on the far left, we have a piece that is signed by benjamin franklin. and benjamin franklin, among his many occupations, diplomat and inventor, he was also a printer. this document is a receipt for printing that is signed by benjamin franklin and it's a little bit later than revolutionary. it's 1787. but the print -- the receipt is from a man named john dounn lap. when it was issued on the 4th of july in 1776, they sent the approved dela krags to john doeslop and he printed 200 broad size which at about that time was the size of about a regular newspaper sheet. there were only 25 copies of the real declaration still in existence. another couple of autographs that are interesting is alexander hamilton and aaron burr. they fought a famous duel so the collector put both of those together and in the middle of it is a picture of the two of them fighting the duel. the one from aaron burr is a letter of routine legal matters from december of 1800. and the one from alexander hamilton is also a legal paper from 1795. this autograph, by john quincy adams, where h

this is a receipt for printing that is signed by benjamin franklin. and it is a little bit later, 1787, but the receipt is from a man named john dunlap. and john dunlap was the official printer of the declaration of independence when it was issued on the 4th of july in 1776, they sent approval, the approved declaration to john dunlap who would typeset it and he printed 200 broad size, which at that time was the size of a regular newspaper sheet. there are only 25 copies of the original declaration still in existence. another couple of autographs that are interesting, alexander hamilton, aaron burr. they fought a famous dual. the collector framed these autographs together and in the middle of it is a picture of the two of them fighting the dual. one from aaron burr is a letter of routine legal matters from december of 1800. and the one from alexander hamilton is also a legal paper from 1795. this autograph by john quincy adams where he signed as secretary of state, and it is routine departmental business, from january 16th of 1818. john quincy adams wa

now, the plans of the albany congress did not bear fruition as benjamin franklin tells us. no colonial congress or grand council as franklin conceived developed from the albany congress. nevertheless, franklin's idea which he shared with others of drawing the colonies more closely together under british rule so that they could form a common policy and front against the french and the native allies of the french, that was very important. and franklin, of course, expressed this idea through a famous cartoon that he published in the "pennsylvania gazette" in 1754 in philadelphia. and it shows the colonies as a snake, right? and either they it will join together or they'll die separately. now he chose to picture them from north to south. head to tail. new england grouping those together, new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, maryland, virginia, north carolina, south carolina, seems to have forgot georgia. maybe that was a little distant and not immediately -- he knew georgia was just a new and beginning colony and might not perhaps contribute so much to the common effort so frankl

. >> yes, i was here when benjamin franklin -- >> jimmy: no, no. >> no, no, no, no, benjamin franklin mm-hmm. >> -- was the fellow that sold candy in the hallway. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: benjamin franklin washington? >> yes. and the only white washington i've ever met, lately. >> jimmy: really? >> have you ever seen any white washington's? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: mount washington. >> no, no. >> jimmy: yeah, an actual -- >> living, walking -- >> jimmy: humans. >> white people -- [ laughter ] named washington. >> jimmy: washington, no. >> i don't know where they went. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: because george was super famous. >> well george, you know, george, on the boat -- >> jimmy: yes. >> --on the boat, and they say he's crossing the delaware, but i -- i have looked, and i've hired people -- >> jimmy: to find -- >> white washingtons. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: now it'd be a myth. >> we have white jeffersons. we have white jeffersons. >> jimmy: yes. >> and we have white smiths. >> jimmy: yes. >> but no white washingtons. >> jimmy: this is true. >> is there anyone white in this audience -

benjamin franklin. >> ♪ my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty of thee i see land where my fathersbe free >> freedom has its life in the heart. the action, the spirit of men, dwight d. eisenhower. >> we stand for freedom. that is our conviction for ourselves. that is our only commitment to others. john f. kennedy. >> ♪ free free ♪ >> give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] >> good mo. supervisor carmen chu, thank you for being here in our city administrator, namely kelly, thank you for being here. of course, our new public works director and his wonderful staff here. thank you very much there is a reason why there's three public works directors on this side. ed risk then, our new mta director, and i have the former public works directors. we're here with muhammed and with our city administrator naomi. one, to get an idea of where we're at with the rebuild of our wonderful general h

