but they said we've compared your fingerprints and compared the fingerprints with those of james earl ray. they said your james survey appeared either separately vmf eight denied he was ray. they've gotten mixed up with this other guy named james earl ray. his lawyer, solicitor in london says that, you know, you're going to be here for a while. how can i help you? i know you're not james earl. he says yes, and snape. this got me mixed up with this guy. i would really appreciate it if you could get in contact with my brother. sure, who is your brother? what is his name? jerry ray, not realizing his identity has bled into each other at that point. he insisted for a month or more that he was made. he called himself cerebrum snape. finally he loses his extradition hearing and his phone back to memphis aboard a chartered air force jet, where he stands trial and is about to go to china when he plea-bargained thinness to someone under 50 points of fact, saying he did pull the trigger and bought the scope and the ammunition and all this evidence had been showing you tonight, yes, that was my geta

in 1977, nine years after he killed civil rights leader martin luther king jr., james earl ray went overuring our shoot at brushy mountain we met an inmate who was not only there but tried to talk ray out of it. >> i told him, i said, james, you've got no pickup, no car. i said as soon as your foot touches down they know it's you, there will be a million cops in the valley and no one's going to get away. i said it's just a futile effort and i don't believe in wasting energy. so i sat and watched it happen. >> james slagle, brushy mountain's longest-serving inmate, told us how ray led a group of inmates over the wall using a makeshift ladder crafted from chains. they made their escape while a tower officer took an afternoon nap. that's your corner where james and doug and spider monkey and the others went over. of course the fence was not here at that time, it was just a mountain serving as the fourth wall of the penitentiary. >> after ray climbed over, six more inmates followed before an officer and another tower finally saw them and shot, striking the last escapee in the shoulder. >> th

king was shot by james earl ray in 1968. >>> time for another check of the forecast with justin. >> theain pulling out. we're 46 in baltimore. we will pick up next couple of hours. it's basically 40s east of the ohio valley, heavy rain still up in new england. look at the cold air behind me. you have to shift focus to the back side of the storm. 34 chicago. they have the biggest snow event of the season. that is really not saying much, is it? 23 st. louis, 15 des moines. there's an arctic boundary, as we're winding this up and it pulls into new england strong winds whip around, that arctic boundary means business. a swath could be six to eight inches of snow for them. for us we're watching the boundary, wrapping around this upper level pattern that will drag in much colder air and probably take in some snow for us. trying to hold firm to the fact that this thing will have enough upper level support when it crosses the mountains with the cold air that when it hits us overnight rain quickly to snow, there could be a flash freeze for some places having tricky travel this time tomorrow morn

james earl ray met him in 1968. martin luther king is monday. and live pictures from tokyo. the treasury secretary tim geithner is paying a one-day visit to japan. he has meetings with the finance minister and prime minister of that country. >>> did you get a good night's rest? linda so has more to tell us about hidden problems many women may not even know they have. >> reporter: it's because this condition is usually associated with men. sleep apnea but more and more women are being diagnosed like kathy rossi, she tossed and turned for hours, wasn't able to get good sleep and was constantly exhausted. it took six doctors and six months to be diagnosed because she didn't have the typical symptoms, that is usually the case with women. that is why so many go undiagnosed. for example, women may not snore, the trademark red flag in men. once kathy was properly diagnosed she slept with a machine, that pumps air to the airways keeping them open. she was able to sleep soundly at night and no longer dealt with the pain of exhaustion. >> it hurt, i want to die. i was on one interstat

and the international manhunt for james earl ray. this weekend on booktv, new york times washington correspondent jill decanter looks at the first couple in their attempt to balance between personal life with requirements of public life tonight at 11:00. every weekend on c-span2. up next on booktv jean baker recounts the life of margaret sanger rubicam an expert on contraception after watching a woman diver self induced abortion in 1912. this is just over an hour. >> we move into this space last week where there were technical difficulties. we are glad you are here and i hope you found -- and my name is the mandel lighten. our evening event series. we are delighted to see all of you here. jean baker, author of "margaret sanger: a life of passion". she will be in conversation with cristina page. we often think of margaret sanger and the opening of that plan of -- family planning and birth control clinic in brownsville, she started that clinic after be a nurse here from the lower east side. here are two of the cohorts of the nobleman w

