franklin had been there for a while, nine months or so, before franklin was going to leave. tell us a bit about their interactions, franklin and france, and then their interactions. >> i think everything you said i would agree with. jefferson had actually been asked to go to france twice before. franklin went in 1776 and jefferson was also supposed to go at that time but didn't because his wife was very ill at the time. then again, he was asked in 1781 and refused for other reasons. in 1784, he is appointed to a commission along with john adams and franklin to negotiate commercial treaties with as many european nations as would be willing to negotiate. that is when jefferson, for the first and only time, travels to europe in 1784. that had been his dream his whole life. and when he comes to france, he is introduced by franklin to this whole social network that franklin had built up over the proceeding eight years. jefferson meets many french intellectuals who would become lifelong friends of his, lafayette and many others. so he becomes very much part of franklin's social ci

franklin. how's the yale university? tell us a little bit about your work with the papers and a bit about what that project involves. and what you do? so the project has been going on since the early 1950s when when my parents were teenagers and it has collected. i mean the the goal of the project is to publish everything that franklin wrote doing his lifetime and all the correspondence there was addressed to him. and the project, excuse me. the project has collected over 30,000. documents and we have photos ads of all of them in our office in new haven. and since 1950s, you know a series of editors and now me and my six colleagues our job is to transcribe these documents, which if you ever seen 18th century handwriting that's sort of challenge in itself to just try to describe them as accuracy as possible. excuse me accurately as possible. and then we annotate them which means we identify people places events, unfamiliar unfamiliar concepts and we put the documents into the larger historical c

franklin. i am merely his successor or something to that effect. and i thought that was the most gracious thing to say and it says a lot about you, tom. >> i can only tell you that video door and i will only carry into time that you cannot be replaced. and, well i can assure you that when i first that foot on the soil of france and by the way, i was littered by terrible seasickness, it remained with new me for an entire year, if you recall doctor, many question whether i could succeed, doctor franklin. i felt that i fell into a well court of humility of myself, most humble indeed! how i could possibly a sustain the most remarkable representation of dr. franklin. and if you remember doctor, right after we voted on our declaration of american independence, our new congress of our nation, there in philadelphia actually commissioned the two of us and me to be cohen or is of our young nation and i cannot go. our new commonwealth of virginia required me to continue to work on the constitution of virg

it is true that there were people all through franklin's life who were very directly imploring franklin to accept cry says his savior. this is one of the reasons why i don't see franklin as a traditional christian, because the traditional christians around franklin didn't think he was a christian. i think the best example is george whitfield, who i mentioned a minute ago. whitfield and franklin were friends and business associates for 30 years. they had a very transparent relationship about understanding that they were not on the same page spiritually, and whitfield thought franklin needed to do something about that. whitfield would just pull no punches and say you need to put your faith in christ for salvation and franklin would say i am all set. they would have these conversations. my favorite is in the 1700 fifties, whitfield wrote a letter to franklin. franklin publishes a lot of his stuff. whitfield says i need you to take care of this publication and so forth. i've noticed how much success you've had with electrical experiments. -- i now implore you to consider the mysteries of th

franklin and you said no one can replace dr. franklin. i'm merely his successor or something to that effect. and i thought that was the most gracious thing to say and it says much about you thomas. well, i i can only tell you that indeed i will always hold by it and so will many into time that you cannot be replaced and well i can assure you that. that when i first step foot on the sole of france and by the way, i was beligured with a terrible seasickness it remained with me for an entire year if you recall dr. many question whether i could secede dr. franklin i felt that i fell into a well a court of humility of myself. most humble indeed how i could possibly a sustain the most remarkable representation of dr. franklin and if you remember doctor right after we voted on our declaration of american independence our new congress of our nation there in philadelphia actually commissioned the two of us. yeah and me to be co-ambassadors of our young nation at the court of lewis, i could not go our new commonwealth of virginia required me to con

