supervise that is not an archives question. you want to be talking to the director the cis or the f.b.i. or somebody like that. >> point that person at this. history is a hoot. seeing isn't always believing. the use of trickery and deception that is presentation. >> wonderful entertainment it's part of our fourth of july . >> is it based on fiction or fact. >> i'll let you know. do come to the fourth. best way to come out is by experiencing it personally. >> you have 38, >> four and a half happy months >> e-mails, you are going to be storingy e-mails? >> it's estimate that had the e-mails to the bushed a administration will be three times the number of e-mails in a the clinton administration, we are talking about billions and billions of electronic records. >> do you think some people in the administration hearing this program will have a nervous brokedown when they realize their e-mails are going to be forever embalmed in your -- that is not -- you can skiis the word, -- excuse the word but in a repository at your facility? >>

to further mark the event, the national archives is putting 25,000 civil war-era documents online. as bill plante reports, the documents have deep personal meaning for countless american families. >> this is the document that changed my life. >> reporter: when cheryl wills found online this 1866 discharge certificate from the union army for sandy wills, her great, great, great grandfather, it opened a door on history. what was your reaction? >> utter shock and my mouth went dry. >> just clicked up on my computer like poof, like magic. it's surreal. >> reporter: that discovery led her to the civil war draft registration record at the national archives where she discovered the enlistment record of sandy wills and five other slaves who escaped from their owner and volunteered the fight in the union army. they joined the fourth heavy field artillery, part of what was then known as the united states colored troops. >> he became real to me 150 years after his death. he came alive. >> reporter: now those civil war draft registration records are available online at ancestry.com, which digi

and then there was the problem of the archives. the earliest new york archive was established by john pintard, a very well known, white elite man. but black new yorkers had to wait until the 1920s to arturo shone berg to -- schaumberg to establish the schaumberg center. and yet, basically, the archives were, ultimately, my only resource. it's the only place i had to go to since my family had given me so little and half of a story. so what i do in the book, and i do want to point this out, is the book unfolds on two level t. own within -- levels. on one level it's the story of my search, how i went through the archives looking for material, finding, not finding, how i put them together. and on the second level, of course, it is the story it. so i started out in the schaumberg, and i was really lucky, lucky to find very early on two scrapbook pages in an archival collection. and in them i found the obituary pasted on the scrapbook of my great grandfather and then my great, great grandfather. so this is the first scrapbook page. it is

there's also access for the book of guys archive radio programs that bookguys.com.peaking of politics and sharing, what is the relationship and who determines the acquisition between the smithsonian institution and the library of congress, to of the biggest institutions in washington. >> into which you might add for the purpose here that the national archives and the library of congress chronologically we started in 1800 had historic but not much happened until the 1860's in 1946 they rushed to become the national library of 1846 and 53 it almost did. there's no national archives until 1935 so the congress pushed ahead as big institutions do, especially in the 20th century get started acquiring a lot of material that today would be government records the would go right to the national archives. the smithsonian in the 1850's gave up the notion of becoming a national library and a frightened joseph henry who was the director who was the great scientist who wanted the smithsonian to be what it is today and maybe - some of the museum and the tourist types for the spread

and then there was the problem of the archives, the earliest new york archive established by john pain tired, a very well known white elite man in 1804 the new york historical society. a black new yorkers had to wait until the 19 twentieths for arturo schomburg to establish the schomburg center. and yet basically the archives were often my only resource, the only place i had to go to since my family had given me so little in the story. so what i do in the book and i do want to point this out is the book unfolds on two levels. on one it is the story of my search, however to the archives looking for material, finding that finding how to put them together and on the second level of course it is the story itself. so i started out in schomburg can really lucky to find very early on to scrapbook pages in an archival collection in and then i found the obituary pasted on the scrapbook of my great-grandfather and then my great, great grandfather. so this is the first scrapbook page. it is my great-grandfather and of course the name is phillipa custis weight, so i recognized him immediately. to