and the international manhunt for james earl ray. also this weekend on book tv, in her new release new york times correspondent judy cantor looks at the first couple and their attempts to balance a busy personal life with the balance of public life. tomorrow at 11:00 every weekend. >> up next jim baker recalls the life of birth control advocate margaret sanger. a bill will propose that. this is just over an hour. >> in case you did not know we moved into this space last week. we are playing with the technical difficulty. we're glad you're all year, and i hope you all founded drink and appreciate your patience. my name is amanda. curator of the evening event series. i am delighted to see all of you here. she's doing to of having a conversation with cristina page. the opening of that family planning and birth control clinic at 4610 voice street. she started exiting after being a nurse you're on the lower east side. she was a cohort of emma goldman, who by the way we will be disgusting -- discussing in just two weeks. it sends night sta

king and the international manhunt for james earl ray. this weekend on booktv in a new release new york times washington correspondent jody kantor looks at the first couple and their attempt to balance a busy personal life with the requirement of public life. tonight at 11:00. booktv on c-span2. winston groom recounts stephen watts kearney's to thousand american soldiers who marched from fort leavenworth to california in 1846. this is an hour and ten minutes. >> i am extremely flattered on this stormy night. you are finite for a murder. i am glad to be here. "kearny's march". never could figure out how the man pronounced his name. various possibilities but i often wondered. it might be kearney. i would like to be able to report that i came to this subject in a very academic way that i have been pursuing this question of conquest of the american west, 25 years and exploded onto the scene but it is not so. the way i got into this book is i was looking at general philip kearney or kearney or kearney, a civil war general for the union who was

you're kind of stuck with james earl ray being there. and yet a member of the king family shook his hand and said you had nothing to do with this. it's disturbing to me, but, you know, why they did that, that's their question, that's their business, and i think it has a lot to do with wanting that airing of a new trial that would have come if it had been possible. but by that point ray was dying of liver disease. there was a movement to try to get him a new liver. he was way down on the list because he was a convicted criminal. and i think maybe members of the king some thought if they could just get him a liver transplant it was possible to getting back on trial and really finally here what he had to say. because i think in the end that's the frustration, the most frustrating question, he went to his grave as the king family was compared windows i think with a lot of secrets. secrets that we may never have all the answers to. thanks for your question, and thank you so much for listening tonight. [applause] >> is there a nonfiction autho

it atracks james earl ray as he prepares to kill martin luther king? >> exactly.nt behind that. the fact he was a george wallace supporter in california. all of these things were really interesting. martin luther king you know, what was happening during that time, the talks that he was giving. just how, if you will, inflammatory it was and how the tensions were at such a heightened level. it was just really interesting. >> ma list? >> i'm teaching a course this semester on america's first ladies and i'm reading woody holton's book. it's about who the founders were and there was also a critically important what we have to think as prefeminist voice that is also part of -- >> don't forget the ladies. michelle? >> it's hard it to reach that much when you're running around south carolina. i was kind of going to speeches all day and reading joan diddy at night to cheer up. di get to re-read john richardson's classic esquire profile of mariand gingrich and how it explains. >> marianne is the second wife of newt gingrich. >> i road a by jody kantor. it's a favorable port

king and the international manhunt for james earl ray. also this weekend, in her new release, "the new york times" washington correspondents jodi kantor looks at the first couple and their efforts to balance a busy --public life with their personal life. it is easy to follow president to candidates with social media. it go to c-span's "campaign 2012" web site. read the latest from political reporters and what viewers like you are saying on facebook, twitter, and more. and access to most recent video. at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> "washington journal" continues. host: more politics as we talk with ari melber, a correspondent from "the nation" joining us from new york this morning. thanks for being here. guest: absolutely. host: we just spent 40 minutes talking to republicans only about the infighting, and specifically attacks on mitt romney over bain capital. how do you think all of this plays for the reelection bid of president obama? guest: i think any time we have any kind of seriously competitive primary there are concerns whether it

