they were not at gettysburg. >> right. if they were captured -- [inaudible conversations] >> poison spring for pillow massacres where the confederates just decided they wouldn't take prisoners if they captured black soldiers, killed them in very brute always or reenslaved them. >> i do want to say hello to the denobody shah civil war museum, a spectacular museum. if you've never been to it, you should. it's just up north of chicago about an hour and a half, and they're online with us today. and as well my hometown, highland park public lie prayer, hello, neighbors -- library. welcome. so appreciate all of you being online as well. someone's asked peter from milwaukee, was there a character in the film that was especially difficult to write for? >> huh. no one has ever asked me that. lincoln. [laughter] i mean, that was the hardest challenge, but once i started doing it, once i got over the fear of doing it, it became easier. although you have to be very careful when you're putting words in the mouth of abraham lincoln. >>

his most famous speech, the gettysburg address, is inscribed on the south wall. national parks spokesperson bill line says visitors are visibly moved by the power of lincoln's words. >> part of what is written there as to how he realizes that the nation is on the precipice of possibly falling apart, of possibly dividing into two nations and how much that is causing angst and worry and how much he's wrestling with that comes through in the words that he uses in the gettysburg address. to see that in stone, to see that in the area where lincoln is causes great emotional reaction on many people. >> as a great orator, he would have been pleased to know that another great speech was given here 100 years later. >> five score years ago, a great american in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the emancipation proclamation. >> dr. martin luther king jr. honored lincoln when he chose the memorial as the backdrop for his famous "i have a dream" speech in 1963. >> i have a dream today. [ cheers and applause ] >> he had the bravery, the fortitude, and his speech reson

he does this then he delivers the gettysburg address, then he, you know, and that's no fun to watch, it's not dramatic. it's -- and the pace of it and the rhythm of it is determined by research and biography which is not dramatically constructive. it's, you know, it's just what happens. and to organize the film around a series of core conflicts we'd have to pick something. so i said to steven, i think, "let's just do the last four months, everything -- there's something in the last four months that can stand in for every single major kind of conflict that lincoln had to contend with." >> the last four months of his life. >> last four months, january, february, march. >> '65? >> yeah, of '65. so i wrote a screenplay that was 500 pages long and i gave it to steven. and steven is always surprising, and after he read the first 150 pages which was january he said, "i love this. i'll read the rest of it, but this is a movie." and i thought, well, that's great to hear, but you can't make a movie, it's the first movie about abraham lincoln in 72 years, except for the vampire killer thing, yo

, was difficult. , battlefieldnd medicine at gettysburg, saturday at 10 p.m.rn on c-span 3. to believe in something that is so right, so dear, so necessary, you have to get in trouble. before we got in trouble, we studied. we did not just wake up one morning and said we are going to sit in. we did not just dream that one day that we're going to come to washington and go on a freedom ride, that we are going to march .n washington as we did in 1963 we studied, we prepared ourselves. .hey intimidated so many people black power. when they use that word or that phrase, black power, many people thought black power meant the structure and -- .estruction, destroying america it was not anything about destroying america. it was about rebuilding america. a new paradigm in terms of how we could truly be. the land of the free, the home of the brave. >> congressman john lewis and olympic gold medalist share their experiences during the civil right movement live, saturday at 8 p.m. eastern, part of booktv on c-span 2. continues. journal" host: white house correspondent, than

it is 150 years since the battle of gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the american civil war. the metropolitan museum of art shows poiniant photographs at the war where 750,000 americans lost their lives. jeff rosenheim gives us an exclusive look. >> photographers anticipated the war and were in place, and the camera naand its product was everywhere, and you didn't leave the war without a likeness. they got to put on the uniforms, maybe the first time they left home, the first time they did something larger than their own enterprise and it was done on a massive level. these soldiers sat for their portraits beginning an entrprise of aise that was so much part of history. ♪ >> what is interesting about lincoln is he understood photography. the picture from new york city at the cooper union contributed to his success as a candidate. africansibility of americnan experience is characteristic. theri storir story is the storye abolution of slavery, and the critical issue for photographers. we have, encoded, front and center the stories of african americans, in the story -- >> among t

