boston port act. they are very focal points. it's a little known fact that americans continue to argue about whether or not to pay for the tea until the first continental congress and seven december 1774. we still had people arguing that the tea should be paid for until september, until they finally decided it's not a good idea to do that. what happened, how hard it would be to persuade people to stop the tea. even if you stopped buying it, they had stores filled with tea, people had teeth so how do you stop people from drinking it even if you stop them from buying it? for going tea smuggled and they had a great symbol as an opposition to britain. the argument became that nobody could be sure where the tea originated, it could be snuggled or legal so it's important to stop off tea from britain. so my snapshot is a campaign to get people, especially women to stop buying and drinking tea. women were known to socialize over tea with their friends in the afternoon. they went to taverns and socialized with

he did not return to boston and was not buried in boston. he did remember the town in his will. he bequeathed the same amount of money to boston as he did to philadelphia. in all of these ways franklin acknowledged how much boston meant to him. those gestures i think only begin to reflect how profoundly important the town was to his development as a writer, philosopher and person. it is my contention in this book that the five years benjamin franklin spent with his brother james as apprentice, and especially the year 1721, when he helped james launch the new england current and had a front row seat for the inoculation currency were the most formative of his life. i say everything he ever really needed to know, he learned in 1721. the book elaborates on why i make that claim. i want to talk about what happened before that. franklin was a long and consequential life and did so many things we don't know that much about the earliest part of his life. there are a great many biographies. i have read most of them. because he had such a long life and did so many things, the first 15, 20

clashes have also taken place between demonstrators and police in boston and atlanta.razil has reported nearly 27,000 cases of covid—19 in the past 24 hours — a new daily record. it's now surpassed spain in the total number of virus deaths, with the fifth highest figure in the world. president jair bolsonaro says the spread of the virus is inevitable and the economy should be reopened immediately. the uk government has announced changes to the scheme that covers the wages of furloughed workers affected by the coronavirus lockdown — businesses will have to start paying contributions, from august. wales' first minister has announced plans

boston saw this coming. boston's mayor marty walsh will join us tonight. senator tammy duckworth of illinois will also join us. she's a combat veteran who is outraged, i think the word is, that donald trump is forcing west point cadets to travel back to the campus in new york state so thats donald trump can give graduation speech. one west point official has estimated that 60% of the cadets might already have coronavirus. senator duckworth will tell us what's happening at the meatpacking plants in her state of illinois as those plants have become the new epicenter of coronavirus. and congressman jamie raskin will also join us. he's just been named by speaker pelosi to the new coronavirus oversight committee in the house. and we willsi also be joined tonight by emergency room physician rob davidson from michigan, where tonight the governor, gretchen whitmer, as rachel just said, has been against the will of the republican legislature, has ordered an extension of the state of emergency there that she issued after a few hundred protesters, just a few hundred

boston saw this coming. bost boston's mayor will join us. a combat veteran who is outraged, i think, the word is that donald trump is forcing west point cadets to travel back to the campus in new york state so that donald trump can give a graduation speech, one west point official estimated that 60% of the cadets might already have coronavirus. senat senator duckworth will tell us what is happening at the meat packing plants as they become the epicenter of the coronavirus and jcongressman jamie raskin will join us and we'll be joined by an emergency room physician from michigan where tonight the governor gretchen whitmer as rachel just said has been against the will of the republican legislature ordered an extension of the state of emergency there that she issued after a few hundred protesters just a few hundred protesters showed up at the capitol today but made their point about the willingness to risk their lives while carrying their guns. dr. davidson will get the last word at the end of this hour. april is the coolest month. that is the

you can see outside boston police department.a, new york, washington, dc, as well as minneapolis. we are keeping right across those protests here on bbc world news. president trump says the united states will revoke hong kong's special trade privileges with the us, in an escalation of washington's confrontation with beijing. it's in response to china's decision to impose a new security law on the autonomous territory. he made the annoncement earlier. china's latest incursion, along with other recent developments that degraded the territory's freedoms, makes clear that hong kong is no longer sufficiently autonomous to warrant the special treatment that we have afforded the territory since the handover. china has replaced its promised formula of one country, two systems with one country, one system. therefore, i am directing my administration to begin the process of eliminating policy exemptions that give hong kong different and special treatment. uk businesses have been told that, from august, they will have to start paying toward

