we take great pride as having fort campbell in our community. the fact that our soldiers protect us every day, we wanted to make sure that we had justice for him. >> was jessie able to describe the person who shot her husband? >> she initially described him as a black man, and i believe that's pretty basically all the description she was able to give. >> jessie also describe the killers car. >> what kind of car? >> an old one. one of the big ones. >> what color was it? >> i don't know. like reddish brownish color. >> it wasn't much for police to go on, and to make it even more difficult, the eyewitness walter ferguson had seen something different. >> describe the truck that you saw speeding off? >> as he passed me i could see that it was a white truck and i saw the four by four on it, but that was about as much as i could see on it. >> so the witness had seen a white truck, and jessie said she saw a reddish brown car. investigators had a lot to sort out. a murdered soldier, a distraught wife, an unknown motive, and a giant secret about to be dis

when i was a battalion commander in fort campbell, kentucky. we would run every morning. we had some paratroopers songs that we sang from the old days. on morning my battalion commander spotted me running with my troops and using some language that perhaps was not appropriate for that. there was a woman's permission behind me. later that day he called me aside and as i do not use language like that in the division. i never did. it took me a while to clean it all up. i am in pretty good shape. >> something you know a great deal about, leadership. when you started out your career , use went to -- you went to the college of new york where there is a college named after you. it is operating and has 6000 students? >> yes. >> you have done many things in which you are proud. you are proud to have a college named after you. >> it is a part of a college. it is about a third of the college. it was done because when i got there after i had left the state department, i went up there and somebody had endowed some money to the small little think tank that we had. it was interesting. a

the fort is expecting 21 cruise ship calls through the remainder of this year and expect 127 next year. the campbellsual burglary suspect. take a look here. you can see one man with red gloves and another man dressed as spiderman, apparently committing a crime in the city of campbell. if you look closely, you can see one of the burglars is right there in costume. the men can be seen dragging a trash can full of stolen property that included some tools. this happened early wednesday morning on white oak roads near camden. anyone who has information on this strange burglary should put in a call to the campbell police department. president biden is restored protections for three national monuments. i'm jackie heinrich in washington. why the decision to offer greater environmental protection is generating strong mixed opinions coming up? ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom for me and you ♪ (music) ♪ so i think to myself ♪ ♪ oh what a wonderful world ♪ first president to issue a proclamation of indigenous peoples day. it is a huge boost for those who want to refocus the federal

his father was also in the army, stationed at fort campbell, kentucky. when there was a little condition fusion as to where -- when there was a little confusion as to where jim was, his dad assumed he was still with his mother. wires got crossed and later his mom got a letter from corporal schmidt -- corporal jim schmidt. he was now 15, and he wrote, quote, from somewhere in north africa. actually had he was in tunis, which had just fallen to the british and general patton, the american general, in the battle against the germans in north africa. he wrote his mom, how are you, mom and the girls? he was referring to his sisters. he talked about the hot weather. he sent her $30. fast-afford a few months later. it's now july 9, 1942. jim is jump respecting out of an air -- jim is jumping out of an air plane onto the island of sicily. a combat jump. in sicily. it was the largest airborne offensive in u.s. history. military airborne operation providing support for what was called operation husky. more than 170,000 allied troops that would descend onto the isla