and i think it came partly from john brown's temperament. most abolitionists of this era are really pacifists, and they believe that the way to fight slavery is through education and moral uplift. john brown is something -- nothing galvanizes him more than bullying goes unanswered throughout his life. he can't stand cravenness in the face of evil. he's someone who wants to punch back. and i think there's this temperamental part of him as well, that he looks around and sees the nation really being bullied by the slave-holding south throughout his life. and he wants to stand up to it. so i think that's part of it, too. so i wouldn't say there's any one experience or any one part of him that results in this militant abolitionism. >> you know, some suggest -- and you addressed this in your book -- that he knew when he had only 18 men, to go in and take over an armory, which washington himself said, in then virginia, that it was not going to be successful and his ultimate goal was to be a martyr. what is your opinion about that? because what -- i

but in the final twist is at john brown's hanging, one of the guards is john wilkes booth, who later writes about being quite inspired by brown or talks to his sister about it. she writes about it. she calls him the great man of the century. here's a man who took an act that changed the course of american history, and that's ultimately what john wilkes booth then does in assassinating lincoln. >> chill bumps. i got 'em. i hope you all do, too. >> yeah. . >> when you read this book, you're going to get more, because i'm going to tell you something that you do so remarkably well, and that is these names, they're names on history book pages for most people. but you actually open up their hearts, their lives, their thoughts and fears to us. there are stories in here that are just astonishingly powerful, one of which is the story of african-american dangerfield newby, who was a freed black man who had his wife and six children? >> yeah, five or six. >> five or six children who were still enslaved, and he had raised $750 to buy their freedom. the master reneged. he was fed up. he was contin

with john brown, given all that you've done and know about this man, what was the most profoundly riveting thing once you get into his mind. >> these were wonderfully literate people, and brown, though not a well-educated man, had a wonderful writing style. thank god his handwriting is legible, which i learned is not the case. there's one character in the story where you just simply can't -- you can turn it upside-down, you try all those tricks. you open your eyes and close them. you still just can't read it. brown's letters are -- have a kind of spare eloquence, and so you feel you can really understand this man both from his own writing and from what other people said about him. i don't think there's any one well spring to his sort of ferocious abolitionism and animous towards slavery. this isn't a sort of epiphany. he claims it so. there's a long letter talking about his childhood, and he claims that it's the site of seeing a slave boy beaten with a shovel when he was 12. i'm sure that contributed to it, but i think it went much deeper. his father was an early abolitionist, and he was a

on your second question there are movies that allude to john brown, some pretty bad ones. "santa fe trail." he's too hot to handle. what do you do with brown? he's not a hollywood hero. here's a guy we would feel was on the right side of history except that he shed blood to achieve his aims. he's sort of a quintessential american with a bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. and that's -- i think he makes us very uncomfortable, and that's why i find hip fascinating, why i think he's worthy of more study, but i think he poses a challenge. it's a very dramatic story, particularly all the other characters, and there's much more romance in this story than i would have guessed going into it. brown's followers are almost all young men unmarried, and they're working it hard with the girls in the entire lead-up, you know. we have their love letters and we have some wonderful romantic stories. but i think it's a great story, but i am not sure it fits an easy hollywood mold. it's like nat turner, another figure in our history there's never been a movie about that i know. >> want

, of course, i'm sure as many of you know, that's when an armed band of abolitionists by led by john brown seized an armory in hopes of sparking a slave rebellion. and although brown's plan failed, the raid just fueled white southerners' fear that a northern conspiracy was existing in their midst to turn the slaves against them they began to question the loyalty of the enslaved. in fact, those who had served them. they became very fearful. susan bradford, for example, found the news of harper's ferry quite distressing and grew increasingly anxious about the status of the slaves in her own home. the bradford family was a very prominent wealthy family and they owned a plantation in leon county, florida. they owned 142 slaves. i'm not surprised that she was worried. a lot of them, of course, most of them worked in the fields, but there were a handful that she considered extensions of her family and even those people who worked more intimately in the home with her, she questioned their loyalty. she became very suspicious of them. she had several comments to say about this. she wrote after hear

