only on c-span 3. >> tonight on american history tv, author tammy ingram discusses her upcoming book "the wickedest city in america." here is a preview. >> this what is interesting because his reply is a little bit less firm of a no then he would be giving to people later on. he simply tells him that time will permit them to come to every place, but every small town with maybe some problem. he indicates he is interested in learning more about what is going on the city's. hunting us to luttrell, he was corresponding with albert patterson and keeping up very well with what was going on. i think he took a special interest in those letters. there are other correspondence like this. there are memos like the scattered throughout papers.

either saying he had called her somebody had called and mentioned his name. he was the man whose house was firebombed. you see the name of point shepherd. that was the main kingpin in phenix city. the guy working for him who bombed the house, his name was tommy "dynamite" capps. each person had a specialty. there was a safecracker. tommy capps, i wish i had his mug shot. it's interesting. his long list of known activities. uy theywas there g called to blow things up. there were a lot of information like this scattered throughout. a lot of people were corresponding. a new a great deal about what was going on in phenix city. >> watch the entire program

tonight starting at 7:00 eastern here on american history tv on c-span 3. c-span's live coverage of the republican national convention beginning next monday in cleveland. and tonight at 8:00 eastern we will take a look at past republican conventions, including the contentious 1976 republican convention in kansas city, missouri. starting with the rules of vapor a proposal or require president gerald ford select his running mate prior to the presidential balloting process. they will also feature president ford and former california governor ronald reagan. >> we have just heard it called arms based on that platform. and a call to us to really be successful in communicating and revealed to the american people the difference between this platform and the platform of the opposing party, which is nothing but a revamp andriy issue and running of a late, late show of the think we've been hearing from them for the last 40 years. >> than 1952 convention in

chicago with dwight eisenhower. >> you have summoned me on behalf of millions of your fellow americans to lead a great crusade for freedom in america and freedom in the world. i know something of the solemn responsibility of leading a crusade. i have led one. >> note for his military career, he was selected as the republican nominee and later won the 1952 election. the 1996 republican convention with former kansas senator bob dole. past national conventions tonight at 8:00 eastern on seized and. -- c-span. weekend, american history tv is featuring cleveland, host of the republican national convention that begins on monday.

the cuyahoga river is sometimes called the river that caught fire after the story of an oil slick fire made national news in 1969. hosted by our charter communications cable partners,'s c-span cities tour staff showcases the city's rich history. learn more about history all weekend here on american history tv. we are currently looking at a standard oil delivery wagon that would have been used to deliver products at various oil products from standard oil company here in cleveland, ohio. on the sideboard we see various product packaging for other products that were either made by or eventually made by standard oil out of the refining process of petroleum here in cleveland area. standard oil was formed by john

d rockefeller in 1870 and quickly became one of the largest petroleum companies in the united states. john d. rockefeller was a brilliant businessman who moved to the cleveland area with his family as a young boy, who up in the cleveland area in boarding school and eventually working in various companies. in the petroleum industry until founding his own company with standard oil company. standard oil comes from john rockefeller's idea and desire to standardize kerosene. kerosene was what most homes are using as a lighting oil in their lamps. at the time kerosene was somewhat dangerous. there was no standardization of it. some would burn hotter and quicker than others. it would lead to fires and

homes. john d. rockefeller was interested in standardizing that in making us a safer product for americans. that is really what he was able to achieve with standard oil. and even went so far as to build their own safety lamps to burn standard oil in standardized kerosene oil in the homes. this led to rockefeller quickly becoming one of the wealthiest men in america, and also becoming one of the most hated men in america as they call him. the way john d. rockefeller ran his business, the way he took over other petroleum industries led to a very bad public image. his business practices were well-known as not the best in american business. it was at that point where his advisers told him he needed to appear even more charitable than he already was.

he began his own campaign where when he was out on the streets walking around, meeting people, talking to people, he would get out dimes. it became a very large legend behind rockefeller dimes. to be handed a dime at the time, the early 1800s when he was doing this -- 1900s when he was doing this, he was giving away a large amount of money. when you think about the steel industry worker might even making a couple hundred dollars a week, a dime was a significant amount of money. especially when you hand it to children. children were able to then go out and buy things. it was all because of mr. rockefeller. he looked again like a good guy rather than this bad businessman everyone had come to know him as. standard oil, the company the

rockefeller founded here in cleveland quickly became successful. obviously making him the wealthy man he was. it also impact the cleveland economically. it brought money into the city, but also the ability of rockefeller to be able to pay his employees a decent wage and allow them to live a good life here in cleveland. it was just another one of those industries in cleveland at the time that was doing so well, like the auto industry, that the veryens of cleveland had a good quality of life in the city at the time thanks to these major industries. be at the auto industry or the petroleum industry that standard oil was in. bringing that wealth into the city.

>> our cities tour staff recently traveled to cleveland to learn about its rich history. learn more about the city and other stops on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >> i had a rough upbringing. i got involved in the streets and met some friends. they were selling drugs. it was like the thing to do and i started selling drugs, marijuana, mescaline, cocaine, and crack cocaine came out and we started to sell that. i was in the streets from the age of 13 to 18. >> sunday night on q&a, corey p egeus discusses his book. lifelks about his former

as a drug dealer and police officer. criticize police a lot and when i criticize, i'm talking about the bad police. the overwhelming majority of cap's are doing their job but you hear about the tamir rice cases, you hear about the bad and once law enforcement starts weeding them out, because every time you see one of these cases, you look at the person's background, seven complaints for use of force, five substantiated. and then we don't find out until they kill somebody. nationalithsonian's air and space museum opened 40 years ago. july 1, 1976. leading up to the anniversary, american history tvs real america is showing a series of nasa films.