ordered and garrison knew it. >> garrison started bribing witnesses, intimidating witnesses. >> he saidentence or i could be cut loose right away. >> hypnotizing witnesses. >> we decided to give him objectifying to make sure he was telling the truth. >> does he have a last name? >> oswald. >> would you say these methods were illegal? >> i would very say illegal and unethical. >> he had everyone and their grandmother involved in the assassination. at one time, it was oil millionaires. then it was the minutemen. then it was a homosexual killing. >> yes, sir. >> do you feel that homosexuality or the coercion of homosexuality was a factor in the planning or the assassination of john f. kennedy? >> no comment. >> at one point, he had 15 assassins in dealey plaza. with that many assassins, i don't know how kennedy made it to the autopsy table. >> garrison announced he had discovered a code. >> garrison said jack ruby's unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> you take p and o and use a telephone dial, p gives you 7, o gives you 6. >> he just changed

a small union force then occupies the city to garrison it, and the main armies then meet in the largest, bloodiest conflict of the campaign, the battle of chickamauga. it was fought about a dozen miles to the south of chattanooga, in the valley of western, what creek, on september 18-20, 1863. union army is defeated in that battle, but while they are defeated, they are able to withdraw into chattanooga. there, they fortify themselves within a one square mile area, in the bend of the tennessee river, and await the arrival of reinforcements. the confederates attempted to lay siege to the union army in chattanooga from positions along missionary ridge, to the east of the town, from across the valley between missionary ridge to lookout mountain, and on to lookout mountain itself, the final battle in the overall campaign for chattanooga, the final battle fought in november of 1863, is that that unfolds along the sharply defined to the east of chattanooga, east of where we are located right now. the confederates had had their main position throughout late september, october, and november. but

a small union force then occupies the city to garrison it, and the main armies then meet in the largest, bloodiest conflict of the campaign, the battle of chickamauga. it was fought about a dozen miles to the south of chattanooga, in the valley of western, what creek, on september 18-20, 1863. union army is defeated in that battle, but while they are defeated, they are able to withdraw into chattanooga.

had allowed the confederate states of america, just three months after the ntha surrender of the garrison of ft vicksburg, to return most of those men surrendered there on the mississippi to the field.

he did not have a lot of faith or confidence in the his garrison or the equipment that he had. he had instructions not to let the place fall into british hands. he decided, based on his position, he could see the smoke still rising over washington. he has the royal navy squadron approaching him. he thinks perhaps he is going to be attacked by land at the same time, by british army troops. he has decided to abandon the fort without a shot being fired. he would be court-martialed for that decision. with the destruction of fort washington, the british now have an open path to alexandria, as well as to washington. right off of alexandria, virginia, about where captain gordon positioned his royal navy squadron on august 29, 1814. fort washington is destroyed. everyone in alexandria knew there was no way to defend the city. they had been left completely defenseless by the federal government. alexandria's militia has been taken and pretty much squandered. they were up near fort washington for a while and now that washington had and burned, they had been marched away. the city fathers

they weren't garrisons. it's interesting. right off mass. avenue as you go out of the city. fort ethan allen. just this spring they have done a wonderful job of interpretation -- improving the earth works but also doing some interpretation. they had a fabulous event. here's c.f. smith. another one here. here, hey, this is historic. this is there now and they also have bathrooms there. you know, we don't have those at fort stevens. fort ward, this is a gem of them. i hate to admit it, but it is. it's big. it's been restored. about 90% of the earth works are restored. it has a great museum. it's in alexandria. alexandria owns it and runs it. terrific. the displays are great. they're also doing a lot of history on the african-american story there, which i won't get into, it's very controversial, but they're at least trying now to make up for past wrongs. fort willard. this is the cutest little thing, it's just a traffic circle with people around it. look what they did. these are earth works, ruins, cannon. you drive and you feel like you're back then. and then this is fort stev