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quincy walters is a reporter for npr's boston station wbur — he's been outside boston police's districtprotesters. i spoke to him a little earlier. so, protesters gathered in front of this police station behind me a few hours ago. and, protesters were nose to nose with some of the officers. and it happened when a protester‘s dog walked up on the stairs. protesters started chanting, i can't read, black lives matter. 0ne police officer smirked during this incident and that wild protesters up even more. 0ver the past few hours, people have been leaving but as you can see behind me, there are over a hundred people still out here chanting at police. and what are they asking for, the demands? because obviously, one of the initial reasons for people to come out on the street was calling for the arrest of the police officer, derek chauvin. because that has happened now, what else are they asking for? right, what this has also conjured up is an awareness of other black people who have been killed by police here in boston. protesters are asking that those cases be reopened, re—examined, and that

and boston.we don't take all the precautions today, there's going to be coronavirus in september. and chance kids don't go back to school. that won't help society or children. that won't help a lot. we have to continue to take this very seriously. we don't have that negative necessarily labeling of the homeless population. we did build out space for quarantine, for additional space in the shelters and physical distance. and we have at the convention center and boston medical center we have hospital beds with healthcare for the homeless for the the homeless that are covid-19 positive. >> you guys are in the hash tag boston strong. and this is a very different kind of test than the one you showed amazing endurance to make it through. we'll be watching your city. because once again, you are doing things that call for strength during a time of great fear. and frankly weakness. mayor, stay blessed and stay healthy. please be aware you have this platform. it's a phone call away. to tell people how it's

in boston, we're heading towards that 11,000 case in the city of boston.re over 500 deaths today. for the foreseeable future, even when we start to ease restrictions and go back to work, we're going to have many, many people that have coronavirus and many more will be testing positive as we ramp up testing. what i thought of yesterday is rather than give people false home hope and promise, as far as festivals and large gathers are going to go, we can revisit that in the sumfer the numbers stay that. but right now letting people know we're taking this very serious. we're going to continue to take it serious. even as we start lifting restrictioness, we're going to take it seriously, tracing and tracking, increasing testing, all the things we have to do. >> so, what about over the summer as far as going to school and going to universities? people going back to work, restaurants. what's in boston on those kinds of things? >> we're working on right now this task force. the governor has a reopening task force and we're doing our own investigations, if you will.

for boston, and i can only speak to boston, we want to continue to move forward and practice physical and social distancing. my concern is a second surge. my concern is a rise in deaths. we've seen our numbers pretty consistent over the last several days here. we've had, you know, 100 to 200 new cases every day. we've had, you know, anywhere from 10 to 20 deaths a day which generally seems the number is somewhat low for a city of 700,000 people. if the new projection is accurate, clearly our deaths will go up significantly. massachusetts is going to go up significantly. we'll have some major problems again. >> let's talk about that, because you've suggested that you expect boston to surpass 10,000 confirmed cases today. would a doubling in the death toll by early june overwhelm hospitals, emergency services, in boston? >> it certainly will. it will affect emergency rooms everywhere. i think right now, i'm on a call every morning, and the hospital capacity in boston is steady. at the convention center, there's 150 people there now being treated. we're seeing a little capacity in our ho

mayor of boston, next. >>> all right. so this is an interesting piece of information that goes against the reopen now trend. the massachusetts governor baker extended the stay at home order until may 18. even before that was announced boston mayor made clear the city wasn't going to open reopen any time soon. we have the mayor. marty walsh joining us now. welcome to "prime time." thank you for taking the opportunity. >> thanks, chris. thanks for having me. >> i know the city. i know the anxiety level there is real as well. they are hearing people and watching people reopen. why do you not feel the fer ver? >> it's not the right thing to do. my job is keep people safe and keep people alive. and rushing what's happening in other states quite honestly and talking to the mayors you had one on today from atlanta, they know it's the wrong thing to do. people are afraid. i heard other guests prior to me being on as well. they make good points. my responsibility is mayor of the city of the boston and i our responsibility as gover

