this is where abigail simon grew up. her father a successful attorney.oth parents graduates of notre dame. but this is where she was pulled over, arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct for having a relationship with her then-15-year-old catholic central high school pupil and where, in november 2014 she sat down with us in the family living room. how does it feel to be you right now? >> well, today it's scary because this is the first time i'm sharing this with anyone other than my therapist and my lawyers, my parents. i feel empowered to do it finally. i've been holding on to it for so long. >> reporter: holding on to what exactly? well, abby simon told us that everything you've heard about her relationship with the young man is a lie perpetuated by his family and overzealous detectives. >> it's hard because the way it's being portrayed in my story that's already been told by them is so not the person i am. >> reporter: abby's story? after attending a a master's degree in academic advising she moved to grand rapids and was offered a position i

abigail adams is my tribute to the stay-at-home moms. especially for those who are now in iraq fighting the war. abigail is a true american "shero". isn't that cool. i like that word. john adams was gone all the time. he was making the declaration of independence doing peace treaties in europe, and she was left at home inoculating the children, keeping the farm going, watching the troops go by in the war-torn revolutionary time she was in. one of the revolutionary women was the first to be, female printer and editor. she took over the whole business when her husband died. her husband printed the paper once a week. she printed it twice a week. i go into -- i have two slave women, harriet jacobs was determined that her children were not going to go through the torture she was going through. her story is phenomenal. she chose to live in an attic where she couldn't even move. she couldn't escape. she couldn't stand up. she peered at her children through little holes because she wanted her children to have a better life than she had. my title

but abigail's arguments were very influential in new critics emerging. and her critique of the vra which became known as color blindness, you shouldn't classify based on race which sounds very simple and has an intellectual lure to it, this influenced the reagan administration and john roberts. so when antonin scalia makes the argument in the 2013 voting rights case that it has led to, quote, a perpetuation of voter entitlement, a very shocking statement, he is saying in the most blunt ways a version of alabama bail. >>'s critique -- abigail's critique of the vra. >> that is a surprise, that the neo-conservative, that this kind of, the neo-conservative and the old reactionaries converging, and there are more than one such person doing damage to the vra. how -- let's talk a little bit about shelby county v. holder. what was the logic of that? what was the logic the court used for that decision, and exactly what did they invalidate? >> so what the supreme court did in this 2013 decision is they struck down the formula that determined which states had to ap

. >> who is abigail thernstrom? why was she a surprising kind of person to find playing the role she did and what was that role? >> sure, so abaco thernstrom was a former liberal who became a conserved intellectual and really lead the intellectual case against the vra. she was the neoconservative view of the voting rights counterrevolution so there were states rights conservatives in places like mississippi who never were that crazy about civil rights but then there are people who supported civil rights but to leave the civil rights movement have those lost its way after the 1960s when things like affirmative action busted quotas what became known as majority minority districts. they found the voting rights act was meant to register voters and wasn't meant that minorities would that are normally disenfranchised should be elected. it was supposed to lead to the election of president obama and all of these john lewis and edgar youngin all the people that have served throughout the last 50 years with distinction. but h

. >> abigail spoke to her mother about flying out to san francisco for her birthday.ojciech frykowski spoke to a friend at midnight. >> those would be the last calls ever. sometime after midnight, intruders cut the telephone lines to the house. killed one man, steven parent, in the driveway, then ambushed the four people inside. tate begged for the life of her unborn baby. >> just let me have my unborn baby. then you can kill me any way you want. just let me have my baby. >> they didn't. tate was stabbed 16 times. three time to the heart. they hanged her before they killed her. the others were butchered too. 86 stab wounds in total. >> it is incomprehensible, the savagery that night. >> as the sun rose and the neighborhood came to life, the maid arrived to discover carnage. the police arrived soon after. >> rolling? >> rolling. >> and so did the press. >> 8:30 this morning -- an employee came to work at 10050 cielo and found several bodies in the house. >> i got a call. this person said there's something going on up in beverly hills. >> reporter mary nicewender was on

she discusses abigail adams, who took a care of her children while john adams was away.ther serves as inspiration for the book heritage foundation hosted this 40 minute event in 2008. michelle: i want to thank you all for joining us today. i want to thank the heritage foundation and bridget wagner for cosponsoring this. a special welcome

