Received calls into the dispatch center of a fight in progress involving two males on a train. Just leaving the station. The fight continued through our hayward station. Which point the two males. As the train approached, Police Partners responded to the call. Along with the Police Department. And we detained we were on the platform and determined that there was a victim on the train that was bleeding and possibly the victim of a stabbing. Our partners at the Police Department along with officers had a good description of the suspect. We conducted an area search and they were able to stop a suspect matching the description a block from here. Our victim unfortunately deceas deceased as a result of the incident. This is very tragic. Its rare on bart. Its not something we get a lot of. I want to assure ridership that bart is safe. And were continue to reassure them by providing presence in the system and continue to ride safely. How can you say its safe. The thing about this it wasnt a ra
President ial library, down in the stacks. We are in the most secure area in our facility. This is the vaults. More thanere we keep 1600 documents written by Abraham Lincoln as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned that he and directed with during his lifetime. I want to show you some books that we have in our collection that were very special to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln whenraham he was elected president in 1860, its not as if he was entirely unknown. He was a four term member of the legislature. He had served a term in congress. He was one of the most prominent politicians from the state of illinois. In large part, that popularity was due to his very successful debates against stephen a douglas, sitting senator on the democratic side in 1858. Abraham lincoln challenged him in illinois for that senate seat. They debated. Onee hourlong public debate several different occasions during that campaign season. Two years later, the same two individuals square off against each
Learn about their history and life. We will look at highlights of some of these stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Alabama,n selma, africanamericans were denied the right to vote. There were folks throughout the south that did not want these people to have the right to vote. They can be considered second class citizens. Poll taxes would be the price you had to pay per year in order to get on the voting rolls. Say i live here in Dallas County and allke 60 dollars taxes are one dollar a year. Raise that isa 40. Thenf my 60 will go i will have 20 which i have to feed and flow my kids. There are not very many black people who will have extra money left over to pay a poll tax. On something when i have an extra dollar left over and i go down to this courthouse and i show up saying i would like to register to vote. I would go to the county registrar, have my poll tax ready. Takes my pollnel tax but he also administers a literary tax. That tests could take many forms. Ask me the name of the pr
Virginia. Host allen guelzo lets begin with your latest book, robert e lee a life, who was he before the civil war, what was his reputation . Guest he was best known for two things, son of a famous revolutionary war hero and that was the famed cavalry commander light horse harry lee, the one who served under washington and in fact, coined washington, first in war, first in peace, that was light horse harry. The other thing that people would have known robert e lee for would have been his service in the mexican war and especially on the staff of general scott during scotts fabulous invasion. Moving in land to mexico city in 1847. Lee served in many respects as scotts eyes and ears performing over and over again feats for scott so much so that scott made the confession that for all the honors he had won in that Great Campaign to mexico city almost all the credit really belonged to robert e lee, so lees two thing would have been robert e lee would have been noted before the civil war whic
And border related issues. With a series of issues just his policies and regulatory policies i deal with the issues in the book in the preface deals with i was in a meeting when representatives talk about how they were responding to vh1 and one virus and it struck me that theyd make these decisions to help the agencies with their jobs but we dont talk about what does it mean for the country . Host here is the book. Marianoflorentino cuellar professor of Political Science at stanford. Guest professor of law. Host at stanford. Governing security is the name of the book. The hidden origins of American Security agencies booktv is on vacation at palo alto california. Host we want to introduce you to stanford Professor William damon sr. Professor. What the teacher at stanford . Human development we call it from birth to death everything from old age but my special interest is character development. To develop their values and purpose is life. The real focus the adolescent and adult years or