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p.j.: first question i have is what is the most memorable thing about the building of the abraham lincoln hearse? what i learned and our family learned was that it s not about the hearse. it is about those building the hearse and it is about the veterans to whom were building the hearse for and that is abraham lincoln. is this your writing paris? [laughter] [indiscernible] p.j.: ok. i guess i can read it. i don t know what that one word means though. [indiscernible] p.j.: what does that say? how has this impacted our life? i m sorry. does a big word impact. that is a big word impact. one of them the things that has come out of this is that i have begin to heal. i am not a veteran, but you slowly begin to heal wounds that have surfaced over many years of working with that. death. it is different from ptsd. he call it cumulative stress syndrome. and with that comes the burden of trying to take people s grief away. and we can t do that. we can only walk through i ....
lincoln s view of the world in one word, the word is is. he believes the united states is a country not the united states are. in the prior, states were reviewed as part of an overall confederation of states. he believed we were one country. and he wanted to bring the southern states back. second, he wanted to improve the status and the lot of the lives of the americans the african-americans living in the united states of the time it. those who were free before, and certainly those who became free. many of them as a result of lincoln s own efforts. when he was killed, everything changed. it sent back relations in this country over 100 years. and it setback the quality of life, and the economy and social development of the southern states to the point where many southern states to this day are lagging behind the rest of the country in education and health care and in so many other criteria. would this have been different if lincoln survived? impossible to know. but h ....
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-k ....
steven miller detailing thousands of recent immigrants from afghanistan. quote, haiti had sent 15,000 people. they all all aids. he grumbled according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by i different person who was there. 40,000 have come from niej and once they had seep the united states they would never, quote, go back to their huts in africa. we called the two officials who asked for anonymitiy. sarah huckabee-sanders denied the meeting and denied the used the word hut or aids and other said they didn t recall him using those words. general kelly, general mcmaster, secretary tillerson and secretary kneel sep and those in the meeting deny these outrageous claims. it is both sad and telling the new york times would print the lies of their anonymous sources any way. let s go to garrett haake in west palm beach florida covering the president on this day for you. the president at mar-a-largo estate. and garrett, the w ....
rally set to start in about an hour in lafayette park there, directly in front of the white house. it is the same group behind the violent rally that happened in charlottesville, virginia, last year that i was just mentioning. so far, very few white nationalists have shown up. a much larger number of counter protesters there to hold their own rallies nearby. we have reporters monitoring the situation. we re going to start with nbc s garrett haake with the white nationalist rally. and a lot happening there. what are you seeing? reporter: hey, richard. i m actually on the edge of that rally. we are blocked by the police on one side from getting any closer. what you re seeing right now is the arrival, or more accurately, the return of a group of antifa counter protesters. they gathered maybe 20 or 30 minutes ago. best probably to think of them as patrolling the outer edges of this park. d.c. police have made it their mission, and they have been very clear about this, t ....