The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story as we c takec booktv and American History tv on the road with the support of local Cable Television provider we visited 24 cities in the last year and over the next two hours we will looknd at highlights frm some of these stops we began our special feature in milwaukee. So this is a photograph of the lynching that occurred august 7, 1930 in marion, indiana. James cameron to a 16 was supposed be the third person hanging from the tree but he survived the lynching. His friends, abe and tommy, were killed that day by a mob estimate between ten ten and 10 angry whites. Often misidentified as 1000 lynching. It it was a northcentral indiana when the lynching took place. So y we ended up writing a book that he called a time of he actually started to write those when he was in jail awaiting his trial and then when he is finally convicted and sent to prison he finished writing the book. James cameron was born in wisconsin in
Will speak with local authors about the citys history, starting with its link to booker t. Washington. And in about 20 minutes, the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and then in 50 minutes, theWest Virginia teachers strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington was for 20 years the spokesman and leader of African Americans in america and at the time we had horrible jim crow race notes in the south, that didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of Race Relations and what he observed with his heroes was the building of a black middle class and that became his path, his career path as he went from dusky to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hales ford south of roanoke virginia, 220 miles from here and in those first nine years he was a slave boy. He didnt have pants. He wore a slave boys shirt, shoes were two wooden slats with a piece of leather across each toe across thetop. He wanted very much to go
Thunderstorm activity in orlando and daytona beach. They are still in line for some of the effects. The eye is going to stay offcoast. It picks up the gulf stream. It did cool down because it produced upwelling and that produced cooler water. As it starts to make its move, it is parallel to the coast. 60s, 70s or 80s. Temperatures start to cool off yesterday. The thunderstorm activity fired up just staying south of roanoke tahoe and truckee. Awe few neath 0. Or excuse me, sal, here we are, sal. Well go to sal in just a moment. Several nurses are on standby in florida. They are all members of the rn rn. They say they volunteered for the same reasons they became nurses in the first place. We do this to help people. It is kind of what the core of nursing is about. They definitely have a need right now. Now, the nurses also say they are willing to go to the bahamas. The group sent volunteers to puerto rico as well in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and went to florida when Hurricane Micha
The image of the dead woman is too graphic for television. Part of her clothing appeared to be around her ankles. They discovered the body this morning and went on to look for evidence. At this time its labeled aas a suspicious death and we are working the scone all day long and we hope to have more in the cause of death and manner of death at some point this evening. The drone was deployed to search from above and medical detectives were used to look at the ground. Neighbors were stunned by the developments. You never expect to see a dead body its kind of scary it takes you back a step. Tim walsh says the park is bustling with activity at all hours of the day usually children in the daytime but other times other unsavory acts at night. A large section of the park was blocked off with crime scene tape on a day for playing in the pleasant weather, the crime scene left a chill. You never expect to see this. And i have been here a very long time. And an autopsy will be performed and polic
Began in napa and quickly spread. It would spread from miles away in a dozen different areas our fires are burning right now from sonoma and napa, calistoga, and santa rosa all because of the fire that broke out and whipped by winds of 40 Miles Per Hour. And this area imparticular in santa rosa are concerned about because this Shopping Mall has a gun shop with lots of ammunition. They dont want that to two up in flames. We have already seen two Mobile Home Parks and gas stations catch fire. And weve got multiple firearms burning miles apart from each other. Its that reason we have sent out an aroy of county attorney cron 4 report sent out an array of kron reporters. Look at that. And then we have our army of viewers that are sending in video of their escape through a firey roads. Take a look at all sides of this one road that alyssa was driving. She could see the glow as she left town. All sides on fire. Look at that. Calistoga the same. We have seen stuckture after structure homes and