Host Rachel Louise martin the story you tell in your new book, a most tolerant little town, centers around clinton tennessee in the 1950s. Where is that and describe what it was like . Guest clinton is right on the edge of the mountains that make upppalhia. It is about anof knoxville and it is right on the gateway to coal mining country. Host if you and i were there in the 1950s what kind of a community would we find . Guest it was an interesting place in the 50s. It was very mixed up about itself. On one hand it was a small rural southern appalachian town full of coal miners and farmers and local business people. But it was also 7 miles from oak ridge, which was a secret city built as part of the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb and it was also about seven miles from nora stamm. Norris dam. So while it was isolated and small it was also very connected. In 1956 it was the sort of place that oak president ial candidates felt like they had to go and Campaign Even though t
Host Rachel Louise martin the story you tell in your new book, a most tolerant little town, centers around clinton tennessee in the 1950s. Where is that and describe what it was like . Guest clinton is right on t appalachia. Tains that make it is about an hour north of knoxville and it is right on the gateway to coal mining country. Host if you and i were there in the 1950s what kind of a community would we find . Guest it was an interesting place in the 50s. It was very mixed up about itself. On one hand it was a small rural southern appalachian town full of coal miners and farmers and local business people. But it was also 7 miles from oak ridge, which was a secret city built as part of the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb and it was also about seven miles from nora stamm. Norris dam. So while it was isolated and small it was also very connected. In 1956 it was the sort of place that oak president ial candidates felt like they had to go and Campaign Even though there
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go. police releasing the mug shot of the suspect charged in the shooting of a black teenager in kansas city. 16 year old ralph yara will bring the wrong doorbell while he was trying to pick up his siblings. last week , he was shot two times. 84 year old andrew lester is charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. thank you so much for joining us. i ll be back here tomorrow night, cnn tonight with alison camerata starts now. hey, alison. great to see you and we ll be talking about that case, of course, as well. good evening, everyone. i m alyson camerota. welcome to cnn tonight that 84 year old man in kansas city was charged this evening with shooting 16 year old ralph ural in the head. this was last week after you re all apparently rang the wrong doorbell. is this a valid case of stand your ground law, or is this the law of the instrument? which says when all you have is a hammer? you treat every problem like a nail. here. the instrument is a gun. our
joining the msnbc reports lineup with the premier of anna cabrera reports at 10:00 a.m. eastern. we look forward to that. chris jansing reports starts right now. hey, everything,body, good you, i m yasmin vossoughian in for chris jansing in new york city tennessee democrats saying the world is working as they slam republicans for expelling two black representatives from the legislature. their message to protesters outraged over it we re also now learning the vice president traveling to tennessee as well to meet with lawmakers there amidst all of this going on. also, new allegations about supreme court justice clarence thomas allegedly taking advantage of half a million dollars worth of gifts and trips from a republican mega donor the new report from propublica and how thomas is responding. and the latest jobs report shows a good, not great number as hiring falls to roughly half of what it was a few months ago. what it means for the economy and your wallet coming u