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questions for several hours on capitol hill about that meeting with a russian lawyer. amid the bigger question, what, if anything, did his father, then candidate donald trump, know about it? the plane shooting from a plane taking off from lax. and the manhunt right now. authorities say the suspect dressing like an officer, appearing to be armed, accused now in several robberies. and our made in america christmas is back this year. who writes those hallmark cards? tonight, you ll meet them. good evening. and it s great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and we begin with two major stories. president trump recognizing jerusalem as israel s capital. swift reaction from our allies. but first tonight, the emergency unfolding right here at home. at least four major fires burning out of control at this hour, and tonight, los angeles now included in the state of emergency. a new fire erupting there today. catching rush hour drivers b surprise. shutting down ....
viewers. the political machine boss of 1925 to 1939.om the political machine got its start from tom s older brother, jim pendergast, who came to kansas city in the 1880 s and got started establishing this machine in the first ward of kansas city, which was in the industrial west bottoms down by the river. an irish committee, african-american community. very diverse. lots of working-class people, saloon.pendergast had a this machine that was based on favors, basically helping people get jobs in exchange for votes, helping people through giving them loans that they did not have to get a jim wouldk loan, and loan the money settling gambling debts, skimming money off of the top of illegal activity such as gambling money and prostitution and so on and so forth. was gettingdergast older, his health was failing, his younger brother tom pendergast got started in the s.hine around the 1900 he was elected city alderman and was in charge of streets for the early years of th ....
graduated in and we had all of 1969. the things the other cities had the panthers, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, the drug culture, the anti-vietnam phase. everything was here. all at one time. one thing i learned about kansas city at that point time was we tended to be softer on all of issues than others. our riots were not as vast. we came together to put those out and we moved forward. we learned how to get along with each other although in my opinion, we still remain too segregated. we have to do more to bring our people together across color barriers, and we are working on that seriously. but the things that i remember are the things i grew up with, growing up in a time in the city where there was a lot of conflict and watching how the city has dealt with that conflict in a way that kept it together without falling apart and moving forward. baseball museum, his stork 18th and fine in kansas city, missouri. here we document the story of black ba ....
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in the fields of flanders, because of the munitions, and one presumes because of death, those grounds then were disturbed, and those poppies began to grow. and so, the poppies then grew in amongst what is the killing fields. and so, then the poem in flanders field, was written. it began popularity in 1919 after the war in britain and then soon in the united states. poppies began being sold as remembrance to raise funds for wounded veterans. when you come into the national world war i museum and memorial, as you mentioned, there s a bridge that takes you into the main galleries under which this glass bridge is a beautiful field of poppies, red poppies of flanders field. there are 9,000 blooms, each representing 1,000 combatant deaths. it s really an architectural masterpiece, i think, of the museum, very striking for visitors. what s interesting is to see how different coun ....
germany entering into world war i. more than 100,000 americans died in the conflict. the influx of u.s. resources changed the tides of the global war bringing it to a close 18 months later on november 11th, 1918. to mark the 100th anniversary of what was then known as the great war, american history tv is live from the museum in kansas city, missouri. we ll be here for the next two and a half hours. we ll take you on a tour of some of the exhibits and involve you in conversations with top world war i historians. as we open our program we re joined in the museum by the president and ceo of museum matthew naylor. you have a lot of resources to preserving the memory. why is it important for people in 2017 to know this story? i don t think you can think of the last 100 years, particularly in the united states, without understanding the impact of world war i. that s true of countries right across the globe. i m an australian. i m an american as well. for australia it s the ....