we feature an empty pedestal. it's modeled after the 18 foot tall one that new york revolutionaries left in bowling green after tearing down its monument king george iii and we invite community engagement with it. we do this in two ways first. we provide an ipad preloaded with an augmented reality app called kinfolk which visitors can use to envision monuments to black and brown heroes including surely chisholm whom you see here as well as frederick douglass and the native american activist ruth revels and second. we transform the mt. pedestal into a piece of community driven installation art. there's so many questions about what should be done with contested monuments and who should decide it should offending figures be laying down or half buried. if they stand in own ruin and decay. should they be relocated to a park of fallen monuments or to museums which can provide historical context can context be created on site with the addition of new monuments set in conversation with the old ones should controversial mo

and we raised up enough money and completeded the pedestal in 1886. for agus, his job was to krawiec the statue, but he was very involved in the construction of the pedestal and richard morris hunt designed the modern day pedestal we see today. there were several different designs. he chose richard morris hunt. all the granite came from connecticut. this is exactly how they did it. immigrants were swinging around on rope swings. putting the pieces together. they vary in sizes. took 21 years from our idea to reality. in october of 1886. a huge dedication ceremony is planned. houf, one gender was not invited. women were not invited. the franco american union stated that hey, we cannot guarantee their safety. that was a bunch of hogwash. what they were really saying is that they did not want the statue of liberty to be associated with the woman's suffrage movement, so yes, a group of women here in new york city are very angry. they rent a boat, they circle the island, they shout in protest, how can you build this woman to represent freedom and liberty an

they had looked up and we had barely started work on the pedestal. so it was joseph pulitzer of pulitzer prize familiar. he came up with the idea, he was owner of the new york world here in new york city, they would donate any amount of money and i will print your name in the front page of the newspaper. so money poured in from all over the united states, elementary school children raised money through their classes, and we raised up enough money and we completed the pedestal in 1886. for tolbe, his job was to construct the statue but he was also very involved in the construction of the pedestal. richard moore tontz designed the modern day pedestal we see today. there were several different designs but he chose richard moore hunts'. all of the granite came from connecticut. here is a great depiction of how they put the statue together like a puzzle, and this is exactly how they did it. immigrants were shrinking around on rope swings, putting the pieces together. they were carefully label. they were riveted together. there are 310 sections that make u

two to three weeks in advance to visit the top of the pedestal. you go through a screening process and board the boats in new york at battery park and in new jersey at liberty state park. you have a great experience of sailing in front of the statue. and you can get off and enjoy the statue when you leave from new york. and then when you board the boat here at the statue your next stop will be ellis island which is also an incredible experience. so you can spend a good half day if not a whole day visiting these two great national monuments. statue of liberty and ellis. to wrap it up all, for auguste bartholdi, it was his dream to become rich and famous. unfortunately neither of those things happened for him. but if he were alive today, i think he would be very proud because although he is not famous, his work of art certainly is. >> you can view this and all other american art facts programs at cspan.org.history. the recent american history schedule is on the right side of the page. >>> when you think about a one-day festival, the national book fe

they raised enough money and we completed the pedestal in 1886. for august bartoldi, his job was to construct the statue, but he was also very involved in the construction of the pedestal. and richard morris hunt designed the modern-day pedestal that we see today. there were several different designs. but he chose richard morris hunt. all the granite came from connecticut. here's a great depiction of how they put the statue together like a puzzle. and here's -- this is exactly how they did it. immigrants were swinging around on rope swings, putting the pieces together. they were carefully labeled. they were riveted together. there are 310 sections make up the statue of liberty. they vary in sizes. took 21 years from idea to reality. but it finally all came together on october 28th, 1886. a huge dedication ceremony is planned and over 10,000 people are invited. however, one gender was not invited. how ironic is that. women were not invited. the franco american union stated, hey, we can not guarantee their safety. that was a bunch of hogwash. what t

