Richard Nixon i have never seen before. Talk about nixon some of the things that you will see in these clips, but i have never seen Richard Nixon as relaxed as i have seen him on this. Was often very when it came to the press, as was seen in his interview with frost which was later shown in the play and the movie frost nixon. Is very relaxed and provides insight that is a testament to the relationship. Hat he had with nixon i want to start off by asking you a little bit about
There were nine conversations over several months with topics ranging to watergate and his resignation. Up next on the presidency, gannon draws from the clips leading up to and after his departure from office on august 9, 1974. He recalls working with nixon on his memoirs. This runs about one hour and 20 minutes. Let me not hold up this great program. We have the director of the Lyndon Baines johnson library, and we have frank gannon who was a white house staffer during the nixon administered. Lets not hold them up. [applause] welcome, everybody. Tonight, we are going to see some very littleseen interviews with Richard Nixon conducted by frank gannon. What strikes me about these clips is a Richard Nixon i have never seen before. I have seen nixon talk about some of the things that you will see in these clips, but i have never seen Richard Nixon as relaxed as i have seen him on this. Nixon was often very pugnacious when it came to the press, as was seen in his interview with frost which
The 2014 Freedom Award in the capitol statuary hall. During the 1960s civil rights movement, lewis served as chairman of the student nonviolent cord knitting committee, and helped organize the march on washington and the Voting Rights march from selma to montgomery, alabama. That is tonight at 9 25 eastern time, here on American History tv. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country, exploring American History. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. It is hard to imagine an essentially a modern day town where our grandparents or greatgrandparents couldve lived, it wasnt that long ago , 1916, where Something Like this could take place. That scholars called these events spectacle lynchings. And they took place mostly in the late 19th century and early 20th century. One of the interesting aspects of this horrendous lynching is that it didnt occur in some little backwoods village where everybody was poor and ignorant, but it was in what the