in a few minutes, another author, anne-marie ackerman -- ann marie ackermann, the german murderer who died defending robert e lee. we will be back with more coverage. >> we are looking at some offers recently featured on booktv's afterwards. the weekly author interview program that includes best-selling nonfiction books and guest interviewers. >> it is very hard to face death if that is what you are like. i am not a buddhist but buddhists -- you have to lose your self, lose yourself in your work, your art, the movements and then death becomes incidental because i consider my long involvement in the women's movement and the movement for economic justice. when i am gone, they are going to go on. other people will do things i have been doing or do them better so that is good. it is not scary. it is wonderful. one of my tasks in old age is to reproduce myself, to help younger writers, writers of color, people in poverty become journalists and get a start and those are like children to me and children are amazing so i think that is one of the jobs of being old, passing the torch, taking wh

and that the book festival, welcome anne-marie ackerman. [applause] >> thank you for being here. if i am not mistaken, you will see a world record broken today for the oldest reward for solving a murder ever paid. the city has applied for a new guinness world record title, it takes guinness several months to make the decision and hope we will have that by the next gaithersburg book festival, you will see some history being made. what makes this case fascinating is that is not the only record. this case -- this case is cool of records and that is a good way to bring you back to germany in 1835 and explain what happened and how that led to this moment in gaithersburg. first record, 19th century germany's coldest murder case ever solved. murder cases were usually solved within a few weeks and in the region where the murder took place. that is because they didn't have the forensic techniques we have like fingerprinting, photography, etc.. i researched volumes of criminal reports from germany from the 19th century, between murder and solution. this is the recordbreaker. so what happen

former attorney ann marie ackerman, with her book the true story roff a german who died murdering robert e. lee. nd phil hatchett with his book "advocating overlord." watch coverage of the ninth annual gaithersburg book festival in maryland saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> following the school shooting in santa fe, texas, governor abbott spoke to reporters about the investigation and response. he was joined by senator cruz, lieutenant governor dan patrick and state and county officials. >> is everybody ready? >> i'm the county judge and chief elected official in galveston county. we are all here today because of a tragic event that occurred today at santa fe high school. we did have rapid response from state and u.s. leaders who are out here now. we spent time briefing the governor and senator cruz and other elected officials on the events that happened this morning. i will pass it off to governor nd boat. - governor abbott. >> i thank you for your time to help your county respond to this. we appreciate you and your entire team stepping up and showing the way to re

former attorney anne marie ackerman, the true story of the german murderer who died defending robert e. lee. and phillip padgett with his book, "advocating overlord." watch live coverage of the ninth annual gaithersburg book festival saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> now the house administration committee examines the operations of the u.s. capitol visitors center as it nears its 10th anniversary. members heard from the ceo of visitor services what talked about the center's educational mission, its features, and rotating exhibits and some of the planned redesigns. this is about 45 minutes. >> i now call to order the committee on house administration for the purpose of today's hearing examining the united states capitol visitor's center as it approaches its 10th anniversary. the hearing record will remain open for five legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included. a quorum is present so we may proceed. first i would like to thank our witnesses for taking time out of -- our witness, excuse me, for taking time out of her schedule to

>> that was author ann marie ackerman, starting in a few minutes hoffman, this is book tv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend c-span's city tour takes you to selma, alabama with the help of spectrum cable partners we will cross the bridge arriving in a town known for its role in both the civil war and the civil rights movement. today at 5:30 p.m. eastern on book tv, we will visit the home dr. martin luther king, jr., used as selma headquarters as he planned the selma to montgomery march. it's featured in the book the house by the side of the road. >> there was a photographer here, frank who worked for life magazine at the time who was embedded in the house and he wanted to capture dr. king's emotions as he watched on television president johnson committing to signing, voting right's act. this is the chair that dr. king was sitting that night watching television. president johnson addressed the nation. >> we will meet the first african american fired chief in the city, chief henry alan talking about his book marching through the flame. on sunday at 1:30 p.m. eastern o

former attorney ann marie ackerman, author of "death of an asis assassin," and former national securityfficial philip pageant with his book "advocating overload -- the d-day strategy and the atomic bomb." watch live coverage of the ninth annual gaithersburg book festival in maryland, saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> the u.s. house begins work today on the farm bill, which sets agriculture and food programs for the next several years. you can watch the debate live on c-span. earlier, agriculture secretary sonny perdue testified before senate appropriations subcommittee on the agency's 2019 budget request. other topics during this hearing included the crop insurance program, nafta negotiations, and disaster

anne-marie ackerman, author of death of an assassin, the true story of the german murderer of robert e. also the book advocating overlord, the dj strategy and the atomic bomb. watch live coverage of the ninth annual book festival in maryland health intelligence committee ranking member adam schiff, missouri republican and house speaker paul ryan sat down with congressman mike ferguson to talk about the legislative agenda. it's part of a seminar hosted by washington d.c. law firm. it's about one hour ten minutes. >> we are going to get started this morning, there's never much going on in washington these days, right. pretty quiet really. [laughter] people from around the country say how's it going in washington. i said it's not dull in washington d.c. these days. one of the reasons is because more and more folks are on twitter. i want to kick off our questions this morning and i'm delighted that you're here. i want to share with some of you, if you are on twitter, use may be seen this already, but the president this morning tweeted out, i'll read it and i'd love to get your reaction,

former attorney anne marie ackerman, the true story of the german murderer who died defending robert e. lee. and phillip padgett with his book, "advocating overlord." watch live coverage of the ninth annual gaithersburg book festival saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> now the house administration committee examines the operations of the u.s. capitol visitors center as it nears its 10th anniversary. members heard from the ceo of visitor services what talked about the center's educational mission, its features, and

former attorney ann marie ackerman, author of "death of an asis assassin," and former national security official philip pageant with his book "advocating overload -- the d-day strategy and the atomic bomb." watch live coverage of the ninth annual gaithersburg book festival in maryland, saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> the u.s. house begins work today on the farm bill, which sets agriculture and food programs for the next several years. you can watch the debate live on c-span. earlier, agriculture secretary sonny perdue testified before senate appropriations subcommittee on the agency's 2019 budget request. other topics during this hearing included the crop insurance program, nafta negotiations, and disaster aid for farmers and ranchers. >> are you ready to go? okay. we'll call this meeting of the ag appropriations committee to order. and mr. secretary, right off the bat, we want to thank you very much for being here. we truly appreciate it. the purpose of today's hearing, of course, is to discuss department of ag's fiscal year 2019 budget. we also, in addition to

anne-marie ackerman, author of death of an assassin, the true story of the german murderer of robert e. also the book advocating overlord, the dj strategy and the atomic bomb. watch live coverage of the ninth annual book festival in maryland health intelligence committee ranking member adam schiff, missouri republican and house speaker paul ryan sat down with congressman mike ferguson to talk about the legislative agenda. it's part of a seminar hosted by washington d.c. law firm. it's about one hour ten minutes.

former attorney ann marie ackerman, with her book the true story roff a german who died murdering robert e. lee. nd phil hatchett with his book "advocating overlord." watch coverage of the ninth annual gaithersburg book festival in maryland saturday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> following the school shooting in santa fe, texas, governor abbott spoke to reporters about the investigation and response. he was joined by senator cruz, lieutenant governor dan patrick and state and county officials.