images, 50 moments, and 50 objects. the museum's public storage -- public historian shares with us selections from one of the exhibit's five selections. >> we are standing in front of the 50 people selection. -- moments is really interesting. unlike all the other sections, it is all audio. the objects are of course right in front of you, but moments is firsthand accounts from people who experienced or lived through the moments they're talking about. it is not just reading out of a history book. this is from the mouth of people who lived through it. most big cities industry have a fire story. theago had a huge fire in 1870's. st. louis's fire happened in 1849. a steamboat along the levee caught on fire and it earned

through the ropes holding it to the levee and began to drift out on the levee, a big earning fireball on the river. it drifted down the levee and hit one boat after another until 23 boats were on fire. morning, 14 block said been burned down. sites to see. the fire broke out at 3:00 and spread to the stores on the landing. and then nearly half of the heavy business portion of the city was in ashes. there was a strong wind at the time and the fire ran through block after block. fire, city leaders proposed an ordinance that require all buildings to be built out of brick or stone. st. louis is nationally famous for its brick columns today. many of the moments -- it is from a time before we could get

persons to record this, obviously. so, stuff from way back when, a diary or a letter they wrote, we have a person reading and recording it today. but they're a couple of other ones where we have the real person come in and give their description of what happened. one of the most exciting ones is the southwest bank robbery. that took place in the 1950's in st. louis. the southwest bank got robbed in the middle of the day. it was the largest bank heist in u.s. history to that point. it all went wrong. a cashier tripped a silent alarm and the police showed up with the robbers inside the bank, the police outside the bank. lots of innocent people in the way. mancer mel stein was the who shot the main robber in this take robbery. he is 100 years old.

we tracked him down. he came in and gave the story and he remembers it as clear as day. just like it were yesterday. >> we pulled up in front of the bank, and just as we pulled up in front of the bank, a dispatcher comes on and says, "attention, all cars. these southwest -- a holdup at the southwest bank is now in progress ."this section of the i know what it is like for -- like for theis hair to stand up on the back of your head. bank, boblose to the went to the side door. he opens the side door. as he did, he showed a gun in each hand. bob fired a shot. now i am coming, and i'm coming bank now,front of the the front door. bob fired a shot. he hit him in the backside.

just as he hit him, as he opened the door and fired the shot, i was -- i could see through, and him shoot through the glass door and hit him in the head. at that moment, as soon as i saw shotsoot him, i fire two through the glass at him, and then i ducked. just as i ducked down, two shots from his sawed-off shotgun when about four inches over my head. interesting part about this is the southwest inc. robbery was turned into a feature-length movie with steve mcqueen called "the great st. and thek robbery," movie features those who were there on that day and the location.

so, milstein played himself. he told us what it was like meeting steve mcqueen. it was really wonderful. one of the most unjust -- one of the most wonderful things for me was tracking down a man who game-winning ball in the world series, one of the most exciting world series baseball games ever. three times the cardinals were within one strike of being eaten in the -- beaten in the series. a patch of grass. i think just about everyone in st. louis can remember seeing this man dive onto the ball. that man was a top or from alden named david hewitt. we wanted to feature a modern moment, not something from way back when, but something that even the youngest of children today can still remember. david friese went up and i heard the crack of the bats and i sought -- it was a combination of hearing the crack

of the bat, seeing the ball go to the sensor, and i saw the then cheer really loud and everything went quiet for me. it was almost like being focused on something where you cannot hear anything. were no idea there fireworks. the crowd was completely dead to me at that point. it looked like on the video i can see where the ball was coming down. the fence i had to jump was quite high and i look back and think, how did i do that so i don't know. i stood up for a split second on the grass. everything was quiet. ed in front of me. that was all i heard. at some point you realize you have a bond with the city and they bond with the team. there will never be a time now where i will not be a cards fan. more becomes much

personal. this, you are in your own little space and you can really dig into these things. >> throughout the weekend, and american history tv is featuring st. louis, missouri. our local content vehicles team recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. learn more about st. louis and other stops on c-span's cities tour at www.c-span.org /localcontent. you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. lawrence strickland heads the national telecommunications and information administration. he talks about the oversight of control shifting from u.s. control to an international multi-stakeholder group. >> the clinton administration determined they wanted to move the operation of the domain system out of the federal

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