to visit theweeks top of the pedestal. in general, you will make it to lower manhattan, go through a screening process, board the boats and new york at battery park and also in new jersey at liberty state park. you will have a great experience of sailing in front of the statue. you can get off and enjoy the statue. when you leave from new york. and when you board the boat from the statue, your next stop will be ellis island which is also an incredible experience. you can spend a good half-day if not a whole day visiting these two great national monuments. , for thet all up designer, it was his dream to become rich and famous. unfortunately, neither of those happened for him. but if he were alive today, i think he would be very proud. although he is not famous, his work of art certainly is. you can view this and all other american artifact programs on c-span.org/history. select the american artifacts tab and browse recent programs. the schedule is also available on the right side of the page. this monday, on american histor

pedestal was built that way and in time the statue of liberty was put up and a statue pulitzer in the park where the statue is on the island. my last bit of this architectural tour of new york to show you the significance, pulitzer is re-created american journalism. is vital, important and papers are published every hour of the day. if there as-- is an important trial in new york, reporter would sit in the room, write his story, handed to a copy boy who would go downstairs and pick up an open phone a dictator back to the paper. they would print that hours trial, put it on the streets and little boys would sell it. that was the cnn at the time. it was so important that on election night people would gather by the thousands on park row because there was no radio to tell you who would win and you will look at the front of the newspaper and they would that the resulting chock. pulitzer became as i said the midwife of this whole world of journalism in which people dependent on it, turned to news for entertainment. they would see at dinner, did you read that story in the new york world or m

there was a bill in the legislature to put up the pedestal. the bill in new york state was vetoed by governor grover cleveland and then the congress voted down the appropriation of $100,000 to pay for the statue, so all the money had to be raised by private sources so bartholdi gets here, doesn't speak english. he knows nobody. the first person he goes to is the editor of a french newspaper that's published in new york. so he speaks to this french person. she says, well, you know, it's not going to do you any good to speak to me. you've got to talk to americans, and so he has a letter of introduction to sumner, the great abolitionist because bartholdi is an abolitionist. he goes to washington and meets sumner. he has this idea about the statue of liberty and people in washington say why are you talking to us about the statue you want to build in new york? you talk to people in new york. the united states was still much, much more a set of separate entities, separate states in the middle of the 19th century, and so he just didn't get -- he didn

quite an effort to get this thing off the pedestal. to drag it you've got to go all the way through the national mall and down. right now you're having different calls for different things, asking people to spread out. shannon: are they pouring flammable liquid or gasoline, lighter fluid on this? looks like it is starting up in flames. [crowd cheering] >> as we are watching the protesters attempting to get this going up in flames it is described as a bronze figure by an american artist 100 years ago. i don't know the properties of metal. don't know -- will it continue to burn? there is the effort underway tonight. >> people are now dispersing a little bit and the police have stood back, there has been no presence other than what we saw block and a block and a half away from here, just letting this go on from here as people celebrate the destruction of the statute that stood here more than 100 years, one of the few within city limits that commemorate confederate general, confederate officer. >> if you are just joining us, what you are l

deserve the pedestal. but if you are tested with being put on the pedestal, you better make sure that your relationship with god is very strong, that is the number one mechanism that goes back to sincerity. do you truly believe, that allah is watching , that allah will deal with every person according to his or her deeds. that faith has to be in a leader, if it's not in the leader you are setting yourself up for trouble because our profit, peace be upon him , clearly said that of the most destructive dangers to people are fame and greed for wealth and power, these are the most destructive to a man's pride, wanting to be famous is destructive for you, wanting to be powerful and wealthy. of these are potentially the most destructive of all diseases and, when you are a leader, these things are given to you on a silver platter, you can't be a leader without fame or a level of prestige and generally speaking, with leadership comes opportunities for at least a little bit more wealth. so, it's a very big temptati

there is on the pedestal. there apparently. >> it reminds me of the guy who doesn't taped the banana to a wall. >> at least it was something. >> nothing is less work. you get that little pedestal. it says you have to keep the art in our 5 x 5 area of your home and you get a certificate of authenticity. >> you don't even get the pedestal. >> not sure if it comes with the pedestal. you may have to get your own. >> get your own pedestal. >> 18,$000 -- as a matter of fact it is right here. the art. >> that funny money on vibrate. they stepped up to serve our country in vietnam and sandals targeting the memorial meant to honor their sacrifice. the community now demanding answers. >> our friends at fox bet, download the fox bed super 6 apps and a chance to win 10,$000, just predict 6 outcomes on the super 6 quiz show. topics range from entertainment to sports, free to play, the super 6 apps. ♪♪ ♪♪ the final countdown ♪♪ we know how much you count on us... ...and that's why we're here 24/7... ...and on the road maint

