You are watching American History tv 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter at cspan history. Get a schedule of our upcoming programs and keep up with the latest history news. Each week, American Historys tv real america brings you stories that tell the story of American History. Up next is a training film that outlines the history of snipers and the American Military and shows hows my first should be deployed and used in a variety of combat situations. Some of these techniques may have been used by the late u. S. Navy seal chris kyle, whose memoir of four tors in the middle east was the basis for the film american sniper. The military sniper dates from the time of the revolutionary war. Since then snipers have been employed in every war and conflict. During our civil war, general hiram burden affected techniques snipers use. World war i saw german soldiers use highpowered rifles with telescopic sights. During world war ii, the u. S. A
And ice under arrest. The rapper formerly known as vanilla ice is released from custody after Police Charge him with burglary. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for thursday february 19th, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. This morning the Weather Forecast for folks in the eastern half of the country is all about the cold. Dangerously lifethreatening temperatures including subzero windchills that stretch that stretch from the north to the south along the atlantic coast. Windchill advisories are posted from north dakota to florida and the east and the singledigit temperatures are expected to last for days. Record lows are expected tonight in michigan where ice, blowing snow, and low visibility make travel a hazard. The cold means all the snow thats accumulated isnt going anywhere. Last night two people were buried when a big chunk of snow fell off the roof of an ice rink outside of boston. Both the man and the woman buried under five feet o
Vanilla ice is released from custody after a burglar. Captioning funded by cbs good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. This morning the folks in the eastern half of the country, its all about the cold. Dangerous lifethreatening temperatures including subzero temperatures that stretch from the north to the south along the atlantic coast. Windchill advisories are posted from north dakota to florida and the east and the singledigit temperatures are expected to last for days. Record lows are expected tonight in michigan where ice, blowing snow, and low visibility make travel a hazard. The cold means all the snow thats accumulated isnt going anywhere. Last night two people were buried when a big chunk of snow fell off the roof of an ice rink outside of boston. Both the man and women buried under five feet of snow were rescued but they suffered minor injuries. Florida Citrus Growers are trying to protect their crops. Some areas may see below freezing temperatures tonight. Mete
Temperature records as arctic air plunges as far south as florida. The huge area in purple that you see here will have lows overnight in the Single Digits or less. Jamie yuccas is in minneapolis. Reporter minneapolis is generally wild winter came to an abrupt halt. Temperatures struggled to crack zero and wind chills hit 31 below. Frostbite in this cold can happen in 30 minutes or less. Minnesotans tried to take it in stride. I really like the uniqueness it pringz to the day. You never know if your car is going to start. You never know if something is gog break at your house from the cold. Reporter its the same frozen story throughout the upper midwest. The great lakeses are almost iced over as this nasa satellite snapshot shows. Lake superior is 89 frozen over, and the harbor down of duluth, woke up to 17 below and never climbed above zero. Chicago had a low of 8 and a wind chill of minus 10. It made for pretty pictures along the lake but not everyone was thrilled. Theres nothing beau
Our family was from alabama. I always felt that i had Something Special. Back then very few africanamericans in 1937 had cameras. My grandmother said my mother did not have a father, but she had a camera. She took pictures all the time. I always knew this was Something Special she had put together that she left the family and left the world. Mr. Evans has brought in what. Amounts to a visual social history of black life in brooklyn, new york, preand post postworld war ii. And the variety of scenes that his mother took. So, kids on street corners just at play or posing in a playground or trips to the beach. Going to coney island. Going to coney island. Young couples that are literally clearly according. There are a range of activities and scenes. The background constitutes this as a social history of brooklyn and the black experience in a time of immense change at around world war ii, a time of gender changes as well as economic and social changes. We are looking at a window of black li