appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. we will be live from appomattox court house national historic park on both april 9 and 12th as historians including ed ayres reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. we will also bring you reenact it s of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and we will open our phone lines to take your calls. the surrender at appomattox live april 9 and 12th, here on american history tv on c-span three. up next, we hear from staff members at the three presidential libraries based in texas about their collections documenting the white house years of lyndon johnson, george bush, and george w. bush. the george bush presidential library and museum hosted this event. it is about 90 minutes. as we say here in texas howdy. my apologies to the people from johnson and bush 43, but that is what we do here. welcome to the bush library. i m the director
represent the wasps today. every single one of these ladies deserves to be standing where i am standing. [ applause ] it was passed in record time in congress and the event was held in march of 2010 with the largest body of people ever in the u.s. emancipation hall at the capital. approximately 200 wasps were able to attend the ceremony and wasps deany bishop parish accepted the medal. she accepted it on behalf of all of them. the original medal was given to the smithsonian institution as directed by the bill that president barack obama had signed. the story of wasps is one that even though they were granted veteran status and awarded congressional gold medal of honor it is a story that not a lot of people are familiar with. they didn t ask for all of this credit. they came to serve their country and did something when america needed them at a time and they came together and released men to fly overseas during world war ii to help america win this war. and when it was done
and the johnson library in austin. since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein and barbara klein. christina is the registrar. we have our new archivist and our registrar. what we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three presidential libraries in texas. we are the only state in the country that has three presidential libraries. they will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. if they go too long, they have to leave the stage. hopefully, we will leave a little bit of time at the end. the ideas to leave time at the end for you the audience to maybe ask some questions you have thought about during the program. we release in question time at the end and i will moderate that. i will pick you out. there are microphones. tonight is being taped by c-span. there will be microphone so if you raise your hand, you will be passed to microphone so we can get the question
the 24th news cycle that john referred to as facilitated in part by the internet. when the original book prodigal press was written the internet was nearly gleaned in al gore s eye at that time but since then the internet is driving what happens in the news cycle. we felt like it was due for an update and start working on this book about three years ago. it was just published in september. we have been delighted by the reception of the book so far and what i m going to do today is to share with you some of the ideas that are in this book. i want to talk a little bit about world news crew just to give you an idea of who we are even though john did a great job of setting me up on that score and also i want to be really clear that my purpose today is not to bash the mainstream media. i do not in any way shape or form consider the mainstream media or what some people call the legacy media as the enemy. i do believe however that we are and the midst of a patholog
the confederate flag removed from the capital this morning in south carolina. the state didn t do it. someone else climbed up that pole and took it down. two people are now in custody. we begin in new york where hundreds of officers are out this morning looking for this man, david sweat, the escaped killer still on the run, three weeks after breaking out. i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. 10:00 this morning on the east coast, 7:00 out west. thanks for joining us for newsroom. we are starting with the helicopters and the search dogs. 1100 law enforcement officers. a huge rush of resources. police are now searching for escaped killer david sweat. they believe they could have him, here is the word they are using, contained inside a perimeter. the search is going on near the upstate new york community of malone. we are covering this story across several angles and from the area. they are live on the ground. we have jean casarez and polo sandoval inside. give us the la