weinert benjamin franklin wanted me to send her spec will? girls never learn to read or write him a letter read but not too bright. james franklin did learn to read because most girls did. but she was no ordinary reader. she read passionately peer she read avidly. and she learned how to write, which is quite an unusual thing. i think her brother taught her. benjamin franklin from boyhood five firm learning letter by letter, book by book, kindled by candle. he valued nothing more new love knowing better than his little sister. but it was cruel in its kindness because when he left, the less amended. in 1770, her brother sent a printing shop in boston. it was a godsend because here at last was a trade for a bookish boy whose family were too poor to send them to hire her. he became his brother's apprentice and moved out of the house into a room of brothers about his brother shot. he was 12, january 6. it gave franklin all kinds of opportunity and was the best part of the apprenticeship. he read every book that passed through the shop. he also read

is it leonardo da vinci, benjamin franklin, charles darwin, or albert einstein? the answer when "early today" returns. >>> before the break we asked who is credited with coming up with the idea for daylight saving time. the answer, benjamin franklin who first proposed it in 1784 in an essay saying people would use fewer candles if they rose earlier to make use of the morning light. >>> turning now to sports and thursday night football. bengals/dolphins, an overtime thriller. fourth quarter, only seconds left on the clock. caleb sturgis kicked a field goal to tie the game 20-20 and force o.t. the bengals had their back against the wall when they knocked andy dalton into the end zone for a game winning safety. it's only the third time in nfl history that an overtime game has ended in a safety. 22-20, miami up set cincinnati. >>> to the nba and derrick rose's home opener in chicago. in the closing seconds, new york ahead by 1. rose drives down the right side. he's double teemed but scores the game winner with only 5.7 seconds remaining. bulls 2-81 over the knicks. >

what he may have envisioned was a life like benjamin franklin who retired in his early forties and wrote phillumenists lee essays and pamphlets and newspaper in jefferson saw him as becoming says sage instead of on top the health but do as franklin had done. but jefferson's life took of wrong turn his wife died of complications from childbirth. after eighth time in which he appears almost to be suicidal he says he says he may have committed suicide if not for the fact he had three daughters at that point. after he came out of that he wanted to get out of monticello he went to philadelphia where congress was meeting and stays there 75 days. hamilton accidentally was a member of congress at that point. hamilton was very close to james madison ases jefferson. i suspect to must have met during his stay in philadelphia although there is no record of any correspondence that either says anything about the other. jefferson eventually received an appointment that turned into a position from 178-4389. it was a pivotal moment. his ideas had already formed to. he longs sense had turned against monar

and i did fine that i met with a curator to look at a ring as having once belonged to benjamin franklin and i am thinking that franklin is not wearing a ring. and not in the portrait. and it was a morning rain, like someone with diet and would give out a memento and it was being worn by james nephew. and he had actually deeded that specific ring to her granddaughter in her room will. and like a lot of things that once belonged to him, it only survived because it -- in this case it had a fictitious connection to benjamin franklin. so i made them change the catalog entry. but when they weren't looking at the good habits piece and put it on. you know, i'm never going to be let in there again. but i thought, no one has asked look at this room in two centuries. so i'm going to put it on. [laughter] and i could barely get it off my pinky. and i was just so sad that it didn't fit me. i find your life so sad and constrained and it did happen to me to seem very magical and moving. and to me the real obstacle was it is asymmetry and here is ben franklin and he is wonderful and you know, we know n

may 25th, 1787 at the constitutional convention in philadelphia, it was benjamin franklin who insisted that they have prayer because they were trying to break an impass. in 1789, when the legislative branch got started, one of their first orders of the business was to establish a chap lancey. so it was established even before the establishment clause of the first amendment, which states congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion or prohibitting the free exercise thereof. the supreme court in marsh v chambers 1983 uphe would the constitutionality of legislative prayer. so i think it is pretty clear that our framers intended that there be a spiritual amendment to government and that the separation of church and state was referring to the establishment of religion, of having an official state religion or government yl religion. and i don't think any lawmaker would want me to address any particular partisan issue. my position is nonpartisan. in statement i have made my intersession could apply to both sides of the aisle. i provide ministry in a political environm

