there's a book out about john brown. john brown attacked harpers ferry. the puzzle should election is a year way. one of the things i learned in high school, i'm hoping to bring it back, is chronology. remember how you used to have to learn that the american revolution happened before the industrial revolution? that's important to know. [laughter] but if you actually know that john brown raid happened a before the presidential election, you will see people were really upset. and then we have the dred scott decision, 1867 which is one of the dumbest and stupidest decisions ever handed down by the united states supreme court. in that decision, amending dred scott was taken to a free state. he thought he should be free. the court said that blacks have no right at all, they said the black is from an entry order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, even in a social or political relations. and so far they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. that's the united states supreme court. southerners are giblet about the dred scott

john brown also connecticut as stowe so you see overlaps year. author of walt whitman, a cultural biography, e-book with a straightforward title, walt whitman. he's the author of believe the american renaissance the imagination and the age of emmerson and nels will and i found that that word subversives came up quite a bit in his analysis of ongoing tom's cabin and its impact and to david is the author of fifa fiction the religious literature in america. when you see the books we begin to understand how much -- how often he may have run into stowe in his other work. the latest book we're talking about tonight is "mightier than the sword" come on call tom's cabin and the battle for america which is as i mentioned will be released june 14th, stowe's 200th birthday. also released by oxford university press will be in the modern version of the splendid addition of an uncle tom's cabin, an absolutely gorgeous document you have to wait until then to get so please strangled the link david reynolds to the harriet beecher stowe center. david? [applause] >

john brown also a connecticutan as stowe is, so you are already seeing some overlaps here. author of "wallet whitman's -- walt whitman's america," a book with the straightforward title, "walt whitman." he's the author of beneath the american renaissance in the age of emerson and melville, and i certainly found that that s word, subversive, came up quite a bit in his analysis of "uncle tom's cabin "and its impact. and david is the author of faith and fiction, so when you see this list of books, you begin to understand how much he may -- how often he may have run into stowe and uncle tom's cabin in his other work. his latest book that we are talking about tonight is "mightier than the sword: uncle tom's cabin and the battle for america," which as i mentioned will be released by norton on june 14th, stowe's 200% birthday. also released that day will be a new, modern version of the splendid edition of "uncle tom's cabin," an absolutely gorgeous document that you have to wait until then to get. so, please, join me in welcoming david reynolds to the harriet beecher stowe center.

the fugitive since act, the dread scott decision, john brown was causing havoc and so forth. >> rudd, what happened in 1850, the fugitive slave law, a fugitive slaves from the come to the north, if you don't capture them and help return them to the south you go sale and pay a thousand dollars fine which was a lot of money back then. really, really mad about that. her sister-in-law said, you know how to write. why don't you go back and write a novel. she said don't you know, i'm going to. and she did. but then what happens, however, is that there are a series of other laws after that. the kansas-nebraska act which opens up the western territory to slavery. the dread scott decision. african americans can never be citizens of the united states. they have no rights whatsoever. and she got really, really, not just angry, but have very, very bitter. when she writes her novel that appears a little bit later it is a much more better novel. it is about a slave rubble who is the son of mark casey who led the state's rebellion. even though he dies before he can launch the slave rebellion he stil

in the case of john brown, since the iv was in his neck, he got a rush and that was the first drug ande kind of raised up in the straps. i was holding his hand -- he wanted me to hold his hand. so i wound up having to put my thumb under here and push him down with my hand, push his shoulder to the table and hold that so the iv wouldn't rub on the trap and dislodge and but at the same time, i'm holding his hand. you kind of get in a conflict with yourself, you're holding him down, but holding his hand to give comfort, again, i couldn't be there to hold the victim's hand or i would have, so do what you can here. >> warden cain has overseen six executions during his tenure. death by lethal injection might have been temporarily stalled, but death by incarceration never falters. the population is aging, with hundreds of men 60 years and older. even they dream of freedom. >> i got hopes. i just got denied a hearing, a hearing from the department of parole. i wrote them two weeks later, and they sent back said, at this time we can't put you on parole because of the nature of your crime, which

supported john brown. >> that's exactly right. they become friendly with edwin and introduce h into that higher circle tha adam heed to bring limb into. and he gets moved up the lader that john wilkes booth never does and that's the cane and ahbel saga. >> rose: who was behind this conspiracy? >> where there's a group of people. they were simply going to... they wanted to just kidnap him and exchange prisoners, southern an northern prisoners with him. but the night of the actual attack on lincoln also they wanted to kill seward because they thought the secretary of state might take over. they had to get rid of him. they had to get rid of the vice president. >> rose: didn't they go to seward's house? >> seward was knife sod badly he nearly died. >> rose: where was he? >> he lived in a house. >> rose: they went to his house? >> they went to his house. somehow the guy... there were three people who were going to be part of the assassination. the guy who was supposed to ll vice president johnson g drunk and ner carried out his task of

the weekend little fingers ten little toads but little john michael is anything but little john michael brown the biggest baby ever born there weighing a whopping sixteen pounds use a liver by c. section and guess what his parents said no more kids. really i mean it's not as of our entire economy is on the brink of a d. fault because congress can't get their act to.