the only president to serve more than two terms, franklin roosevelt holds the office from 1932 until his death in 1945. the fdr presidential library museum in high park new york, has a permanent exhibit dedicated to his historic for terms as our nations leader during the great depression and world war ii. >> the library was created in 1941, it was the first presidential library created and operated by the national eye carves and records administration. and library was established by president franklin roosevelt, he was looking for a way to preserve the papers of this administration and also his personal papers. and so, he created a library on the grounds of his estate here in high park, new york. he basically -- when he decided to do was raise private money to build the library and then he gave it to the government to be operated by the national archives. that model was followed by subsequent presidents, so this is the first of the presidential libraries that was created and operated by the national archives. about ten years ago, the library embarked on a really ambitious plan to loo

james franklin. he was an elevator operator in 1884, and you know that the lehman brothers started in mobile? and the reason was is that cotton was the cash crop. it was the moneymaker. it was really the moneymaker in the u.s.. so the sky, used to operate the elevator. and he would hear the brokers talking, in between the floors. so he said i want to do something more with my life, and he started an insurance company. would he would do is he would sell policies for people to provide a respectable burial for their relatives. he started an insurance company, right around the time that johnson and alan opened. and he hired six other guys, and they sold over 10 million dollars worth of insurance in the early 1900s. and you put that in the calculator today, that would be about 100 million dollars. so he was very wealthy. that was in the 19 hundreds. it paid out over 3 million dollars worth of insurance, so here's where we try to inspire children, we do not live in the past on this trail, we tell the past,

one of the last things she did in the white house when franklin -- the day franklin died she was meeting with a state department official about the question of trusteeship. in other words, what were we going to do with these colonies that now the war is over and the germans had some colonies and other people had colonies. what are we going to do with these people, are we going to make them independent, are we going to put them under the trusteeship of the united nations? how are we going to work that out? so she was so into it, totally into it. but i don't think she was expecting to have that job, and she did turn harry truman down. she put down the phone and one of her sons was with her and her secretary, tommy. she told them. they said, what? you call him back. you have to take that job. and so they kind of beat up on her a little bit until she called harry truman back and said, okay. i'll do it. [ laughter ] >> thank you. [ applause ] >> you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span3 explore our past. created by america's television companies, and today brought to you b

franklin came out to see her. and they said dr. franklin? you mean the black doctor? and he said, yes. they said, oh, no, a black man can't touch a white woman. and they were coming to kill him. they were going to lynch him. and the husband tried to control them, but he couldn't. so he ultimately got dr. franklin on the train. he had two children. and they came south and got off in africatown. and that's how he got to mobile. there's some stories in the mobile press register on the encounter. but once he got here, he started practicing. a lot of the patients from the "clotilda" were his patients because he was here in 1914. and he continued to a practice and ultimately moved his practice down on the other end of dr. martin luther king boulevard. and he had an enormous practice and he passed in 1972. he was 84 years old. well, when urban renewal took out his building, he built a three-room office right over in the parking lot behind us. and he continued to practice medicine. and at 84, he was still making house calls. he just enjoyed practicing medicine. well, he had a

it was established by franklin roosevelt. he was looking for a way to preserve the papers of his administration and personal papers. he created a library on the ground for his estate in hyde park, new york. what he decided to do was raise private money to build the library and he gave it to the government to be operated by the national archives. that model was followed by subsequent presidents. this is the first of the presidential libraries created and operated by the national archive area 10 years ago the library embarked on an ambitious plan to look at the entire museum and bring it up-to-date. the new galleries opened in 2013. everything you see at the museum now dates from that 2013 reopening. it is brand-new. a fresh look at the lives of franklin and eleanor roosevelt and the president the exhibition begins in 1932, the year franklin roosevelt was elected president of the united states. 1932 was a tremendous year of crisis for the nation and the world. the country was in the third year of the great depression. in 1929 w

