What would your for what was your familys size makeup . Harlan two brothers and one sister. Where did you fit in . Harlan i was number three. Before we started recording we were talking about your family and growing up during the depression years, could you tell me a little bit about what life was like for you coming up during that time . Was an my father irishamerican. He emigrated from ireland to the United States to find a better place to live. Hered his family came over andi looked at their papers found up they had 600 to the whole family when they emigrated to the United States. Spent most of his life. N the cloth industry he was either a loan fixer or a or a weaverom fixer in these mills. Say your father was education minded when it came to the children . Harlan yes. I can recall at a very early age, when my father was going to talk about what would happen in the future. College theish following will happen. His ambition was that everyone of his children would get the education h
And both the increase of illegal fireworks and lack of open places for people to light their legal Francisco Fire Department says a device largen than an m80 was setoff in a drainpipe. It blew three windows out of a house. Investigators say there were no injuries. And also yesterday 15 people were displaced by a fire that hit two buildings in the mission district. Multiple witnesses saw and heard them just before smoke was seen at nearby buildings but no official cause yet. In San Francisco fires are illegal for a reason. We could lose entire communities by fireworks. Law enforcement is trying Something Different to catch sites of fireworks this year. From the peninsula to Oakland Hills volunteers are going to be stationed in parks and hilltops in the bay area this weekend. Theyll actually have binoculars to report any sights of flames or smoke to authorities. Well bring camp chairs as you say, well have our hand held radios. Well be scanning the horizon for fires, for telltale smoke.
Look live our sutro tower camera. And at the lighthouse there in santa cruz its going to be nice. Temperatures going to climb to near 80 degrees at the beach, 55 near the delta. Less breeze today but chilly this morning. Upper 40s in santa rosa and petaluma. Low 60s by 9 00 in oakland and warm through the 70s and 80s. By 2 00 weve got the low 90s returning, so thats about 5 to almost 10 degrees warmer today in our inland valleys. Around the bay maybe 7 degrees warmer. At the coast our sea breeze will pick up. Itll be breezy there but tonight we wont see much in the way at fog. Well track that forecast, but the cooler week ahead coming up, liz . Okay, lisa, thank you. And new overnight contra costa fire crews were responding to at least 13 fires. There were four fires in the span of 30 minutes that involved two cars and two homes in concord. Firefighters quickly got the flames under control, and fi fireworks are being blamed as well for a grass fire in pittsburgh off highway 4 in ludrid
Cspan. Org thepresident s. Order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Welcome to the Atlanta History Center, i am virginia prescott your host for these talks. Im speaking to Bettye Kearse about her book the other madisons the lost history of a president s black family. You can purchase the book directly from a cappella books. There is a link in the chat box to the right of your screen and there is a link on the Atlanta History Center website. We invite you to submit your questions for the q and a and i will try to get to as many of them as allowed. Bettye kearse is in genesis stand oscarnominated essayist. The other the other madisons the lost history of a president s black family is her first book and follows a 30 request to confirm her lineage. Kirkus calls it a roots for a new generation. Thank you for being with us. Most of us grew up thinking of James Madison as the fourth president , one of the founders of our country, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitutio
Whatsoever. They made the argument that it makes sense to try the case and then consider documents. They made no argument that the white make sense to have trial without witnesses are and why, because its indefensible. Its indefensible. No trial in america has ever been conducted like that, and so you would nothing about it. And that should be the most telling thing about councils argument. They had no defense of the mcconnell resolution because there is done. They couldnt defend on the basis of president , they couldnt defend on the base of history, based on the constitution, they couldnt defend at all. So what did they say . First they made the representation that the house is claiming there is a such thing as executive privilege. Thats nonsense. No one here has ever suggested theres no such thing as executive privilege but the interesting thing here is they have never claimed executive privilege. Not once during the house investigation did ever say that a single document was privile