they're free for a week on ancestry.com and will go back to national archive's website after five years and reach and touch what they did, it's a beautiful and empowering thing. and for my family, we will never be the same. >> i see our country lay waste and in ruins. >> reporter: documentary filmmaker ken burns found a great, great, great grandfather, a confederate solder in an application for his pension after the war. >> i know abraham burns my great, great, great grandfather stood this high and had these gray eyes. >> reporter: ken burns thinks this is just not about a movement of the past. >> we sere more and more in this country to learn more and more about the essential human question, who am i? >> reporter: and where did i come from? >> and where did i come from. >> reporter: it proves again as william faulkner wrote, "the past is never dead, it isn't even past." bill plant, cbs news, washington. >>> fascinating part of history, no doubt. >>> the latest on japan in a deepening nuclear crisis now in the same category as chernobyl, plus more aftershocks. and mitt romney is closer

and then there was the problem of the archives, the earliest new york archives was established by john petard, very well-known white elite man. in 1804 the new york historical society. black new yorkers had to wait until the 1920's for arturo schaumburg to establish the center. yet basically the archives were ultimately my only resource. it was the only place i had to get to since my family had given me so little. so, what i do in the book, and i do want to point this out. the book is on two levels. on one level it is the story of my search, how i went to the archives looking for material, finding, not finding, how to put them together. the second level, of course, it is the story itself. so i started out in schaumburg and was really lucky to find it very early on to scrapbook pages in an archival collection. and in them i found the obituary pasted on the scrapbook of my great-grandfather and then migrate great-grandfather. so, this is the first scrap book page. it is my great-grandfather. of course the name was bill by the justice white. i recognized him immediately. to give you a rea

there's a huge archive julia child left to harvard.other families also provided me with letters and diaries, and then i did an enormous amount of research in the military libraries where i found all the telegrams and intelligence reports that they filed. many of julia's meadows, jean foster's reports, all of their superior reports about them so i could tell you where they were and what they were doing much of the time they were a broad and then they all stayed close friends and they kept exchanging letters throughout 50s, so even after the war i was able to keep up with them and they were very frank in these letters, they were very moving about the fear of losing their jobs and what is happening to their friends, you can get a feeling for the time. >> during the time of the inquisition in washington were people sympathetic with the american people sympathetic to julia child's? was there any record of how they responded to her being taken of vintage -- >> it was paul that was taken in for the loyalty inquiry, and because they didn't kno

both of the roll film being used are supposed to be archived -- archive fully processed. i think that you need to clarify that. my personal opinion is 35 millimeters for this building. this is just an observation. >> thank you, could afternoon. sarah jones. this is our standard mitigation measure for restore resourced impact but we will raise this issue with our preservation staff for the future. we will straighten that inconsistently at -- inconsistency out. thank you. >> my understanding that the code out -- kodak plants are closed. there is no film or development of methods to be used. perhaps we need to update our language to digital or whatever the right one is. this is funny because just a few weeks ago, this plant closed. >> i think that they still require film, do they not? >> you are raising a point that we will need to resolve. this will involve confiscation -- consultation with our staff. >> i think that the plant that closed was kodachrome. black and white is pretty much still available. if kodak is not making it, i think the europeans and japanese are still p

many, many dozens and we'd talk and transcribe, go back to the records, and i said if i have that archive, why shouldn't we digitize and see if we can't make it available to the reader. i'm told maybe for the first time we not only are going to be held availability e-book, electronic book is what that means i'm told. [laughter] didn't use to have those when i was a kid. [laughter] you can read the book, and you can look at the end note and see the source where i cited something, and then you can go to the website and pull up the entire document and see right there whether or not the context or the perspective that i've provided which i work just like the dickens to make it accurate and fair and correct. you can then look at the entire document and say to yourself, gee, either i would have done it this way or i would have done it that way, but there's thousands of pages of documents, hundreds of documents, many of which have been recently declassified available on this website. >> which is great. okay. we'll have the documents, but what do we write in 20 years about your time in the pent g

