major funding for religion & ehics newsweekly is provided by the lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private family foundation, dedicated to its founders interestses in religion, community development, and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company.4a welcome. i m bob abernethy. it s good to have you with us. this week u.s. health officials said they would begin screening travelers from west africa for ebola at five major u.s. airports. the first person diagnosed with ebola in the u.s., thomas eric duncan, died at a dallas hospital. he had been infected in his home country of liberia. a vigil was held in his honor at wilshire baptist church in dallas, where his fiancee is a member. in recent weeks, faith-based humanitarian groups such as samaritan s purse and catholic relief services have been ramping up aid to the african countries hit hardes
history news. up next on american history tv david reynolds editor of lincoln s selected writings. he discussed president lincoln s assassination and the man who shot and killed him. actor john wilks booth. president lincoln died on april 15th, 1865. this event was hosted be i the city university of new york. it s about an hour and a half. tomorrow to honor the 150th anniversary of his death lincoln was shot 150 years ago tonight and then died the next morning. president obama will proclaim a day of remembrance. for now though i want to take us back in time to that fateful night on april 14th, 1865. i ll first summarize what happened and then i ll discuss the cultural background of lincoln lincoln and his murderer john wilkes booth. about this time in the evening 150 years ago abraham lincoln and his wife mary todd lincoln were preparing to go see the noted actress laura king in the comic play our american cousin which was featured at ford s theater. it was well-known t
see the carriage that transported president and mrs. lincoln to ford s on april 14th 1865. behind me is the carriage that abraham lincoln rode to ford s theater the night of his assassination on april 14th. it s part of an exhibit and a project we re working with ford s theater on in their sigh a lent witness exhibition which opens up this month. april 14th 1865 was an incredible day for both the lincolns and for washington. news had reached the city that robert e. lee had surrendered to grant. the war was finally coming to a conclusion. that morning abraham lincoln has breakfast with his family. robert todd lincoln his eldest son, joins them for breakfast. he was at appomattox. he was part of ulysses s. grant s staff. and he was telling the story to the family about what had just taken place. the city has in celebration. and the lincolns themselves were celebrating and finally seeing the end of this incredible war coming to an end and all of the burdens that that had on th
with a hockey stick knocked out all his upper teeth when he was 18. and sent him into a spell of depression and self-imposed seclusion in his house for three years. was not able to go to college, which he had planned to do. he wanted to go to yale. instead, he stayed at home. very seldom ever went out at all. reading. and providing himself with a liberal arts education of a kind most people would dream of having. all on his own. with the help of his father and the local public library. but it was it swerved his the path of his life in a way that no one had ever had any way of anticipating. sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific, on c-span s q&a. each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives museums and historic sites to learn what artifacts reveal about american history. 150 years ago, actor john willings booth shot president lincoln as he watched a play from his box at ford s theater in washington, d.c. for the first time since that night, a collecti
all. reading. and providing himself with a liberal arts education of a kind most people would dream of having. all on his own. with the help of his father and the local public library. but it was it swerved his the path of his life in a way that no one had ever had any way of anticipating. sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific, on c-span s q&a. each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives museums and historic sites to learn what artifacts reveal about american history. 150 years ago, actor john willings booth shot president lincoln as he watched a play from his box at ford s theater in washington, d.c. for the first time since that night, a collection of objects connected to the assassination are reunited in a special exhibit titled silent witnesses. we ll visit the exhibit in the center for education and leadership at ford s theater. first, we begin at the national museum of american history to see the carriage that transported president and mrs.