but do you feel that boston is now ready? is it taking the steps necessary to make sure everyone is safe? >> i don't think we're ready to jump right back into it. this weekend houses of worship could reopen. many have decided not to. they are looking for guidance and help with ppe and also understanding how they can do social distancing inside the church. i think it's going to be a slow and steady progress as we move forward here, and i think we're also allowing today curbside retail. we're not ready in massachusetts or boston to go inside our cases. we're the third highest in the country for cases in massachusetts, and boston very densely populated city. we're not quite there yet. we're still working on plans how we can reopen safely. our restaurants still open in boston and massachusetts and i think that's the next phase we think about how to reopen them. obviously they're not going to be full capacity but how do we reopen them so the restaurants can try and survive through this difficult time for them. >> i want to show so

over 10,000 of the cases are in boston proper. across the country in the smaller yet hard-hit city of gallup, new mexico, famously one of the stops on route 66, a lockdown is being slowly lifted. roads into that city have been closed to non-residents. tonight they're back open but with restrictions. the surrounding mckinley county accounts for roughly 30% of all cases in the state. new mexico has over 4,600 confirmed cases, over 180 deaths thus far. we welcome tonight the mayors of both of these cities to our broadcast. marty walsh of boston and louie bonaguidi, mayor of gallup, new mexico. mayor walsh, first to you. there's no bruins. there's no celtics. there's no sox. at some point it must feel a little less boston every day. these decisions on public gatherings must be an extremely painful part of your job. >> they really are. i mean, we're entering into a time of the year that we didn't have a marathon, we didn't have a st. patrick's day parade. we have a lot and festivals and parades this time of year. the pride parade got c

you know what was this case the boston massacre this was a case where british soldiers in 1770. fired on american colonists and killed 5 of them and as you can imagine this is a time right before the revolution when tensions are high and the colonists wanted justice otherwise known as revenge they were angry they were furious at what the soldiers had done and john adams took the very unpopular case of representing the british soldiers at trial and there are actually 2 cases one of the captain one of the 8 soldiers he represented them in both cases and he i think became it became one of the the most important moments in his legacy we used a transcript from those trials actually someone had been handwriting what happened in court to tell the story of the boston massacre trials in this book that they hire adams or that he volunteered to do this to good question and he was hired and he was later frustrated that he felt he was appropriately and you know without giving it all away i'll tell you that the captain is found not guilty and adam said that he later bumped into him in london

. >> in parts of boston, infections are still rising. mayor marty walsh of boston is with us now., thank you for taking time to be with us. we know you're very busy right now. your governor said yesterday was the third day in a row that covid-19 hospitalizations in the state have dropped. with that said, you obviously taking a slower, more meticulous approach to reopening, what is your hesitation right now? >> the hospitalizations have dropped if you average statewide. if you look at different regions they're still steady or high. and i think we're still having a high level of infection rate here in the city, in the state. and i think that, you know, the governor is taking all the appropriate steps as far as moving forward. he put together a reopening advisory committee, which boston sits on. we're all working through every area and every industry moving forward. i think as we take this approach it has to be a thoughtful approach as to how we reopen society. it's also looking, the testing numbers are so small in boston, which tests i believe about 4% of the population in massachus