. >> benjamin franklin stated there should be a revolution every 20 years. we're a long time past due. >> reporter: do you think we need a revolution now? >> i think we need a revolution, but not a violent one. >> reporter: sovereign citizens do have a history of turning violent. terry nichols, co-plotter of the oklahoma city bombing, a sovereign citizen. >> did you see the plane? or were you caught off guard? >> reporter: joe stack, who flew his plane into an irs building in austin, texas, a sovereign citizen. and then, jerry and joe kane, a father and 16-year-old son, who used to drive around the country, teaching people to use sovereign legal theories to get out of debt. >> i don't want to have to kill anybody. but if they keep messing with me, that's what's going to have to come out. >> reporter: when they were pulled over in west memphis, arkansas, in 2010, joe kane burst out of the car with an assault rifle and killed two officers. >> oh, my [ bleep ] god. >> reporter: the kanes were later cornered and shot to death in the parking lot of a walmart. >>

benjamin franklin claimed, for example, thatthe invention of a machine is of more importance than a masterpiece by raphael." john adams said, "the age of painting and sculpture has not arrived in this country, and i hope it will not arrive soon. i would not give a sixpence for a picture of raphael." nevertheless, admiration for the artist became so great th copies of his works grew in number, especially of the madonna of the chair. merchants and landowners placed these copies in rooms filled with family portraits and memorabilia. unlike jefferson's monticello, the copy after raphael might now be the only art relating to an old master in the room. the attitude toward raphael changed during the 19th century. through prints and the new medium of photography, copies of his sistine madonna and other works proliferated. once mass-produced, they were no longer a mark of taste and distinction but symbolized their owner's moral as well as artistic values. eventually, raphael's images became so commonplace they were fair game for parody. in the late 19th century, a new, more sophisticated type of collect

if you look at benjamin franklin. the counterfeit bill, it's not as detailed, it's cartoonish looking and you can almost see digital pixels. this is counterfeit. >> reporter: workers back at the kitchen and company noted other flaws. >> we felt the paper, felt weird, it didn't feel the same as normal bill. it was missing a water mark. >> reporter: the suspects changed their appearance their clothing hair styles and sunglasses, as they move from one targeted business to the next. jeff hager, abc2 news. >> the local police are working with the secret service to track down these folks in addition to the small purchases, police say the same counter fitters bought large items in virginia and west virginia, only to return the merchandise at stores here in maryland. >>> would you have ever thought of doing such a thing at age 9? listen to this. city police arrested a bunch of elementary school children that went on a violent spree of beating up other children. it happened where police say they had to go to the children's sch

found that the colonists weren't necessarily simply cooperative with the british war it took benjamin franklin's intervention to help procure wagons and horses for the british army. and franklin acted as an agent for general brad a advertised in pennsylvania's rural counties, and basically his message to the farmers was cooperate with the king. he is here to defend us. his troops that is. and if you cooperate, the king will pay well for your horses and carts. do not be afraid. you can come along as teamsters as well as the men who would manage the carts or drive them, and you will get good pay, but if you do not cooperate, then and you will lose your wagons and horses and get nothing. so, of course, the farmers did cooperate. and the king paid in good hard money. well, here we see roughly the path of braddock from virginia and then maryland along north of the potomac and then long journey through the heavily wooded terrain finally approaching ft. duquesne in july 1754. there he encounters rc roughly a thousand in the enemy camp. they are -- have come out of the ft. duquesne. they didn't necessar

