gregory wilson is associate professor in the department of history at the university of akron. his research and teaching interests include 20th century united states political economy, public and environmental history, ohio history and the scholarship of teaching and learning. he is the author of "communities left behind: the area redevelopment administration 1945 to 1965" as well as the co-author on an upcoming state history of ohio. his oral history project done with ua students, the times they were a-changing, akron remembers 1968, won the ohio academy of history, public history award in 2010. their paper is entitled "above the shots, the kent state shootings and the politics of truth, trauma and reconciliation." craig? >>> okay. thank you, barbara. the shootings of may 4, 1970 lasting all of 13 seconds have reverberated for approximately 40 years. in purely factual terms, they were the culmination of a clash at kent state university between student protesters and members of the ohio national guard. in the lingering debate over historical memory the shots have been regarded,

deborah potter begins her report in akron, ohio. >> reporter: at first glance the front porch cafe coulde any coffee shop. those guys at the grill aren't your typical cooks. >> i was a small felony on my record. i know how hard it was for myself to get a job. >> i've been having real poor jobs. i chose to do street life and street life is nothing but trouble. drugs, jail or both. >> reporter: most of the workers here are ex-offenders. the cafe is run by south street ministries. a fellowship that offers bible study for inmates. a place to live, a job is hard to come by. >> i've been arrested 117 times. i've been convicted 12 times. >> we want fast money. i went to prison for ten years for aggravated robbery. behind the aggravated robbery was drugs. >> reporter: perry clark new runs a construction business. michael starks is a community organizers. both say they went straight after finding faith behind bars but when they were locked up the churches they knew were not on their side. >> the church was of the mind set that he did wrong. he's being punished. they thought if you did wrong and w

the country was lumped together with russia, india, and china and the akron them brick was born 00 bric w-- bric was born. >> the capital city was built as a statement of intent. brazil's ambition is to become a dynamic modern nation. the economic boom in which this city was born turned to bust. the modern future that brasilia was designed to m body remained out of reach. then they modernism of this place seems to give choose to the old joke about brazil. brazil is the country of tomorrow and always will be. brazil's tomorrow seems to have finally arrived. it's this success was literally out in the country paul so vast interior. -- country's vast interior. he runs one of the largest farming enterprises in the world. >> brazil has the capacity to feed everyone in the world. >> a modest ambition. >> brazil leads the world in so late. -- in soy. first in or jews. -- orange juice. the big grocery of the world. he has good reason to feel cocky. 40 years ago, brazil was a net importer of food. now it is an agricultural superpower. the key to this transformation something very unfashionable, e

if you like to read up on cardinal-designate o'brien's akron, log onto our website, wbaltv.com. anne arundel police are investigating the first, but the edition didn't happen to this morning in laurel. officers responded just before to 30 a.m., and that is without a 36 year old suffering from a gunshot wound in his driveway. he later died at shock trauma. it is unclear whether the victim was targeted or if it was a random attack. members of the ball to help community are upset with police about how they handled a kidnapping and robbery that took place in their neighborhood new year's weekend. they found out about the attack by word of mouth, not by police. on december 30, police confirmed two suspects attacked the unidentified victim, stole his phone and wallet, and then ordered him into his suv. they forced him to withdraw money from his account. police say they have several leads but have made no arrests a baltimore county man is sentenced to 40 years in prison for murder of a 16-year-old girl whose body has yet to be found. a 36-year-old jason grows it was found guilty of mur

akron -- africa's economic rise. and the fastest stingers in the business -- that his fingers in the business. this pianist says playing quick has more to do with martial arts than mozart. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. the fall of president of charles ko'd of syria is inevitable according to u.s. -- of bashar al-assad of syria is inevitable according to u.s. secretary of state. the backdrop of violence is growing. government forces appear to have largely regained control of suburbs of damascus. we report from beirut. >> it looks like a battlefield and sounds like a battlefield. that is what it has become. this is the town near homs. this is one of nine that the rebels syrian three armies say they have not held -- rebels syrian free army say they have not held. their claims are not able to be independently verified. this is a battleground. increasingly, fighters from the free syrian army are taking on the official state forces from which they have deserted. armed resistance has ta