and that they often get short shift, because franklin is so dominant. and i don't say that in any negative way. but he just takes up a lot of space. and people kind of like go there. and they don't stop to kind of look behind eleanor and see all these other people. esther, would be another really good example of somebody who is, frankly has never gotten her do and was almost a remarkable woman. and molly dusen, and the same way, yes. i completely agree. all those people had a huge role in the making of eleanor roosevelt. well, i can start anything until january 2019, i'm kind of busy. but i'm working on it. >> was eleanor compensated for her writing and was she the first ole only first lady to have some kind of job outside of the white house? >> she was the definitely compensated. in fact, i was was just talking to paul about this. once you started walking -- writing for the ladies home journal, they paid her 2000 dollars an issue. and that was pretty serious money in 1941. in fact, i try to figure out, you know using the inflation calculator, how much

and franklin roosevelt signed it. so we have a few collected rare books and other things, that's one of our most precious of possessions is the those two signatures on the book. you may not know the story, it's one of my favorite anecdotes, in 1940 when kennedy came back from europe, he came to visit the fdr library, which is under construction and didn't open until 1940, one but it was under construction and he left a gift for fdr. >> really? >> and we have the note -- a copy of the thank you know that fdr wrote to jfk and it sort of a scramble that note, it's a little hard to read. but it appears to say thank you for the machine gun and goggles. >> oh, really! >> everyone was sort of, can you imagine john f. kennedy dropping off a machine gun to the president? actually, what it said was marine gun. it was a spear gun for fishing because he knew heftier love to go fishing. he loved to be on the water. and the goggles were swimming goggles. so you've never been able to find what happened to the spear gun or the goggle

the real lasting legacies of franklin and eleanor roosevelt. so we contacted the clinton library and asked if it was okay to use the president's essay. and then we asked whether or not he would be willing to narrate it. and the answer on both counts was yes, he was willing to use the essay and he was happy to narrate it. so bill clinton narrates in his own words what he thinks the legacy is of franklin and eleanor roosevelt. and it ended up being really effective for us. the importance for today is so, so huge. how do you treat these end viewpoints after that? how do you treat, you know, the final experience of visitors before they leave? >> we decided to do our gallery that is a hall way area as you're leaving the exhibition where we go back and look at a series of issues on sort of a timeline thing. and in the center of the time line is decisions that truman made, and above and below this time line are actions that other presidents took just before or after truman. things like medicare that truman proposed but was not enacted until the johnso

welcome to the franklin presidential museum and happy birthday eleanore roosevelt. [ applause ] >> it is one of the things we are so lucky to have eleanore's papers here and franklin roosevelt and his administration. actually, if you go over and look at the building, the eleanore roosevelt wings were built in 1972. even after it opened, f.d.r. ended up sketching what ended up being the structure here to incorporate eleanore's papers because he was telling her, we really need to have your papers at the library. one of his archivists said, do you think she'll give them to you? he said, you can never tell what my missus is going to do. which is a true statement of eleanore roosevelt. how many of you are members today? thank you so much. your support makes programs like this possible. we appreciate everything you do for us. the library is a federally funded institution, but obviously we rely on private donations to allow us to do non-federal functions like programs and exhibits and things like that. so today we have with us a very special friend and guest. she spent many, many days here w

. >>> up next on american history tv, the director of the of the herbesh hoover and franklin roosevelt talk about the 1932 campaign and the tense transition that followed. the roosevelt presidential library provided this video. >> welcome to home of the roosevelts. i'm paul sparrow, the director of the presidential library and museum and i'm joining today by director of the herber hoover presidential library museum. >> i'm tom swartz, i'm the director of the herbert hoover museum in west branch iowa. >> we're hear to talk about the most remark am transitions in american history, the presidential election of 1932 and hoover and roosevelt, their long relationship both prior to and after their presidencies. this was a period of incredible trauma for the united states with the great depression. of course the two of two of the known each other for quite sometime. during world war i, franklin roosevelt was the assistant secretary of navy underwood row wilson. tom, you want to talk about what hoover did during world war i? >> sure. herbert hoover was the head of the u.s. food administration.