i think that benjamin franklin -- he said those who will sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. the fact is that this is a real problem. i see it being a much greater problem. the think tanks that have looked at the issue, unfortunately, have said that in the next 10 years, there will be not one, but two dirty nuclear bombs exploded in the united states. i hope they're wrong. that is what the statistics show. if that does happen, god forbid, i believe that our fundamental democracy will be under the greatest attack it has ever experienced. as a matter of fact, one of the issues we're looking at in the aba is what would be the aba's response in the event there was a dirty nuclear bomb and habeas corpus was suspended in the united states, as it was by lincoln and by roosevelt? a lot of people don't remember that and don't know it. england, i was in england talking to their lawyers. i was talking to their security people. they don't have a constitution. they have much different ability to hold people for longer periods of time, and what they would do under similar circumstances. i

we had a man now in paris as the news reached europe, and it was benjamin franklin and he published essays on all of this and the idea of humanity began to spread. it wasn't universally observed in other parts of the revolution, but the continental army tried to do that all the way into the campaigns of the 1780s. after the battle when daniel morgan fought the group that was most hated in the revolution, tarl on to's raiders. he wrote a letter up the chain of command and said we treated them with humanity. we weren't even rude to them, he said. the americans made a point of that and what they were doing was leaking the conduct of the war to the values of the revolution and washington himself became a symbol of that linkage. and that linkage began to haunt the opponents of this war. and one of the interesting things or the way it haunted george iii after george went mad, one of his delusions was that he himself had become george washington and we can see how this example of a humane and highly-successful leader spread with the idea of the cause. and then after that, it was decided in counse

not as widespread but benjamin franklin owned slaves. about 3,000 over time. then nature of crops, if you have a large white work force, and maybe not as much slavery is needed. i should tell you most of the time they were always against slavery. that is not the case. it took a long time. they make the first suggestion as ed decreed over 100 years later. this is what would have been. they own the slave then somebody says we should macquarie to get rid of them. you come back next year. heavy redeem yourself? >> not yet. next year. next year. they did those who is benjamin who came from england to barbados. then a big event happened 1739 he goes to a church and then he said i stapp myself. then benezet is reaping. sells a 23. it is a famous all it ethiopia. then a couple years later he became known throughout the world with his writings against slavery. three components. would join me buy-back? seventy-eight is '50s and '60s we know of adam smith would james foster who grew up in the south. alabama fifties and sixties broke what they did the notion, lockheed had

with us and you keep up the great work making you know this is a postal service was created by benjamin franklin seven hundred seventy five and we shouldn't have to erase american history just because conservatives are afraid of unions and workers rights to call your congressmen and women and let them know that we need to preserve this critical american institution. meanwhile in sanford florida today marks one month since seventeen year old trayvon martin was gunned down while walking home from a seven eleven and now we're learning more about martin's killer george zimmerman as slate is reporting zimmerman had any history calling police on what he deemed suspicious young black men in august of two thousand and eleven zimmerman placed a nine one one call to report a black male acting suspicious in his neighborhood three days later did the same thing this time reporting a suspicious group of black teens and in april of last year zimmerman called the police to report a black male between the ages of seven and nine also acting suspicious in either car none of these calls with zimmerman give a reason

the bayhawks of benjamin franklin at masonville cove have endured an emotional season. despite the loss of a key player and numerous other challenges, coach, william russell, made it to the playoffs. not only did they have success on the court, but in the court of life, all of the senior team members were accepted to college. life expectancy in urban environments is on the rise, and the riveting story of the bayhawks is evidence of why and how a safe environment can protect children and teens who are at risk even when the odds are stacked against them. for more information, go to for more information, go to wbaltv.c it's oysternomics 101. you start with a u.s. senator named ben. by helping restore thousands of acres of oyster beds, he kept hundreds of oystermen on the job... which keeps wholesalers in business... and that means more delivery companies... making deliveries to more restaurants... which hire more workers. and that means more oystermen. it's like he's out here with us. he's my friend, ben. i hope he's your friend, too. i'm ben cardin, and i approved this me

