so to speak. misses evers said, medgar was lying down with his keys in his right hand. i thought he was dead, but he wasn't. he was saying something, but they couldn't understand him. i brought him inside the house and took on mattress off and put him on the mattress to transport to the hospital. in jackson, mississippi in 1963 mane lived a who was brave he fought all of his life but they laid medgar evers and his grace ♪ following his death, the movement died a bit rude they had his funeral over at the masonic temple.

buried in, he was arlington national cemetery. after some time, no one was in the house. it had gotten in bad shape. there are other exhibits about but wein other museums, knew we wanted to do something with this house. we may not have known exactly what we were going to do. at first, people wanted to come and see where medgar evers and his family lived. letpened the door and people flow in and flow out. we get the point where we said, we have to say something about medgar. there are people right here in mississippi, my age or older, who don't really know who medgar evers was. that is what i want people to know. i want people to know who medgar evers was. i want people to know what a great difference he made in mississippi. as i said, i learned later not only in mississippi, but

of theout the world, one things he said was, i like mississippi. this is home. i like fishing here. i like hunting. mississippi is a wonderful place to grow up. he said, why should i leave? i love mississippi. leftr had -- had medgar mississippi, what about other people? you have the same rights as anybody who is born here. why should you have to run away to some unknown city or state to get a decent education, to make a living for your family, to get a decent job, and to be able to support your family? why should you have to do that? medgar evers decided to stay right here in mississippi. thank god he did.

>> and this is american history tv on c-span3. our 2014 cities to her has taken us on the road to cities across america, working with our cable partners. we have two or historic sites and interviewed local historians. fromg up, some highlights our travels. see the schedule of where we've been and watch video from all of our stops at c-span.org/localcontent. ♪

>> i would like to welcome you to the tabernacle here on temple square in salt lake city. this is the home of the mormon tabernacle choir. some might call it america's choir. the mormon tabernacle choir was firstzed in 1847 when the high in the years came into this valley. it was a small group of people in a very rustic building, and they asked for a choir to perform. it was in 1849 that welsh

valley, ande to the they sang in four-part harmonies . they sang and welsh. it really started in 1847. they used to sing in the building over on the square that was just a temporary building, but they called it the tabernacle. that is how the name came, the mormon tabernacle choir. was too small, they started building this particular building, which was in the late 1860's. it was completed at the end of .he civil war the choir moved into this building at the time, and the tabernacle here has been the home of the choir ever since. as we have visitors come to temple square, we invite them into the tabernacle. one of the things they first notice is the instrument behind me, the organ. stock, itarly pioneer

becomes the centerpiece for people to begin to look at and think, wow, this is an amazing experience. then we see the choir itself. it makes a great picture. ♪ whenever you see a photograph of the choir, this organ is right there in the center of the photograph, and it has been accompanying the choir since really the organ was put in in 1867 with the choir has been around that long. is the oldest building on temple square. it is even older than the temple itself. the oldest thing inside of the the organ case. these gold pipes next to me have looked down on decades and decades of history and have seen all kinds of things.

lots of american pulpits have spoken from the pulpit and seeing the choir perform. there is a lot of history in this organ case and the building. the sound of the tabernacle organ is really unique. most of the pipes were built by the alien skin the organ company in 1958. it was considered their magnum opus. the president of that company really considered this the finest instrument he built. the of that is because pipes are so beautifully voiced for the room. .art of it is the room itself this domed ceiling does a remarkable job of projecting even the softest sound from the organ with great clarity to the back of the room. the sound envelops you. it is like a warm bath when you hear this organ play. as you can imagine, when you are accompanying a choir this large, this well-trained, this passionate about what they are

doing, it is a hair-raising experience every time i sit on the bench. it is this huge wall of sound that is going over me and going out into the room. it is still electrifying. i have been accompanying the , and ior 22 years now still -- i'm still thrilled as much as i was the first time that i heard them. one great story has to do with helen keller who was always here back in the early 1900s. she spoke at the pulpit just behind where i'm speaking from here. we know in her situation, she was deprived of her eyesight and learn to speak in a very guttural voice. she came herd