we talk to john burns of "the new york times" and david folkenflik of npr. >> brown: then, we ask nuclear regulatory commission chair gregory jaczko if u.s. reactors could withstand an earthquake like the one that devastated japan. >> ifill: from indonesia, ray suarez reports on the challenges and the troubles facing one of the world's largest democracies. >> it made tremendous strides politically and economically but still struggles with corruption. >> brown: kwame holman updates the budget battles as the house and senate offer dueling plans for reducing the deficit. >> ifill: and judy woodruff explores the deadline-driven deal cutting underway with political editor david chalian. >> brown: plus, in a season of tornadoes, floods and more, we get some poetic perspective on the beauty and power of nature. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar,

we also have with us john brown. he is one of america's for most experts when it comes to technology and innovation. a chief scientist for xerox for nearly two decades, dr. brown helped to change the face of corporate research. he is also an acclaimed writer, which challenges some of the conventional wisdom and mythology surrounding the role of information technology in today's society and describes the changing nature of education. in its second printing and has been translated into nine languages. today, dr. brown has 1 foot in the corporate world and 1 foot in the academic world. he cochairs a center which conducts research on the corporate world. he is a visiting scholar to the university of southern california. dr. brown can share with us how firms, large and small, plus benefits from university partnerships and to discuss the implications of state policy and campus practice. we will first hear from dr. hawkfield. ladies and gentlemen, the head of massachusetts institute of technology. [applause] thank you very m

born over the weekend to little fingers little but little joe michael is anything but little john michael brown the biggest baby ever born there weighing a whopping sixteen pounds use a liver for a c section and guess what is fair and said no more kids. really i mean it's not as of our entire economy is on agreeing that a default because congress can't get their act together and. well social security medicare and medicaid are all about to be cut affecting millions of americans let's just talk about a fat baby that's a great local news story but is it really how to take up the time of the most trusted name fair and balanced forward leading supposedly real news channels now i don't blame the mother for not wanting to have any more kids but how about we think about the mothers all across this country who have lost their kids in the pointless wars that we're fighting abroad is that really too much to ask especially when leon panetta fresh in his new position of secretary of defense is making the rounds talking to the troops and there are a number of very intriguing very revealing it statements made

. >> reporter: john henry brown is colton's attorney. >> he evaded homeland security.t's pretty embarrassing for the government in some ways. but he didn't know he was doing those things at all. he told me one time, he really had no plan. >> reporter: the last plane colton stole he flew to the bahamas where he lasted a few days before police caught him by shooting up a stolen boat he drove onto a sandbar. in june, colton pleaded guilty in federal court. he's likely to spend about ten years in prison, meaning he'll be out at the age of 30. >> he stole five airplanes without really knowing what he was doing. he crashed five times. and he lived to tell the tale. and i think that's pretty amazing. >> reporter: ted rowlands, cnn, he everett, washington. >> barry minko started a business in his parents basement in at 16 and ended up bilking investors out of millions of dollars before he was caught. >> reporter: back in the 1980s, teenager barry minkow seemingly had it all, a ferrari, a carpet cleaning business and -- >> i'm president -- >> barry made it easy for people to be

"the lawman" starring john russell and peter brown, whereupon he said -- ♪ the lawman came with the sunor the badge and the gun of the lawman ♪ [ laughter ] and then i said -- ♪ a man who rides all alone and all that he'll ever own ♪ ♪ is just badge and a gun and he's known as the lawman ♪ [ applause ] >> jimmy: very, very nice. [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah. how in the hell the roots know that. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. no, they know every song. and they're in everyone's brain. they are the greatest band ever. [ laughter ] thank you so much for coming back to the show. last time i saw you, you were -- you were selling -- we were trying to buy the olympics, nbc. >> yeah. >> jimmy: we got it. >> and you showed up as part of our presentation, but i was reminded when you did the thank you notes, that in vancouver, for the last winter olympics, you came up. and you sat on the set with me and did thank you notes. and my favorite one was, "thank you, biathlon, for combining athletic competition with firearms." [ laughter ] "in the united states, we enjoy that, too. but, we just call it th

