Abraham lincolns life through 4s and portraits and discusses idiosyncrasies like what his close reveal about his health, or why he chose certain photographers. The university of st. Mary hosted this 90 minute event. Good evening. My name is brian lebeau. I would like to welcome you to the 18th annual university of st. Mary lincoln event. Featuring Smithsonian National portrait gallery Senior Historian david seymour. How Abraham Lincoln used photography for politics. A special welcome to the crew from cspan. They will be covering this event broadcast on cspan tv. As a reminder, when we open the floor to questions, be sure to use the microphones. Will not be, you heard on television and you will miss your big media event. Our speaker tonight david ward joined to the National Portrait gallery in 1981. He oversees the sections devoted to the antebellum age as well as the gallery and the ongoing exhibit 20th century americans. David was cocurator of an awardwinning exhibition hide and seek
Good evening. My name is brian lebeau. You to like to welcome the 18th annual university of st. Mary lincoln event. Featuring Smithsonian National portrait gallery Senior Historian david seymour. How Abraham Lincoln used photography for politics. A special welcome to the crew from cspan. When we open the floor to questions, be sure to use the microphones. Our speaker tonight david ward joined to the National Portrait gallery in 1981. He oversees the sections devoted to the antebellum age as well as the gallery and the ongoing exhibit 20th century americans. David was cocurator of an awardwinning exhibition hide and seek difference and desires in american portraiture. He is rehanging the hall of president s. The american origins space. As well as curating a new exhibit on the photographer barrio testee no. Testino. David has another civil war exhibit on display now. Alexander gardner photographs. It includes several lincoln photographs. I saw it last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. This
That really sparked a lot of the uproar which led to director julia piersons resignation. Plead notlez did guilty today to those accusations of getting all the way inside the white house with a knife, yelling that the atmosphere was collapsing and he had to warn the president. Today in court, the iraq war veteran, reportedly suffering from ptsd, waived a detention hearing. He is going to be held without bond until trial. The big argument today centered around should the judge be allowed to force him to undergo a Mental Health evaluation. The defense says no, the court does not have that right. I asked him on solidss attorney why he is fighting it. The screening is done, we would like to have the screening done by our experts. It is an intervention into the defense counsel that we do not think is worth it. You told the judge you have every reason to believe he is competent. Thats correct. Also toldzs attorney me he believes guns all as is completely competent to stand trial. Hes well aw
Gaithersburg. Low temperatures overnight are going to be below freezing, 29, 30 in rock field, 0 in bethesda, downtown still above freezing but 31 in springfield and 29 or 30 this fairfax. Thats just enough to cause black ice. What is black ice . The road looks wet but its actually frozen. Slow down and if youre walking to get the paper super early tomorrow morning, if your driveway looks wet, that could be ice as well if you live north and west of the town. Upper 20s to mid30s at 7 00 and low 30s to upper 30s by 9 00 but still cold. Well talk about a clipper thats going to roll through south of us tomorrow and take you all the through the holiday weekend. Topper warned us about the potential tore black ice tonight and early in the morning. Jim os mond live tonight. Reporter good evening, folks, at home things are going smoothly here, were between exits 4 and 5 in Montgomery County. The falls road exit, traffic going at a pretty good clip. Were assuming maybe folks got to their thanksg
Fire. The flames can be seen from miles away. We saw them driving up on the interstate on 695. Firefighters were called to k and k tire auto repair around 8 30. So were looking at several hours now. Were told they arrived here coming from a shed on the property. The fire quickly spread eventually consuming tires, vehicles and other auto parts on the property. This is an Industrial Area of howard county. Were within just a few hundred yards of restaurants, shops, stores. There are folks coming out of some of these places to take a look. The fire does not seem to be threatening them yet, but its definitely creating a strong chemical odor in the air. You dont have to be nearby to catch a whiff of that. The closer you are, the harder it is to breathe, an awful smell. Tires can be very difficult to control, a tire fire can. It can be very difficult to extinguish. Also the conditions out here, its cold outside and that is not helping firefighters, extremely cold. Weve heard some firefighters