Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 that was the way it was. Well, they had a lot of friends and some of their friends were people like booker t. Washington, George Washington carver, af owens who was the principle of owens academy here in mobile and a. N. Johnson, an entrepreneur, and those guys would go fishing and because of that relationship, a lot of students got to go to Tuskegee University which meant when they graduated they became entrepreneurs, they became teachers, business people, doctors and very successful throughout the country. That relationship was a great bonding they had duke thring th time. The funeral home closed when the last sibling of the allen family passed, mrs. Gray, and just recently its been announced its going to reopen under the owen ford mortuary. From here were going to visit some other entrepreneurs and end the tour with a gentleman by the name of Wallace Turnage and he was a slave that ran away four times and got caught and ultimate
President to learn more about president and order your copy today wherever books and ebooksare sold. Now on book tv like to highlight them programs from our archives political satirist p. J. Orourke. Over the past 20 years hes appeared on tv posted 20 times. First up in 2007 when our monthly call in program in that. He discussed his politics, writing and why uses humor to address political andsocial issues. This picture on the left, is that a real picture mark. Oh yeah. Not only area that was i would guess 71. Not quite positive. Floor your politics in 1971. I think a martian left. That would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger but i didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist or a trotskyite or anything like that. And the transformation of her it was gradual. The place and back i do about this. There is a book coming out from the huber institution. I was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job. I got
A videotaped message and the only reason hes not here in person were told is that the family was concerned that the security arrangements for him might be disruptive so you got 500 people in there listening to this hundreds more outside and there have been thousands filing past the casket of george ford and this is really the 4th of 4 ceremonies there was a ceremony in minneapolis one in North Carolina where he was born a viewing yesterday and today its really the denouement the funeral after which he will be buried next to his mother and before that we are one hour into a 3 hour service where you are and singing and reading and remembrances from the family it is really 2 themes going on here one were hearing about george floyd been then. A gentle kind spirit according to those who knew him well and the other is this movement that he set off there will be a montage of democrats. Demonstrations across the country as part of that program and there will be a call out this is my conjecture
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Good morning and thanks for joining us, lets give you the very latest now on the ambush a man was fatally shot overnight in an officer involved shooting in oakland actually were starting in oakland that santa cruz. There was a woman was also shot shes in the hospital right now being treated. Oakland police say this happened around 11 oclock last night. The chp was investigating an incident in the 9600 block of cherry street. When a chp officer shot a man who was driving a car. The female was a passenger in the vehicle. No officers were injured in that shooting the Oakland Police department and the Alameda County theyre both investigating that. Now lets get on to the other big stories this morning. James, a lot of headlines to get through absolutely we do want to get to that story in santa cruz that sheriffs deputy shot dead, another. Injured after a shooting in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Lets take a look at the officer, the deputy who died yesterday afternoon 38 yearold Sergeant Damon g