and franklin really doesn't get in the way. i mean, that would have been really dumb if he had. because i think she was really kind of a freight train. >> you're an expert on her "my day" column. would you talk about the difference between what she wrote in her "my day" newspaper column versus what she put in her advice column? >> okay. "my day" is a daily diary. one of my students once said to me, boy, you know, eleanor was a original blogger, because it does read like a blog. and she never -- she doesn't know day to day any more than her readers, right? so she can only write what she knows. so she's writing about her daily activities and she's writing about things that are of the moment. so that's one big difference. this, i think, is more directed because it's based off the reader's questions. she's not saying anything that doesn't have a basis in what's on the mind of her reader. that's very different, whereas "my day" she can write whatever she wants to write about, the play she saw last night, the conference she's hosting today, the trip she's going to take next week. but

hello i'm herman, supervisor the museum creator franklin was developed presidential library and museum. and i want to welcome you all to this first installment in a new series of programs featuring conversations between me and curators at other presidential libraries. in this series, we're going to be exploring the various jobs and rules of museum curators. and today, will be talking about one of the most important and complicated jobs of the curator. developing new museum exhibits, the curators at all presidential libraries are operated by the national archives or responsible for presenting new changing exhibits on special topics on a regular basis in the museums. they also make a periodic alterations to the museums permanent exhibits to reflect changing scholarship or to incorporate new technologies. but there is one task, so complex, so costly and so time consuming that it's usually undertaken by presidential libraries only once every 15 years or more. i'm talking about the complete rethinking and replacing of the museum's entire permanent exhibit. here at the roosevelt library, we

welcome to the wallace center here at the franklin roosevelt presidential library museum. and happy birthday, eleanor roosevelt. [ applause ] you know, it's one of the things that we are so lucky to have eleanor's papers here along with papers of franklin roosevelt and

franklin. good day. good afternoon to you, thomas.

i suspect ben franklin would approve. we've taken steps to acknowledge and address systemic racism and the scourge of white supremacy in our own country. racial equity will not just be an issue for one department in our administration, it has to be the business of the whole of government and all our federal policies and institutions. all this matters to foreign policy because when we host the summit of democracies early in my administration to rally the nations of the world to defend democracy globally, to push back the authoritarianism that's advanced, we'll be much more credible partner because of these efforts to shore up our own foundations. there's no longer a bright line between foreign and domestic policy. every action we take and our conduct abroad, we must take with american working families in mind. advancing a foreign policy for the middle class demands urgent focus on our domestic economic renewal. and that's why i immediately put forth the american rescue plan to pull us out of this economic crisis. that's wh

i suspect ben franklin would approve. we've taken steps to acknowledge and address systemic racism and the scourge of white supremacy in our own country. racial equity will not just be an issue for one department in our administration, it has to be the business of the whole of government and all our federal policies and institutions. all this matters to foreign policy because when we host the summit of democracies early in my administration to rally the nations of the world to defend democracy globally, to push back the authoritarianism that's advanced, we'll be much more credible partner because of these efforts to shore up our own foundations. there's no longer a bright line between foreign and domestic policy. every action we take and our conduct abroad, we must take with american working families in mind. advancing a foreign policy for the middle class demands urgent focus on our domestic economic renewal. and that's why i immediately put forth the american rescue plan to pull us out of this economic crisis. that's wh

the main difference mainly is that of course franklin roosevelt died in office. harry truman is the first president to actually, you know, in his post presidential years, actually be at his presidential library. as a matter of fact, of all the succeeding presidents truman spent more time by far at his library than any other president. he treated it basically as his daily office. he was here on site five to six days a week. the early years of the library, he was really directing what was going on here. now, his vision for the truman library was to not to create a museum about harry true been but a museum that would illustrate the jobs of a president. what does a president do? he believed very much in educating people and especially younger audiences about the roles of a president and one of the early exhibits here was called the six jobs for president. which was based on a speech in 1959 at columbia university. from there truman spent nine years basically here working in his office five to six days a week. and after he left and passed away the library didn't reall