we also have with us john seely brown, thank you for being with us as well. he's one of america's foremost experts when it comes to technology and involve vision. -- innovation. as chief scientist for the xerox company, he helped to change the face of corporate research. he's also an acclaimed bringer, co-authoring, surrounding the role of information technology in today's society and describes the changing nature of education. it ins his second printing and has been translated into nine languages. today, dr. brown has one foot in the corporate world and one foot in the academic world. he cochairs the center for the edge which conducts original research on new corporate growth. he's also a visiting color and senior advisor to the provost at the university of southern california. in staiding both worlds, dr. brown can share with us how firms large and small best benefit from university-industry partnerships and discuss the implications of state policy and campus practice. so we'll first hear from dr. hockfield, then dr. brown. ladies and gentlemen, the head of

sporting while english premier league side sunderland have signed munched united defensive gio john o'shea and wedge brown on four year deals for undisclosed fees o'shea is thirty years old and brown is thirty one and between them they made over six hundred appearances for united winning two champions league and five premier league winners medals as well as two f.a. cups and to leak. now a fast rising cyclist boston hardin has given british team sky their maiden stage picture at the tour de france thursday six stages the longest in this year's tour two hundred twenty six kilometers for the second day running there were problems for defending champion alberto contador he had a stuck pedal and had to quickly swap his bike for teammates but didn't lose any significant time while radio shack hit the ground hard after his bike from under him in slippery conditions but the wet weather didn't stop the sprinters from throwing caution to the wind at the end it was a slight uphill finish internet and it was thought glossy hard in the black on the far right time his bid for the line to perfection keeping matt dawson

while english premier league side sunderland have signed munched united defensive gio john o'shea and wedge brown on four year deals for undisclosed fee so shy is thirty years old and brown is thirty one between and they made over six hundred appearances for united winning two champions league and five premier league win his medals as well as two f.a. cups and two the cups. elsewhere the president of turkey's champions from the back is being questioned about a match fixing scam that threatens to strip the club of its league title prosecutors will quit. after. painting evidence of cheating in nineteen first and second division games in two she won sixteen of seventeen league matches in the latter part of the season to come from a distant third place in sports of the title on goal difference so far twenty five suspects have been charged on suspicion of manipulating matches last season. fast rising cyclist boston harbor and has given british team sky that night and stage victory at the tour de france thursday six stage was the longest in this year's tour two hundred twenty six kilometers for the sec

each and every writer to sell his or her books directly to readers not just the steven king's and john browns and john grisham who mark my words will be do egg it soon enough but each and every person in this room today and each and every person whoever gets it together put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard and churn out a few hundred or 1,000 or 100,000 words. i'm not talking about amazon's print on demand and ebook services. amazon is not your friend. amazon is a thief that takes your money in return for insinuating yourself between you and your readers. i'm talking about a host of services and portals some well established, some fledgling and some being invented even as we speak available everywhere across the internet and everywhere the internet is available. i don't know why writers are mourning a death for so little so long especially when there's so much to be excited about. from where i stand, i can see a world not so far in the future in which books are soaped only by their authors for small collectives for one or two online portals that charge a nominal fee for their service rathe

my life, with john's wife and my wife connie in the gallery john glenn -- the presiding officer: the senate will come to order, please. mr. brown: john glenn h escorted me in to be sworn in as a united states senator from owe 0. now as a grandfather,es husband, and father, i continue to be inspired. born in cambridge, ohio, 150 miles east of dayton where the wright brothers first figured out how to fly, he attended public school and became an eagle scout in new concord. it was where -- it was there he would meet his childhood sweetheart and future wife. they literally shared a playpen. she was time of my life from the time of my first memory, he said. since they married, they earned the add you don'tlation of people around the world for their accomplishments and devoted love. by 1941, he'd studied mathematics and earned his pilots' license. before the attack on pearl harbor, he dropped out of college to enlist in the navy and after two years of advanced aviator training was reassigned to the u.s. marine complete. john glenn flew 59 combat missions with the marines in world war i i and 90 combat missions with the marines and air

meanwhile sunderland applied manchester united defensive john o'shea and was brown on. four year deals for undisclosed fees which we know the thirty year old republic of ireland store was oshea thirty one year old brown made six hundred seventeen appearances in knighted winning two champions league five premier league winners medals as well as two a fake up into league clubs brown retired from england duty in august last year after winning twenty three caps. while elsewhere host argentina are still without a win at the copper america and were lucky to get away with a goal of straw against colombia argentina has drawn their opening game with bolivia and little messy and co were hoping to get the home fans something to cheer about instead they were left holding their breath as colombia created the best chances to start over ramos some good opportunities here. and that was before they go military court back pass colombia another chance and even after imus was bundled over a row they now had an open goal to a matter that some have missed and argentina can also be grateful t

