His time in wyoming. The library of congress is the host of this event. Welcome to the eskin family. To all of you, the eskins who are so generous to make this program possible. Marsha, barney, and lee. Welcome to all of you. Thank you for being here. And welcome to all our young visitors from Washington Area schools. So nice to have you here. And welcome, of course, to the cspan audience that is will be watching this in the future. Who among you has never been in this library . Okay. Quite a few of you. Well, in the event you havent been in this building before, welcome to the Worlds Largest library. The greatest and most extensive Cultural Institution on the planet. The nations very own, your very own library of congress. It was founded in 1800, not long after the founding of this country. It was conceived as a place that would furnish congress and the American Government with the information it needed as it carried out its duties of representing all of us. Initially the library was
Who among you has never been in this library . Ok. Quite a few. In the event you have not been in this building before, welcome to the World Largest library. The greatest and most extensive Cultural Institution on the planet. Your very own library of congress. It was founded in 1800s, not long after the founding of this country. It was conceived as a place that would furnish congress and the American Government with the information it needed is a carried out its duties representing all of us. Tially, the library in 1813, the british army invaded washington in the Capital Building caught fire. It was engulfed in flames. All of the libraries books were burned to ashes. Thomas jefferson, who owned the largest collection of books in the country at the time, almost 7000 volumes in his house, offered to sell his books to the u. S. Government to refill the library. Congress trump. That chance, and now you can see jeffersons own books, original volumes, sitting at the very heart of this buildi
Crowd of protesters is gathered in San Francisco right now, and they all want one thing from p m u mz. Areas jean elle is live in the midst oflpe1 it. Jean, that one thing is . They dont want to see a war with iran, jessica. Lp ill step out of the way here so you can see. This is a small but veryjf people are standing together, speaking out about the in. This crowd does not want to see the u. S. Engaged in a war with iran. They say its past time for the United States to get outawq of middle east and not time to theyrexd concerned about u. S. X troops in the region. Theyre concerned about troops being sent to the region. Theyre also concerned about civilians in iraq andni iran. These antiwarqnr activists say they will continue to hold events here in San Francisconey trump and his administration ari focused on diplomacy, thatni q a step back from reporting live from San Francisco, jean elle, nbc bay area news. Jean, thank you. Hahp hc vital role in these still in attacks. Photos, showing
At the end of the day, 31 democrats joined all of the republicans in the vote to begin the impeachment inquiry into president clinton. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road, with support from our spectrum cable partners. This weekend we traveled to laramie, wyoming. Coming up in the next hour and 10 minutes, well experience the history of this western city with a population of about 32,000. In about 10 minutes, well learn about senator Allen Simpson through his papers at the American Heritage center. After that, a tour of the wyoming territorial prison, where outlaws of the wild west were held, including Butch Cassidy. And later, we visit the deerwood ranch wild horse ecosanctuary to hear about its relationship with the bureau of Land Management. We begin our special feature with a visit to a mansion to hear about the early days of the city. Were in the mansion that edward ivenson built in 1892, and it is now the h
Richard. Were all set. Were also very proud today. You may have seen all the fancier Audio Visual Equipment toward the back of the room. Were very proud to present, see, span is filming this today. So when you get home, you can not only watch this on the center of the west youtube channel, youll be able to watch it on cspan anyway, this talk has a very entering interesting genesis to me. Two of the earliest families in the area are the frost and richard family. The frost family had a ranch outside a town and one summer a photog offer came for the summer and he had all this equipment. He had great plates, he had photographer, he had all these cameras and he left them at the end of the summer. And so a 20 year old, ned frost, took all this equipment. And at that point was not just a hunting guide and trip leader to yellowstone. He also became a photographer and jack richard, the son of neds partner, fred, became an esteemed photographer. So photography kind of runs in these two families.