with , and civil rights activist john .ewis gue hampton sides with the international manhunt for james earl ray. "new york times" correspondent jodi kantor on the first couple. booktv, every weekend on a c- span2. the international spy museum held an event yesterday looking back at 2011's intelligence gathering, successes and failures worldwide trade the featured guest speaker was david major, who was the head of the national security council from 1985 to 1987 under the reagan administration. one note -- we warn you that there is a clip about saddam hussein's reign that is rather graphic. >> hours before this evening, david major, is a founding board member -- our speaker this evening, david major, is a founding board member of the international spy museum. he told me i cannot say he is an esteemed a board member, because that would make him sound old. he is not old. but he is a retired supervisory special agent and director of counterintelligence and security programs for the nse under reagan. he is founder of the center that provides counterintelligence, security studies, and trading. -- trai

king, and the international manhunt for james earl ray.and a new release, a correspondent looks at the first couple and their attempt to balance a busy personal life with the requirements of public life. that is saturday night at 11:00. "book tv" every weekend on c- span2. >> jonathan gruber has been an adviser for the massachusetts and national health care reform plans. at a town hall in seattle, he compared president obama's health care plan with the plan implemented in massachusetts. this is a little more than one hour. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> i really appreciate you being here at the town hall tonight. we have jonathan gruber here to speak, and award winning mit health economist and director of the program of the national bureau of economic research. he was a key architect -- i heard of him live when he was working in massachusetts helping the massachusetts people put together their reform. he has also worked with the administration and congress

jonathan writer examines the many speaking styles of reverend king and we discuss the manhunt for james earl ray. also on the tv, new york times washington correspondent joe decanter looks at the first couple and their attempt to -- jody cantor looks at the first couple and their attempt to balance personal and professional life. >> jonathan gruber is an economist at mit who served as an adviser for both the massachusetts and national health care laws. he recently explained the salaries and differences between the two. this is an hour. >> i really appreciate you being here at the town hall tonight. we have jonathan gruber here to speak, and award winning mit health economist and director of the program of the national bureau of economic research. he was a key architect -- i heard of him alive when he was -- a lot when he was working in massachusetts helping the massachusetts people put together their reform. he has also worked with the administration and congress when they developed the health care reform legislation that was passed about two years ago. he is also the co editor of the journal of

king, and a discussion on the international manhunt for james earl ray.rivate life. >> economist jonathan gruber has been an adviser for both the massachusetts and national health care reform plans. during a recent town hall in seattle, he compared president obama health care plan with a plan implemented in massachusetts. this is a little more than an hour. hong >> i really appreciate you being here at the town hall tonight. we have jonathan gruber here to speak, and award winning mit health economist and director of the program of the national bureau of economic research. he was a key architect -- i heard of him alive when he was working in massachusetts helping the massachusetts people put together their reform. he has also worked with the administration and congress when they developed the health care reform legislation that was passed about two years ago. he is also the co editor of the journal of public economics, associate editor of the journal of health economics. he has published more than 125 articles, has edited six research volumes, is author o

jonathan rider examines the many speaking styles of king, and hampton sides on james earl ray. in her new release, "new york times" corresponded jodi kantor looks at the first couple and their attempts to balance public life. >> in this episode, we will look at rick perry's surprising comment on climate change and the science behind research. >> there are a substantial number of scientists who of manipulated data. >> what i do is i rate different comments by politicians on a 1-4 scale. if you see something that is outrageous, you'll get four pinocchios. something slightly misleading, as little as one. >> glenn kessler evaluates and rates the truthfulness of political figures and others. >> whether they are deliberately lying, and the politician says the same thing over and over again even as it has been pointed out as untrue, they know they are saying something untrue and they are just going to say it anyway. >> "the washington post's" glenn kessler, sunday night on "q&a." > "washington journal" continues. host: frank newport joins us to talk about independent voters. the numbe

and the international manhunt for james earl ray. also this weekend on book tv, new york times washington correspondent judy cantor looks at the first couple and they're attempt to balance a busy personal life with the requirements of public life saturday night at 11:00. book tv every weekend on c-span2. >> and we return, again, to the brookings institution here in washington d.c. where business leaders and economic analysts have been talking all day about what needs to be done to create jobs. the next panel former treasury secretary robert rubin will be one of the panelists. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay. welcome to the last session of today's important conversations. we are going to cover state and local economic development policies and how they fit into a broader growth agenda for the united stat