>> boston, we're looking at june 1st. the reason why we have 700,000 people that live in the city of boston. many we double in size in on average day. many of the office spaces here, large number of the office space this is boston in the commonwealth of massachusetts and we feel bringing all those people in at one time is dangerous. a lot of work has been done on the commonwealth side, the governor and the governor's office. on the city side with our office here and cities and towns across massachusetts and i just don't want to see all the work we've done to keep the numbers down and the leveling off happening be for nothing and see a large spike later on down the road. you have to lay down groundwork into offices and what we expect out of them to keep their employees safe. >> and what does that look like? what are -- so many people do work inside boston, as you point out. how will offices reopen? what's the protocoprotocol? >> we put a thoughtful plan together with folks in the industry, developers and contractors. the s

the first two cities hit were boston and philadelphia. in part, they got hit first because they had military camps that jumped to the civilian population. they were caught unawares by the speed and the deadliness of the pandemic, and by the time they started to put those distancing, quarantining, isolating measures into place, the epidemic was already out in the general population and very hard to shut down. in boston, the kind of center of infection was camp dev ins. there were 14, again, military camps. 14,000 cases of the influenza. 757 deaths. in philadelphia it was the navy yards that became the kind of focal point for the spread. so many people were dying in philadelphia that they were having to take cold storage plants that they used for other purposes and turn them into morgues. the death tolls of that original pandemic in those two cities were really staggering. seeing what was happening in boston and philadelphia, everybody else could say, uh-oh, this looks really bad, we need to start getting ready. let me just read you -- this

, because of hard work and sheer brilliance had risen in philadelphia for being an immigrant from boston, a runaway indentured service with nothing to being one of the richest men in the new world with a chain of print shops running all up and down the east coast and integrated backward into paper mills. also being a leading american humorist and popular writer, also being an adventure with the franklin stove, already and the world famous scientist because of electricity. and when the french and indian war came, it was fought over the ohio country. that is the area around pittsburgh, the focus of the ohio it's called, into eastern ohio, western pennsylvania, new jersey, and because of a fluke. because of errors in the original colonial land grants, pennsylvania had a claim going directly west including the importance of the ohio and the ohio company. and virginia haddock claim, straight line at the bottom, but the potomac up. and that meant both claim the ports of ohio. in both were part jacking settlers back there, both are investing back there. then in the 1850s -- 1750s, the french mo

fred: boston was at the forefront of the revolution, . what happens to john adams when he has all of these definite ideas and he goes to this loyalist city and has to be mindful that virginia feels like it should be leading everything? how does he win people over? sarah: he does and he doesn't. that is the short story of john adams' legacy. he has a complicated relationship with the american revolution, his role in it and histories that follow out of it. the thing to remember about john adams, like thomas jefferson, they are not here, they are not on american shores. they are in europe securing funding and aid and support and troops. so they come back a decade later to a very changed world. to people who are creating a government who they have not seen since the continental congress. a different media landscape we might think of it as. people who are actively thinking through their patronage networks, and what is in it for them? although those office seekers who fled his mail? he gets these letters all the time. i think it is a very compl

i'm focused in boston on making sure that all of the residents of boston are safe. of the residents, wherever they come from, who lives in my city, that they're safe and we can continue to get our economy back online. if he wants to do that, let's focus on what's important. what's important is making sure our cities and towns don't collapse, making sure we have enough testing so we can find out where we stand. we don't have the mass tests that we can get a picture of where we stand. i think any city or town or state in the country quite understands where they stand right now and how they move out of this and then we still need personal protective equipment for our doctors, nurses, frontline folks who still need it. as we move down the road here, if there's a second surge, all of the equipment that they have now, they'll need more stuff. i think that's what the federal government should be focused on. >> best of luck in the days ahead. >> thank you. thanks, john. >>> up next, the latest medical news including the white house plan to ramp up vaccine production. >> ann

our numbers in boston haven't declined as much. would like them to decline to be able to open these. that's why we asked for a deferral on opening offices, we're not going to open offices in the city until june 1. construction started in the city on monday but with very tight parameters and safety protocols put in place. the companies came up with it, the workforce came up with it. and also the developers came up with it. we're going to be monitoring that very closely. i think that it's the first step. a lot of more kind of controversial issues, if you will, restaurants and things like that, are in phase ii. i think those are takewill take lot more data before we open up safely. >> as you pointed out, offices in boston will open a week later in the rest of the state and you say you're not comfortable for the governor's plan for offices at 25% capacity. what special considerations, mayor, do you think you need to keep boston safe? >> the governor's plan calls for up to 25% capacity. we're looking at that number now. we're also worki