it's like benjamin franklin said. those who would trade liberty for security should never find out that that decision has alr Ë bxb$,℠,x >> jon: as the great herman melville wrote in his classic mobbee dick, or the whale, let the most absent minded of men be plunged in his deepest referies, stand that man on his legs said his feet, and he will infallably lead to you water. (laughter) didn't expect silence on that one. read to us, boy, read to us. it's late and our eyes are weary. (laughter) the seafaring tradition is a noble one, thus tonight we examine a few recent maritime stories in a segment we call, really, is that what we're calling it? (laughter) >> jon: i read from melville. it just doesn't have the gravity that we were-- fine. first up, puzzling maritime news from the bay area. >> more than a month after the america's cup something else is grabbing attention this morning on the san francisco bay. >> jon: pless tell me it is not another ghirardelli chocolate drilling station disaster. still licking chocolate o

. >> lo siento compra le pertenecía a al iglesia donde se bautizo a benjamin franklin. >> bueno puesfrentamiento literal de pelÍcula en la frontera en el que se hizo evidente la agresividad de la patrulla fronteriza. reconocidas figuras de la iglesia y la polÍtica se unen al ayuno de los activistas en pro de una reforma migratoria. henrique capriles negocia un atentado por grupos oficialistas en contra del autobÚs en donde viajaba y conoceremos la historia del hombre a la que un abrazo del papa francisco le cambiÓ la vida. hoy en la ediciÓn nocturna. [♪ mÚsica ♪] >> este es su noticiero univisiÓn emisión nocturna, con ilia calderÓn y enrique acevedo. >> hola, quÉ tal? muy buenas noches. mÁs de 100 inmigrantes trataron de pasar a los estados unidos en masa provocando un enfrentamiento con la patrulla fronteriza que usÓ gases lacrimógenos. increÍble historia es que algunos dicen que fueron utilizados para grabar escenas de una pelÍcula. vilma tiene los testimonios y el impresionante video. >> la historia literalmente es de pelÍcula. empezÓ como un supuesto cruce masivo de inmigrantes i

benjamin franklin, he himself asked that the congress of the united states or the philadelphia conventiond start with the prayer. so there is not a problem here of forcing people or establishing a religion as long as the person doing the prayer doesn't want to evanize people. >> what about having a moment of silence. >> well, that could be contracted to countries founded. this case was resolved already in 1983 in the march versus chambers case. why are we back with this? >> why is the obama administration on the right side of this issue? >> good point. >> my argument is they are looking for the right test. they are looking for the least religion friendly test. that decision in the supreme court of 1983, which our side won the same issue. since that time you have had another test and endorsement test and in 1982 justice kennedy came out with the coercion test. what standard of evidence are they going to use and i don't know the answer to that? >> i'm not so sure it is going to win. where do you come out on this. >> i know you are an atheist. >> prayers don't bother me as long as they are n

. >> benjamin franklin said the bird was a bird of courage. franklin referred to wild turkeys. wild turkeys faced extinction. they made a comeback. >> they have been known as the birds americans can't live without. or live with in the case of this beach front town. turkeys, wild ones roam free in staten island. >> they roam in front of your windshield. it can hut and that creates a problem. >> they poop over the place. a lot of people are afraid of them. especially kids. >> some people are more concerned about what will happen to their feathered friends. >> i'm an animal lover, i think they should be able to go somewhere that they should run around and be free. >> the u.s. department of agriculture located or killed the majority of the turkeys. a proposal to donate the turkeys is on hold until the meat can be tested. wild turkeys are almost pets. >> there are more than 7 million nation wi. >> this flock called the area home for a decade. it was one woman, she had 10 turkeys, and one day, for unknown reasons she left them. the 10 grew into about 100 over a 10 year period and kin