on act 16th, 1859, when they stormed the fire engine house and captured five rebels commanded by john brown. harper's ferry, 1859. now, maybe commanding two companies of marines is all you need. the marines contend that way anyway. but here is lee confronting 105,000 yankees who are in the suburbs of richmond. and what did he do? he set his men to work digging trenches, field fortifications. and so this man who had been called granny lee, the overcautious, is now known as the king of spades because all he wants to do is have these trained killers, these warriors, dig ditches with shovels with picks and things and that's not much fun. but that's what soldiers do! and lee points that out. what he wants to do and what he did was to hold richmond with 25,000 troops, fall upon mcclellan's flank which he discovered was exposed by way of stewart's dramatic ride around mcclellan, the raid in june 12-15, 12th through the 15th of 1862. and he's going to fall upon mcclellan's flank with 45,000 troops. and then he's going to bring jackson in from the valley with 20,000 more to attack mcclellan's rear.

with him and said will you funnel as many slaves out of the south as possible, be a new sort of john brown for me? douglass said sure. thank you very much. he went back up north. he sent telegrams, letters all across the north. he was trying to put together a team of people and he did for a week or two that would sort of be the agents of this system. and then came the fall of atlanta. and that whole plan was completely ignored. and sheridan's successes notice shenandoah valley had something to do with it. what happened on the battlefield didn't really happen. that plan was never put in place but the idea that lincoln was asking him to do that was extraordinary. they then met finally at lincoln's second inaugural and probably running out of time, right? >> let's do one more. >> they meet at the second inaugural in the white house at the reception after the speech. which is a very moving moment. maybe we can talk afterward. yes, sir. >> would you confirm that his first wife refused to learn to read and write? >> yes, that's true. anna murray douglass remained a nonreader and a nonwriter all

in the case of john brown, since the iv was in his neck, he got a rush, and kind of raised up in the straps. i was holding 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 the -- wouldn't rub on the strap and dislodge. 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 is never going to change. you see? never

guest: he never met john brown.at john brown was an anomaly and not a real republican and not indicative of what republicans wanted. they were totally separate. no, lincoln did not own slaves. that's a question that comes up every once and a while. another friend of mine wrote a book saying "did president lincoln own slaves or other myths about president lincoln"? his wife grew up in a household that had slaves and she was raised by an african-american woman who was an enslaved domestic at her home. that could be how that rumor started. i don't think i'll get into the hereditary question but there's no doubt that they -- forcing -- forbidding enslaved people from learning to read or write was a horrendous act of sort of intellectual violence that had repercussions for generations. host: one of our viewers saying speak to us about the coming slave revolt before the emancipation. what was president lincoln facing from the slaves, if anything? guest: there's no question that slaves were leaving their plantations becaus

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jason and john did "brown eyed gi girl", got all the girls going.te party going. >> jimmy: and then this happened. >> oh, god. no. oh, my god, i'm horrible. >> jimmy: what does the crowd say when famous people get up -- >> it's weird. you know what's funny? they were much more kind to john and jason. it was all girls. it was like, yeah, let's get the blokes back on. >> jimmy: they said blokes here in america? we have to teach you how to speak english. we really do. >> i know. your girlfriend molly is my favorite with this stuff. she loves my accent and she doesn't even realize she's doing it. but she mimics me outloud subconsciously and so we were in the car, i said, can you pass me the water and i heard her go, "water." she was practicing it. >> jimmy: do a little bit of your mother, because i enjoy it. >> my favorite story about my mom was when, oh, god, going to give me -- you like this story, but my oldest sister was washing up, my sister has a very live figure, i will say, she's in great shape, but maybe at this time she put on a few pounds, it