john mccain. correspondent steve brown reports romney has a different approach this time. >> republican presidential candidate mitt romney is running like the general election campaign has already begun. with the gauntlet of state nomination contests not even scheduled to start for another seven months, today in the battleground state of ohio, touring an equipment manufacturer, the gop frontrunner once again challenged president obama on the economy, jobs, and standing up to china on trade. >> and the president, when he was a candidate, said that he was going to take china to the mat. well, i'm afraid most of us thought he meant the wrestling mat, but instead he and we have been taken to the door glute new gallup polling finds american voters prefer a generic republican candidate over president obama by eight percentage points, and among declared presidential candidates, romney remains on top with 27%. only minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann is reasonably close at 18. but while the rest of the gop field scrambles through the early contest states looking for support, romney, in his second white

john chapman, felicia fugati, taylor brown. thomas darkweather. vanessa worry. >> ma'am, has your name been called? president olague: if your name's been called, please start coming up to the mic. >> hello. president olague: if you have a card, you should put the card on the thing and we'll eventually get to it. >> hello. my name is john chapman and i'm speaking on behalf of larkin street. this is for all the youth my age. i think you should give us a chance. as far as improving the housing, it would get the property off the street. you may not reach everybody, but you'll reach some, and that's the people who actually want to do something. you come as a person who -- i'm from the east coast and we don't have no problems like that up there. and to come out here and actually have a chance to better ourselves than to stay down, yeah. why not give us a chance and let us have a chance to make this nation wherever you need it to be back at. that's all i have to say. president olague: thank you. >> i'm felicia and i'm also with larkin. i'm a survivor of

brown. fox 5's john henrehan brings us up to date on the story. >> reporter: kwame brown spent much of the day chairing a committee of the whole meeting of the d.c. council. his attorney spent the morning at the city's board of elections and ethics. the issue for kwame brown is not the expensive leases for luxury suvs. it's campaign activities for his city council race in 2008. william sanford, general council for the city's office of campaign finance, alleged kwame brown's campaign committee failed to list all its donors and expenditures, the amounts big sums. here's one example. >> by failing to timely report expenditures totaling $169,439.49 in the total sum of expenditures made by the committee. >> reporter: kwame brown's attorney asked the board to take no action but simply refer the whole matter to federal prosecutors. >> while we do not agree, concede those allegations as being true, it's our position that as a matter of efficiency and expedition this process is best served if this matter is referred to the office of the united states attorney. >> reporter: the chairman of the board of

lisa murkowski of alaska, bob corker of tennessee, roy blunt of missouri, john thune of south dakota, scott brown of massachusetts. they're publicly out there. we do know privately a handful of others. so you see how this coalition is going to come together. the question is how big will it be in order to get it so you get a bipartisan vote on the -- out of the house there, lester? >> chuck todd at the white house, thanks. >>> now back to the economic data we got today. gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the economy rose just 1.3% this spring. that's weak. and below what economists had forecast. the really bad news came in the revised number for the first quarter of this year, 0.4%. the economy was basically flat lining. this didn't help matters on wall street today. the dow was down under 97 points. the nasdaq was down almost 10 points. the s&p 500 fell more than 8, capping the worst week for the markets in a year. cnbc's david faber joins me now. there is no way to sugar coat the numbers. is the bottom line was the recession deeper than any of us thought? >> the recession was very,

brown. fox 5s john henry hap has more on the story -- john henrehan has more. >> reporter: this does not involve the expensive lincoln navigators he wanted the city to lease for him. by the way, they're gone. the issue is campaign finance regularities and big sums are involved. kwame brown spent much of the day chairing a committee on of the whole meeting of the d.c. council. his attorney spent the morning at the city's board of elections and ethics. the issue for brown is not the expensive leases for luxury suvs, but campaign activities for his race for city council in 2008. william sanford, the general council alleged that brown's campaign committee failed to list all of its donors and expenditures. the amounts are big sums. this is one example. by failing to -- 53 exend tours, totaling 169,439.49 in the total sum of expenditures that were made by the committee. >> reporter: some of kwame brown's campaign money was allegedly support to a firm owned by his brother. the attorney asked the board to take no action but to refer the whole matter to federal prosecutors. >> and while we do not agree,

