Host joining us now is documentary filmmaker ken burns, talking about his latest project looking at Country Music. What convinced you this was a topic worth exploring . Guest we are looking for good stories in american history, ones that are firing on all cylinders and hold of the complicated history of who we are. Is filled with extraordinary, great creativity, and engaging almost all of the themes and some themes subthemes we have dealt with in the past 40 years in filmmaking. Race, gender, commerce, we came off our vietnam series and a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican tutors or were heavily infl
Freedoms. Explore our nations passed on American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Joining us now is ken burns talking about his latest project looking at Country Music. Thank you for joining us. This isvinced you that a topic worth exploring . We are always looking for good stories in American History that are firing on all cylinders. Country music was filled with the stories. Engagingativity and almost all of the themes that we dealt with over the last 40 years of filmmaking. Race, gender, region, creativity versus commerce. All of these wonderful things. And a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican
Why fewer shoppers and more closures made july an especially tough time for retailers. Ill have the details. A Fabulous Four and a perfect start to the new premier League Season for Manchester United, who thump chelsea at old trafford and inflict a first defeat for Frank Lampard. Good morning. Today we are looking ata good morning. Today we are looking at a mixture of sunshine and showers. Showers in the north and west, have very heavier and thundery showers in the south east, in between some sunshine, and this weeks weather remains unsettled. Ill have more in 15 minutes. Its monday, august 12. Our top story drug crime has risen in rural areas but fallen sharply in major city centres. A bbc investigation has found that in some villages in england and wales it has more than quadrupled in five years. The findings highlight concern about the spread of so called county lines gangs which traffic drugs using children and vulnerable people. Dan johnson reports. The latest frontier in the figh
Katy perry learns how much shell have to pay after losing a copyright case. And from the fish spooked into jumping out of this lake to the surprise elk invasion in one town, to the surfer sharing this wave with a shark, all the wild video to jump start your friday morning. Good friday morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Im janai norman. Im will reeve in for kenneth moton. We begin with the tragedy for the kennedy family. The granddaughter of robert and Ethel Kennedy has been found dead at their family compound in massachusetts, and overnight we learned new details about her medical emergency. Reporter overnight, tragedy striking the kennedy family. On the phone with a caller now. 21 marchant. In hyannis port for a possible o. D. Reporter wcbb in boston reporting the granddaughter of robert f. Kennedy died of an apparent overdose at the historic family compound in hyannis port. Engine 6 on location. Bring that ambulance closer to the front door, three minutes. Were ready to come d
It came so close to succeeding and it could have changed the course of the war it could have changed the course of history so not something to dwell on the historical importance but also the importance today of these people because they. Are going to his coconspirators are an inspiration to people here in germany especially as we see here the German Military. Now there were numerous actors involved in this and on hitlers life the most famous of them perhaps is klaus french doll from burke now hes known as the main orchestrator of the assassination attempt there was even this film starring a hollywood Actor Tom Cruise which portrayed him as a hero but his legacy is complex isnt its interesting that you used the word famous because for quite some time he was actually viewed as an infamous kurds or in germany the immediate postwar period the conspirators in the functional from the airport were viewed as traitors to the country there was actually a poll in 151 which suggested that 2 thirds