on a pedestal over 22 feet high. 4 recumbent lions. he came up with 2 designs of the , and they are paired in the diagonals. these two and these two are identical, marking the corners .f an imaginary pyramid marking the calvary to the north and the artillery to the south. you cannot really see the other they are complementary. they encircle the end groups and viewers to sit close to the monument and get lost in the action. the viewers are sitting in the front row of a movie theater. realistic details at high level including uniforms, terrain, battle debris, horse musculature , and the faces of individual soldiers seen with authenticity. the monument is an essay in offices, contrasting the stillness of grant as he surveyed the battle, and the turbulence of the charging calvary and alternatively. .- and artillery who were at designers behind the memorial? shady was only 31 years old. how was he selected? it is an interesting story. how sometimes an artist's idea is so captivating that the jury will go with the idea, even if the person is

i don't care if you are an entertainer, you don't put people on a pedestal. i am not even going to give her the name queen. that is too much power, too much authority. host: maria, and atlanta. marjorie is in stockton, california. go ahead margie. caller: i watch the news all the time. rest in peace to elizabeth. all of that king and queen, we had a bad experience january 6. it reminds me of samadhi that want to be a king. i am not with that either. enough is enough. enough of this. this is the united states of america. i cannot even find out what is going on in the united states, because of this. everybody know that the queen is not all pure. the queen knew that he was cheating on diana, but she let it go, just to have these kids. enough is enough. we don't want no king in the united states of america, and i'm not going to honor them over there. host: thanks for calling in. lori, ohio. hi. caller: it sounded like most of the callers this morning acting like the queen is just cream of the crop i guess, is that is how you would say it in colonial terms. the da

tell us about how that happened. >> the americans will is to build the financing of the pedestal. we are in their early 1880 east. the statute of liberty is fully up in paris and paid for, and now it is our turn. we have to come up with the money and the money is not coming in. the fund-raising committee is not doing well. one of the ideas is to get a bunch of prominent american artists to contribute a work, auction off th work, and use the proceeds to pay for a pedestal. this is the origins of and the lazarus -- of emma lazarus' p oem. she said i am t a writer of higher even for a good cause like this. i write a poem because it comes fromithin. one of her friends says you have been doling out, you have been going out to wards island, working with the jewish emigrants who are suffering, who have fled a place where they have been persecuted. you are working with these people. you have come to know them, feel for them, and you should then write a poem that represents their plight. emma then _ good that she could connect the plight of the jewish propertierefugees that she had n worki

we put great athletes on a pedestal. but we don't with people in business.s professional athlete in business. he performed great feat. we should put them up on pedestal, not denigrate them for achieving. >> eric: some say $16 billion may be a pedestal. >> kimberly: this is what free market, capitalism is about. you can come to this country. if you're not weighed down with regulations you can do something an make money and create jobs. stimulate the economy versus people expecting hand-out. i have something against these people. i don't love facebook. it drives me nuts. but glad for the innovation, creativity. nothing against all three of them. >> eric: she makes a great point. innovation, creation, versus taxation. regulation. >> bob: i think you have to give him credit. i'd get someone else to be a spokesman but it's a genius idea and it works. i still don't understand the toilet paper. >> dana: scott or charmin. >> greg: yeah, my space is sandpaper. >> eric: let's talk about the other guys to make billion on facebook ipo. going to declare himself no longer

that after that fund raiser for the pedestal fupped art exhibition for the pedestal that the poem goes into obscurity for the most part. so what happens to the poem and then how does it get united with the statue and then start speaking to a new generation? >> that was one of the things that most surprised me when i did the research for this book is how completely emma's poem was forgotten for the first 20 years of its life and arguably even for the first 50 years of its life. so she writes it in 1883 for the art loan exhibit fund raiser then falls into the obscurity and it overshadod by a reaction against the huge numbers of people who are pouring into the united states. and it's beginning in the 1880s and going up into the first world war there are tens of millions of people who come in and these people for the most part are different or considered to be different from those who are already here. the new people come from southern europe and eastern europe. they are catholics and jews rather than protestantses, and so that differentness worries a lot of people. and there's a huge fear