the garrison was not a form terry -- formal military unit. and so very badly lead. the fort was badly dealt. should loopholes, which have been five feet above the ground, were at three-foot levels. they were level with the attacking force, who took of the loopholes. the battle went on for a long time. there were maybe 700 red sticks in the attacking force and several hundred fighting inside among the many civilians inside the fort. sometime around the afternoon, the battle had stalemated. the red sticks withdrew. good portion to a of the southern part of the fort. the fire spread and at that point, defense was impossible. the few remaining defenders tried to escape. about 25 made it out of the fort. the battle need all of the papers in the country. it was considered a huge disaster of american military might and it took a while for the local armies to reconstitute themselves. the volunteers were devastated by this. eventually they organized an army to invade the creek nation. the georgians organized a couple of different attacks from the east and then the tennessee

army garrison at ft. lee in august 2013, so just a short time ago. army career began in 1984 when he enlisted as a military policeman. he graduated from the united states military academy with a bachelor's of science in 1991 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the armored corps. he also holds a master's degree in military studies from the marine corps university and most recently a master's degree in national security studies from the dwight d. eisenhower school for national security and resource strategy at the national defense university which he earned in june of 2013. colonel brooks' other military schooling includes air assault school, airborne school, ranger school, which in the words of my father is the most important -- the only one that matters. scout commander certification course, combined logistics officer advanced course, jump master school, combined armed services staff school, survival, evasion, resistance, and escape school. during his career colonel brooks yerlest assignments between 1992 and 1995 were as a tank platoon le

army garrison of fort lee in august, 2013.an in 1984r when he enlisted as a military policeman and graduated from the united states military academy with a bachelors of science in 1991, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the armor corps. he also holds a masters degree in military studies from the marine corps university, and a masters degree in national security studies from the dwight d eisenhower school for national security and resource strategy at the national offense university which he earned in june of 2013. carl brooks other military schooling includes air assault school, armored officer basic course, ranger school, the most important. the only one that matters. [laughter] certification, logistics officer in advanced servicesombined armed school, survival school. earliests career, his assignments whereas a tank platoon leader. as a missile maintenance with first calvary division at fort hood, texas. roles ofreceived responsibility in north officer, operations battalion,al support and operational staffing co

the flying of the garrison flag the morning after the barrage inspired francis scott key to write the words that later became our national anthem. >> during the war of 1812, it -- i am in charge of the star-spangled banner. >> i am suzanne. for the duration of the star-spangled banner preservation project, i was the chief contributor. >> we will take you on a small tour today. join us. one of the things people do not always recognizes during the war of 1812, it was fought until the end of 1815. it was really about america reestablishing its independence against the british. >> in 1814 the city of washington was attacked and it was burned and mostly the federal buildings that were burned and also the newspapers. anything that was supporting the separation of the united states from britain. it's said that you could actually see the fires in washington from the city of baltimore. this is one of our really iconic pieces in the collection. it's a piece of the timber from the white house and you can see the charring on it. the troops left washington, there was a two-pronged attack on baltim

army garrison at fort lee in august 2013. just a short time ago.egan in 1984 when he enlisted as a military policeman. he graduated from the ut military academy with a bachelors of science in 1991 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the armored corp. he also holds a masters career from the marine corp university and also from the dwight d. eisenhower school at the national defense university which he earned in june of 2013. he other schooling includes armor officer basic course, ranger school which in the words of my father is the most important, the only one that matters, scout commander certification course, master school, combined armed services staff school, survival, evasion, resistance, escape school. during his career, colonel brooke's earliest assignments between 1992 and 1995 were as a tank platoon leader with the second tank battalion as a missile maintenance and heavy maintenance s 1 is the 27th main support battalion first california ary division at ft. hood texas. he assumed roles of increasing responsibility in north caroli

chad garrison of "the riverfront times," thank you for joining us tonight. you're looking at protests occurring on west flores dent avenue. if you go north you'lling into the town of dellwood. joining me is is dellwood mayor reggie jones. mayor jones, what is your reaction to the national guard moving into this neighborhood? >> well, this time lawrence, i think that we needed some support. last night the police officers pushed a line further up west flores dent, which left the dellwoodside unprotected, we didn't have enough police fourth on that end. at this point to protect my residents and my businesses i have to be in favor of anything that's going to allow us to have more protection. we had over eight businesses looted as of last night. so my residents are getting very scared that this is coming closer and closer to us. is i'm in favor of some any kind of heightened security for my community. >> talk to us about the politics of these two communities, yours versus ferguson, and how ferguson can be a majority african-american community and yet not see that