and then, of course, tremendous influence on benjamin franklin. you know, probably the greatest self-made american that we know. become millionaires by the time is 40. he owned slaves. he had taken them when he served as american emissary in france and london. and franklin had these slaves. he wrote something called the observations of mankind in 1715. what he wrote in that was almost every slave is by nature a thief. he kept revising it. and he's talking. i went through above 30. the fines when he changes. in the british edition of this he had almost every slave is made by the nature of slavery that these. big difference. slavery has made you a piece and so he took this. he convinced franklin, and franklin immensely in 1787, a longtime, becomes the second person. he has great accomplishments. american medicine. steady in edinburgh, many others said their sons. this enlightenment. he went there is that a medicine and came back and became a leading worker. when he wrote his first pamphlet he wanted done anonymously. somehow it was slipped to be he

here's a part of the program that flashes on a flashy guard, leon fleming, a senior at benjamin franklincove. ♪ >> as team point guard, leon fleming strives to be two steps ahead of his opponents. the same could be said of his own life in the brooklyn homes housing project where every morning before school he keeps a watchful eye over his 2-year-old sister jasmin as he carries her to daycare. leon, the man in his family, lives on the same straight -- street where marcus was killed. >> it's so crazy out there. >> leon wants something else the >> i want to go to college, get my a.a. degree, just do something. just looking out for my sister. i always wanted somebody to look out for me, but unfortunately it was probably never there. i just want to look out for my little sister. >> leon's grandmother bought him his first basketball when he was and a love affair began. he is full of determination and desire like allen iverson, whom he adores. >> i want to be like that. i want to be the man. >> leon just emerged into a leader and probably one of the better point guards in the city. >> leon's dr

benjamin franklin claimed, for example, thatthe invention of a machine is of more importance than a masterpiece by raphael." john adams said, "the age of painting and sculpture has not arrived in this country, and i hope it will not arve soon. i would not give a sixpence for a picture of raphael." nevertheless, admiration for the artist became so great th copies of his works grew in number, especially of the madonna of the chair. merchants and landowners placed these copies in rooms filled with family portraits and memorabilia. unlike jefferson's monticello, the copy after raphael might now be the only art relating to an old master in the room. the attitude toward raphael changed during the 19th century. through prints and the new medium of photography, copies of his sistine madonna and other works proliferated. once mass-produced, they were no longer a mark of taste and distinction but symbolized their owner's moral as well as artistic values. eventually, raphael's images became so commonplace they were fair game for parody. in the late 19th century, a new, more sophisticated type of collector

can you imagine if ireland had a holiday where everyone dressed up like benjamin franklin and drank redand blue beer? it would seem like they are making fun of us, right? every year around this time, we show three clips that i believe to be the greatest local news clips on television. wpmi in alabama, visited a neighborhood where local residents claimed to have seen a leprechaun. that's right. a leprechaun. >> curiosity leads to large crowds in mobile's community. many bring binoculars, cameras. to capture the movement on the street. >> it's a leprechaun. >> eyewitnesses say, it only comes out at night. if you shine a light in its direction, it suddenly disappears. this amateur sketch is what many of you say the leprechaun looks like. >> jimmy: wait a minute? that's an amateur sketch? because it looks very professional to me. and finally -- >> others find it hard to believe and have come up with theories and explanations for the image. >> it's a crack head. they're always around stuff. and they told him to get up in a tree and play a leprechaun. >> jimmy: finally, a voice of reason. it

keeping track of the weather in the united states and we go back to some famous people like benjamin franklinrge washington. george washington is credit with being one. first people to keep track of weather. he had a weather log that he kept. the first official measurements started in 1871 in washington and baltimore and in the early 1960s out at dulles. whenever we talk about records or setting records, we can go back to 1871 officially. the data is kind of hit and miss. it is somewhat suspect and the reason is they moved -- of course, they were new to this whole world of keeping track of weather. they moved the weather stayings around quite a lot in that period between about 1870 and 1930, 1940. so it was -- >> they had a weather station? >> we had some people at the smithsonian. we had some army surgeons, people at the naval observatory all keeping track of weather records back in the late 1850s through 1870s. >> as we know, depending on where you're taking that observation, it can be different. so, for example, now, and even -- hey, even today, the official temperature is taken at reagan

