Witnessed the death of three of the four as well as her own husbands assassination. Though her life was filled with tragedy, she relished in their success. As we focus on the civil war years, one of the defining moments in our countrys history, a look at the life and times of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the most complex first ladies ever to live in the white house. Thanks for being with us for cspan continuing series on first ladies influence and image. We invite to history advisers for the whole series to be our guests for this program. Let me introduce you to roslynter borg penn. And Richard Nortan smith our guest and at our table is the director of five president ial libraries including the Abraham Lincoln library in springfield, illinois. Thank you both for being here. Mary todd lincoln and this is a question for both, well start with richard, is viewed in broad strokes, bouts of depression, criticism of her lavish spending and and indulgent mother and what do you see. Oh, boy. That
Born in 1818 in lexington, kentucky, mary todd grew up in a slaveholding family yet lived to her see her husband Abraham Lincoln issue the emancipation proclamation. A mother of four sons he witnessed the death of three of the four as well as her own husbands assassination. Though her life was filled with tranlgly, as lincolns political partner, she also rely i should in their success. As we focus on the civil war years, one of the defining moments in our countrys history, a look at the life and times of Mary Todd Lincoln, one of the most complex first ladies ever to live in the white house. Thanks for being with us for cspan continuing series on first ladies influence and image. Tonight as we look at Mary Todd Lincoln, we invite two of our academic advisers for the whole series to be our guests for this program. Let me introduce you to rosalynn toreberg penn. And Richard Norton smith, our guest and at our table is the director of five president ial libraries including the Abraham Linc
Mid and upper 60s around the bay for a nice afternoon above average. Can we keep that trend going for the holiday and beyond . Ill let you know. Lisa, thank you. Hundreds of american Cruise Ship Passengers are waiting to evacuate and board 747 jets and bring them home. They have been on board the ship with coronavirus. Several crew members infected. Here is a live look in japan where americans are about to disembark. Some will be quarantined for 14 days when they arrive here at Travis Air Force base in firefield. Others flown to lackland in texas. Were pushing to find exactly arrival times. Overnight the death top climbed to 1600 people. First fatality was also confirmed this week in europe. The number of worldwide infections have climbed to 69,000, 15 of them are here in the u. S. Here is abc 7 News Reporter ty hernandez with the latest. Reporter nearly 400 americans who have been quarantined on this cruise ship off the coast of japan will soon be on their way home, but many are conce
A male ran out of the b. A. R. T train car on to tracks and thats when the shooting occurred. The man that was wounded is still alive. He was taken to the those by a helicopter. He does have lifethreatening injuries. Police say they did recover a gun at the scene. We heard from a witness who says she saw what unfolded. She said the victim was a young africanamerican man that was running from Police Officers through her b. A. R. T train. She did not want us to show her face. Next thing i know the Police Officer and the young man, they came running through the cargo. As they were running through the cargo, they exited out of the train cargo, and thats when i poked my held out a little bit to see what was going on. And about seven to eight shots went off. They just shot the boy. Reporter another witness told us a girl was with the young man who was shot, and that she kept screaming and crying what his age was. Apparently she kept saying, hes only 17, so other passengers were trying to con
Two b. A. R. T. Police officers opened fire on man on the tracks tonight. Were hearing from witnesses. Tracking cooler weather to finish out the weekend and cold front will try to kick up winds early next week. Accuweather forecast. Check it out, a fullon film set. Many coming from across the bay area hoping to see keanu reeves. Abc7 news starts now. News to build a better bay area from abc7. Police aring investigating on officerinvolved shooting on the tracks at b. A. R. T. Station, el cerrito del norte station which was closed for hours tonight. Eric thomas. Dion lim. Lauren martinez joins us live with the latest. Richmond and el cerrito del norte stations have reopened tonight. At last report the victim shot at del norte is in the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Police radio calls describe the moment when two b. A. R. T. Police officers opened fire on the armed man around 2 00 saturday afternoon. He was running, trying to get away from the police. Reporter witness was sittin