. >>> today newt gingrich will get help campaigning in florida from former gop rival akron akron. michael reagan -- rival herman cain. michael reagan, son of former president ronald reagan, also showed support. >> the real reason he hasn't been successful connecting with the people of florida, is because of his message and his failure to connect to the needs of the people in this state. >> i believe the republican party will not nominate a pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase moderate from massachusetts. >> 50 delegates are up for grabs in florida. early votes there seem to be favoring romney. >>> rick santorum says he'll resume campaigning today, but not in florida. he has stops in missouri and minnesota. he spent the weekend with his 3 yelled daughter who was in a hospital in philadelphia. she has pneumonia. >>> 6:06 our time. the first family takes a sunday stroll. what brought them out on the town last night. >>> plus, a chilly morning. >>> welcome back. the first family spent their sunday at a museum walking from the white house to the corcoran gallery of art. curr

. >> i'm from akron, ohio. you deserve an oscar for your academy award performance. >> thank you, you're right. [ laughter ] >> why are you telling me that? >> i'm gordon dover from cleveland, illinois. i'd like to know what institution granted you your recent doctorate? >> i'm dr. doctor. i received a doctorate from first -- from jacksonville university. a wonderful school down in florida. and beautiful -- i went down there, and they gave it to me in a doctorate in theater and film. and i made -- i made remarks to the kids down there. and then several months later, my alma mater, swatzmor college. i found a great thing to do in giving commencement addresses. these are both in 2010, right? my film "avatar" had come out, and they had done a line of action figures. and there are action figures of me, which had we had any foresight, we would have on sale outside. [ laughter ] but they're wonderful action figures. i mean, get the six-inch one, but i recommend the nine-inch one. [ laughter ] and they're totally -- y

mueller, the day after the shootings, he didn't belong to ksu but a university of akron alums. the day after sthoot tinges we took a bus to columbus and tried to make a citizen's arrest of governor rhodes. there were also kntaccounts fro students who were actually in the line of fire such as this one here. it's kind of hard to see in the back there. but katherine delotra, one of the students i interviewed, she's being pushed out of the line of fire by her boyfriend. that's a better view of her. glen frank was able to calm the students down, diffuse the situation and probably save a lot of lives that day. the two national guardsmen offered very diverse interpretations of these events. one, j. reynold schneider who was a captain who led a company on may 4 that day, his company was not involved in the actual shootings. but he bristled at the suggestion that the guard was unprepared for riot training for this kind of event. another guardsman, art crump el also said they had very lytal riot training in the kind that the campus state presented. let's play just a little bit of this if

reduce the control over business and improve the investment climate earlier i spoke to yvonne chukar of akron a sons capital he told me that while the ideas were not new they were still relevant. these are not. fundamentally new things that putin is proposing however at the same time i would argue for the very first time we're hearing of such lofty goals at a very high level we should remember that this is the second very important speech the region has delivered on the economy over the last two weeks he. started with a speech on twenty second of december when he said that the potential growth of the russian economy should be raised to sixty one percent and this is the second major speech i think it's a very important one of course it is very rich on the rhetorical the key question for us is whether it will be reached on implementation you mentioned that rhetoric is one thing but implementation is something different how do you think these ideas will be implemented i actually think. they'll be strong market economics and political economy incentives for put in turn as a president to be to be

. >> lebron, his high school sweetheart akron.pping a little ohio knowledge. >> a midwester on the show. >> lebron, see what is going on with kobe. two words for you, prenup. all i'm saying. >> that's one word hive natd. two syllables. >> sorry, paula. if you are wondering why katie perry and russell brand got divorced and wondering why he filed the papers. >> stung. >> you know she comes from a evangelical christian family. >> you can tell by her outfits. >> no. she wanted him to file the papers because, she didn't want her parents to be disappointed. but get this, he is, a recovering sex addict and heroin addict and had apparently changed his ways. >> sure the parents love that. >> a lot of their arguments according to tmz, brand didn't enjoy the scene. she was going out and drinking. going to bars, and boozing. you know what if you are a spouse and you know your husband has struggles in this area. come on. you can't do that. >> seems like a weird call on her part. she was the one going out, in the scene doing the party thing. h

giants took a 10-3 lead into the 2nd quarter, but the packers bounced back to tie the billion on this akrongers. here is the play that turned the game. it's called a hail mary and sometimes the prayer is answered. eli manning to the end zone where hackeke nicks able to negotiate the tangle of bodies and analysts for 37-yard score. the giants with the 20-10 lead into the hocker room. the packers were hurt by dropped passes and fumbles. in the 3rd quarter, umenyiora forces the ball out and it's recovered by deon grant. the only fumbles that rodgers gave up all year. rodgerss to ryan grant who coughs up the ball and it's taken to the green bay line. the packers in trouble as they were done 30-13. they scored again. but then so did the giants. after new york recovered an onside kick, brandon jacobs gets around the corner and then some. in addition, to the three fumbles, they had eight drops. the giants are headed to candlestick park for the nfc championship game next sunday. beat them again and the 49ers are in the super bowl. >>> in the afc, it will be baltimore at new england in the champions

