. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> good morning. [ inaudible ] my name is randolph lee. i am of the western addition and as my team will say i'm the old guy in the group. my team is young. they are an amazing group for me to be older and connecting with them and making our community better, i am so proud. i just want to see our community really grow, get back the essence of what we lost. like i said, i was once a person that seen good times and was creating bad times up in there. now it's time to fix it and help, everybody behind us, i just want to see this grow. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there anyone else who would like to make -- come on up, richard. >> good morning, chair buell. this is a project i kind of bumped into at community and i like it's proactive and social activities available for people in the community, as well as people who are there. there then would be the opportunity to take your time to leave your own home or walk around and be part of that very important social aspect. no one is going to need to be staying at home, like in the picture earlier.

the custody of those tents passed to his daughter mary ann that randolph custus lee. every possible surname you could group together who married a dashing young robert e. lee. their daughter, mary custus lee in 1960 in an 061906 announced she was interested in selling one or both of the campaign tents that she had inherited from that line of descent from her grandfather to the patriotic citizens of philadelphia in order to endow -- give money to the fen fed rat -- con fed red widows home. she even said here she was hoping that the -- miss lee thinks independence hall in philadelphia is the proper place for them. so we're excited that we're two blocks from independence hall and will be displaying those tents. she as a result of this interview was put in contact with this diminutive episcopal minister here reverend w herbert burke who at the time was beginning to build the washington memorial kmap pell that -- chapel which stands in what is now valley forge historical national park. so burke gotten a option to purchase this marquee for $5,000 from mary custus lee and em

. >> was john randolph's daughter married to robert e. lee? >> no. robert e. lee was married to george washington's granddaughter were great-granddaughter or something like that randolph was just about akin to everybody in virginia and was very well-connected. >> thank you so much. [applause] stanek thank you for joining us everyone have a wonderful afternoon. we appreciate you being here at the foundation booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i am inspired by many different areas when it comes to picking books that i want to read. so one of the books is the arc of justice, the civil rights and murder. this book was recommended that i read from a person's very passionate about history. the partisan divide in congress i campaigned

randolph road near veers mill road. we also just learned the driver of that car was 83 years old and suffered minor injuries. >>> now to new developments in the case of the lee yips sisters. police say more than one person may be responsible for the abduction and the deaths of the girls almost 40 years ago. tonight, the police in bedford county, virginia, officially said that richard welch, the uncle of the man charged with the murders, may have sexually assaulted katherine and shelia lyon. police are calling the uncle a person of interest. he lives here in our area, in hyattsville much the meantime, we are hearing for the first time from the cold case detectives who helped crack this case. >> it's frustrating it's disconcerting, it's group setting to know that there's people that know and wouldn't do anything parents thought that have their own children that are keeping things from us. >> the grand jury has indicted lloyd lee welch for the murders of the two children. they disappeared back in 1979. welch is currently in jail in delaware on an unrelated sex offense. >>> tonight, more than a dozen people are facial charges in a massive theft ring that targete