there are clovis weapons, mammoth tracks out there. you're walking in these dust storms blowing off the playa and itfeels like time is getting compressed so that everything is happening at once . that you see on the track way out there and you're seeing the man. you're standing in a place where a mammoth occupied space in the air and you're hearing the explosions of missile tests going on downrange from you and at the same time looking at the horizon where the trinity site in 1945 , the first atomic weapon in human history was detonated. and then about eight miles from is a cycle mockingbird which is one of the largest clovis in the west. so you got this big clovis with a nuclear bomb and you've got mammoth tracks and it's all compressed right there and you're thinking about weaponry, you're thinking about clovis who were making weapons that were way too big. i picked up some of these clovis points from a museum collection and they are that long. i'm talking to archaeologists going what's up with this and they're going i don't know, yo

alden and jerry allison decided to stay close to home here and work with buddy holly in clovis. had to put together another band. he knew waylon jennings, who grew up in littlefield, not too far away from lubbock, and he was a dj on the local radio station. he had had previous studio time with tommy allsop, and it was through i believe tommy that they found a drummer in carl bunch, who was very young at the time. and so that became the crickets band that toured with buddy on the winter dance party tour. on this tour, there was also this up-and-coming, vibrant young gentleman by the name of ritchie valens, who was only 17 at the time. and the old man of the group, 27, jp richardson, who was better known to fans as the big bopper, was also on that tour. they embarked from the upper midwest and traveled on buses that were not well maintained, would break down frequently -- buddy was a little fed up with the bus, so he chartered a flight for he and his bandmates, who at that point would have been waylon jennings and tommy allsop, so they could leave clearlake that night and fly to f

at he took that song over to recording studio in clovis, new mexico, a studio owned by norman petty, they rerecorded that song. bandmates, incket the fashion that he always imagined it would be produced. and it was that song that rose .o the billboard top 100 charts in fact, it charted number one in october of 1957, and that was the start of this whirlwind but very short-lived career that he had. hedy's success, once rerecorded "that'll be the day" in clovis and it reached number one on the billboard charts, it came fast and furious. we sort of indicate his career was all of 18 months long, his professional career. that, aside from getting the music out there on the radio and making a few appearances on tv that he was able to make -- he appeared twice on the ed sullivan show, late 1957. and at the end7, of december as well he made an appearance on dick clark's american bandstand. he appeared on the arthur mary , and touredprogram extensively throughout the country. he was able to meet a wide who playedmusicians many different john rose of music. and he became friends with a lot of th

clovis people because them.they dominated the region for a long time, but eventually, they merged into other groups, their societies changed and they shifted. of course, time passed. arrived withst francisco coronado, who came into mexico and this way looking cities, and the seven which were cities of gold. his reports of the west texas plains talked about the deep grass and water and how cattle could be raised. he talked about buffalo and called them callous and that toracted plenty of people the west texas area. hispanics to not settle here in those days after francisco coronado because he did not find gold and then, comanches came into the area, apache first been comanches. to settle long war who would dominate the region. comanches finally brushed the apaches aside. there are some apaches in the mountains and some in northern mexico. it became the home of the comanches, then anglos started settling. now came a long war, a comanches trying to hold onto their territory. trying to usurp some of that territory.

clovis people we call them now, and wholesome people.hey dominate the region for a long time, but eventually they merged into other groups. their societies change and the shifted. of course, time passed. well, europeans first arrived i suppose we say with san francisco coronado this way looking for golden so-called seven cities of gold. his reports of the west texas plains talked about the deep grass and water and how cattle could be raised. he talked about buffalo and called them cows, and that attracted plenty of people to the west texas area. hispanics didn't settle here in those days after francisco coronado because he didn't find gold, and then comanches came into the area. apaches first and then comanches. they had a long war to settle who's going to dominate the region. comanches finally brushed apaches aÇai. there are some apaches in the mountains and/or so apaches that we need to northern mexico but it became the home of the comanches. and then anglos began coming into west texas. and now, now came a long war, half-century from

. >> this is a bipartisan legislation and the senator from iowa and senator clovis are on a bipartisan basis are looking at this as a way to stop the basically a waste of drugs as a result of drug packaging. i will ask you to look at that as well and let me turn to the question of the children who are being stripped away from their parents at the border. i have to differ with you. the reason we have a crisis is that the administration has decided that even those who come to a border crossing present themselves as for asylum and they are turned away at a legitimate border crossing. they come back the second day and there turned away. they come back other day and there turned away again. after traveling thousands of miles obviously fling horrific violence they are not about to not have an opportunity for asylum. the administration criminally prosecute them and in doing so separate children. thousands have been miles and i was looking at a map from where these children are and primarily it's in blue states which we are happy to have them but we don't want to have them stripped away from t