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. he 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, their 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

what struck to john brown? >> john brown was born in 1800.-great-great whatever puritans are in new england. this is still a new country at this point, and they feel very connected the to the revolutionary generation. this is still an experiment. there's very much this sense that, you know, we need it to make this -- we need to fight to make this work. with slavery, i guess what struck me most of all, i will blame them, but i won't blame the individuals specifically. i'll blame the whole country. i think too often when we look back at pre-civil war america, we think of the south as a sort of society apart. this sort of strange or maybe this is the view in the north. this futile remnant that was clinging to plantation slavery, this aristocratic system that was destined to wither away as the country modernized and became industrialized. also kind of "gone with the wind" sometimes quite romantic view of this seemingly doomed world. when you immerse in the diaries and letters and news reports of this era, as you said, they don't know their living

they refer to john brown as a captain. what does that mean? john brown wrote his own constitution. he viewed himself in that way as a general. captains don't lead generals. captains are tactical, not strategic. this organization already had a plan, it was to end slavery in league with the constitution, not write a new constitution. however they found -- they found tactical value in what john brown did. and anyone subordinate to the captain, they would encourage them to follow john brown. you have to be subordinate to the caption. it's a tactical operation. you don't send strategically important folk on a tactical operation that may be a suicide mission. they do view john brown as a martyr. in many ways it was a suicide mission. but one african-american that was recruited in chatham that went with john brown, osborn perry anderson would return. he would return to chatham. originally from pennsylvania. he returns to chatham. when he returns to chatham. i would look to say he submitted this report. when you examine who published his report, it's mary ann shadd-cary. she published his

however they found -- they found tactical value in what john brown did. and anyone subordinate to the captain, they would encourage them to follow john brown. but you have to be subordinate to the caption. it's a tactical operation. you don't send strategically important folk on a tactical operation that may be a suicide mission. they do view john brown as a martyr because in many ways it was a suicide mission. but one african-american that was recruited in chatham that went with john brown, osborn perry anderson would return. he would return to chatham. he's originally from pennsylvania, but he returns to chatham. when he returns to chatham. i would look to say he submitted this report. when you examine who published his report, it's mary ann shadd-cary. she published his report after he came back. these were champions. they are champions in this model. mary ann shadd-cary, harriet tubbman, those who lead by example. another one of the champions in the era. i am going to call her a public relations kind of officer. a propagandist, if you will. her name i

on your second question, i mean, there have been movies that elude to john brown. some pretty bad ones. "santa fe trail." he's kind of too hot to handle. what do you do with brown? he's not a hollywood hero. he's a very complex figure. 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 him 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. and 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

with them, they provided logistical support for john brown and john brown had taken that on himself. so you would bring shields green, and others. you'd bring them in, they would work with him. but the organization itself like someone like mary ann shad carrie and the same with others in position they're in place to do something else in the strategic plan. >> but you don't -- what about mary ellen pleasant though? >> i'm not an expert on what her contribution was. yes? >> is there any evidence of how the spy network got information to each other or to back and forth between union army and -- >> well, we know the past system is in place like let's take lucy carter. how we know about her, she has a pass and they november and out. a lot of the individuals are also masters of disguise. that's one of harriet tubman's keys. she goes behind enemy lines so a lot of it is runners, messengers. messengers that are coming in and some are the individuals who are in fact conducting the work so it's disguises, missiessenge. you can also accompany confederates officers when they would go and make --

but we have to recognize -- >> they use john brown as their model. >> absolutely. so we have to recognize that there are people in this country and there are fellow citizens, and they have the same free speech rights that we have, who believe that there are issues right now that we are blind to and that we're selling our souls by not acting against. they may not -- they may be international issues rather than national ones. but, you know, i think we need to take the view seriously. it might help us to feel a little bit more how complicated it was to be an american in -- not by 1860, but in the decade that led up to the situation of 1860. >> even by 1860, there are hard truths we need to come to terms with, with the civil war era. one is, nobody is talking about a compromise relating to the institution of slavery itself. the place they're trying to compromise is on the extension of slavery. that's where the argument is. no one's arguing -- no one beyond what would have been considered the abolitionist fringe is arguing for emancipation in 1860. what the civil war is

