caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history to. only on c-span3. one of the biggest attractions is the london bridge. a visit to the like have a sioux city. into a newlymade formed doesn't city. a bridge and a desert, they don't belong together. abridged from london, that is over-the-top. it attracts everybody. robert purchased the london it to his newly

formed city. originally completed in 1831. this carried londoners across the river thames four 137 years. increased traffic caused it to sink and caused them to oxen the bridge. the structure was dismantled. in 1971, it opened as a tourist attraction. in like have a sioux city, we about impact. >> he left the biggest part in london. he cut slices from the outside. that is the one that he brought over. they were about 10,000 pieces of ridge. he sold it inside. he sold it for headstones. he got quite some money for it. the bridge cost him 2.5 million.

he sold the inside for 2.5 million. what you see is a facade. first he made a concrete structure initiative of the bridge and then put the pieces against it. concrete, hollow. the bridge itself is about a thousand feet. and width.ame length if you take a bridge apart, how do you put it together again russian mark they numbered each stone individually. they had a big map. they started to put every stone at the same spot again.

these treatments are made of iron. they have a wonderful story. they came with the bridge and they were made in 1831. now we have to do a step back. napoleon escaped and he got his army behind him again. he fought the british and one of the, in belgium. napoleon lost and he found waterloo. wellington, the british era to all of his cannons and brought them over to england. they had been a little while and then they needed iron or the streetlights on the bridge. got the cannons, melted and admitted into streetlights. it was opened october 11, 1971.

our town had about 5000 people. they were all set up, a parade. there was a dinner with $25 a person. a lot of money in those days. it is kind of impressive in the middle of the desert. london bridge, who would've ever thought that? city towards step every zone. city ande about the other stops on our tour at c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv. all

next, on the presidency. ronald reagan's attorney general talks about his views on communism and his relationship with pope john paul ii at a conference organized by the white house writers group. the program was recorded as part of the hoover institution's series, uncommon knowledge. peter robinson moderates the conversation. it is just over half an hour. >> ronald reagan and pope john paul ii, a partnership that changed the world. we are in washington at a conference devoted to that subject. with us, an eyewitness to the relationship tween president reagan and pope john paul ii, the former attorney general, edwin meese iii. [applause] welcome to uncommon knowledge. i'm peter