but interestingly on lee, eisenhower lived in gettysburg, and his farm backs that ridge where all the confederate forces formed on the third day of the battle of gettysburg, where picket's charge was organized. and eisenhower would give tours of the battlefield on foot. and he would recall that, i think it was on july 2nd, the 2nd day of battle, picket came to leave and said i want to charge the union line the next day with all of our forces. and lee said do it if you can. take it if you can. and eisenhower thought that was a tremendous dereliction of of duty on the part of lee. why? because it was sort of -- well, if you can do it, sure, you know? eisenhower's view was you have to be absolutely sure you can do it or don't do out. it was the worst kind of military leadership. so even though he revered the sainted lee, he thought at the critical moment lee gave exactly the wrong order. he was too con jekyll chul. it was a possibility, well, he was too fatalistic about it. eisenhower was one of those generals who believed in unfair fights, you know? we have all the advantage and they do

canyon, yosemite, but also stewarding america's history and that would include independence hall, gettysburg, mount rush more, and most recently flight 93. my dress uniform and that famous hat is really derived from the world war i uniform from 1916, little changed from that time. the first rangers that patroled our parks before there was a park service were calvary soldiers. the presidio here in san francisco sent buffalo soldiers up to yosemite and sequoia every summer to control the parks, to keep the poachers out and to begin the construction of roads. the first federal superintendent of sequoia national park was colonel charles young. he happened to be the third african-american to graduate from west point. he went on to become the first black colonel in the army. amazing story. i believe he'll be honored sometime later this year by some sort of a national monument at his home in ohio. so, pretty interesting fellow and pretty amazing leadership demonstrated. today our rangers across the country perform modern-day public services, often away from municipalities. so, we're the only game i

are there going to be three legged races in gettysburg?good humor but it bothered him. >> bob: for sure. what do you think? do you agree because it's fox? how can you be that stupid and insensitive? >> andrea: that this has grown bigger than fox news. this is a lot of viewers that are upset with this. i don't know if they are tone deaf and think it will blow over and ride it out? the first rule when you step in you-know-what, fix it. clarify, apologize and move on. this is getting bigger. they haven't stopped the bleeding. i don't think this is going away. this is getting bigger. freddie i think this is about age. they the average age of the vietnam vet is over the mid-60s at this point. generally the shows now are run by emasculated metrosexuals chasing mentality of a 16-year-old girl. they don't care about anything over 55. they don't. >> bob: i spoke also today to the commander of the american legion. who sent a letter to cbs demanding an apology. they have 2.5 million vets they represent. he wants to tell cbs none of them will be watch

gettysburg had difficult terrain at times. >> this weekend on american history to become a battlefield edicine as it is kirk -- battlefield medicine at gettysburg. >> a discussion over the fate of the the purpose -- over the debate of the fiscal year 2014 budget. journal and live starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. comcast's ceo is talking by his vision for the future of his company, the media and technology industry. he is the keynote speaker at the economic club of washington. you conceive of life -- you can 12:30 p.m.e at eastern on c-span3. >> we can take pictures of the brain with scans and see the whole thing but there is a gap in the between about how the circuits in the brain function to be able to move my hand or to look at you and process that information or to lay down a memory. we do not know how that works. with technology yet to be invented, a lot of this will be nanotechnology, we need to be able to record from thousands of .rain cells at the same time as the brain activity map being talked about. getting to be a very exciting moment to put something together we cou

from studio 6, to gallery 30 in gettysburg, metro's paintings are on sale here starting at $350.ro minis go for $60. >> i think it's amazing that a horse would be able to do that. >> reporter: the gallery has sold paintings all over the country with half of the proceeds going to a racehorse adoption program. >> it's fantastic. >> he's just a great horse. he just got dealt a bad hand of cards. now he's just making the most of it. good boy. >>> great horse. thank you so much for making us a part of your morning. more local news at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00. we'll take a nap and see you in a couple of hours. have a fantastic day. happened. spending cuts now take affect across the board. what will the impact be as washington stumbles along to the next fiscal crisis? >> the president and congressional leaders meet, but no deal. >> none of this is necessary. it's happening because a choice that republicans in congress have made. >> should the president have done more? >> i am not a dictator. i'm the president. >> any chance that the gop will cave on more taxes? >> there's no one in this tow