. >> brown: so john coffee, you've been looking at this for a long time. sarbanes-oxley, of course, referring back to the post-enron scandal issues. what concerns do you have with this new law? >> well, reasonable people can disagree about sarbanes-oxley and a number of other revisions in this bill. there are good things and bad things. but what's really fundamental is this bill undoes what has been the key overarching principle of our system of securities regulation for 80 years or more. and that key principle is justice brandeis's rule that sunlight is the best disinfectant, electricity the best policeman. we let people take high risk, but we compel disclosure to them. that is about to change because under the jobs act we're retreating from this principle of transparency and we're allowing a large number of companies-- some of them quite sizable with potentially billions in assets to sell stock to the public and then cut off all further disclosures because under this statute as long as you do not have 2,000 shareholders of record-- and i stress the words

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brown. >>> and actor john cusack tells us about his new movie "the raven."he "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for joinings us. i'm michelle miller. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> possible new leads in the search for sierra lamar this morning, the renewed hope for answers >> the final takeoff for

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. >>> john brice will join remember are you brown in san jose along with many ceos in the silicone valley are scheduled to attend. they will discuss the innovation and competitiveness in a global economy. >>> many at&t workers plan to show unawaring stickers again this morning. that is after the stickers were sent home. workers across the state say the letters do not stand for what most people might think. >> we refuse to take the stickers off and we refuse to go ahead and leave. >> they did e-mail a statement saying company policy rio de janeiro choir employees but we don't believe such a sticker or button is appropriate in our home businesses. >>> they are looking to why female firefighters in san francisco have a much higher rate of breast cancer. now earlier we told you went in their 40s in the fire department are ten times more likely to get breast cancer than other women. now they are proposing a first of its kind study to toxic exposures. >> there are dangers i haven't thought i signed up for. >> we are looking at what both men and women contracting cancer at pretty alarming rates.

and nobody knows the answer, but if you had to speculate, janet brown, do you think john kennedy would have debated in 1964 in his own election? >> one could only go to the 1960 debate and see a young candidate who was clearly comfortable with a new medium, television. it strikes me that if you had to guess, you would say that he probably came away from that feeling as if it had been a good thing. there are bits and pieces of interviews that show that he appreciated the potential for the medium and for reaching big numbers of people. my bet is that he probably would have thought that that should be considered seriously in '64. >> let's go to 1976. this is the debate that took place in san francisco. and to go back to janet brown's earlier point, re-enforcing a view that gerald ford was the accidental president, was he up to the job? this is one of the moments that helped reeforce the narrative. >> in the case of helsinki, 35 nations signed an agreement, including the secretary of state for the vatican, i can't under any circumstances believe that the pope would agree by signing that ag

from little brown, john lewis gaddis, george f. kennan in american life from pendulum press.ul hendrickson, hemingway's vote everything he left in life and lost, 1934 trinkle 1961. manning marable, malcolm x, a life of reinvention. and ezra vogel, deng ziaoping and the transformation of china, harvard university press. and the 2001 nbcc award of the biography goes to john lewis gaddis george f. kennan, an american life. [applause] and i will read the citation from marianna who couldn't be with us tonight. georgette kennan and american life by john lewis gaddis is the story of an american diplomat, who turns it inspired, exasperated and appalled never held high office indicated the necessary insincerities of the diplomatic trade triet gaddis, a distinguished historian, began work on the biography in 1982. his task and it is 30 years later after his death after 101-years-old. a long biography to read a long life. he built a portrait of the man was the instincts of a master manipulator and a temperament and also to for the service. his containment doctrine governed american fore

john. i would also like to thank secretary brown and professor herring for taking time to think about mcnamara once again, and to offer useful and insightful comments for us to consider. i'd also like to thank one other person. the former osd historian, dr. alfred goldberg, is the person who hired me for this project. al oversaw the project, he shaped it, he edited it, he critiqued it. and along the way, he taught me a great deal about history, writing, and the department of defense. george herring raised the point about the availability of sources that i used to academic and other scholars, not in the defense community. unfortunately, it's not a straightforward answer. many of the files that i worked with, while i was in the office of secretary of defense historical office, were held by the osd records management office. that office was preparing to transfer these files to the washington national records center in maryland. there were also other osd records for the period at suitland awaiting secessioning by the archives and records administration. the difference is, that the records at suitl