garrison. however he was the president's counsel not the committee's counsel, not my counsel. there was not a staff structure for a balanced presentation, in my opinion, and perhaps i share the blame for that. interesting aside is the fact in a get into procedures is that last night at 7:30 we received a proposed articles of impeachment the night the debate began. quite often we've been faced with being hit at the last minute with what we were fixing to vote on. regardless of that we're preparing to vote on articles of impeachment. i tried to maintain a restrained position because i think it's been incumbents on every member to listen and keep his mouth shut until he had enough to make his decision. but i must also be frank in saying i've approached this task from the standpoint that the president was innocent, like any man, under such proceedings should be presumed innocent until there was clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. you can't impeach a president because you don't like his prove or contradicted evidence. in my opinion, you cannot impeach a president for hal

span 29lanes will miles, from garrison road in stafford county, just north of the beltway.hey are set to open early next year. watch the entire video on our website, wjla.com. the maryland state highway administration is ready to take the next step in improving safety for pedestrians on route one. it is building a fence to stop pedestrians from crossing outside of intersections. the work should be done by early next month. just last month, the agency lowered the speed limit between guilford road and berwyn drive after three pedestrians were struck and killed near the university of maryland campus. setback for same-sex couples hoping to legally marry in virginia this week. coming up, why that is on hold. and uber is expanding its service. >> outside, the rain finally ending. the forecast coming up. >> a u.s. supreme court ruling puts same-sex marriages on hold in virginia, hours before they would have become legal. chief justice john roberts issued a stay on the ruling. a final decision by the supreme court is expected sometime next june. virginia would have become the first

in fact, their own minority counsel, sam garrison, in his report to the committee, had indicated that there was a problem with these wiretaps. there was evidence that was coming in. the question was whether there was enough of it to constitute a reason to throw out a republican president. what happens is a fragile coalition forms, a coalition of three democrats from the south and four republicans. these are people that richard nixon and the white house assumed would vote with the president. but the coalition begins to turn against the president as the evidence comes to them and in the weeks before the vote. these people are slowly but surely moving against the president. we have evidence that the white house tried to put pressure on some of these individual congressmen to vote the right way. if the president lost southern democrats and republicans, will be finished. his whole strategy for surviving impeachment was to build a coalition of those two groups. but the abuse of power information troubled a number of republicans, as did the evidence of the cover-up. that's why by vote of 27-

in fact, their own minority counsel, their own counsel, sam garrison, in his report to the committee, had indicated that there was a problem with these wire taps. so there was evidence that was coming in. the question was whether there was enough of it to constitute a reason to throw out a republican president. and what happens is a fragile coalition formed. a coalition of three democrats from the south and four republicans, these are people that richard nixon, the white house assumed would vote with the president, but the coalition begins to turn against the president. as the evidence comes to them in the weeks before the vote, these people are slowly but surely moving against the president. and we have evidence that the white house tried to put pressure on some of these individual congressmen to vote the right way. because if the president lost southern democrats and republicans, he was finished. in fact, his whole strategy for surviving impeachment was to build a coalition of those two groups. but the abuse of powers information troubled a number of republicans, as did the evidence

hood retained its garrison into the 1870s, batteries in the spanish american war and fort washington even more recently was still an active post. >> thank you. >> sir, i think you'll be our last question. >> i was wondering if you were familiar or could help me with a question i've had for years and years. when jubal early approached washington, cavalry patrols were sent out on both the east and west sides of the city. in fact, there was an expedition to try and free the prisoners at camp lookout, which came to nothing. but the one that always intrigued me was a cavalry regiment on the western side of washington, who really were a little lost and didn't know where they were, reported they entered one of the forts, found it completely unmanned, went up on the rampart and could see white house and capital in the distance. do you think there's any credibility to that report and what fort could that possibly have been? >> let me explain, there's three legends you've wrapped into one. the army came down the rockville pike. we're not sure why early deviates or diverts over to the 7th road

