Either saying he had called her somebody had called and mentioned his name. He was the man whose house was firebombed. You see the name of point shepherd. That was the main kingpin in phenix city. The guy working for him who bombed the house, his name was tommy dynamite capps. Each person had a specialty. There was a safecracker. Tommy capps, i wish i had his mug shot. Its interesting. His long list of known activities. Uy theywas there g called to blow things up. There were a lot of information like this scattered throughout. A lot of people were corresponding. A new a great deal about what was going on in phenix city. Watch the entire program tonight starting at 7 00 eastern here on American History tv on cspan 3. Cspans live coverage of the Republican National convention beginning next monday in cleveland. And tonight at 8 00 eastern we will take a look at past Republican Conventions, including the contentious 1976 Republican Convention in kansas city, missouri. Starting with the ru
Charlottesville, and that is the southern terminus of our National Scenic byways and National Heritage area. So we are pleased that the book tonight focuses on both our northern terminus and southern terminus. You will hear a little bit about gettysburg, which is our northern terminus, the most northern part of the National Heritage area. And of course, you will hear a little about charlottesville as well. If you we often talk is head out monticello jeffersons driveway you are driving on the scenic byway. And you are driving 180 miles north to gettysburg. Which is the other end of the National Heritage area. And within that 180mile plot of land, we have 11 sites. Of course, monticello, madisons home in montpelier, brent will talk about these places. We want to thank, of course, the Charlottesville Albemarle convention bureau, one of our wonderful partners. Kurt, the executive director is here tonight. Thank you. Without further ado, i will introduce our guest. Brent glass is the direct
The records of the u. S. Senate and the house of representatives and which sponsors the series. Researcher talks invites scholars to tell us about their projects and how the records support them. Since the highly visible senate and house investigations of the 1950s have received much researcher attention over the last few years we have invited historians to speak about the records. Weve asked them to talk about labor and management, better known as the mclellan committee, several have made presentations based on the research on the house unamerican activities committee. Historians have conducted Considerable Research in the Senate Special committee to investigate organized crime and interstate commerce better mean as the key fofr committee. We are pleased to have tammy ingram, associate professor of history at the college of charleston whose talk is titled dear senator,s us the key fofr and the anticrime crusade in the south. She has researched senator kefauvers records at and personal
Of government at harvard university. Since joining the faculty in 1992, profession so 1992, he is a member of the core faculty within the carr center frp human rights policy and is a faculty affiliate. In the wake of the 2000 president ial election bs, professor king directed the task force for the National Commission on election reform chaired by gerald ford and jimmy carter. That culminated in land marc Voting Rights in 2002. He later oversaw the evaluation and new Management Structure for the Boston Election Department and he served in the Advisory Board of americanelect. Org. In the past professor king chaired the Bipartisan Program for newly elected members of the u. S. Congress and he corrected the executive program for Senior Executives in state and local government. Professor king is the author of three books and published in a range of journals including the american Political Science review and the journal of politics. Please welcome david king. [ applause ] thank you. Is thi
100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signed the bill creating the National Park service, and thursday we look back at the caretakers of these natural and historic treasures. Beginning at 10 00 a. M. Eastern and throughout the day, we take you to National Park Service Sites across the country as recorded by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern weve live from the National Park services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial at Arlington National cemetery. Joining us with your phone calls as we talk with robert stanton, former National Park Service Director and brandon buys, the former arlington house site thursday, the 100th anniversary of the National Park service live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Up next, history professor tammy ingram discusses her book the wickedest city in america. Sex, race and organized crime in the jim crow south. She chronicles the Crime Investigation city chair in 1950 and 51 and field