Featuring educational films from the 30s to the 70s. Watch us in hd am a like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. Recently American History tv was at the organization of american historians annual meetings in st. Louis, missouri. We spoke with professors authors, and graduates is about the research. This interview is about 15 minutes. Bob hutton, you are a lecturer at the university of tennessee in knoxville. Your panel here the organization of american historians meeting was on Capital Punishment in the 19th century south. How common were executions than . Mr. Hutton nationwide they were common, but in rural areas they were relatively seldom because people didnt like to convict their friends and neighbors. Juries were often afraid to convict someone who had been convicted of a violent crime. Also, after you were convicted sometimes if you are sentenced to the Death Penalty, it wouldnt always be carried out. The particular execution that i covered in my paper was such a rare even
The 80s. We will talk more about 60s and 70s today and a cooler second half of the weekend coming up. Lisa, thank you. Break news overnight out of Half Moon Bay where a fishing boat has run aground t happened around midnight. A 50foot fishing vessel ran aground. Officials say there was only one person on board, a man, and he is refuse to go get off the boat. He tells the coast guard he plans to have his friends rescue him and help him remove the boats from the rocks when the sun comes up. That man has not been injured. This morning the police in oakland of looking for the person responsible for a fatal hitandrun accident involving three vehicles. It happened yesterday at 5 00 at 14th and adeline street. A passenger in a white pickup truck was killed and the driver and another passenger are hospitalized. A woman driving a gray audie suffered minor injuries while the driver of a saab hash back ran away from the scene. It took hours, but a newark man who barricaded himself with his young
Spots at 55. With the fog pushing down to some of the bridges right now and right along the roadway, you are looking at about three to four mime visibility or less at times. By 9 00 much of the fog is moving across the bay and clearing. So that will bring sunshine sooner and with a few 80s inland today we will feel warmer. We will talk about the cool down tomorrow coming up. Chris. Lisa, thanks. Breaking news overnight out of Half Moon Bay where a fishing boat has run aground. It happened around midnight. Authorities say a 50foot fishing vessel ran aground. It was by the ritzcarlton. Officials say there was only one person on board, a man, and he is refusing to get off the boat. He tells the coast guard he plans to have his friends rescue him and help him remove the boat from the rocks when the sun comes up. That man has not been injured. This morning the police in oakland are looking for the person responsible for a fatal hitandrun accident involving three vehicles. The crash happened
The same old same old. 50s to low 60s and the cloudy skies. Upper 60s to low 70s around the rest of the bay. Well pinpoint the warmer numbers coming up in a few minutes. Chris . Lisa, thank you. Breaking news out of Half Moon Bay where a fishing boat has run aground. This happened around midnight. Authorities say a 50foot fishing vessel ran on to the rocks near the ritz carlton near miramonte point. There was only one person on board but hes refusing to get off the boat. That man tells the coast guard he plans to have his friends rescue him and will remove the boat from the rocks sometime in morning. Also this morning Oakland Police looking for the person responsible for a fatal hitandrun accident involving three vehicles. The crash happened last night at 14th and adeline. A passenger in a truck was killed. The driver and 2340er passenger are hospitalized. Another woman suffered minor injuries. The driver of a saab hatchback ran away from the scene. It took 12 hours but a man who barri
The end of the war. The summer of 1978 to the summer of 1971. The experience stuck with me iss because of anything experienced as a combat platoon leader, but what i saw in terms of the decay and deterioration of the army in which i was serving. Oft gave me an appreciation the terrible effects of war. What was your career like . How long were you in the army . 23 years. I served until 1992. It was a year in vietnam early on. They were mypart, experiences of a serving officer at the latter part of the cold war. We thought we existed to be prepared to fight world war iii and that our readiness to do that to prevent world war iii from happening. I spent seven years in germany. Most of the rest of the time in stateside units that would have germany in the event of a crisis. 23 years in the service and finished as a colonel. Why did you in the first place go to west point . What was the drive for you and where were you raised . I was raised in the u. S. I was born in illinois and grew up in