we're at freezing in akron. below freezing in fairfield.cord and livermore right around the freezing mark as well. 40 down in san jose. 47 in san francisco but it's the north bay that we're seeing our coldest temperatures this morning. i want to show you how fjbtjjth temperatures compare to yesterday at this time. you'll see we are quite a bit colder this morning. 20 degrees colder in novato. 10 in santa rosa. ten in concord. 10 in mountain view. it's frigid out there. be ready for it as you head out the door. visibility fine. fog not a factor. for us the only bits and pieces we're seeing are out in the central valley. visibility even there not bad two to five miles. hazy along i-5. our temperatures as we run the clock throughout the morning, we have future cast set for 9:00 a.m. that's when we're expecting mainly 40s and 50s and really nothing much colder than that. by about noontime it will be mostly 50s. a few 60s in the north bay and popping up in the south bay as well. %xat 2:00 you'll see a lot of green on the map. widespread 60s. aga

it was cities like akron, ohio, where the mayor convinced the german auto supplier to say made in the usa. there are -- and now more than 100 new jobs for skilled machine workers are available to akron residents. [applause] during this football season while congress punted on infrastructure jobs, it was in places like davenport, iowa, where they created a model downtown jobs program that matches public resources with private dollars to put more people to work. it's a story being replicated from birmingham to boston, in my own city we're making a $4 billion investment at our airport generating about 40,000 jobs, more than a billion dollar investment in our port to compete with the panama canal, generating another 20,000 jobs. there's a lot we can do with a partnership. but we need the congress to do its job. congress needs to stop starving our economic engine, our metropolitan area and immediately make the common sense investments in transportation, infrastructure and work force development. we heard from elizabeth touts, our former president, just a few moments ago, a republican mayor

at the bottom of the list, akron, ohio. boston, trenton, sacramento, and seattle.vey bliss interviewed -- career bliss interviewed 43,000 employees for the survey. >> i might argue against that. last time i was in seattle everywhere i went folks were happy. >> what? >> maybe the coffee. >> i now know where oxnard, california is. it's near palm springs. >> yeah. >> that's probably why they're happy. i was there and had to drive by. >> nice. >> you could be happy working there. >> i'm saying, you know, it's in a lovely little corner of california. >> paradise. >>> we should check on the weather. >> does it matter what the weather is like to make you happy, right? even a little snow and flurries which we're going to have tonight. just be happy. okay? a flurry of flurries coming our way tonight. storm 4 doppler, you can see all the white advancing eastward still on the other side of hagerstown so probably not until about 9:00 we'll see a few flakes maybe starting on very light drops first before switching over to the snowflakes. probably until about 2:00 a.m. a cold st

he could've been killed in akron, ohio. he was killed in memphis, the capital of the blues. so i began to kind of think about that, hideaway make a good. that is -- in which meant this as a character, in which he began to understand the confluence of things that brockington memphis, the garbage strike be the most obvious one. but the whole background, the whole backdrop of memphis. he had come to memphis really because he was beginning to recruit for this very ambitious and very controversial campaign called the poor people's campaign in washington. the idea was to take offense, maybe hundreds of thousands of poor people, african-americans, but also from other backgrounds to washington and to build this shanty town on the mall to protest multigenerational poverty, systemic poverty. it is a very controversial plan. he was getting a lot of criticism and of course our good friend chad kruger was very suspicious of this thing. he thought it was communism. he thought he was some sort of subversive. but kingsford has made to his left hand turning to memphis when he heard about thi

louis and akron and austin and all down the line. know that the folks at united republic are working on a stack of municipal resolutions. i know you're doing this. other folks, a move to amend. what is your sense of the national momentum inside of municipalities to -- to continue to care they momentum beyond new york and los angeles? >> well, i think it's taking off, and you're absolutely right. it needs to go to parts of country where people wouldn't necessarily expect this kind of campaign to go, but we're already seeing the traction across the political spectrum for wanting to stand up and saying it's time to get money out of politics and time to make corporations people with constitutional rights. the legislature is about to consider in their 30-day session starting in a week this very question of whether to pass a resolution calling on congress to enact -- pass a constitutional amendment and sent to the states for the enactment. but the montana supreme court ruling is really the biggest new development on this because here you h