boston mayor walsh laying out some conditions to reopening yesterday.s we get there, what do you see happening in your district, in boston, in massachusetts? other states in your district. what are people telling you about how fast they think they will reopen? pres. rosengren: it is wonderful news that we are getting to the place where we can start talking about reopening, but i would highlight that is only the first step we need to take. consumers need to be comfortable going to businesses, restaurants. employees need to feel comfortable going on the subway, the train, or the bus. with community spread still continuing in massachusetts, i think we are a little ways away from that. as important it is to take the first step to allow businesses to open up, i think we should be cognizant of the fact that many people are particularly older americans, will be leery of going on to mass transit or on the planes before the public health problem is resolved. what are business leaders in your district and people who run mom and pop stores telling you about? i thi

demonstrators accused boston r.-o. of recklessness and failing to save lives. to sport now and at long last the wait is almost over for his legal fans german football is returning after a 2 month suspension due to the corona virus outbreak of course has been so much talk about hygiene and empty stadiums but what about the actual football dortmund take on show in a crunch local derby on saturday while league leaders by in munich are in action on sunday. dortmund players will leave this tunnel later today and see exactly this a stadium empty of fans but despite the lack of atmosphere there will be plenty of passion on the pitch as the blunders leader resumes title challenges dortmund face arch local rival shelter in german football big darby coach lucien farber expects it to be a surreal experience doing that this is why i think this situation is a huge challenge for all coaches and all teams but we know what we have to do this is our job job so we asked for having to wear a mask on the sidelines we've got to do it. miss and that's. the last time 2nd place dortmu

now reports of new cases in boston and los angeles, too. and tonight, we hear from the father of an 8-year-old boy here in new york whose heart stopped. his older brother giving him cpr, saving him. news on his condition. >>> the hurt across this country. 3 million more americans now out of work. 33 million jobs lost since this began. tonight, the food lines growing. 9 million children under the age of 12 suffering from food insecurity, from hunger. and up to 10 million americans still have not received their relief checks. >>> the race for a vaccine. there is news on this tonight. and new reporting on possible mutation of the virus. what they're seeing in different parts of the country. and the nih on immunity. their new hope if you've been exposed to the virus. how long they believe you might be immune to it. >>> and the other breaking headline tonight. the controversial decision from the justice department. now seeking to drop the criminal case against president trump's first national security adviser michael flynn, who pleaded guilty to

joining us from boston is dr. jeremy faust.e is an emergency room physician at brigham & women's hospital. we thank you for being with us. we want to begin with your op ed in "the washington post" with this headline, "the metric that could tell us when it is safe to reemerge." dr. faust, what is that metric? ust: the metric that has been discussed the least but matters the most is what is called excess mortality, or excess deaths. that is simply the number of people who are dying in comparison to the usual rates we know about. for over 100 years we have been really good about keeping track of how many americans die every week, every year, from all causes -- heart attacks, cancer, old age. the numbers are remarkably stable. we know that. it is a credit to the epidemiologists of the past and present that we know that. what has occurred in the past month is unprecedented in recent decades. we are seeing a gigantic spike in certain areas of the country in deaths total. we know the reason for that is covid-19. the more important is

clashes have also taken place between demonstrators and police in boston and atlanta.nt trump has attacked china's plans to impose new security legislation in hong kong, and says the us will no longer give the territory special treatment. he said sanctions would be imposed on officials who were believed by washington to be involved in eroding the territory's autonomy. changes to the scheme that follows workers affected by lockdown. businesses will have to start paying contributions from august. wales' first minister has announced plans for relaxing restrictions there.