mandatory jail sentences is why lawrence and lamont garrison spent more than a decade in jail.hey were about to graduate from college when the fbi raided their home. >> slammed my brother on the ground, slammed me on the ground, put us in handcuffs, they show us a picture, do you know this guy. itis a guy that fixes our car. >> they were arrested for cocaine conspiracy. >> found no money or drugs. >> no drugs? >> nope. >> never sold drugs? >> nope. >> they deny they sold drugs. >> why you? >> i did business with him, legitimate repair on the car. >> pointing to these two reduced their sentences. >> this is a snitch culture. they lie to make you look like a person. they made us look like some type of drug lord. >> why would they do that? >> because mandatory minimums encourage us to implicate others. >> the prosecutor might lower your sentence. >> intended to make things up? >> and people do. >> a perfect example, a perfect situation to get out of trouble. >> this is not a bad word in my vocabulary. this is a good word. criminals, murderers they don't require -- >> ta-to-make so

pratt institute, jim garrison. factory made houses that can be assembled in case of superstorm sandy. multistory multiunit houses can be deployed in less than 15 hours, keeping families in place, rather than displacing them, that might be difficult depending on the situation. he's already used this situation to rebuild lifeguard stations and comfort stations and coney island in brooklyn following sandy. he wants this type of housing to be standardized throughout the united states. good to see you jim. >> hi ali. >> how different are these than traditional housing that is used after a disaster? >> well, i would say that the thing that we've mostly seen after disaster is the fema trailer. >> right. >> and we know a little something about that. it's been a disaster in and of itself. for a variety of reasons but the big challenge today is that we throughout the world are becoming so urbanized, that when a disaster hits we have to be able to respond with a housing type for people that's dense. and urban. and so the chal

they weren't garrisoned. it was charming. there was display about what it did look like. 48th and allen, they did a wonderful job improving the e earth works but also improving the interpretation. they had a fabulous event. this is there now. they also have bathrooms. we don't have those at fort stephens. fort war, this is the gem of them all. it's been and restored. it has a great museum. it's in alexandria who owns and runs it. terrific. the displays are great. they are doing a lot of history in the african-american story there. it's very controversial. they are trying to make up for past wrongs. look what the they did. here is a canyon. squint your eyes and you feel like you're back then. this is fort stephens. this is what it was the last couple of years. every year we have an event. the thoalliance group, the president susan cla if, if, y and our treasurer gary thompson and me. it's really important to have advocates. that's what we are for the alliance to preserve the civil defenses of washington. we're six years old. f

. >> mandatory minimum jail sentences is why lawrence and lamb month garrison spent time in jail. they were about to go to college when the fbi raided their home. >> they show us a picture do you know this guy? it was a guy that fixed our car. >> they were raised for cocaine conspiracy. they found no money, no drugs. >> no drugs? >> nope. >> never sold any drugs? >> nope. >> the beforer denied they didn't use any drugdrugs>> why you? >> i did business for them legitimate repairing the car. >> they reduced theirselves. >> they will lie to make you look more made you look like s type of drug lord. >> why would they do that? because mandatory minimums encourage for students implicate others. >> a prosecutor might lower your sentence. >> that give the you an incentive to make things up. >> it gets themselves out of trouble. >> this is not a bad word. this is a good word. criminal the, murder he is, drug dealers they don't deal with choir boys. >> you can find that out. you have to know when somebody is lying. >> she wam a prosecutor she is ga gailed drug dealers. >> it is more control

army garrison at fort lee in august 2013. just a short time ago.army career began in 1984 when he enlisted as a military policeman. he graduated from the ut military academy with a bachelors of science in 1991 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the armored corp. he also holds a masters career from the marine corp university and also from the dwight d. eisenhower school at the national defense university which he earned in june of 2013. he other schooling includes armor officer basic course, ranger school which in the words of my father is the most important, the only one that matters, scout commander certification course, master school, combined armed services staff school, survival, evasion, resistance, escape school. during his career, colonel brooke's earliest assignments between 1992 and 1995 were as a tank platoon leader with the second tank battalion as a missile maintenance and heavy maintenance s 1 is the 27th main support battalion first california ary division at ft. hood texas. he assumed roles of increasing responsibility in