i think we will start with the beginning, which is the relationship between franklin roosevelt and joe kennedy. joseph kennedy made most of his money in the twenties in the stock market, and when franklin roosevelt became president, one of the things he did was a point joseph kennedy as the head of the securities commission, which was sort of has he said, putting the fox in charge of the hand house. this created a relationship between the two of them, in which joe kennedy really became a close call patriot, of fdr. we want to talk about how he managed that posting in london right before the war? >> well it is an interesting time. i want to go back a bit before that. as you can imagine, when young people are in the age when they are graduating from high school, whoever is the president at the moment has a profound impact on them it, shapes there it impact of the presidency. fdr is the president as jfk comes to a, and goes through his young adult. i think much of his vision of what is leadership and what is the nation is very much formed by fdr. and, so i think that is a very big part of

kennedy gave a copy of the book to franklin roosevelt, and jfk signed it and franklin roosevelt signed it. we have a few collected rare books and other things, and that's one of our most precious possessions. you may not know this story. it's one of my favorite antecdotes. in 1940 when kennedy came back from europe, he came to visit the fdr library which was under construction at the time. it didn't open until 1941, but it was under construction. and he left a gift for fdr, and we have the thank you -- a copy of the thank you note that fdr wrote to jfk, and it's sort of a scribbled note. it's a little hard to read, but it appears to say thank you for the machine gun and goggles. >> oh, really? >> which everyone was like can you imagine john f. kennedy dropping off a machine gun at the presidential library with some guards -- actually what it said was marine gun which was a spear gun for fishing because he knew fdr loved fishing and loved to be in the water, and the goggles were like swimming goggles. we never were able to find what happened to the spear gun or goggles, but it does sort

but then jefferson's came back again in the early 20th century and it was some white in congress, franklin roosevelt's new deal embraced jefferson and it was during roosevelt's presidency in 1943 on the 200th anniversary of jefferson's birth at the jefferson memorial was opened in washington. but then, after world war ii with the cold war, with america triumphant no terribly and industrialized urbanized nation, hamilton's reputation soared again and jefferson's hat plummeted somewhat in the aftermath of the civil rights revolution and revelations about his relationship with sadly hemmings. and in fact, during the lifetimes of jefferson and hamilton, both men were praised and condemned just as they have been by subsequent generations. for example, governor morris, set of hamilton, it seems as of god had called him suddenly into existence that he might assist to save the world. and there were those who condemned hamilton like abigail adams who said, not only that she thought hamilton wish to be americans napoleon, but she said i have read his heart and his wicked eyes, the very devil is in h

not only is there france franklin and john f. kennedy. i think will be start with the relationship between franklin roosevelt and joseph kennedy. he was appointed head of the securities and exchanges commission which is like putting the fox in charge of the hen house. it created a relationship where he became a very close con if i don't ending up as ambassador to saint james. do you want to talk about how that has beened? >> it is an interesting time. i want to go back a tiny bit before that. they are graduating from high school, whoever is the president in that motion i think has a profound impact on them. and fdr is the president as jfk comes of age and through young adulthood. i think it is the nation that is informed by fdr. i think the port of st. james, he has a direct connection. there is a moment when they have a jer man u boat and j.f.k. is asked by his father to look after the surviving u.s. passengers and their families in that transition. so he gets a little bit of responsibility in that moment. so i think it informs his notio

with kirk franklin."in their room, and feel the same thing. >> i think that there's been this aura of perfection and an elitist approach to faith that needs to be destroyed. and so we can all see ourselves as the same patient in the hospital sometimes, as people of faith, we have communicated, like, we're the doctors, and everybody else is sick instead of realizing that my hospital bed is right next to yours. ♪ we need a strong god ♪ >> reporter: during these times of uncertainty, division, and injustice, franklin contends his new podcast is perfect for these times, because we could all use some good words right now. are there any good words you'd like to leave the "today" show audience with? >> yes, yes, yes the reason why the rear-view mirror is smaller than the front windshield is because where you're going is a lot bigger than where you've been >> kirk franklin. >> nice. >> inspiring for a couple decades now. his new podcast, i checked out the first one, solid >> great convo. >> so you're singing. >>