the seed took root in boston.hin this ground are buried the victims of the boston massacre, march 5, 1770. the first to die in the boston massacre, at concord bridge, help to fire the shot heard round the world. at bunker hill, a colored man who carried out lexington, concord, and bunker hill. on christmas day, 1776, when all but the bravest hearts had lost hope, he took his place alongside those who pushed on. in the winter of 78 at valley forge, george washington wrote, our soldiers have been a week without food. they are naked and starving. we cannot enough ignore their paintings and fragility. be there bleeding footprints in the snow. the people who knew world war one me, they won their independence. 13 colonies became the united states. the people of the new republic, together, they pioneered and they made territories into states. 1812, becoming a great nation. then came war. at lake eerie, they heard the words, we have met the enemy and they are ours. in new orleans, when general jackson said, thomas melton

take me back to that day, the moments after. >> boston was railing. it was horrible.t was a bad day. people walking around with them also. they really tried to hurt us. jillian: tell us when you came across tamerlin tsarnaeiv >> joey reynolds ran across them first. i came around the corner, officer reynolds on point-blank range, i thought my life would change forever, watched an officer, was unbelievably able to put it in reverse, duck under the windshield, able to reverse right back, was able to get out of the line of fire and get into the gunfight with me. jillian: you have symptoms of ptsd. take a listen to what the police said on tuesday. >> it is what we know. a champion for less fortunate people. jillian: what does it mean to hear these words? >> it means a lot. for many years, a long string of great leaders, and chief jackson, the chiefs mold your career and run the police department, the training we had was amazing and that is why we are all living today because of the great training we got from massachusetts. jillian: there's a lot of turmoil between citizens

this was actually very successful in boston. and in the elections, he was able to get african-americans to swing local offices to the democrats was massachusetts at the time the pretty large stronghold for the republicans. to answer your question i would say that in the electoral politics and happen because the country had had to go through the 13th 14th and 15th amendment. but that electoral, had to be done whichever person or whatever party, whatever policy was going to immediately go through the african-american people. so 1912, african-americans to vote for woodrow wilson. there is pretty strong evidence that that led to wilson winning inputs republican stronghold in massachusetts and ohio. when it happened of course woodrow wilson promises that he would go for the rights. a part of that was black people had no choice in the election. different americans would active and not protecting. i think in essence it was and i would argue that he was radical. in the sense that he was then voting should be done based on the needs of t

this was the scene in boston when the city's only pot shop reopened its door monday.ine of customers wrapped around the block. i'm joined now by the mayor of boston, marty walsh. it's great to have you with us as always. thanks for joining us. it's not just the pot shops that have just reopened, hair salons, barbershops back in business. give us an update on how that's been going so far. what are you hearing from the owners as well as the residents in your city? >> it's still early in the process, trying to figure out how the flow of customers is going to go. i know that certain businesses have different -- more difficulties. i saw some pictures from the news yesterday of some of our retail shops in our communities. i think they're happy that they're open and even though it's curbside, getting the opportunity to get customers in there. i know that some of our bashers and hair salons are happy to get their businesses up and running and it's going to be slow for a little bit until we can get through this new normal and integrate into society. it's going to be slow and s

not just in boston but in los angeles, in california as well. because you can't hold people down, you can't hold the economy down like we have and expect the people to continue to respect it. i saw over the weekend an interview with a swedish epidemiologist who helped design the response. i know sweden is all in the news and everything but he made the important point, liz, that if you design something that is not sustainable, the people are not going to respect it for any length of time. you will actually going to make the problem worse. this is something that the politicians don't get. they have to understand that human nature, being what it is, we want to get out, we want to go to our work. we want to be able to speak in public and when the government acts too restrictively, we rebel against it. that is what is happening. elizabeth: you know the president is set to travel to a mask factory in arizona tomorrow. by the way the vice president said this weekend he should have worn a facemask last week at minnesota's mayo clinic. the president said

joining us from boston is dr.eremy faust an emergency room physician at brigham & women's hospital. thank you for being with us. we want to begin with your op ed in the washington post with this headline "the metric that could tell us when it is safe to reemerge." what is that metric? dr. faust: the metric that has been discussed the least but matters the most is what is called excess mortality, or excess deaths. that is simply the number of people who are dying in comparison to the usual rates we know about. for over 100 years we have been really good about keeping track of how many americans die every week, every year, from all causes -- heart attacks, cancer, old age. the numbers are remarkably stable. we know that. it is a credit to the epidemiologists of the past and present that we know that. what has occurred in the past month is unprecedented in recent decades. we are seeing a gigantic spike in certain areas of the country in deaths total. we know the reason for that is covid-19. the more important is the