-- or a granite pedestal rather.ou can see a lot of excitement from the crowd who's gathered here to witness this with the. we talked to sheila heft about what this means for the city. >> being a true philadelphian we have the excitement of the eagles parade, the super bowl champions, and here we are today celebrating the return of the iconic robert indiana's love statue the day before valentine's day back here at love park. it can't get any better than this right? >> reporter: and as this work continues, there are a ton of media cameras here trying to capture this moment but just as many people who maybe were walk the city today who decided to stop and to be part of this moment to witness this and photograph it for themselves. you know, a lot of people want to come to philadelphia they want to get their picture with that love statue, and it is back for the first time in more than a career. katy, back to you. >> announcer: now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >>> good to see you back and good to see this, sunny and e

sbecause our society has put it on such a high pedestal. it can only be done on an individual level. to make someone of integrity who works hard in all of this, put on a higher pedestal to value that more. i mean i cannot talk about the entire society but i know that's how i see things and i have a lot more respect for people who are working hard and have integrity then for those who set that aside in order to get attention. >> let's hear from carolyn in virginia beach, virginia. hi carolyn. >> hi justine, my lamb is carolyn christopher. i am way out here on the east coast. thank you for taking the time to answer my question. there are so many outlets now, cable channels, amazon tv, youtube, etc. are we seeing talents being discovered or too much mediocre talent and are people really just obsessed with becoming a star and wanting that 15 minutes of fame so to speak? >> thank you, carolyn. you were just that a little bit. >> yes, carolyn. that is a great point. i think you'll really like the book because they do go into, there is a great wri

kind of gets us into the heads of the politicians ideologues and yes grifters who put them on a pedestal and let us hear the voice is the communities on the losing and these public displays. i forget which mythical figure turned human beings to stone but dr. thompson does the opposite here she turns stone back to flesh and she doesn't in a way that gets past the often simplistic takes that so many of us heard in the aftermath of george floyd's murder. so let's just kind of get into it here. you know, you're you're a scholar of and much of your past research has focused on antiquities. looting private art collecting and fakes. how did you come to write this book? well, it's essentially because my girlfriend makes really good negronies, so i had a couple of those very tasty cocktails and and open twitter. so don't tweet after drinking unless apparently you want to feel and i saw a video of the toppling of a statue of columbus in front of the sea palsy have a saint paul state capital. and i jokingly wrote a tweet about that tweet went viral. and i've got you know denounced by tucker carlson

was responsible for building the pedestal, but political infighting made it difficult to come up with the $100,000 to do it. fundraising moved so slowly, publisher joseph pulitzer criticized the rich who failed to finance the statue's pedestal. the bullying was successful, but maybe not for wealthy americans. the $100,000 was raised in donations, averaging 83 cents each. and that's "nightly business report" for friday, october 28. i'm tom hudson. goodnight, everyone, and have a great weekend. we hope to see all of you again next week. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

credit, gets us into the heads of the politicians, ideologues and, yes, grifters who put them on a pedestal and let us hear the voices of the communities on the losing end of these public displays. and don't forget which vertical figure turned human beings to stone but dr. thompson does the opposite ear. she turns stone back to flesh. and she does it anyway that gets past the often simplistic takes that so many of us heard in the aftermath of the george floyd's murder. so let's just kind of get into it here. you know, you're a scholar of [inaudible] and much of your past research has focused on antiquities looting, private are collecting, and fakes. how did you come to write this book? >> well it's, a century because my girlfriend makes a really good [inaudible] . so i had a couple of those very tasty cocktails, and open twitter, so don't tweet after drinking unless [inaudible] and i saw a video of the toppling of a statue of columbus in the state ball state capital. and i jokingly wrote the tweet about that tweet went viral, and i've got, you know, denounced by tucker carlson for leading a