she read almost everything benjamin franklin wrote. think what an education would have been in 18th century to read franklin. >> in a different time, let me rephrase this. did she have the intellect of ben franklin? >> gosh you know franklin once said one of his proverbs genius without education is like silver in the mind. you can't know. the kind of -- 18th century girls were not taught to ride in it was unusual for a girl to know how to write. she only learned how to write because it brother taught her. that is the only reason we know so much about her life but she didn't write with the facility that he wrote or the training he eventually gave himself did. you really can't know. how do you measure the size of the mind that is trapped in a literacy really? it's a great question. it's one historians can answer. >> jill lepore from harvard and "the new yorker," the her new yorker staff writer to be nominated this year in the nonfiction category. thanks for joining us on booktv and congratulations. those are the five finalists in the nonf

partly because it was the period in which david mccullough's john adams was doing so well and and benjamin franklin by will drive that captured the popular imagination and my sense was that if we were going to go back and recover these early figures, we should recover someone who represents the best of it in the worst of it. and andrew jackson surely does that. he teaches as much by vices as he does by virtues. so this is not -- you can't really have anything other than it works with andrew jackson. but they are on a man who ultimately kept the possibility of progress alive by preserving the union. >> over the next few weeks, booktv is much all the programs online at booktv.org. >> we continue with the recognition of president kennedy's assassination in 1963. up next, ira stoll argues kennedy's buildup of the military during the cold war and his free trade and tax cuts to bolster economic growth is examples of the president ideologies on the conservative side. "jfk, conservative" is his book and this is just under one hour. >> thank you for having me. when i first arrived in washington come as augu

benjamin franklin wrote that the turkey was a bird of courage. he was referring to wild turkeys. the wild turkey was almost extinction. they have made a comeback, in all place, new york city. >> they vice-president known as the birds america can't live without or with in the case of this town. turkeys, wild ones are roaming free in staten island. >> they are flying in front of your windshield, a decent bird. it can hit ut wind shield and that creates a problem. >> they poop all over the place, and a lot of people are afraid of them too. especially kids. >> but some people are more concerned about what will happen to their feathered friends. >> i'm an animal lover. i think they should be able to go somewhere and they can run around and be free. >> the u.s. department of agriculture and new york environmental officials relocated or killed the majority. leaving about 25 on the streets. a proposal to donate the turkeys to the homeless shelters is on hold until the meat can be tested. wild turkeys are pests. it was not always this way. wild turkeys almost become extinct in the "30s du

benjamin franklin wrote that the bird was a bird of courage and the national bird should be the turkey. he was referring to wild turkeys. unlike their domesticated covins, wild turkeys faced extinction. they have made is comeback. >> they have been known as the birds americans can't live without or with. turkeys, wild ones are roaming free in new york's staten island. >> it's a decent size bird. if it hits the windshield it can create a problem. a lot of people are afraid of them, especially kids. some people are more concerned about what will happen to their feathered friends. >> i'm an animal lover. i think they should go somewhere where they can run around and be free. >> the u.s. department of ag and new york environmental officials located or killed the majority of the turkeys, leaving about 25 on the streets. a proposal to donate the turkeys to homeless shelters is on hold until the meat can be tested. wild turkeys have become best. they almost became extinct in the 1930s. in a great conservation success story the birds rebounded. there are more than 7 million nationwide. >> ther

. >> any connection between benjamin franklin, george washington, john adams, james madison and thisrowd is purely coincidental. thank you david corn and wayne slater. >>> coming up, if you listen to republicans you'll surely hear horror stories about people losing insurance because of the president's health care plan. the only problem with most of those stories is they aren't true. tonight a reality check on all the willful misinformation out there. >>> plus rand paul digs himself even deeper. rachel maddow caught him plagiarizing wikipedia and he goes after her. here's advice. shine a little light on your real problem and then move on. >>> also, want to know how angry voters are about the shutdown? angry enough that the democrat who is weren't going to challenge house republicans are now jumping into the races. >>> and there are a few more things more horrifying than washington dysfunction. it should be no surprise that halloween masks are a hot theme tonight. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> more republican obstructionism on display today. senate republicans success

