announcer: you can watch archival films in their entirety on our weekly series "treel america", saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern, here on american history tv. announcer: this weekend american history tv joins our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of visalia, california. to learn more about the cities n our current tour visit c span.org/city's tour.

visalia made a conscious effort to make sure their downtown relevant.rant and you will tend to see locally owned shops, restaurants and entertainment venues. to our left here, we have the fox theatre. the fox theatre is one of the anchors of our downtown, an icon for downtown. to our left here is the united states post office which is a -- an art decko building built in the w.p.a. area in our decko style. quoia.e a se since this is a federal building, the federal employee,

the superintendent of kings canyon would spend his winters working ott of the basement. visalia has a strong union with the national park service. had a bit of a role getting sequoia national park and designate and to protect these trees from logging. i wanted to mens the palace hotel. this is the building that is caddie corner to us over here. the second floor of that was always a hotel and the ground floor was always retail. i mentioned a little bit of visalia's historic connection to the national park. -- 15 the mountain meater matter party had a dinner. the second floor has not been touched in 80 years. you get the vibe of what it was in 1915 before they left for the track through the national park

and the sierra. the point of the journey was to emphasize how the national parks that had already been designated were falling under disrepair because they weren't under one umbrella and matter was pushing for the creation of what would become the national park service so that all of these properties would be under one management directive and be preserved for the american people throughout time. so that's kind of a great historic building there and really solidified our connection to our national park neighbors. announcer: our cities tour staff went to visalia, california. learn more about visalia and her stops on our tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. announcer: the case that brought

agnew. ro we believe that we could indict the vice president. we believe he was not immune by prosecution by our office. and in fact his lawyers among the defensive positions they took was that. that he couldn't be prosecuted that he was cloged with immunity. agnew didn't watt to go to jail. get-out-of-jail-free card. richard nixon was a dead man politically speaking. everybody understood that he would be forced out of office. that would make spiro agnew this vice president who we have under investigation president. can you imagine how the country would react, president nixon a crook leaves office, vice

president agnew, a crook becomes president? q&a. day, on c-span's announcer: next on "american history tv." rick atkinson and richard frank talk about two world war ii battles. e battles at hurtgen and peleliu. this event was part of a three-day conference hosted by the national world war ii museum in new orleans. it's 75 minutes. >> so welcome back, everyone. for those of you who are frequent attendant dees at our conferences, the next three panelists need no introduction but i'm going to anyway. first, we have rick atkinson, three time pulitzer prize winner and author of the "magnificent tril