. >>> in just a couple of hours, john brice will be joining senator brown in san jose.he mayors of san jose and san francisco along with many ceos are expected to be there. they will discuss innovation and education as well as california's competitiveness in a worldwide economy. >>> only on 2, they are looking into researchers why the san francisco fire department has a much higher rate of breast cancer. earlier we told you female firefighters are more likely to get breast cancer than other women. that story helped researchers and now they are push pushing to find out what could be the expose use after the fire is put out what clement calls are entering -- chemicals are entering our bloodstreams. >> sal is back. sounds good so far. >>> we do have a problem near the north bay on 128th street near sonoma, the head-on collision involving a big-rig and pick up truck, injuries are involved, calling for a big-rig tow truck to come to the area and they will see how long it takes to clean this up and it will be a tough one this morning. also looking at live pictures, i want to

it didn't go anywhere. >> brown: with sufficient numbers to passing? >> john boehner made this offer to the president. the president was never willing to actually do the leadership role to get it down. >> brown: you have been involved in campaigns, as we said. you say this is a political issue at the moment. is it going to remain as one? do you see this as one that sort of continues with us over the next months? >> i think the president's clearly decided that this is a valuable political tactic. i expect them to continue with it. there is bolling suggests that he's making misa mistakes. that swing voters aren't interested in this pointless battle about fairness. they want the jobs, they want the debt controlled. they want real changes. >> brown: douglas holtz-eakin, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> woodruff: next, community colleges feel the strain of tight budgets and rising demand. california is one state where the problem has been particularly prominent of late. newshour correspondent spencer michels reports. >> it's a beautiful color back here but t

. >> woodruff: john isaacs, thanks very much. >> brown: and now to our second asia story, the political scandal rocking china, it even involves allegations of murder. margaret warner has our story. >> warner: at the center of the drama, bo xilai, the most senior chinese leader to fall in more than two decades. he was once viewed as a political golden boy. the son of a revolutionary hero, bo moved up the ladder quickly becoming mayor of the coastal economic hub dalian. he then became communist party chief of a southwestern megacity of 30 million, chongqing. there he seized national attention for launching a maoist-style red songs campaign and for a tough anti-corruption campaign that racked up 2,000 arrests. but things started unraveling in early february. when his ally, police chief, wang lijun, was demoted, fled to the u.s. consulate in nearby chengdu, and began talking. up till then, the charismatic bo had been angling for promotion to the party's most elite ruling circle, the politburo's standi committee. instead, on march 15, he was ousted from his chongqing post. meanwhile, rumors

and former prosecutor and civil attorney who represented nicole brown simpson's family, john q. kelly. it's good to see both of you. >> sure. hey, chris. >> peter, there was some surprise, actually, that it wasn't manslaughter because that was originally what people were talking about. what do you think about this second-degree murder charge? how hard will it be to prove? >> well, it's very typical for prosecutors to charge the highest offense they can because manslaughter, voluntary and involuntary including aggravated assault, are lesser included offenses. so they'll be included in the jury instructions ultimately. but this is the beginning of a very long legal process. >> let me play for you what zimmerman's attorney said after these charges were announced. >> nobody after all wanted trayvon martin to be prejudged as he was walking down that street. i ask not to prejudge george zimmerman and please do not prejudge the criminal justice system. it's going to work. we just need to let it work. >> there are very few trials, john, as you well know, that rise to this level, that ge