sounding father benjamin franklin at that time, samuel adams the american revolution was a church member. >> it has been said about old church in boston, that there is no other church to this quest for freedom than this church. >> that's why it has a second copy. the idea of selling one of them came up more than 20 years ago, followed by passionate debates about whether the book had any relevance to today's ministries. the congregation voted in favor of selling. >> it's a part of our past, but we have let go of difficult things in the past, and you don't get to be 344 years old, without making adjustments in the course of your history. >> the money will top off the endowment, and go towards it's community programs. so how much is the book worth. >> what will be revealed on tuesday in new york. the auction house says there's been intense interest in such a rare and historical item. estimated price, 15 to think million dollars. >> of the arranged tells you that it is an extremely valuable book, it will be when it sells the most expensive printed book in history. >> an old book with a new o

then, harvard university professor, joe lepore, author of the cages examines the life of benjamin franklin's sister, jane franklin. this is followed by alan taylor, author of the internal enemy, who recounts the impact of slaves in virginia hunt on the war of 1812. ..

inaudible conversations] >> now, jill lepore, history professor at university recalls the life of benjamin franklin'ssister, jean frink went from her national book award titled "book of ages: the life and opinions of jane franklin." [applause] >> good evening. thank you so much for the wonderful introduction. i now have to join facebook just to see the picture of your dog. i feel a little bad. it is so nice to be here. thank you offer coming. it's such a treat to be in philadelphia, franklin's hometown to talk about jane who once visited peter and didn't love it as much as she loved boston. but also to be here in a public library and celebrate the space and all that it stands for. thank you to the library. [applause] i am hoping that none of you have ever heard of jane franklin because i want to tally the story of her life and we don't have that much time to do it. she led a rich and fascinating life and i'm going to try to give their whirlwind tour of it. we'll be looking at sites and i even have props. says that back and listen to the tale that is unknown to you. in 1771, they sent a pair of specta

. >> let me ask you this, benjamin franklin said, somebody brought this quote to aattention.secret if two of them are dead. here is the thing, how can anyone keep a version that involved multiple people a secret? things always leak out. that's the way humans are. it's in fiction these things happen. how can multiple people involved remain secret this long? >> well, if the actual people involved were killed immediately, that reduces the number of people able to squeal, right? >> by a mafia hit, by the cia? >> erin, i don't know who did it. all i know is that more than one person was shooting at the president and that kennedy was killed by a shot from the right front. >> all right. let me ask you this, nick, ly lindon johnson never accepted and robert f. kennedy jr. said it was a shotty piece of craftsmanship. do you think that was the final answer? when it came out it was one of the best selling documents or books in america. >> look, the warren report, the dallas police department did the investigation, not the fbi. the investigation itself had errors, sloppy. the war report

halloweenus, which means slutty costume day. [ laughter ] the first halloween costume was worn by benjamin franklinp as slutty liberty bell. [ laughter ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: everyone likes halloween. happy halloweenus. i love this. everybody over at "the today show" was wearing costumes this morning. very festive. they dressed up as classic tv characters. and matt lauer really went for it this year, dressing up as pamela anderson from "baywatch." look at this. [ laughter ] i just figured out where in the world matt lauer is. my nightmares. [ laughter and applause ] wow! he went for it. and i was surprised to see even some politicians dressing up for halloween. let's take a look at this clip from a recent obama speech. >> with that, what i'd like to do is ask to say a few words starting with our outstanding current -- [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, if you're going to be traveling soon, you should listen to this. the faa announced today that airline passengers can start using cell phones and ipads during takeoffs and landings. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ yep. in related news,

washington came to the conclusion that the best men who had once served in congress, then the benjamin franklin and john adams and jefferson had last and the congress was separate in their hats and peered washington wrote to church may send and virginia and said very pointedly, where is jefferson when his country needs him? backup back to jefferson and stung by washington's apparent criticism. jefferson agreed to serve as the governor of virginia. and he served two extremely difficult and not terribly successful terms as the governor of virginia. i think almost anyone at the governor's would've had the difficulties that jefferson had, but he certainly did have a tempestuous time as governor. four both, the time. on the cusp of the senate teen 80s and during the 1780s were pivotal moment. for hamilton, the pivotal moment is the collapse of the american economy. it begins to collapse in 1777 penthouse utterly collapsed by 1779. i don't think hamilton understood the reasons for that collapse. and washington did neither. both initially thought it was lack of good leadership by congress. the congres