. >> reporter: ohio's brown met astronaut john glenn has an eagle scout and 40 years later when he, too, became a member of the senate. >> and that is a good tradition in our country, endured for 100 years and because it teaches discipline and is about service. >> reporter: georgia's sanford bishop said being an eagle scout not only inspired him to go into public service but earned him votes, too. i was in a district that had a large number of non-african- americans. one of the members came up to me after the speech and said if you were an eagle scout, you had to be a good man and that is why i voted for you. >> reporter: given the road connecting scouting and congress, it makes you wonder if any of these young scouts will one day trade in the scouting motto for the oath of office. >> i deal my best to do my duty to god and my country to help other people and all. >> to keep myself physical strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. >> reporter: on capitol hill, jennifer davis, fox news. >>> and he is just days away from the world premiere of the final harry potter movie. tonight, da

nevada, home of senate majority leader harry reid and karen kasler in ohio where speaker john boehner comes from. >> brown: then, margaret warner interviews the new head of the international monetary fund, christine legarde about the debt crisis here and in europe. >> the global economy is clearly highly dependent on the u.s. economy. so to have the lead economy uncertain about its debt ceiling is quite worrisome. >> woodruff: spencer michels updates the story of honey bees dying in large numbers for the last five years. >> a lot of research is taking place in the lab and in the field but the mystery of the disappearing bees remains. >> brown: ray suarez talks to paul farmer about his new book on haiti, still reeling from the massive earthquake and cholera epidemic. >> you can get stuff done in haiti, you work with haitian colleagues and public health authorities, you can get things done. but it does require just gutting it out, sticking with it, and not being discouraged. >> woodruff: plus, we explore the discovery of a new traveling companion for planet earth, an asteroid dancing back and forth in orbit

. >> brown: and ray suarez remembers n.f.l. hall-of-famer john mackey, whose struggle with dementia after his pro career focused attention on the link between football and brain disease. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> oil companies make huge profits. >> last year, chevron made a lot of money. >> where does it go? >> every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. >> the economy is tough right now, everywhere. >> we pumped $21 million into local economies, into small businesses, communities, equipment, materials. >> that money could make a big difference to a lot of people. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: high-l

john mandell. but watch, he is challenging sherrod brown.s a republican primary but he's likely to emerge from that. he's 33 years old. fund-raising numbers came out. he is out in ohio. he outraised brown by $800,000. he's a candidate that's been endorsed by jim demint, tea party, and also moderate republicans. that's my home state. chris: sherrod brown will kick his butt. your thoughts. >> the bounce out of new york with gay marriage is going to land in washington in days to come when they're going to have the first hearing to repeal doma, defense of marriage act. that will give it a lot of attention. >> back to the issue dare not speak its name in washington, the economy. twice this weekend in the press conference, barack obama mentioned the idea of a national infrastructure bank. it's the next big idea. we put in $10 billion. chris: to create jobs for 2012. >> it will create jobs and provide infrastructure that isn't riddled with pork because it's not going through the appropriations -- chris: can you get it through congress? >> maybe. ch

. >> reporter: sherrod brown first met astronaut john glenn as an eagle scout and then 40 years later when he became a member of the senate. >> it is a good tradition. it has endured for a hundred years because it teaches discipline and it is all about service. >> reporter: and george's stanford bishop says being an eagle scout not only inspired him to go into public service. he says it earned him votes too. >> i was running in a district that had a large number of nonafrican-americans. one of the members came up to me after the speech and said if you were an eagle scout, you had to be a good man and that is why i voted for you. >> reporter: given the road connecting scouting and congress, it does macyou wonder if any of these young scouts will one day trade in the scouting motto for an oath of office. >> on my onor, i will do my best to do my duty to god and my country to help other people at all times. >> to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight. >> reporter: on capitol hill, jennifer davis, fox news. >> that's great. >> that is a great idea. >> i missed

john king usa" starts right now. >>> thanks, wolf. good evening. tonight's britain's tabloid scandal escalates. two rupert murdoch-owned newspapers obtained and published information about prime minister gordon brown's family and finances. and tensions between the united states and syria, near a boiling point tonight. a government that beats its own people when they march peacefully slow to offer help when the united states embassy sund attack. >>> tonight the united states being unable to pay its bills because it's maxed out its credit line. to get more spending power president obama is trying to broker a deal with congress that would slash $2 trillion in red ink over the next decade. republicans refuse to raise taxes. president obama is left to sound like a nagging parent. no breakthrough at this afternoon's white house session. the president will reconvene the talks tomorrow. let's discuss the stakes and politics with jessica yellin and gloria borger. the sound we didn't quite have there was the time saying it's time to rip off the band-aid, eat our peas. he spent a half hour with the key negotiators in the room. what happened today? any progress? >> no breakthroughs, but the way it's been descri