everybody else in the garrison of 600 has been killed or mortally wounded.n't matter that these black troops weren't there, that these white troops weren't there. this becomes a battle cry for the rest of the war with black troops. one confederate officer screamed to his men as he saw the black column coming, rally, boys, rally, and drive them back. they are nothing but niggers. immediately somehow in the sounds of battle, this is overheard by sergeant john offer. and a dozen other black combatants who charged the officer and one of the soldiers thrust a bayonet into the officer's chest. following the 30th is the 43rd usct. within that regiment, captain albert d. wright captures the flag that you see here on the left. thanks to cathie wright for providing that image. and he was wounded, himself. the mingling already of white and black troops in and around the crater and southern artillery is going to start to slow progress for the 27th and 39th usct of siegfried's brigade. as these regiments moved through the remains of the salient colonel bates was shot in

garrison keillor: rita dove was the youngest poet laureate of the united states and the first african american. she's published nine books of poetry, a novel, a play, essays and a book of short stories. among her many honors are the pulitzer prize and the national humanities medal. her poems draw on historical and political events, as well as sources close to her own experience, like ballroom dancing. "american smooth." we were dancing-- it must have been a foxtrot or a waz, something romantic but requiring restraint, rise and fall, precise execution as we moved into the next step without stopping, two chests heaving above a seven-league stride-- such perfect agony one learns to smile through, ecstatic mimicry being the sine qua non of american smooth. and because i was distracted by the effort of keeping my frame (the leftward lean, head turned just enough to gaze out past your ear and always smiling, smiling), i didn't notice how still you'd become until we had done it (for two measures? four?)-- achieved flight, that swift and serene magnificence, before the earth remembered who we

garrison. if things were to get out of control. if they were to get out of control, china would not hesitate to use the soldiers to restore order. it's an unlikely scenario, the fact he was compelled to say that is a reminder of how attitudes are hardening in beijing as well. >> thank you. >>> the deputy prime minister has taken control following an attempted military coup. the prime minister is in south africa. south african president jacob zuma called a regional security meeting to resolve the crisis. tania page has been covering the story for us. >> reporter: calm on the streets of lesotho, cracks in its democracy. the army may have withdrawn to its barracks, but the prime minister is in south africa, where he accuses the military of attempting to assess power. people are afraid this is not over. now the deputy prime minister has taken charge. this man told al jazeera, he's not trying to destabilize the country. it's not a coup. let us get that straight. it's not a coup. i'll not be a deputy prime minister. the prime minister wi

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> garrison keillor: when marilyn chin came to the united states from hong kong, her father changed her name from mei ling to marilyn because, she says, he was obsessed with marilyn monroe. she's a poet, a translator, a novelist, and codirects the mfa program at sand diego state university. >> the woman wore a floral apron around her neck, that woman from my mother's village with a sharp cleaver in her hand. she said, "what shall we cook tonight? perhaps these six tiny squid lined up so perfectly on the block?" she wiped her hand on the apron, pierced the blade into the first. there was no resistance, no blood, only cartilage soft as child's nose. a last iota of ink made us wince. suddenly, the aroma of ginger and scallion fogged our senses, and we absolved her for that moment's barbarism. then she, an elder of the tribe, without formal headdress, without elegance, deigned to teach the younger about the asian plight. and although we have traveled far we must never forget that primal lesson-- on patience, courage, forbearan

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> garrison keillor: seamus heaney grew up the eldest of nine children on a 50 acre farm in northern ireland, his father a cattle dealer, his mother's family worked in the linen mills. when he was 12, he won a scholarship to a catholic school, learned latin and gaelic. over the years, his poetry has become enormously popular, especially since he won the nobel prize in literature in 1995. >> blackberry picking. late august, given heavy rain and sun for a full week, the blackberries would ripen. at first, just one-- a glossy purple clot among others, red, green, hard as a knot. you ate that first one, and its flesh was sweet like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for picking. then red ones inked up and that hunger sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. 'round hayfields, cornfields, and potato-drills we trekked and picked until the cans were full; until the tinkling bottom had been covered with green ones, and o