most talk about the possible exception of gettysburg and i think i go on to say it is one of the most glorious with the exception of several decades later when mr. custer came up in a grassy hill out in montana. as of the alamo is so many things. it is a place of myth and reality just like all of the people who participated in that battle. in my way of looking at them, i just use a common phrase that i use for most of the trans this is the west, no white hats or blackouts, but a good many gray hats. >> or in this case, fer caps. >> i think there's a couple reasons the alamo resonated so deeply the most immediate i think was celebrity as michael knows better than all right, david crockett was one of the most famous people in the united states at the time and he was a very unusual politician and congressmen he came up from a different path. so it is as if sarah palin had been killed in the battle in afghanistan or something. there's just this amazing confusion about here is this guy, this colorful political character who is almost off the map and killed in this battle in the foreign lan

look at the dash-cam video, dayton police and firefighters on the scene of an accident on 35 near gettysburghe firefighter on the left side of your screen. that's captain barry krom, what happens next is shocking. >> get to the side! >> reporter: the pickup truck hits a patch of ice and slams into captain krom, knocking him to the ground. it's part of an 11-car pileup. ray terpin was one of the drivers involved. >> tried to slow down. hit a patch of ice, and that was it. it started fish tailing around to the left-hand side, went back to the right, and i hit the guard rail. >> reporter: ray's car now totaled. both ends smashed up. he considers himself lucky especially after watching the dash-cam video of what happened right before he wrecked. captain krom flying 30 feet into the air, knocked around like a rag doll. >> they hit him hard. that's him right there on the ground. >> reporter: ray takes this route to work every morning. the stretch of 35 that gets slick on a regular basis even when street crews lay down salt. >> there is nothing really they can do to prevent it from happening again.

the lincoln story as president, author of the emancipation proclamation, the guy who wrote the gettysburg address, the sixteenth president of the united states, the president--the greatest moral, political and civil, also during america's tragic war. this is a missing piece of the lincoln puzzle. the first thing i want to talk about is the ambition of abraham lincoln. we like to associate ambition, it is a negative thing, someone who wants to serve in politics and the associated with campaigns in politics. it is a negative thing for him. as a result we tend to focus on lincoln as somebody who was above politics, above the dirty campaigning and negative campaign and all the things we associate and dislike about the modern political system but the truth is we can't make those criticisms without labeling them at abraham lincoln. the first chapter is called the most ambitious man in the world's. it is a quote about abraham lincoln and his law partners. abraham lincoln from nearly as part of his life, family members would have said he was awfully hungry to be somebody. once he got in trouble w

why not take them on a trip to gettysburg instead. love it, they will actually learn something. keith bellows is the editor and chief of national gee graphic traveler magazine and author of the new book 100 places that can change your child's life from your backyard to the end of the earth. welcome, keith. >> hi. >> alisyn: it's a great book, great topic. parents looking for places to bring their kids. why do you say travel is the best learning tool? >> well, because there is no better classroom in the world. and if you just look at how much time you spend in the classroom, one week in a place like, you know, london or gettysburg or wherever you want to choose to go is much richer. it's much more learning experience. kids are immersed in a place they are immersed in learning. >> you can't take them on forced march past monuments they have to be invested. how do parents prep for that. >> you engage them. and let them understand the kind of place you are going. do a game when we are getting ready to go some place. ireland day if we are

it was very difficult in gettysburg. , battlefieldnd medicine at gettysburg, saturday at 10 p.m.tern on c-span 3. washington journal continues. host: now joining us is representative tom price, member of the budget committee. he is vice chair and a member of the ways and means tax writing committee. if you would, starts by bringing us up-to-date on where the house is when it comes to the continuing resolution and the 2014 budget. guest: the continuing resolution which funds the government was passed out of the house a couple of weeks ago. the senate has been dealing with that. they passed it last evening. it is back in the house, and we will likely pass that today, which is good news because one of the things that we included was the spending reduction, the appropriate spending reduction so we can try to get this economy back on track. excitingt is an activity that is been on the house floor these past two days. we will likely pass that out of the house of representatives today. this is a budget by paul ryan that will allow us to get to balance. that means the government will sto