he announced there was going to be a ban on feeding homeless in at sites near the benjamin franklin parkwayi'm not familiar with that area, but love parks. >> it's a great place. >> and i have mixed feelings about it, but bob action since you do a lot of work with the homeless and you have for years, i wondered what you thought about it. >> i'm a big fan of nutter and i think he has done good things. but let's face it, it's a little bit of a coincidence that this is being done now, about three months before a very fancy new art museum is being opened there. the barns foundation building, barns art collection and arts education programs. nobody wants a brand-new $200 million building with a bunch of homeless people out front. the thing that bothers me about this is these people have been feeding these people at these locations for several years. now all of a sudden, it's time to move as the barns building gets opened up. i think -- here in washington, d.c. where i work with the homeless, there is a homeless shelter that does have medical and mental and that is the best possible situation, if

including letters from abraham lincoln, benjamin franklin, carl marx and fdr. he also admitted to stealing inaugural paper, paper from andrew jackson, and a land grant signed by lincoln worth more than a million dollars. >> in terms of value to america, they are priceless. >> reporter: in terms with his plea deal, he must try to reunite the items with their rightful owners and track down items he sold. >> reporter: landau and a friend pled guilty to theft in the case. >>> another glorious, spring- like march evening. the efficient start of spring is still 12 days away. but you don't have to tell that to people here enjoying the warm temperatures. a live look outside right now. we are getting to the point where we can officially kiss winter goodbye. never had to hug it hello really. wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. meteorologist bernadette woods and bob turk are updating the first warning coverage. >>> hasn't been much winter this year. that's for sure. take a look at radar. a few showers to the west of us. really, very unimpressed at this point.

benjamin franklin said it. from the last day of the constitutional convention, he was so ill he wrote it and gave it to james wilson, the fellow delegate from pennsylvania to read and at the end of the speech, what franklin sands and i paraphrase again, the constitution will work for a period of time, but then the people will decide if they want to live under despotism or not. and if they want to live under despotism, then they deserve it. you have to keep in mind, these men who are berated and smeared by the left of the time come the framers of the constitution, after the revolutionary war was over, they could time it is done in so many countries, taken power or appointed a king. if george washington wanted to be king, he probably would've been king. they were constantly concerned about restraining power, including their own because they understood the notion of liberty. so to answer your question is, we have what we have, they say what they say and they cannot rely on politicians to do the work that we need t

that was benjamin franklin's idea, and it was not created with the idea of independence in mind, it was created in response to the fears generated by the french and indian war. and it was to be a body that could coordinate the response to the impending war. this was attended by 17 delegates from seven colonies and one lobbyist. and the meeting broke up inconclusively, but that general framework was later adopted into our articles of confederation. now, the national government was so weak at one point it was completely laid low by the greedy sheriff of chester county, pennsylvania. just to give you an idea of how weak the government was, george washington issued a passport to the british to bring in supplies to feed and clothe their prisoners of war. so they're bringing the wagons in to go to the prisoner of war camps, and the sheriff of chester county stops them and says, you know what? under the pretense of saying that they brought in too much and planning to sell it on the black market, he seized all of their merchandise, and congress was powerless to stand up to the greedy sheriff of

