Professors here at the time. Im a home grown boy as most of you know. Lived just across the river here in Washington County. Grew up only a few miles from the antietam battlefield. Eshepherd as always been special to me. Its great to return here this evening to be here in the bird center. I knew senator bird well. I did quite a number of tours and programs for him at Harpers Ferry National Park when he would come and visit. And he became a big ally in helping preserve civil war battlefields. A really great honor to be here at shepherd, my home school. Im so thankful that 40 years ago i was taking finals and i havent had to take finals in 36 years. And its really good to be back in this prestigious bird center sharing with you this evening one story that happened right here. Did john brown elect Abraham Linco lincoln . I want you to think about that for a moment. Did john brown elect Abraham Lincoln . The first thing that came to mind is how can that be . Brown is dead. He cant vote, so
Years. And its really good to be back in this prestigious bird center sharing with you this evening one story that happened right here. Did john brown elect Abraham Linco lincoln . I want you to think about that for a moment. Did john brown elect Abraham Lincoln . The first thing that came to mind is how can that be . Brown is dead. He cant vote, so how could he possibly have anything to do with the election of 1860. Before were finished this evening, i think well see that john brown, the ghost of john brown, the memory of brown was very influential in what happened in that election, that watershed election in American History that ultimately gave us americas greatest president. A few days ago, december 2, three days ago, 15 years ago, here in Jefferson County, something very important happened. A hanging, an execution. You here in Shepherds Town would have known about the execution. Everybody knew about it. Because john brown was climbing the scaffold. To be executed in charlestown,le
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning at 7 00 eastern on friday morning. Join the discussion. Next on American History tv, historians discuss general shermans march flew georgia. After that, historian dennis fry talks about the impact of john browns raid in the 1860 goals. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Welcome, its great to be back in the same seats as we always occupy. For those of you who have come to a number of our sessions. We are promised and we are promising each other that well do more in the coming seasons. We have a topic today that we think is one of the best that weve come up with, its a neglected civil war story. Because of the focus on shermans march through georgia. Theres a little less attention on shermans other march, which followed the march through georgia. Take a look at this scowling man in a fantastic coat, as we begin talking about him. Im going to start with john who as you heard has written two wonderful books abou
His home state of ohio. Hes the governor there. But kasich, who was harshly critical of donald trump, hung in trying to be sure donald trump fell short of the delegates hed need for nomination last night in indiana. Trump won the primary, so kasichs out. His dream died in the indiana primary that donald trump won giving john kasich no way to win the nomination. And as i suspend my campaign today, i have renewed faith, deeper faith, that the lord will show me the way forward and fulfill the purpose of my life. Reporter one man is left standing, trump, now called the presumptive nominee by the Republican Party. We wanted to make sure that we started focusing on the general election, uniting the party so we can focus on hillary clinton. Reporter trump talked terms. The party will come together. I think it is imperative that the entire party come together. I dont want everybody. I dont even want certain people. Reporter some republicans burned their membership cards. Many reject the party
We have some construction on the outer loop near b. W. Parkway and the inner loop after the b. W. Parkway. A bit of road work. This is the outer loop portion between landover road and one leap getting by. River road eat wilson lane, the inbound lane is partially blocked because of roadblock in the area. They have the outbound work happening last week and now the inbound work. Hopefully it will wrap up soon. Back in ten minutes. New this morning out of waco, texas, after nine bikers are killed in a rival gang shooting. We are hearing from the restaurant where it happened. Twin peeks posting, we are horrified by the criminal violent acts that occurred outside the restaurant today. Well continue to work with police as they investigate this terrible crime. Now nine motorcycle gang members were killed and 18 others were hurt following the fight that involved guns and knives. Nor than a hundred people are in more than a hundred people are in custody and they were meeting to discuss turf and