commitment to work with the friends of franklin square. i'm supportive of this project and i hope the commission is as well. thank you so much. >> murial aliza speaking. we've had conversations with neighborhood groups around san francisco, and find this concerns everyone. the shadow study to the project does not include the cumulative effect the nine story plan will have on the neighbors, including existing solar panels. on behalf of the neighborhoods, i'm asking to request a study initiated to determine the best method of existing solar systems, and offering my time to join the task force if that seems like the best way to move forward. san francisco needs to considering how to mitigate the impact of shadows due to new construction. we're imploring local authorities to do something now before state laws may go into effect, threatening the single family homes where most solar powers live. as illustrated by the response -- owner of the solar panel, affected by the nine story plan received. she requested documents from her contractor, due t

he focuses on the relationship between president franklin roosevelt and british prime minister winston and british civilian officials worked together to defeat nazi germany.

under the eyes of the 1st american chief diplomat benjamin franklin. by the way i want you all know in the press i was the benjamin franklin professor of presidential politics at penn and i thought they did that because i was as old as he was but i guess not. all kidding aside it's great to be here and stand alongside our most recent senior diplomat secretary tony blinken secretary thank you for welcoming us today and. we've worked together for over 20 years and diplomatic skills are respected equally by your friends and our competitors around the world and they know when you speak you speak for me and so so is the message i want the world hear today america is back america is back diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy. as i said of my noddle address we will repair our alliances engaged with the world once again not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's american leadership must meet this new moment in advance and authoritarianism including a growing ambitions of china to rival the united states in the determination o

thursday night a conversation between veteran franklin and thomas jefferson, as portrayed by bill rogue, and bill harbor, they talk about their roles in shaping revolutionary war era america in the constitutional government produced. watch thursday night beginning at 8 pm eastern. and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3. >> patrick charles is a former marine and now senior historian for the u.s. air force and the author of the book armed in america, a history of gun rights from wishes to conceal carry. thanks for being with us on c-span 3's american history tv. >> thank you steve. glad to be. here >> let me begin with the origins of the nra, the national rifle association, how did the association come about and why? >> they came about after the civil war, where there was poor -- through the war, so two officers decided to form the nra with two purposes. one is to facilitate, build and grow long range rifle ranges and the other one is to assist the state and national guards. . the nra initially just so you know was kind of working to get appropriations from the government

tonight, a conversation between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson has portrayed by bill rogue lynn and bill darker. they talk about the rules in achieving revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. watch tonight. beginning at 8 pm eastern and enjoy american history tv, every weekend on c-span 3. today how speaker, nancy pelosi held a news conference on a 9/11 style commission to investigate january 6th capitol attack and legislation to increase the minimum wage. . >> good morning everyone, and it is a good morning, we're so excited that today, the equality act will come to the floor. we have passed it in the house before. the equality act, hr five joined discrimination against the lgbtq community. this time, it will be not only passed in the house, vital on a path to a signing at the white house. we're very excited about that. later, will be gathered i think right here, right? to talk about that more specifically, but i want to salute -- for his leadership on this legislation and senator merkley and just point out that when we announce that legisla

ben franklin, a great champion and enemy— one.m and cowardice and of course another great _ and cowardice and of course another great philadelphian once wrote this. i great philadelphian once wrote this. i have _ great philadelphian once wrote this. i have observed that wrong is always growing _ i have observed that wrong is always growing more wrong until there is no bearing _ growing more wrong until there is no bearing it _ growing more wrong until there is no bearing it anymore. and that right however _ bearing it anymore. and that right however opposed comes right at last. comes— however opposed comes right at last. comes right at last. think about it. this is— comes right at last. think about it. this is america. home of the brave and land _ this is america. home of the brave and land of— this is america. home of the brave and land of the free and the american benjamin franklin said if you make — american benjamin franklin said if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves— you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you. do n

jeffrey urbin with the franklin d.ided the video for this program. >> hi there. jeff urbin speaking to you from the roosevelt library and museum on behalf of the director and the entire roosevelt staff, i want to welcome you to another one of our talks today. today we'll be talking about hobos and hoovervilles, and as i said i'm jeff urbin. i'm education director here, and it's ourea