benjamin franklin, he becomes a 17-year-old runaway, running away if renÉe bridges will system.infrequent case a school system in boston in and skates the german school system where they make you memorize the equations, but it's not a very creative or imaginative way of turning. he runs away, finally gets to sit by and it applies to the second-best college in zÜrich. zÜrich polytechnic. he doesn't get in. as i say, those of us who were at a 19 year olds college this month, i've always want to meet the admissions director of this or polytech to turn down robert einstein. he gave been on a second car around. he gets in on the second try any dose moderately well at this or polytech. but his ability to challenge authority and question every promise comes back to haunt him. he's really able to tick off all of his professors. [inaudible conversations] >> that of course is walter isakson from 2007 when he wrote his book on alberta saying. live coverage from the miami book fair international 2013, 38th year. this festival has been held here 15 tier booktv has covered it. thomas cahill,

decency in ordinary americans and then probably an underlying knowledge to paraphrase something benjamin franklinme ago is that if we don't hang together, we're going to hang separately. >> how about the word "hope"? is that the one word you heard? >> yeah, it was a lady in texas who she said that it was hope that held us together and it occurred to me even though some people think that's a bit of a cliche, it may be a cliche because it's true. if you think back to the history of the country, going back to the puritans who came here in the hope of achieving religious freedom, if you go to the revolution and the hope of throwing off the yoke of monarchy to the western frontier, the hope of bettering your life to the immigrant generations, it has always been hope of a better life that has made this country unique and i think that holds us together. i might add that i had seen a line in the economist magazine in the united kingdom not toot long agoing that did pose the question says can america survive the end of the american dream? and the american dream is hope. >> philip caputo, author of "the lo

benjamin franklin -- >> i know. >>> we do have news, jpmorgan agreeing to pay $4.5 billion to settle lost money on mortgage backed securities. the bank reaching a deal with 21 institutional investors in 330 residential mortgage trusts that had been issued by jpmorgan and bear stearns. the settlement does not include trusts. the deal is separate from the preliminary settlement the bank reached with the government. you've got to add the 13, they've taken a reserve of about 23 billion in total. they're still under that cap for now. also, big news over the weekend. former treasury secretary tim geithner is joining private equity firm as the president and managing director. since leaving the government, geithner has been a distinguished fellow at the council on foreign relations and conducted a series of seminars at schools across the country also in the process of writing a book about his tenure at the treasury and his time as the head of the new york federal reserve. >> sellout. >> what are you saying? sellout? >> i was coughing. >> i heard you say sellout. there's a lot of people who s

we had a general that was sent by benjamin franklin to start drilling them in and turn this ragtag but courageous group of men into a major strong fighting force and they came they were a force to meet the british army, and they did. and that was the turning point in the war and at valley forge, the whole outcome of not just the war but our country was turned and i believe because of the prayer of the general of the army. you know faith has been important to the armed services and to people of this country from the beginning and it is just as important now to our men and women in uniform as it was back in the beginning of our country. but yet, their ability to express their religious beliefs is being attacked from forces outside and forces within. and it's been discouraging the last few years to hear accounts of some of these infringements on the basic religious rights and freedoms of our men and women in uniform. that's why my colleagues and i are here in the next hour to first of all stand up for the religious rights and freedoms that are guaranteed in our constitution. i think it's

benjamin franklin, he becomes a 17-year-old runaway, running away if renÉe bridges will system.hool system in boston in and skates the german school system where they make you memorize the equations, but it's not a very creative or imaginative way of turning. he runs away, finally gets to sit by and it applies to the second-best college in zÜrich. zÜrich polytechnic. he doesn't get in. as i say, those of us who were at a 19 year olds college this month, i've always want to meet the admissions director of this or polytech to turn down robert einstein. he gave been on a second car around. he gets in on the second try any dose moderately well at this or polytech. but his ability to challenge authority and question every promise comes back to haunt him. he's really able to tick off all of his professors. [inaudible conversations] >> that of course is walter isakson from 2007 when he wrote his book on alberta saying. live coverage from the miami book fair international 2013, 38th year. this festival has been held here 15 tier booktv has covered it. thomas cahill, heretics and heroes