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarterorses, writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. >>> this week on moyers and company. >> you can't look at the roberts court. workers rights, environmental progress. >> i think it's hard for anybody looking at this court objectively to come away not thinking that it's a court of an agenda. >> funding is provided by ann gumowitz, carnegie corporation, the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> garrison keillor: the nicaraguan author daisy zamora has written five books of poetry in spanish. during the 1970s, she joined with the revolutionaries who opposed the nicaraguan dictator anastasio somoza. after somoza was ousted, she became vice minister for culture for the new government. her poems, essays, and translations have been published in magazines and literary journals all over the world. >> i do not doubt you would have liked one of those pretty mothers in the ads-- complete with adoring husband and happy children. she's always smiling, and if she cries at all it is absent of lights and camera, makeup washed from her face. but since you were born of my womb, i should tell you ever since i was small like you i wanted to be myself-- and for a woman that's hard. (even my guardian angel refused to watch over me when she heard.) ( laughter ) i cannot tell you that i know the road. often, i lose my way and my life has been a painful crossing-- navigating reefs, in and out of storms, refusing to listen to the gh

this they weren't garrisoned. there are a lot of these displays about what it did look like. it's right off mass avenue. 40th and allen just this spring they have done a wonderful job of interpretation, improving the earth works, but also doing some interpretation. they had a fabulous event. here's c.f. smith, another one here, hey, this is what it was -- this is historic, but this is there now. they also have bathrooms there, you know? we don't have those at ft. stevens. ft. ward, this is the gem of them all. i hate to admit it. it's big, and about 90% of the earth works are restored. it's in alexandria. terrific. the displays are great, and they're also doing a lot of history on the african-american story there, which i won't get into. it's very controversial, but at least they're trying now to make up for past wrongs. ft. willard, this is the cutest little thing, just a traffic circle, but look what they did? these are earthworks, here's a cannon, you know, squint your eyes, and you feel like you're back thin. this is ft. stevens. this weekend -- this is what it was the la

garrison keillor: matthew dickman grew up in portland, oregon, with his twin brother michael, who's also a poet. his first book, all-american poem, won the 2008 american poetry review/honickman first book prize in poetry. he says that "poetry rebuilds the rubble "grief and love can make of language into something sustaining, beautiful and life-affirming." "slow dance." more than putting another man on the moon, more than a new year's resolution of yogurt and yoga, we need the opportunity to dance with really exquisite strangers. a slow dance between the couch and dining room table, at the end of the party, while the person we love has gone to bring the car around because it's begun to rain and would break their heart if any part of us got wet. a slow dance to bring the evening home, two people rocking back and forth like a buoy. nothing extravagant. a little music. an empty bottle of whiskey. it's a little like cheating. your head resting on his shoulder, your breath moving up his neck. your hands along her spine. her hips unfolding like a cotton napkin and you begin to think about how a

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> garrison keillor: w.s.rwin was born in new york city, the son of a minister. after college, he lived in europe for a number of years, translated spanish and french poetry, learned how to support himself as a freelance-- writing, speaking, giving readings. he moved to hawaii where he lives in a dense forest including rare species of palm trees that he's planted. "poetry," he says, "always begins and ends with listening." >> yesterday. my friend says, "i was not a good son, you understand." i say, "yes, i understand." he says, "i did not go to see my parents very often, you know." and i say, "yes, i know." "even when i was living in the same city," he says, "maybe i would go there once a month or maybe even less." i say, "oh, yes." he says, "the last time i went to see my father..." i say, "the last time i saw my father..." he says, "the last time i saw my father he was asking me about my life, how i was making out, and he went into the next room to get something to give me." "oh," i say feeling again the col

thank you for watching garrison keillor: born in augusta, maine, dorianne laux worked as a cook, a gason manager, a maid and a doughnut holer before receiving a b.a. in english. the author of four books of poems, she now lives with her husband, poet joseph millar, in raleigh, north carolina, where she teaches at north carolina state university. her book facts about the moon was a finalist for the national book critics circle award. "dust." someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. just a few words, but i recognized it. i knew i should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and i was exhausted from working all day in the garden, moving rocks. now, i remember only the flavor-- not like food, sweet or sharp. more like a fine powder, like dust. and i wasn't elated or frightened, but simply rapt, aware. that's how it is sometimes-- god comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it. (applause) >> hello and welcome to "global 3000." more and more knowledge is being stored online. today, we look at the opportunities and risks

