History tv. 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter at cspanhistory for schedule, upcoming programs and keep up with the latest history news. Each week American History tvs reel america brings you archival films to help tell the story of the 20th century. Hurricane hilda blows in the town of franklin, louisiana, only to find the streetsdy serted. 3,400 outside residents were evacuated covering 75 square miles. Hilda hit the states with winds up to 150 miles per hour. Police and National Guard and Civil Defense workers go on disaster alert. The rescue work goes off like clockwork. Schools, courthouses and other stormproof structures became emergency shelters. So well prepared for evacuation and shelter plans when the full force of the hurricane hit all the residents of franklin were safe and sound. Along the coast, more than 150,000 people left their homes for safe havens. Seven states felt the fury of hilda but the damage was was missi
Heat on Vladimir Putins inner circle. Exploding to violence in Eastern Ukraine. International buyers circle. And searching through the wreckage after a wave of tornadoes kills at least 17 people in the United States. It has been an unprecedented day in egypt with 683 people sentenced to death for their roles in the violence following the ousting of Mohamed Morsi last july. One of the 683 is the Muslim Brotherhood leader, mohamed bahdi, who says he quill continue his course. However commuted several other death sentences passed in march. Al jazeera reports. Relatives in shock. Moments after the verdict was announced. Heavy security was deployed outside the court building, where egyptian presiding judge said youssef subjected members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death. Including the groups leader, a Political Group to which former egyptian president Mohamed Morsi belongs. The defendants sentenced on monday are accused of insighting violence, killing a policeman in southern egypt. The att
Rights leader who organized the union. Hosted by the association for the study of African American life and history, this event is about two hours. Thank you, everybody, for coming here. My name is alan spiers, im the npca has served as leading voice of the American People on behalf of their National Parks since we were founded in 1919. Its our mission to protect and enhance americas parks for current and future generations. We are a very proud partner of the association. They are hosting their 99 conference. I look forward to celebrating their centennial next european we have a couple of objectives today. About two hours to chat with you about some important topics. Adding a unit to the National Park service on Chicagos Southside would commemorate the industrialist capitalist. Merchants of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters. Connected topics. , if peopleet started could make sure if you have a cell phone, please place it on silent or vibrate or turn it off so we dont have birds c
End of the san joaquin valley. Bakersfield is the ninth largest city in california and the seed of Current County which ranks third in the u. S. For agriculture and oil related production. With the help of Bright House Networks the next hour well bring you to the birthplace of the bakersfield sound to learn about the citys history and meet the local authors. We begin our special look at bakersfield with a look at russos books a family owned and operated bookstore. I am Michael Russo of russos books and bakersfield california. We have been here 24 years. Its a family owned business my parents, my two sisters my brothers and myself. We are here every day and loving it. My mom is the leader of the family and we have always been retail and we grew up with books. The opportunity came that a used bookstore went up for sale and we wanted to dive into the self ownership and own our own business. We saw bookstore globe for sale. It was a used bookstore and we jumped at the opportunity and it ha
Right outside the palace where hundreds gathered to celebrate the new heir. The future king of england is 8 pounds 6 ounces. Both mom and baby are doing well. And alfonso is outside the London Hospital with more on the baby fever. Reporter the vigil continues outside this London Hospital as millions eagerly await their first glimpse of the new member of the royal family. This is nuts. Its like a party. The party lasted into the Early Morning hours as britain celebrated the first son of william and kate. Had a little baby. Fantastic. His royal weighed in at 8 pounds 6 ounces. The town was the first to announce the birth. He wasnt at all surprised to find out its a boy. If the town or anyone heard whispers about the babys name, they are not talking. Least of all, the royal family. During a tour this morning, Prince Charles seemed to rev el. He refused to divulge the baby name. Some names are more popular in others. We havent had a george for a while and the queen thought it was george. G