. >> and at the bottom of the list are akron, ohio, boston, trenton, sacramento, and seattle.iss interviewed 43,000 employees for this survey. >>> a letter alexander graham bell wrote to his parents just sold for more than $92,000 at an auction in new hampshire. the letter is seven pages long and includes rare and elaborate drawings of the telephone he invented. it was written two years after bell made his first call to his assistant thomas watson and obtained a patent on the telephone. the inventor was responding to news from his parents that a lightning strike damaged their wiring. in the letter he instructs his parents on how to ground the telephone to prevent harm from future lightning strikes. >>> from bell to poe for the third year in a row the anonymous toaster failed to show up at edgar allen poe's grave site last night in baltimore. since the 1940s a man dressed in black had been placing roses and half an empty bottle of cognac on poe's grave the night before his birthday. today would have been poe's 203rd birthday. >> wow. >>> much more ahead on news 4 at 4:00. faceb

we go next to rick, from akron, we go next to rick, from akron,

. >> reporter: john green is a political scientist from the university of akron. >> sometimes it takeser they might come up with in their meeting might not be enough time. >> reporter: those resources, boots on the ground, robo-calls, phone lists, or, as some political experts suggest, these leaders with the help of wealthy donors could form a super pac. the meeting itself isn't sitting with el with everyone. president of the family leader in iowa was invited to the meeting, but says it's too late. he's backing santorum and says the other leaders need to pick a side. >> instead of going to texas, i tell them to cancel their plane tickets or cancel their charters and get to south carolina, where they can help out. >> reporter: wolf, clearly you can tell not to expect any kind of consensus, a fanfare where they announce their support. instead you'll probably see some leaders announcing endorsements, or interestingly enough may urging some candidates to get out of the race. >> thanks etch have. an important meeting under way in texas. >>> let's dig deeper. candy crowley is joining us. sta

host: next is akron, ohio. michelle is a democrat. go ahead. caller: good morning.t: good morning. caller: i am calling to support the lesser military and grateful that it is finally come to pass. i support obama 1000%. i'm giving up my apartment for campaign headquarters for him and listen to him talk all day. i am grateful for the good news. thank you. host: "the washington post" on its forum page has put pro and con. a senior fellow at the brookings institution and military writer talks abouthanlon, the benefits of a one war posture. here's what he writes. just below that, robert scales argues the administration -- host: tony capaccio, the other branches of the military seem not to be targeted to. specifically, air force and navy. can you talk about how they would fit strategically? guest: the navy seems to be a major beneficiary of this strategy. a lot of the strategy released yesterday talks about a forward presence and the need to be engaged. the navy is your best presence there. it is big and visible and costly. aircraft carriers are expensive. the navy is we

we repeated that doctrine -- we repudiated at akron, with the court said that you are entitled to participate in providing public services on the same basis as other organizations. that means that you should comply in some instances with the same rules -- >> do lutheran and catholic parochial schools share public funds the same way public schools do? >> no, they don't, but they are entitled to -- >> what is this argument you're making? >> we are no longer of the era where we believe that no government or rules of employment and apply -- >> fair is fair, just like everybody else -- that is not true. >> we recognize that the value of neutrality, will you have doctrines' that we recognize, you do not come under the establishment clause, introduce someone into an ecclesiastical office, and you do a balancing test to make sure that there is sufficient government of interest if you are going to undercut an organization's ability to convey its use. -- its views. >> thank you, mr. dellinger. >> two points briefly. this shows them as you'll be in if you try to decide these cases -- the mess you'll be

. >> next up, akron, ohio. joan on our line for democrats. good morning, joan. caller: yes. was just calling to say new hampshire and south carolina and all of these places doesn't make no difference because they're stealing the votes, they're blocking the vote else. they won't -- i mean, they're just doing all kinds of ungodly things. and i just want to say this one thing to the people that listened today, look up in your dictionary, look up what conservatives mean. look up what a lib ram means. read the bible, and read with the bible says about a stingy man is a conservative man. >> in the business section of this morning's "new york times," sec changes policy on firms, admissions of guilt. this is by edward wyatt who writes the securities and exchange commission and internal policy shifts said friday they would no longer allow the defendants to say they would no longer admit or deny insider trading charges when at the same time they admit of having been convicted of criminal violations. the first time the sec stepped back from the long-standing practice of allowing compan