. >> abigail: [sighs] >> chad: abigail, i love you more than i've ever loved anyone in my entire life. >> ben: when the time is right we will do it exactly how you'd like it--a big wedding the whole family. everything perfect. [knocking] >> paul: hey, yeah, you can take both trays; they're right... over there. >> kate: oh, darling i'm not the room service but i do have the revised

. >> abigail: why?> ben: i'm just not sure you bought every single book that has to do with being pregnant. >> abigail: hey, i did not get that many. i also got a couple on newborns, and, you know, i got few for the baby. >> ben: mm-hmm.

happiest, luckiest guy on the planet. >> abigail: ben, i really, really have to tell you something. >> chad: hey. what's going on? looks like you guys have something to celebrate. >> brady: pack your bags and get your lying ass out of my house right now.

john adams wrote to abigail adams describing the scene, he said they looked great, they were very spry as they marched, though not all in step and he thought they needed work to look as professional as he thought they should but he was very buoyed at the sight of seeing this vast army marching through philadelphia. pretty much like the fellows in the painting are doing. of course, about a month later almost to the day the british army marches down that same street and occupies philadelphia. so this was one of those many, many dark days of the american revolution. so washington's army marches into valley forge and this was one of the winterings, as she did ever winter through the eight years of the war, that martha washington joined general washingt washington. in many ways one of the rarest objects in the collection that

after, like, abigail and dolley, and mary lincoln were noteworthy.were any of the first ladies in the 20th century noteworthy, too? >> (crosstalk) >> and my second question is -- and my second question is, what -- what was nellie's inspiration for the cherry tree? thank you. what eleanor roosevelt was by far the one with the -- and lady bird johnson, but eleanor roosevelt became a delegate to the united nations. and so, in the post-first lady career, she and lady bird johnson. though, there are others, but those would be two. susan swain: save the cherry tree question. lewis gould: yes, yes. susan swain: because we're going to show some video of it for later on there. lewis gould: that needs more attention. susan swain: next is a call from leroy, who is monticello, kentucky. hi, leroy. court great program. i've enjoyed this so much. i was looking forward to it from last week. well, i didn't get to watch it. but, anyway, i've got a question for ms. cook. was the taft family, president taft and his wife, were they christian people, were they born again

. >> who is abigail?why was she a surprising kind of person to find playing the role that she did, and what was that role? >> sure, so -- abigail was a former liberal who became a conservative intellectual age led the intellectual and neil conservative of the countervoting rights revolution and a so there were places like mississippi, who never were that crazy about civil rights. and then there were people who supported civil right but believed that civil rights movement had lost its way after the 1960s when things leak affirmative action, and busting and quota and trying what became known as majority minority districts they thought that voting rights act and basically argued that it was meant to register voters and wasn't meant to ensure that african-americans or latino or other minorities were historically disenfranchised should be elected. now to many civil rights advocates that's what it was supposed to do. it was supposed to lead to election of president obama and all of these and john lewis and andr

lady washington -- abigail didn't say this but to give you an idea. washington inherited an inheritance when her husband first died. but she needed to get married because it had to be in the hands of a woman because a woman couldn't have it. this is the way it was, women. when he called her, oh, you are so saucy, she wasn't too happy. many years later, another first lady, florence harding, who is the very first first lady who cast her ballot to vote for her own husband as president of the united states. yes. 19th amendment had passed. and is cynthia, we're going to follow with you because they were on the same ticket. >> yes. >> harding and then of course mrs. -- you have to forgive us. it's not about the presidents. it's always about the ladies. she was the vice president's wife but she was going to succeed mrs. harding into the white house. so can you please talk about the campaign a little bit and how at a time when women were not supposed to be out in front, and they weren't, mrs. harding, was it true that she rather knew women would kind of be in