it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interest

it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists. he can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit >> welcome to "culturewire." since december 2005, the museum of the african diaspora, known locally,moad, has presented programs that celebrate and explore the culture, history, and art of people with african descent throughout the and added states and throughout the world. the director of cultural affairs recently met with the museum director. to learn more about the current expedition, textural rhythms, constructing the jazz tradition, contemporary african american quilts. >> welcome to "culturewire." today, we are at the museum of the african diaspora, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary occupying one of the premier cultural district in the world, the yerba buena cultural arts center in san francisco. joining me is the cu

it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists. he can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit >> hello. welcome to the regular meeting of the budget and finance subcommittee meeting. my name is karimen chu. joined by ross mirkairmi and supervisor jane kim. our clerk is victor young. do we have announcements today? >> if you wish to speak during public comment, submit the card and present them to myself. please provide a copy to the clerk. items not appearing today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we will lose quorum if we don't take a quick recess. the mayor will be announcing the police chief and i believe a number of folks will be on hand for that announcement. so what i'd like to do before i call our agenda items is to take a brief recess. we'll

at that time the national archives released a cache of previously classified documents. this was a huge haul of papers, classified records and it detailed 24,000 people who had worked for the oss during world war ii. these records identified for the first time the vast civilian and military network of operatives who served their country during the time when it was threatened by nazis and fascists. some of these people were very notable but unusual and most unlikely possible secret agents. you had among supreme court justice arthur goldberg, actor sterling hayden, and the historian arthur schlesinger jr. but perhaps the most unusual and notable was the chef julia child. the news that she worked for the oss made headlines across the country. everywhere i went on this book for people stop and ask was she really a spy? what did she do? where did she go? i didn't know the answers to any of their questions so i began doing some research and one thing or another lead to the beginning of this book. like so many wartime secrets julia child's oss career was not a secret at all. th

this next piece actually another one of the beautiful gems that i found in new york in a yiddish archivesen lost for so many years. i was lucky to perform it in new york for october for a big jewish audience and people fell in love with it. it's a true story and something that still exists now. this means god watches over -- this piece a girlfriend her boyfriend goes to war and she says, i was lucking to be in love for a little while. i had love and everything i could ever want and now he's off at war and i'm alone. and i don't know what will happen after this. will he kill another mother's child. will i have to live with that? god watch over my belove ed and all the mother's sons. [music]

this is one of the posters and these are archival photographs. this shows the ccc boys. many of them had been riding the rails. they were starving. they were illiterate. here they are in one of the camps, which were run by the army and it was like a military organization. they were out in the wilderness. you could leave if you wanted to. this was a civilian conservation core. this is not trickle down next. in fact, it worked. it began to float local economies. they did an enormous amount of work. they wanted millions of trees. i looked over into alabama across a great forest of trees that were 70 years old. they're planted in huge numbers. imagine the kind of wildlife that becomes. they did an enormous amount of work and when the war was here, there was ready to go fight. this was not what this was intended to do. there are a few statues. they built a lot of lodges and visitor centers. these are just beautiful. amount of landscapes of ccc. this is the park. they did the work in them. the civil works administration was short lived. it was to get the people through the win

our eyes light up a bit when we talk about the archives but it was quite remarkable. when i was in the archive and i realized from the condition of the files of bundles of parchments. hundreds of them for any given year with writs of habeas corpus in them. the way they are organized, a fin animals in new stringing together these rich and the courts would tie in off with a tight knot so bundle would be so tight that you could only read the one on top and hundreds of things under it could not be read. that was a sign that no one had opened these up in several centuries. when your historian and in an archive in you see that you realize here is an as yet unrealized opportunity. the real issue in terms of time was finding the time even after you come back to make sense of after reading thousands of these things what does it add up to? the time is between teaching and the occasional semester away from teaching. >> what was the earliest reference to habeas corpus? >> i didn't search out and the original moments because i knew that would be probably certain for a timer i woul