so there's a lot of these riffs and again, the franklins with benjamin franklin's son the formal governor of new jersey going into exile whereas franklin himself becoming a prominent citizen, and these theories of occupation does over a lot of people that in a certain way they're able to kind of sweep it under the rug and forget it and there's this again going back to the beginning of thepower of conversation , there is kind of a permissiveness in the early republic or willingness to forget a lot of the complexities. alot of the nuances of the wartime experience . one of the examples of that is someone that a lot of historians of the early republic are familiar with . chuck cox who was a political economist in the department of the treasury under both washington and jefferson administrations. and in his younger life he was a diehard loyalist. he lived in occupied philadelphia. married the daughter of a prominent loyalist family. basically made his money profiteering off of the occupation. of handing licenses to sell goods to the british west indies and imports stuff from new york and thec

he managed to scare off a suspect robbing a woman near his shop at night in franklin. as john ramos reports, it was the man who foiled the robbery who was arrested. >> reporter: considering the fear that has been grips chinatown in the last few weeks, it's not surprising that someone was going to take protecting the community into their own hands. as they looked for a way to things down, chinatown officials and police walk door to door, ushering business owners that they are taking the recent spate of violence robberies seriously. >> with one person being robbed , that can have a negative impact on someone watching that. even though they are not the victim, they are kind of in a circle of the victim because they see someone being victimized. that can resonate as well. >> reporter: it resonated last night. at about 5:30 p.m., the owner of this liquor stores are a woman being robbed at the corner of ninth and franklin. the woman had been knocked to the ground. the owner ran out with a gun, ordering the assailant to stop, he reportedly firing four shots. the suspects fled

reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the rules and shaping revolutionary war era america and a constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story, watch american history tv, this weekend on c-span 3. >> american history tv continues as american university professor daniel dries back looks to the bibles contributions to the american constitutional and judicial system. including its impact on due process, the separation of powers. this top was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible in washington d.c. this. is about 45 minutes >> hello everyone, our second session today is the bible and the founding of the american constitutional republic with daniel dreisbach. during the american founding era, no book was more accessible or authoritative then the bible. it featured prominently in 18th century political culture, shaping the founders political thought and rhetoric. this presentation will examine the founding generations have failed to scripture to answer fundamental political questions and to inform an emerging constitutional --

i wish that franklin d. roosevelt had lived to see this day. >> harry truman's birthday is on may 8. and in so much of the world may 7 and may 8 celebrated victory in europe day. and as he said, what a beautiful birthday present that was, but recognized only half the job was done, and even though peace was on its way to formation in europe, that the war was still raging in the pacific. america was preparing for that. in a few months, he would travel to germany, and meet with joseph stalin, winston churchill, and clement atley at the potsdam conference. and on the way home to the united states, he would authorize the use of the atomic bomb on military targets in japan. history tells the rest of the story of that in august of 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. >> the japanese began the war from the air at pearl harbor. they have been repaid many fold. and the end is not yet. with this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. >> and so the first five m

i suspect ben franklin would approve.acial equity will not just be an issue for one department in our administration. it has to be the business of the whole of government and all of our federal policies and inst

her name was doral franklin finley. should my first cousin and that's another another conversation. she spent five years of her life doing research on places and african americans who have made significant contributions to the city of mobile. when she finished she had 39 locations. we are going to visit about 20 of those today and if i tucked it took you on all the might have to find out how you like your fish fried or, it would take us about six hours to do all that but she said this up where we should be able to get through it in about two hours. i can can't really hold your attention on longer than that. when she finished, we start the tour from this location, because this is where our great city started from. it was back in 1702, the king louis the 14th, contradicted with two explorers out of quebec canada. they were the brothers the le moyne brothers. so these two brothers ended up in pensacola. and that was occupied by the spanish, they didn't want that war so they headed west. and our gulf of mexico, is about 20 miles south of where we are right now, and they took too sharp o