There are lingering questions about how far detroit has come in a half century in addressing the issues that led to the rioting. We are here at the Detroit Free Press where it won a Pulitzer Prize for its 1967 riot coverage. Were joined by Heather Ann Thompson and Detroit Free Press page editor steve henderson. Well be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets and facebook posts. Can we start with the definitions in the sense that the events that took place 50 years ago described as a riot. I would say its absolutely not a riot. Because that term connotes chaos and it suggests that everyone just showed up and destroyed the city for no reason. It also suggested how we should understand what happened and what the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion. Because all of the energy and anger and activism that went into that moment had long been predicted. People had been begging for some remedy, for the housing discrimination. The Police Brutality. The eco
And one more comment id like to make is that my son, who is a white male, was pulled over tonights ago by the police because he had a low beam out. So i think things have really changed in the past 50 years. My main question is how can you say you cant make it today based on something that happened to your family 150 years ago . Id like to hear an answer to that. So i mean for starters, this idea of 150 years ago, its true slavery ended 150 years ago. But the discrimination thats baked into our system continues even today. I tell the story all the time about my father, not somebody i read about in a book somewhere, not some ancient relative. My father was born in 1933 in mississippi. Goes off to fight in the korean war. Comes home to a mississippi where he cant sit at a lunch counter, where he is not allowed to vote, where he does not get to participate in the gi bills that are offered to people coming back from war to go to college where he cant get the home loans that are offered as
Was sent back into the white house where the fbi and secret service conducted a thorough investigation of the vehicle, took many photographs, documented what they needed to for evidentiary purposes. After that the car was sent back to its modifiers in cincinnati. To be completely rebuilt as an armored vehicle. And people are always astounded to think that this car was put back into service after the assassination. You would assume either that it was destroyed or perhaps locked away in a warehouse somewhere. But no, the simple fact is the president needed to have a vehicle. President johnson at this point. There simply wasnt time to go back to the drawing board and build something from scratch. The most expeditious thing to do was rebuild this car. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. In july 1967, five days of rioting erupted in detroit, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar and fueled by longsim
So, you represent this o basically a union spirit guest, it is. As far as the administrations on immigration, this is something they campaigned heavily on. At six months where are they smart. What weve seen is nothing short of miraculous. If you look at the rhetoric that president has given its cause the number of illegal Border Crossers to go down something and weve never seen in the history of the Border Patrol. We never seen such a drop. What do you attribute that to . If to enforcing the laws. What we have is we have a set of laws that are on the books that say if you cross the border illegally or if you commit this crime these are the consequences that have been established in the Trump Administration has said we are going to follow through on those consequences. Something we didnt see in the last four years of the last administration. As far as numbers, talk abou those, those were caught andf sent back and how do they compare to the Obama Administration which was a really big adv
Will if you think of one you can quietly whip out your cell phone. Without further ado i want to bring to the stage the ceo of amtrak. [ applause ] thank you so much, thank you for that gracious introduction. It is great to see all of you. I have had a lot of great experiences in my life and my career, when i walked down the hall and see some of the other people at the podium this certainly ranks up with all of the highlights. I am delighted to be here. I do not to eat, i will not be stopping occasionally to put anything smart that i have set out. Not that i would say anything smart. The other thing i would say is it is not that much more expensive to upgrade to first class. Think about it, we need the money. Well, good afternoon. I thought i would read three things today very quickly and to be aware of time so there is plenty of time to talk about what you would like to talk about. I will give you a brief description of why i am here and why i am doing this, this is primarily so that