Miles from houston here. And there were people lined up all along the tracks, all the way here. I was in a bus. We kind of followed the path of the train. And it was just amazing. You could see the people all over, all over the tracks, through conroe, places like that. And then the train ended at the university about a mile from here. And the casket was put in a hearse and brought here. Kids in the corps cadets theres a walkway on the other side of the gravesite. The cadets lined the walkway all the way here. The Funeral Service here was just family. So there was a memorial service, and at st. Martins in houston. That was a public ceremony. Then the body was brought here. Like i said, people lining the path all the way up here, and in college station, people all along the tracks. Then once the body got to the library museum, it was just family. And so it was a like mrs. Bushs service, it was just a family service. And they chose early, after the library was put here, they the gravesite
Toure cspan cities continues its clock at prine Bryan College station with a the final resting place of president bush, his wife barbara and their daughter robin. Were about 4 10 of a mile label. E president bush chose this site final resting place. So in april, about a year and a ago now, we buried mrs. Bush here and then in after his death in november, and then the funeral inut six days later, december, he was brought up here the up, 4141, in the special car. Amazingly, there were there lined, all the way from houston. Its probably about 80 or 90 miles from houston here. And there were people lined up thealong the tracks, all way here. I was in a bus. We kind of followed the path of train. And it was just amazing. You could see the people all tracks,l over the places likeoe, that. Ended at thetrain university about a mile from here. Ad the casket was put in hearse and brought here. Theres a walkway on the other the gravesite. Lined the walkway all here. Y the Funeral Service here was
They talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. Of the wonderful things about bryanCollege Station, you have two cities one community. Really right after the civil war. There was a railroad coming from houston that was marching its way here. After the civil war it continued on and brian for the first few years after the civil war struggled to get itself created but was able to do that. Its876 the University Got first six students and the city of brian was really getting going. Are still some of the first buildings that were being built. 25 years ago this area was a ghost town. Has created growth and renewal in the city of brian. The line between our cities is blurred not just in how we Work Together but geographically. Texas a m founded in 1876. But it wasit grew five miles from the nearest town. Calledknew about a town factge station except the in 1938 when some a m faculty and staff got together and said lets create our own city. We are growing somewhere
Whose rocket hit the overcrowded hospital, whether it was fired from israeli plane or was launched by militants towards a jewish settlement, but deviated from the course and hit their own people, i repeat once again, all this is completely unimportant, the important thing is that both hamas and the israeli idf conduct military operations in such a way as if the innocent on the other side of the barricades simply do not exist, but our entire modern civilization seems to have suddenly disappeared somewhere into the dark middle ages. Caidites eus novet, dominus eus. Kill everyone. The lord will distinguish his own from strangers. With these words, at the beginning of the 13th century, the papal legate admonished the participants of the albigensian crusade to storm the enemy citadel. Its hard to imagine a modern politician saying Something Like that on camera, unless he wanted to publicly commit political harakiriri. But the socalled, not named. Sources, which journalists love to refer to
Now on booktv with the help of our local cable partner Cox Communications we take a literary tour of omaha nebraska where we spoke with matt holland author of ahead of their time, a history of the omaha club which advocated for social justice and racial integration in the early 1950s. The omaha the poorest club was this phenomenal story of an Unlikely Group of people in an unlikely place at an improbable time in history that faced and challenged Racial Discrimination and segregation in omaha nebraska and it took place in the late 40s and early 50s predating the other Civil Rights Act to these if not by decades of leased by years and it was a group that defy the stereotype when you think about the civil rights group. It was men and women young people and old people, black and white but by two black men so its this wonderful story that has all these amazing connections and like you said an unlikely place. That quote the birmingham of the north was a quote i found bite the author of black