host: let's go to akron, ohio, independent. caller: hello, mr. nader. i think you'd make a great commander in chief because you are the only one who talks about conservation. why are all the american soldiers supporting ron paul? guest: that's an interesting point. why is he getting more contributions from active duty soldiers than anyone else? it is because the soldiers in iraq and afghanistan don't think we should be there, a majority of them. they will do their job and play the good soldier and don't speak out but there was a poll in january, 2005 that had 70% of the soldiers in iraq water this out in 6-12 months. it was not challenged by the pentagon. they see ron paul saying what are we doing over there creating more insecurity for us, more trillions of dollars, more dead soldiers, were injured soldiers, more injured and dead civilians in iraq and afghanistan, what for? what is the purpose? that is why they are responding to ron paul. it is their way of expressing themselves. i am a member of the veterans for peace and there are iraq veterans again

host: let's go to akron, ohio. caller: hello, mr. nader. i think you would make a great commander in chief. you are the only one who talks about conservation on our farms. the american soldiers are supporting ron paul. guest: that is an aging point. why is ron paul getting more contributions from act -- from active duty soldiers than anyone else? is soldiers in iraq and afghanistan do not think we should be there, the majority of them. they will play the good soldier and do their job. they do not speak out. there was a poll in january 2005 that had over 70% of the soldiers in iraq wanted us out in 6-12 months. that was a field poll that was not challenged by the pentagon. they see ron paul saying, what are we doing over there? what are we doing creating more insecurity for us, more dead soldiers, more injured soldiers, more massively injured and dead civilians in iraq and afghanistan? what is the purpose? that is why they are responding to ron paul. it is their way of expressing themselves. it also a member of the best chance for peace. the

host: rick, from akron, ohio, thank you. wycombe, you are not old enough to vote. why did you come out tonight? caller: i think any candidate that can add to the conversation is good. host: can you give someone an idea of what the politics is like here? you saw it as an 11-year-old and now as a teenager in 2012. guest: i have lived here my whole life, the entire 15 years, and you still cannot win in hampshire without shaking hands. no matter how many outside groups did involve, you just cannot win new hampshire without shaking hands. host: a political future for you down the road? guest: i do not know. after college, that is what i would like to do. host: thank you. let us go to and. what about tomorrow? guest: i will be voting tomorrow. i'm a vote for jon huntsman. i am an independent, so i get to choose which one i broke in. host: what will force you to decide one way or the other? guest: a guess whoever has the most power in terms of beating the other people. one of the swing voters that since there and thinks about to best use my one vote. host: one of the thin

lastly, in akron, ohio, there was a lady to -- who falsified a record to make sure her daughter and kids good schools, and she got arrested. if we want parents involved, that is certainly not the message we want to send. i want the mayors to talk about how we can empower and engage parents. thank you very much for your time. let's give the panelists a round of applause. i will send it over to mayor villaraigosa. >> thank you to the members of the panel. we will be starting lunch with our closing speaker, the senior adviser to president barack obama. or is it here? it is right in here. we will stay here. is he here? not quite yet. let me make a comment or two about what you all just heard. and the charge before us. you listened to tom friedman. as i said to him, if you read, "the world is flat quarter made when it was written five years ago, -- "the world is flat" when it was written five years ago, when he said we were not competing in math and science, people thought he was talking about the kids of privilege, the affluent and the upper middle- class. i am sorry, that he was talking abo

let's go to akron, ohio. >> good evening c-span and thank you for this wonderful series "the contenders hope you will do one about the cabinet, too. but any way, my comment and my question is, i heard somewhere and i don't know what the truth is behind this, but just moments before senator robert f. kennedy was assassinated in 1968 after winning the california primary, senator mcgovern was participating in a phone conversation with senator kennedy and i wonder if it has been revealed what that conversation was about and if you know anything about that phone conversation. >> i never heard that i happened to be in the hotel kitchen at the time robert kennedy was assassinated. i spent a great deal of time then and since then exploring all of the details of the time leading up to robert kennedy's death and never came across that story. but i do know in his hotel room, he did make calls to a number of people to look forward what expected to be the next phase of the campaign, which was to go to new york and campaign for delegates there. he did talk to many people. he may have talked to senato

experience in the international travel to bring jobs is the four president of the conference from akron ohio. >> i appreciate as many of you have said the commitment to talk about this because i believe it's important its international travel even though we can show the result for the direct investment that we concentrate on we co-sponsored with the chamber of export meeting from the small businesses. from the past. election i shouldn't be traveling or do that. so there is a downside. one thing though a couple points there needs to be a long-term commitment by any community. a mayor going over the first time he comes back or she you're going to have a microphone stuck in your face and say did you bring any business that if you bring them in your little satchel, so people need to understand the commitment fees to be long-term but one of the things i like you talk about the comprehensiveness of this it is tourism, it is the foreign direct investment in there are communities i think the last number i say is too wondered $39 billion of investment last year and i tell people why should we no