From stories of people who were Major Players that night, and even sometimes, we will learn about the stories of people who were secondary players on the night of the assassination, like dr. Leal, but we dont get to what regular people experienced. That was what the remembering Lincoln Project was meant to solve. We found partners in historical societies and libraries and institutions across the country that are allowing us that have allowed us to digitize items from their collections and put them together so you can explore them and learn about these responses on your own. David we are going to tell you about some of our favorite things that we have in this collection. Lincoln was assassinated around 10 15 p. M. No one knows the exact moment. Word got out pretty quick of the assassination attempt. Then word got out when lincoln died the next morning. In that day, a lot of the country actually found out pretty quickly. There were telegraph lines in many places. A lot of the major u. S.
C cspan. Org. Up next, as part of the programming marking the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president lincoln, we visit fords theater to learn about an online project to collect douchlts and artyifacts detailing responses to the death of the president. Welcome to fords theater, director of Educational Programs here. Im david, the Digital Projects manager here at fords. So excited to share our prompt with you today. We have been working for the last year and a half to create remembering lincoln, a project supported by the Institution Museum Library Services allowing us to take resources primary source resources from around the country and around the world and digitize them and put them online so that anyone anywhere in the world can can learn more about how people, regular people responded to the assassination. Now when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five days after general robert e. Lee surrendered to general grant down in appommaammattox courthouse, this is t
Here are some featured programs this weekend. On cspan, saturday starting at noon politicians, white house officials, and Business Leaders offer advice and encouragement to the class of 2015, including former president bush and the chair of Dreamworks Animation and 9 15 p. M. , Staff Members reflect on the presidency of george h. W. Bush and at noon, mu commencement speeches from Condoleezza Rice and michael nutter. On saturday morning,booktv is in new york with book expo american beginning at 10 00 and live callin segments with publishers and authors throughout the day. Sunday evening at 9 00 on after words, we look at the case that considered the constitutionality of proposition 8 the law that resended the right of samesex couples to marry in california. On cspan3 7 00 eastern conversation with white house historian william seal on first ladies who had the most impact on the executive mansion. Sunday afternoon before 2 00 life and death of the 20th president , jameis garfield serving
Congressman from ohio assassinated 200 days into his term as president. Get the complete schedule at c hf c cspan. Org. Up next, as part of the programming marking the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president lincoln, we visit fords theater to learn about an online project to collect douchlts and artyifacts detailing responses to the death of the president. Welcome to fords theater, director of Educational Programs here. Im david, the Digital Projects manager here at fords. So excited to share our prompt with you today. We have been working for the last year and a half to create remembering lincoln, a project supported by the Institution Museum Library Services allowing us to take resources primary source resources from around the country and around the world and digitize them and put them online so that anyone anywhere in the world can can learn more about how people, regular people responded to the assassination. Now when lincoln was assassinated, of course this was five d
It hit close to southern iran. 40 miles north of the only Nuclear Power plant. It damaged buildings and affected electricity in many areas. A ferry in hong kong crashed inyouring 85. It hit an unidentified object. 100 passengers epassengers and 10 crew are on board. Theres no reports of anyone missing. America tonight is up next on al jazeera. Have a good holiday. We hope you had an excellent thanksgiving. Hello, and welcome to hello, and welcome to this special holiday this special Holiday Edition of america edition of america tonight. Tonight. Since since thanksgiving brings thanksgiving brings to mind the origins of to mind the origins of this country. This country. To begin, we look to the to begin, we look to the star spangled banner, star spangled banner, americas most famous americas most famous flag is safely tucked flag is safely tucked away at the smithsonian away at the Smithsonian Museum here in museum here in washington. Washington. Be 200 years ago it was be 200 years ago