Perspective. What was it like being there when it came to a conclusion . Jennifer i will be honest with you scott. I was dead asleep when i got the information from a source that indeed ours or the made the arrest. I was jumping out of bed and running down here. I am here exactly where i was hours ago. This is rhode island avenue. This area right here at the intersection is where the box truck was boxed in. If you look up rhode island avenue is where the white chevy was where they found wint. I have pictures to show you. Pictures i was taking as i was walking up to the scene. So when you turn the corner rhode island was filled with flashing lights. Both sides of rhode island avenue have been completely shut down. You saw the u. S. Marshall in the street. Dozens of them. There were more than 20 vehicles on the scene. That is when they in that white vehicle. You see that. As far as wint himself, we understand from sources he was a passenger in the white chevy. They were able to get him o
Im aaron gilchrist. And im eun yang. Welcome to news 4 today on this friday the 13th. A mixed bag of weather. I like 13. Thats right. Your birthday date. Tom kierein has more on the friday morning headlines. Yeah lucky kayday for us. Half moon in the southern sky now. There is the Washington Monument under a clear sky. Chilly morning, though. Near freezing. And then a mild afternoon again. Rain looking likely late tonight and into saturday. Much of saturday looking wet right now. Temperatures are near or below freezing nearby suburbs. That includes Prince Georges County montgomery, Fairfax County. Much of Northern Virginia, Shenandoah Valley right near freezing as is Southern Maryland. Near the bay, just low to mid30s. Storm team 4 radar scanning the sky, no rain here locally. But there are showers in southwestern virginia, North Carolina it will stay well to our south this morning. Then this area of rain much farther to the weather that will be tracking toward us by later this evening
Conservation program. These two flags are perfect examples of that where we have been able to have these flags conserved so they will not deteriorate any further than that. It is an expensive process to have done. It can cost 20 to 30,000. We have been fortunate to have supporters step forward to help us with these. Some of them might have ancestors that fought for those particular units. So its something personal to them. But we still have a lot of the flags that have not been conserved like this that we cannot display this way. We have some that we can display in some of the drawers over here that i will show you. We have 59 of the flags that were surrendered or captured here at appotomax. And not all of them are in the conditions of the ones we looked at earlier that have been conserved. A lot of them look like this. This is obviously one that has probably souvenir damage done to it that was taken as they were if you recalling their flags on the day of april the 12th turning them in
Effectively ending the civil war. Next, we visit appomattox to see items related to the surrender. We also toured the museums exhibits. Linda lipscomb welcome Linda Lipscomb welcome to the museum. The museum here has been open for almost three years now. And we are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890, opened in 1896 in richmond, virginia. We house here a lot of the artifacts that were from the confederates. We will tell you about how we got some of those artifacts. Here, we kind of focus on appomattox since we are in this location. One of the things people ask us about is why appomattox . Why did lee come here to surrender . It was not his original intent of course. Lee, on his retreat from petersburg, had been looking for supplies. His goal was to find supplies for his men and turn south to meet with general johnston in north carolina. As he is traveling from petersburg grant had been able to effectively block all the railroad supplies lee has waiting for hi
Der at eight an mat i then a ceremony marking the exact time 150 years ago that generals grant and lee met to discuss terms of surrender. After that is correct well hear from two living historians who portray the generals at the ceremony. And later, remarks on the leg of appotomax with historians. Each week american artifacts takes viewers to his forrics sites around the country. On april 9th 1865, confederate general robert e. Lee met ulysses s. Grant and sun rendered his arm of north virginia effectively ending the civil war. Next we visit the confederacy in a appotomax appotomax. Welcome to the museum of the confederacy of appotomax. Im listened de lipt lipscomb. The museum hare opened three years. We are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890 opened in 1896 in richmond virginia. We house here a lot of aircraft facts that were from the confederates. Well tell you how we got some of the artifacts. Here we tend to focus on appotomax because we are in the locati