tv, battlefield medicine at gettysburg. saturday at 8:00 eastern on c- span3. -- at 10:00 eastern on c-span3. rex president obama visited the west bank city of rolla -- city of ramallah. they talked about the prospects of peace between israel and the palestinians. this is about half an hour. >> in the name of god and the compassionate. the president barack obama, i wish to warmly welcome you and the company. mr. president, viewing your visit to our country, you will meet people proud of the history, heritage, and culture. whog entrepreneurial people have made -- and continue the an sayser thes extending over the ancient times. people who adhere to the rights and keep abreast of the realities and the age, the language and meth. a people giving a model despite all hardships and hurdles. the people of palestinian who will see you today, aspire to have the right for freedom, independence and peace. and look forward to that day in which they exercise normal and natch life over the land of the state of palestinian, the independen

on the third day of gettysburg, pickett's trarg, 6,000 casualties in three hours.live television, on the spot realtime reporting was available then, what the public would have known about that war, what opportunity to react in the a day of way? it's a whole different ball game. >> kimberly, i'm -- >> the one thing you have to be -- >> i was going to say, i want to endy were you. you're on the intelligence beat for the a.p. quickly what has the mill -- what has the press, for that matter as well, what have we learned from some of the intelligence failures in the iraq war? >> well, you know, the cia reformed thousa ed how it did i analytic process. the things that led to the conclusion than saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, created the whole system of red teaming, where you'd question yourself and question yourself and kquestion yourself and it's through that process that we were led to the raid that got osama bin laden. they questioned that information over and over and over again until they were sure, because they didn't want to make another mistake l

stretcher bearers to ephesus write to decrease could be facing forward and able to get across at gettysburg was very difficult terrain at times with barak and boulders. >> democratic strategists, donna brazile and 76 spoke on the democratic policies. see the event in its entirety anytime at her website comes the standout work. >> the next general election will be hillary and joe will be 70 years old. and what is coming. chris christie -- [inaudible] >> age and weight in one question. >> i don't think chris christie is too heavy. he said most popular republican governor in the country right now. several republicans and of course john kasich, the governor of pennsylvania. so in terms of 2016, this is the first open election on both sides and in 2008 i expect we'll have a lurch bill of candidate that she is going to be a very phenomenal candidate. there's a lot going where she beat jeb bush and marco rubio by double digits. she thought it would be a strong candidate. joe biden is strong candidate and we have an enormous number of good governors. martin of mali, governor cuomo of colorado. so i

but it is byrd was a difficult terrain at times with the rocks and boulders --gettysburg was a difficulterrain at times with the rocks and boulders. >> saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> if you believe in something that is so right, so necessary, you have to get in trouble. before we got into trouble as a young people, we studied. we did not with a one morning and say we are going to sit in. we did not his dream one day that we are going to come to washington and go on a freedom ride. but we were going to march on washington as we did in 1963, from mud montgomery as we did in 1965. we prepare ourselves. >> they intimidated so many people, white people in particular by using that phrase black power. because when they use that phrase, it made people think black power meant the destruction. blowing up the statue of liberty are ground zero, strong america. it was not anything about destroying america. it was about rebuilding america and having in the paradigm in how we could to be with each and that pledgeus did about the land of the free, the home of the brave. west, john lewis o

with the possible exception of gettysburg and i think i go do want to say it's also one of the most gloriousth the possible exception of several decades later when mr. custer got his comeuppance on that grassy hill out in montana. so the alamo is so many things. it's a place of myth and it's a place of reality, just like all the people who participated in that battle. in my way of looking at it and i will just use a common phrase that i use for most of the trans-mississippi west, no white hats and no black hats but a good many grey hats gray hats or in this case for caps. >> he i think that's a couple of reasons the alamo has resonated for so long in so deeply. most immediate i think was celebrity. as michael knows better than i, davy crockett was one of the most famous people in the united states at the time and he was a very unusual politician and congressman. he came up from a different path, so ... if sarah palin have been killed in afghanistan in afghanistan. there is just this amazing confusion about here is this guy, this very colorful regal character who is almost literally off the m