empty pedestals mark where gods and deities once stood. on some, only the feet remain.y all have been looted. this one is 100 miles northeast of angkor wat on a remote mountain called sandak. >> this was hit very heavily by the looting gangs. they found gold. they found statues. they found many, many things. >> reporter: that's brad gordon, an american lawyer who's been working for the cambodian government for ten years, tracking down its stolen treasures. he brought us to sandak with his team of investigators, archaeologists, and art scholars. >> this is so cool. >> reporter: in the temple's crumbling courtyard, little remains, mostly empty pedestals scattered among the sralao trees. >> it's remarkable just how much stuff is scattered on the ground. >> yes. it's like a pedestal graveyard. >> we've all seen, in museums, these statues with no feet on them, and i don't think people realize the feet were hacked off because in order to steal them, that's the easiest way to get them off the pedestal. >> we know when the looters came to sites like this, the first thing they t

. >> a major cleanup and golden gate park today after three statues were ripped from their pedestals and others covered with graffiti after a night of protest. protesters stormed the music concourse last night toppling statues with pes lein behind empty pedestals including the star-spangled mawho did owne slaves and the founder of california missions and also slave owner. some say the crowd went too far when they targeted the figure of ulysses s grant. i don't get grants. he was signing for the abolition not for slavery. i don't understand why that would be taken out. >> when i was here last week i noticed and i thought it was surprising to have him so prominently in the park considering the history. >> the police would not take questions about what happened but issued a statement saying the group started throwing objects at officers but no arrests were made. >> the archdiocese of san francisco issued a statement about the destruction of the father sarah statue saying "just as historical wrongs cannot be righted by keeping them hidden, neither can they be righted by rewriting the his

that's from the base to the pedestal. unlike those nypd officers who have harnessing equipment, that, i suppose, is there, phil, in case they have a misstep. they somehow fall. that harnessing equipment is there to make sure that they don't fall and get hurt. but, it seems like they're getting much closer, phil. this is the closest they've been in the last three hours. now she's moving again. she's attempting took back under the shoe. the picture freezing up there a little bit, phil. how is this going to play out, do you think? it seems like -- >> it looks like they're getting her. they got her. they got her. >> our brynn gingras -- >> oh, wow! >> they've got her. >> our brynn gingras, we're watching this on a little bit of a delay. we are now watching the live pictures with that delay. we can now see the officers have her. they are now helping her put her shoes back on. it looks as if they may try to put a harness on her. >> exactly. >> brynn, this is such dangerous work. >> this is really damngerous work. again, they pr

in 2013, they tried to demolish the almost four-meter pedestal of ilyich on basarabka at least three times, the first two times the law enforcement officers resisted, but already... the third time they just watched. lenin in the center of kyiv dragged everyone else along with him. only during december 2013, more were overthrown in ukraine three of these. they overthrew lenin and felt everything. now let's overthrow yanukovych. indeed , viktor yanukovych fled in two months. and since then, the process accelerated, and monuments to soviet figures began to be torn down in the southern and southeastern regions. in particular, in 2014 in kharkiv. the second highest lenin in ukraine fell, decommunization officially began already in 2015. thanks to the package of laws, it was possible to remove thousands of soviet toponyms, names, memorial signs and monuments. from the beginning of the full-scale invasion to deradinization, derussification also joined. so we finally got rid of not only lenins and stalins, but also pushkins and chkalovs. after the full-scale invasion, everyone... it became c

they sit on a pedestal. and barack obama is taking himself off the pedestal whu.o that, i'm convinced he loses a degree of public support. they say oh, he's just a politician. his approval rating is under 50%. he cannot afford to lose support at this point. >> bill, you wrote speeches for another president. where there rules you had to live by when considering how to take on operation? >> right. i think dan got to the point wh. president, you're president of all people. at least in public. and if you can compare a speech i didn't write, the state of the union when nancy pelosi became speaker. and graciousness of the remarks with attacking people that are hostage, sitting in front of you, we're never allowed to do that. the president has to show the positive. you're just pumpbling down. >> you're a party leader as dan suggested and have to mobilize your people. one argument you hear is that they need to mobilize their base here. and obama is trying to say using republicans as foils and saying we've got to get out the vote. >> that is a good dynamic. a lot of the ba