Right now. Current temperatures 50s and low 60s, 61 in oakland, 60 degrees in san jose on this saturday morning. Heres the headlines for today, a cloudy start with some patchy fog, sunshine today for most of us, and near seasonal highs, but we do have some changes coming up in the seven day forecast. Well go over that in just a bit. A Fatal Shooting in East San Jose has Police Looking for leads this morning. Police responded to a report of a shooting in the area of tule road and capitol expressway last night. When they got there, they found a man who had been shot. He later died at the scene. It is still under investigation. A man who was killed identity has not yet been released. To sonoma, a man was killed and another in serious condition after a car slammed into a tree. That happened shortly before midnight on seventh street east near rover road just outside of the sonoma city limits. The victims friends say the men were coming from a Wedding Party. Police in Southern California hav
Stephanie today, we are at special Collections Department at gonzaga university, looking at the tribunal for the far east or the tokyo war crimes, and these papers relate to the trial that went on against the 20 military people and the civilians who were responsible for the federal war, too. Who started world war ii. This military tribunal, it was established i have in 12 Different Countries and nine prosecuting attorneys from various countries that would put these individuals on trial. One of the key people on defense was a general, a general of the Imperial Army and prime minister, and he was the one responsible for the decision to bomb pearl harbor in 1941. So how come they had these papers . They were actually there at the trials. Graduate was there at these trials. He became ill and asked his friend to come to japan and help them out and cover for him while he was ill, so he stayed on. He was supposed to be on a couple of years but he stayed on for two years and helped with that.
When you get to this point in the galleries, you then encounter the statue of king george iii. Momentg you back to that when the declaration was being read in new york in 1776. We have a sailor up there offering you a rope that hes throwing down to try to invite you to consider, but where would you have stood at this point in the story . Youve heard the loyalist critique. You have heard people trying to remain neutral. Youve heard from fervent revolutionaries. We want you to feel like that maybe you had a choice and the outcome was still quite uncertain. We have on display these large lumps here in the case on loan to us from the New York Historical society. Fragments of the original statue that stood there at the bowling green. It was composed of gilded lead about 4000 pounds of lead in , large sheets. That was broken apart into sheets and melted down into 42,000 musket balls, which were turned into ammunition for the Continental Army. Those musket balls were referred to in one newspa
For the next hour, an history tv exclusive, our cities tour visited spokane, washington, to learn more about its unique history and literary life. Or six years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. Can watch more of our visits on cspan. Org slash citiestour. Thing about bing crosby, is legacy and memory was that he was well balanced. He was not needing for fame. Even seek it. It totally surprised him. In s often mentioned today general 20th century histories influenceshe calming on American History. He was the voice that people istened to in the 1930s on hard. When things were so that was bings role in american be sort of ind of he nextdoor neighbor, commonsensical approach to, you know, life and so forth. He modelled that. Goes back to his life neighborhood. Tomah, s born in to washington, on the west side of his state. His family f 3, moved to spokane. His dad took a position at a in spokane. Y they rented a house just a
Books and authors. Television for serious readers. Heres a look at some authors recently featured on booktvs after words, our weekly Author Interview program. Manhattan Institute Senior fellow Heather Mac Donald looked at the state of policing in america. Ney that would ya holt profiled the women instrumental in the development of americas Space Program in the 1940s and 50s. And historian pamela haig looked at the history of gun ownership in america. In the coming weeks, karen greenberg, director of the center on National Security at fordham university, will report on the steps taken by the department of justice to combat terrorism since september 11th. Eric fehr will discuss his time in iraq working as an interrogator for a private military contractor. Also coming up, wall street journal columnist Kimberly Strassel will argue the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. And this weekend republican congressman darrell issa talks about his time as chairman o