and on this one i spent a lot of times in archives in honolulu, the mission houses, which houses the missionary papers, reading all of their letters and diaries and then the state archives of hawaii which has a lot of the government papers and the monarchy papers. and the bishop museum archives and, you know, they have various treasures and artifacts and also, you know, just reading a lot of old newspapers on microfilm, the whaling newspaper, that kind of stuff. and then also going to historic sites and interviewing curators and tour guides and then i did some other interviews with various locals, you know, some of them independent activists, you know, one of my interviews with a woman who became a good friend of mine who was a missionary descendent, that kind of thing. yes. oh, sorry. oh, sorry, microphone. [laughter] >> hi, sarah. >> hi. >> i was curious to know if you saw the annexation of hawaii as maybe having some sort of modern ripple effect and causing the birther movement? >> [laughter] >> correct me if i'm wrong, the birthers, not a word i enjoy saying because i like englis

the missionary papers, reading all the letters and diaries and the state archives of hawaii, which hadlot of the government papers and the monarchy papers and the bishop museum archive and they have various treasures and artifacts and also reading a lot of old newspapers on microfilm, the wheeling newspaper, that kind of stuff. i'm also going to historic sites and interviewing curators and tour guide and then i did some other interviews with various local, e-mail, some of them independent act this, you know, one of my interviews was with a woman who became a good friend of mine who was a missionary defendant, that kind of thing. yes -- sorry, microphones. >> hi, sarah. i'm curious to know if you saw the annexation of hawaii as maybe having some sort of modern ripple effect in some way causing the birther movement. [laughter] >> correct me if i'm wrong, but the birther, not a word i enjoy saying because i like english. [laughter] i don't know that they are entirely up to speed on the history of hawaii and the 1890s. i believe their focus and concerns are more prompted by anger at to the

>>> from the booktv archives, harold holzer chairman of the u.s. lincoln bicentennial commission and author of numerous books on abraham lincoln recalls the four months between president lincoln's election in november 1860 to his inauguration in march, 1861. during this time the president was pressured by republicans and democrats from throughout the country to maintain the union. he contends that president lincoln's resistance to heat the calls was due to his desire to stop the continuation of slavery and not from his misunderstanding of the seriousness of the session. this event hosted by the abraham lincoln bookshop in chicago is an hour. >> welcome to virtual book signing. we are at the abraham lincoln bookshop as always and i am daniel weinberg. i am pleased to have you here. .. >> well, we feature of course discussions and questions of the author and that's different for book signings. if you're watching live, we encourage you to email questions in, and we will try to get them on air and have them answered for you right now. if you're watchin

i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v. station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in a home shown shot them with his stepfather's gun he has always claimed that he committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force. when a teenager was arrested he admitted the double murder and confessed to another crime . six months before he walked into a convenience store with an accomplice and shot dead a cashier. he was only fifteen at the time. is accomplice in the convenience store shooting was also arrested richard was shawn's friend and both boys were obsessed with satanism. the two teenagers would tell the police that they killed the grocer just to see what it would feel like. richard accepted to testify against shown in exchange for a lighter sentence. when mrs evidence even shown sellers' own confession everything was in place for a trial but the legal system was hesitant should this teenager be judged as an adult fully conscious of his acts. sean's court appointed lawyer presented as evidence psychological

it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists. he can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit

i think the next clerk and the city will be much informed with having our process and having our archives to look too. >> and that is how san francisco government worked out the kinks, twists and turns, bombs in the road, to select its new interim mayor, ed lee. san francisco's first asian- american mayor. >> this has been an unprecedented and historic transition of power here in san francisco. i am so happy the board of supervisors came together to select an outstanding choice along many outstanding candidates to lead us over the next several years. >> over the past several months when this issue has come up, it had been agonizing. the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. >> the othe

using archival images and artifacts, had designed 16 intricately woven tapestries that are inviting ofnificant events that shaped the hospital and the community over time. a >> it attracts a lot of visitors, and they are all and all - -in aw -- in awe over the variety of mediums used. >> i think we have given the city of san francisco and the residents an incredible art collection. it really encourage people to come and visit the new facility, also to see the arts. >> for more information, visit sfartscommis >> welcome to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district. >> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 ever