and there are lots of things like that where -- abigail brooks adams, whose letters have never been published. she was charles francis adams' wife. he being john quincy adams' son. he was in congress and then became the ambassador for the union -- >> right. >> -- to great britain where he kept them from siding with the confederacy. and she is just as feisty as her grandmother-in-law and mother-in-law. and she writes from washington when he's in congress that buchanan is a toad and that, you know, the senate is acting like children and silly ones at that. i can get behind that one. [laughter]. >> sure. >> and she says at one point, i would advise any young woman if she wants to have a calm, peaceful life not to marry an adams. [laughter]. >> well, now, of course, did not know this letter would be one day the subject of -- >> no, that's true. that's true. >> you know, the thing about the time that we're talking about is women were, by expectation and by tradition, i suppose, subordinate to the men. >> well, by law. >> by law. so the independence of these women that comes out, the independence o

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abigail folger, sharon tate and others. >> all of you know how beautiful she was, but only a few of youhow good she was. >> and you had charles manson himself. the charismatic leader of the family who didn't show any remorse or any respect for the system. >> am i happy? it's your court. i wouldn't accept it. >> the problem is he did not physically participate in these murders. but only manson had a motive to commit these murders and that motive was helter-skelter. >> he envisioned white people would turn against the black man if he thought the black man committed these murders and there would be a civil war. he foresaw the black man would win this war, but later on said the brake man, because of inexperience, would not be able to handle the reigns of power. so he would have to look around at those white people who escaped from helter-skelter. in other words, turn over the reigns of power to charles manson and the family. >> when the words helter-skelter were found in blood, i argued this was tantamount to manson's fingerprints being found at the murder scene. >> today, he had an x scrat

the influence of women on hamilton, his mother, his wife, his lover, dolley, abigail, and washington's wife. those women must've have an influence on that man. mr. newton: well, it's john c. hamilton wrote that hamilton got his genius, intelligence from his mother. so, hamilton, whether he inherited it he learned it from his mother, his mother was a major influence on his life. john c. hamilton said that he always recollected his mother with fondness. elizabeth schuyler was a huge influence on hamilton's life starting in 1780. these, during the war, hamilton was mostly with men, except during winter encampments where the women would join. so, the period covered in the book, the influence of women is not that great. hamilton's mother died in 1768, taken in by his friend, might be relative. first, his relatives and then by the stevens who were his friends. there was no mother figure during that period. as far as we know, he did not have a girlfriend, maybe. so, i do not know the extent of those female relationships during the war. but he gained, he gained his intelligence, hard work, ami

. >> jennifer: jj, abigail, i made some of gram's doughnuts. come get them while they're warm. >> eve: it's not gonna happen, jenny, because you're never gonna see your kids again. >> jennifer: [gasps] [breathing heavily] >> jennifer: oh! >> eve: well that's what you get for making me lose my daughter, bitch. >> jennifer: [gasps] >> eve: [thinking] god, if it were just that easy. [chuck

. >> abigail: i'm not. why would you think that?> chad: ben told me. >> paige: jj was just leaving. he was under the mistaken impression that i cared what he had to say. >> jj: you're the one who should leave, kyle. >> kyle: what? >> jj: drop her now, or i can promise you you'll end up in prison. >> kyle: what the hell are you talking about, jj? >> jj: your girlfriend here has a big mouth. she's telling people we're dealing.