. >> can you imagine when ireland had a holiday where everybody dressed up as benjamin franklin and drankand blue beer. it would be like they're making fun of us. >> he has one of the most well known and beautiful voices in the world. >> thank you. >> jimmy kimmel? >> ♪ from your window >> and this acclaimed irish tenor ronan tynan is here on the curvy couch not to sing quite yet. it's a little early for you. tell me where that was from. >> that was actually from baltimore. that was a tribute to the veterans and there were five colonels from the second world war and that particular song was chosen by the air force because the particular colonel who used to sing it to his troops, it was very, very moving. >> you've been on this program a number of times and it's great because not only do you know your craft but you also love to watch the news and talk about things in the news. did you see us do the story a little while ago about how "the new york times" ran an anti-catholic ad but would not run an anti-muslim ad. now is the time. they're worried about our safety of our men and women over t

[applause] it has been said -- benjamin franklin said that those who expect to reap the liberty need to support it. i do not believe you have to sacrifice. there could be some tough times for some people, but if you would not have bailed out the banks, they would have went to the people. [applause] if we can get the government to get out of our way, off our backs, out of our law, and out of our personal lives, why should we call that a sacrifice? we can work hard and keep what we earn. this would be an immediate effort to bring back growth again. it should be a wonderful time. world war ii was not the disaster they thought. we got the government out of the business of trying to get out of the depression. we came back and the depression ended. freedom is in many ways miraculously on what it does. [applause] to me, the real miracle is bringing people together because, like i mentioned, freedom should bring us all together. one thing we did wrong in this country, and to some degree still exists -- some people are mistreated because they belong to a group. i can understand that. in the d

. >> clayton: what's the great benjamin franklin quote, somebody sent it to me on twitter, evidence that know what goes good with a glass of beer, m mama's home cooking. do you prefer your mom's cooking or wife's cooking, half the men-- >> a great deal of men are just like this scene in "everybody loves raymond." >> it's in the oven. >> oh, my god, i'm sorry. >> marie was that for dinner? i took it out to make the corner dogs. do you want to corn dog. >> clayton: the appalling. and she was always known on the show for terrible cooking. but according to research men prefer mom's cook being and they'll sneak back without their wife nothing they got the extra food. >> ainsley: and then 10. >> clayton: 10% refuse to eat the wife's food at all. >> dave: and the question on twitter and facebook, all of the guys were afraid to weigh in because their wife cooks for them every day and for us, we said that mom's cooking is great. wives's cooking is better. it's know the about being smart. sorry, mom. why is anyone surprised, men are more comfortable with the food they grew up with. many young wome

. >> and benjamin franklin. >> alisyn: we want to know what you today will be grateful you have a lessr to do this morning. >> clayton: and also, i think pet peeves and call them out in you live in a local area if they spell of daylight savings with an s. call in, there's no s. >> alisyn: we would never make that mistake, never, ever. >> dave: on a graphic. >> clayton: never. >> alisyn: and we're going to show you for this segment. never. >> dave: we would not, other news organizations. >> alisyn: the u.s. military showing the brand new crowd control instrument and protect the ships from pirates. the brave peter doocy volunteering to test it out. >> clayton: no, he was not the guy shooting it, right, peter? you were being shot at. >> reporter: that's correct and believe it or not the technology isn't new, but the military says this system is state of the art and you'll see here in a second, it's tough to visually see how the system works, but you'll get a good idea where nonlethal technology is going. you didn't see it, hear it or smell it, but to make unruly mobs do this. >> oh! >>. >

[applause] it has been said -- benjamin franklin said that those who expect to reap the liberty needort it. i do not believe you have to sacrifice. there could be some tough times for some people, but if you would not have bailed out the banks, they would have went to the people. [applause] if we can get the government to get out of our way, off our backs, out of our law, and out of our personal lives, why should we call that a sacrifice? we can work hard and keep what we earn. this would be an immediate effort to bring back growth again. it should be a wonderful time. world war ii was not the disaster they thought. we got the government out of the business of trying to get out of the depression. we came back and the depression ended. freedom is in many ways miraculously on what it does. [applause] to me, the real miracle is bringing people together because, like i mentioned, freedom should bring us all together. one thing we did wrong in this country, and to some degree still exists -- some people are mistreated because they belong to a group. i can understand that. in the drug law,