. >> garrison keillor: c.d.right was born in mountain home, arkansas in the ozarks, went to college in arkansas and memphis, and lives now in rhode island. her books of poetry include one inspired by visits to louisiana state prisons. she once said, "poetry is a necessity of life. it is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free and declare them so." >> lake echo, dear. is the woman in the pool of light really reading, or just staring at what is written? is the man walking in the soft rain naked, or is it the rain that makes his shirt transparent? the boy in the iron cot, is he asleep, or still fingering the springs underneath? did you honestly believe three lives could be complete? the bottle of green liquid on the sill, is it real? the bottle on the peeling sill, is it filled with green, or is the liquid an illusion of fullness? how summer's children turn into fish and rain softens men. how the elements of summer nights bid us to get down with each other on the unplaned floor. and

garrison keillor: after serving in the united states navy, galway kinnell was a field worker in the southuring the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. he's been a macarthur fellow, the state poet of vermont, and a winner of the pulitzer prize and the national book award. "a poem expresses one's most private feelings," he says, "and these turn out to be the feelings of everyone else as well." for i can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober irishman, and fergus will only sink deeper into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash. but let there be that heavy breathing or a stifled come cry anywhere in the house and he will wrench himself awake and make for it on the run. as now, we lie together, after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies, familiar touch of the long-married, and he appears in his baseball pajamas, it happens, the neck opening so small he has to screw them on, and flops down between us and hugs us and snuggles himself to sleep, his face gleaming with satisfaction at being this very child. in the ha

. >> garrison keillor: the nicaraguan author daisy zamora has written five books of poetry in spanishduring the 1970s, she joined with the revolutionaries who opposed the nicaraguan dictator anastasio somoza. after somoza was ousted, she became vice minister for culture for the new government. her poems, essays, and translations have been published in magazines and literary journals all over the world. >> i do not doubt you would have liked one of those pretty mothers in the ads-- complete with adoring husband and happy children. she's always smiling, and if she cries at all it is absent of lights and camera, makeup washed from her face. but since you were born of my womb, i should tell you ever since i was small like you i wanted to be myself-- and for a woman that's hard. (even my guardian angel refused to watch over me when she heard.) ( laughter ) i cannot tell you that i know the road. often, i lose my way and my life has been a painful crossing-- navigating reefs, in and out of storms, refusing to listen to the ghostly sirens who invite me into the past, neither compass nor binn

. >> garrison keillor: maxine kumin lives on a farm in new hampshire where she breeds arabian and quarter horses, writing poetry, four novels, more than 20 children's books. she says, "i don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. i want to write poems that matter." >> this is a little one called after love. afterward, the compromise. bodies resume their boundaries. these legs, for instance, mine. your arms take you back in. spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. the bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept. ( applause ) thank you. /s s/ >>> facts and positive growth in the third quarter. the military restores calm. with home prices declining nationwide, china's economy is looking shaky. and in south korea, rice farmers are locking horns with a long time ally and protector. hello, you are watching "asia biz forecast." i'mee coe fukushima. this week, we look at the thai economy. business in th

frederick douglass complained that william lloyd garrison thought it weakened their cause they only wanted them junior raked wrong been named douglas of those speaking for slavery i was now reading and thinking. however he did not have the plantation and manner of speech from the anti-slavery society who won't come from douglas that you would not believe he was a slave. the abolitionist then went on to state "give us the facts. we will take care of the rest. [laughter] the problem is still with us it is important to understand the context with is not the story about a shootout or cowboys soared gunfighters but it is the movement story a freedom movement to why they chose to take the actions they took. and guns were important. so i choose to do this story party because my somewhat cynical reporter and i know if i put guns in the title to linkage to civil-rights you will think what is this guy writing about? part of it i do think because they do think to ask about this title of the book "this nonviolent stuff'll get you killed" comes from a former gladys small farm in holmes county mississip