after, like, abigail and dolley, and mary lincoln were noteworthy. were any of the first ladies in the 20th century noteworthy, too? >> (crosstalk) >> and my second question is -- and my second question is, what -- what was nellie's inspiration for the cherry tree? thank you. what eleanor roosevelt was by far the one with the -- and lady bird johnson, but eleanor roosevelt became a delegate to the united nations. and so, in the post-first lady career, she and lady bird johnson. though, there are others, but those would be two. susan swain: save the cherry tree question. lewis gould: yes, yes. susan swain: because we're going to show some video of it for later on there. lewis gould: that needs more attention. susan swain: next is a call from leroy, who is monticello, kentucky. hi, leroy. court great program. i've enjoyed this so much. i was looking forward to it from last week. well, i didn't get to watch it. but, anyway, i've got a question for ms. cook. was the taft family, president taft and his wife, were they christian people, were they born agai

steve parrot, a teenager, abigail feeling olger, folger c, wojciech frykowski, jason sebring, gary hinmanno labianca, rosemary labianca and sharon tate. >> all of you know how beautiful she was. only a few of you know how good she was. >> and you had charles manson himself, the charismatic leader of the family who didn't show any remorse or any respect for the system. >> are you all happy with your courts? good. am i happy? it's your court. i wouldn't accept it. >> the problem was he did not physically participate in these murder murders. but only manson had a motive to commit these murders, and that was helter-skelter. >> manson envisioned that the white people would turn against the black man if they thought a black man committed these murders. and there would be a civil war between blacks and whites. manson foresaw the black man would win this war but he said the black man because of inexperience would not be able to handle the reins of power. so you have to look at the white people who survived, who escaped from helter-skelter, in other words, turn over the reins of power to charles m

abigail adams, if we can go back to her, she wrote to her husband when he was in philadelphia -- remember the ladies, we have all heard this. however, she was really angry with john because he didn't remember the ladies. . . rights like to in education, really. you don't have rights to our own property. lady washington -- to give you an idea, lady washington did inherit money from an inheritance from her first husband, but lady washington really needed to get married because it had to be in the hands of a man because a woman couldn't. this was the way it was for women. so, when he called her, oh, you are so soft, she wasn't too happy. well, we, many years later to another first lady -- we come many years later to another first lady, florence harding, who is the very first first lady to cast a ballot to vote for her own husband as president of the united states. yes, the 19th amendment has passed. and cynthia, we are going to follow it do because they were on the same ticket. you have to -- forgive us. it is not about the presidents. it is about the ladies. she was the vice president's wif

they're the ones most likely you will see wrapped in blankets in the office, and actually our producer abigailing what i look like when i'm preparing for the show. case in point that this is true, john. why does cnn hand out blankets with the cnn logo on it if it isn't freezing in the office. >> part of this i don't understand. women have to run hotter than men, right? >> no. >> yes, or get cold more easily. >> yes. >> that's the only reason it would be sexist. >> it is sexist. >> so and the other thing is, no offense to the facilities people here, i have a hard time thinking that the people who set the air conditioning here have ever looked at the metabolic rate of anybody to determine how to set the temperature. >> way i loved it that they put in the study is that the thermal comfort model that was developed in the 1960s they say is out of date and we should make it a little warmer, folks. here is the formula. i know we all learned this back in grade school. that's an obvious one, but you think if you would boost the degree -- if you boost the temperature a few degrees it would reduce gender

abigail? >> [applause] mr. birmingham: the second place winner is matthew tormey of pembroke high school for his essay on boston's goudey gum company and the silver age of baseball cards. >> [applause] mr. birmingham: congratulations. and our first place winner is julia ruderman of minuteman career and technical high school in lexington for her essay on the old schwamb mill in arlington. julia? >> [applause] mr. birmingham: congratulations to you. let's give all of our top winners a hearty round of applause. [applause] well done and congratulations to you all. in addition to sponsoring the writing contest, in recent years pioneer has hosted u.s. history events. with these events, we hope by highlighting the major arrows of -- phases of u.s. history, policymakers will better appreciate the need for future generations to understand heritage. sadly, in massachusetts and across the country, this is not happening now. for instance, on the civics portion of the 2010 test, the nation's report card, only 7% of eighth g