in particular the notion that a place like boston is often in the two time . . . the.he civil war in which the abolitionist and to discover and then the civil war and then there's not a lot between the civil war in the 1970s, that's the idea that we have, i do want to get in to what was happening in a place that we don't think of as having number one, a racial component outside of abolition in the 20th century and the civil rights. to know what does it look like when you have is arguing pretty radical motion into a better time when historically they went to bed that came later. i grew up in the new england area and grope hearing about it from a parent when i went to graduate school, and then i received my doctorate, i wanted to research on him and i was often frustrated and i told my advisor through the notion that you cannot do history of black people outside the cell between 85 and 30s because they didn't have a lot of rights in the north in particular for more people to replace the complicated racial history, i certainly believe that charter is one of those people w

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this was actually very successful in boston in the elections. he was able to get african-americans to swing local offices to the democrats, which massachusetts at the time was a pretty large stronghold for the republicans. to answer your question i would say that his mantra was elect oriole politics had to happen a country had to have the change of movements with the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. those were happening in real time as he was live. but that overlooked oral had to be done based on whichever person, whatever party, whatever policy was going to immediately help the african-american people parts or 1912 for instruments encourage african-americans about for woodrow wilson. there is pretty strong evidence is that led to wilson winning in a strong republican stronghold like massachusetts and ohio. when that happens, of course, woodrow wilson promises he made for civil rights. but trotter said the black people had a choice in that election because the republican party different americans would be active not protecting. his radical in a s

the first to die in the boston massacre was chrispus atticus.d bridge john claret helped to fire the shot heard around the world. on june 17, 1775, a colored man whokeried at lexington, concord and bunker hill. and on christmas day, 1776 when all but the bravest hearts had lost hope prince whitly took his place among those who forged on. george washington wrote our soldiers have been a week without food, they are naked and starving. we cannot enough admire their unshakable patience and loyalty. thousands of others left their bleeding footprints in the snow. in this war the people of the new world won their independence. they joined hands and 15 colonies became the united states. then the people of the new republic began to build. together they pioneered and together they made territories into states. by 1812 a wilderness was becoming a great nation. then came war. at lake erie, we have met the enemy and they are ours. and in new orleans when general jackson said -- america began to build ships. then came 1861. the people shall not perish on this

lead sponsor bank of america, boston capital, the will institute, raytheon and the boston foundation our and wbur and the "boston globe." we considered have this forum last night on the 50th anniversary of the tour but did not want to make of you have to choose between sharing valentine's day with loved ones or with your friends here at the kennedy library. so we're so pleased to have so many of you with us this evening. 50 years ago jacqueline kennedy introduced herself to the nation. in a way they knew her through the role as the president's wife and mother of two children and charmed world leaders. but on february 14th, 1962, it was a more substantive jacqueline kennedy who guided viewers on a televised tour of the white house and the nation was transfixed. 46 million americans watched that night and an additional 10 million tuned in days later. the reviews described her as virtuoso performer with subtlety and standard. my note relates to the day she spent taping the tour. after dinner she and president kennedy watched some outtakes with friends. seeing how his wife had clearly ou

i give them to children, that's one from our hotel room in boston, boston public garden. >> how long does it take you to paint? >> depends, that's water colors which are done pretty quickly. that's a little sketch of it. farm near the house where we live. pen and ink that i did. it's something that i always loved to do and our oldest daughter melissa and first granddaughter caitlin and john john mcdonald, that's the public library across the street where i served as a trustee over the years, so you see there's -- you see our house, you see how far i had to go to go to the library. i used to say to my friends, would you like to go to the library for brandy and cigars and we walked across the street and that's the church where some of our children were married and that's right on the corner of we live. >> i have in my laptop photographs and has creases in it. >> that's a picture of my mother probably taken probably taken before i was born. >> mother on the left? >> mother on the left and my aunt marty on the right. i love it because it's such a wonderful period photograph. there's a gr