like abortion, for instance, i don't mean to presume what people think about that but -- >> use john brown. >> we have to recognize there are people in this country, and there are fellow citizens and they have the same free speech rights we have, who believe that there are issues right now that we are blind to, and that we are selling our souls by not acting against. they may not be international issues rather than national one, but you know, we need i think we need to take that view seriously. it might help tuesday feel a little more how complicated it was to be an american in -- not by 1860 but in the decade that led up to the situation of 1860. >> even by 1860, i mean, there are hard truths we need to come to terms with with the civil war era, one of them is nobody's talking about a compromise relating to the institution of slavery itself. the place they are trying to compromise is on the extension of slavery. that's where the argument is. no one is arguing, no one beyond what would have been considered the abolitionist fringe is arguing for emancipation but the civil war is a perfect e

cities of the omaha and lincoln nebraska passed nondiscrimination ordinances state attorney general john browning argued they were unconstitutional now government governor heineman believes both the ordinances should be put to the vote of the people in other words i don't believe that protection from discrimination isn't really a right and a majority even a bigoted majority should be able to vote on whether or not they can discriminate against a minority sorry governor so our public works some issues are too important to be voted on and equal rights for all is one of them and the very very ugly mark try ina traina a school psychologist in louisiana recently is this twitter account to go on a racist rant accusing. dogs are destroying america one tree tweet read we are faced with a young army of black black army of fogs who declared war on the american way of life. another red black dogs of career an atmosphere of fear has wrought america real terms with a longer. traina has also publicly supported alabama's former segregation is governor george wallace has posed a racially charged anti obama tweet

you can see it through the lens of illinois. 1859 we talked about the -- excuse me, the john brown's raid on harp percent ferry, right. southerners in particular worried about the fact that there are portions of the north, by no means all, but portions of the north that are very much mourning the execution of a man who was going to launch a slave rebellion that would have led to a lot of the deaths of southern whites, okay? so by the time we get to 1860 what you're seeing is a country that is falling apart and running out of ways to come up with some sort of compromise, some sort of solution. now in that year they're going to have to pick who they want for their presidential candidates, the different parties, all right? we talked about last time that in 1856 you've seen the birth of the republican party. you have the democratic party, which is fragmenting in terms of regions. you're getting kind of a northern wing and a southern wing of the democratic party. what those two groups are going to have to do is come together and find out who they want the presidential candidate to be. now

. >> the life and legacy of john brown if. >> his music filled the local airwaves and in every cornerf the city, including the sidewalk in front of the street named in his honor. >> ♪ i don't hear you ♪ >> he told the story of how he grew up shining shoes on the streets of d.c. and then ended up going to prison where another prisoner gave him a guitar. when brown got out of prison, he created go-go, a unique sound. >> it is something d.c. can never replace. >> i am sure the memorials and celebrations of terry brown's life will continue on for the next several days. coming up in the next half-hour hear from some of those who played alongside him and those who play his music on local airwaves. -- of justice browchuck brown's life. >> there was a police tchase and a crash on south dakota avenue northeast. the suspects were wanted in connection with an armed robbery in prince george's county. they could be wanted for other crimes as well. >> president obama is preparing to most world leaders at camp david this weekend. some of the leaders attending the economic summit at the presidential

john brown said the european problems are weighing on american.ors in parliament and all those smart things. good to have you. >>guest: great pleasure to be here. >>neil: i have to give you credit, a long time ago, a real long time ago, you said, this club was unravelling, the european club and now proof that the greeks and the spanish, it is happening. >>guest: sooner than a lot of people thought. but powerful governments have been keeping it together and we see the unravel of the euro. >>neil: why does that matter to us? >>guest: it is the world's second currently and people have diversified from dollars to euro and that endangers the entire monetary system and that is when you will see gold explode. they are coming into dollars and the dollar is in trouble, too, a huge feared currently. >>neil: but we are only benefiting in the united states because we have our own were problems. we are default safety. >>guest: that is why facebook is such an interesting thing with zuckerberg, he has shown the world this capitalism still is working in the unite

. >> john brown saying hollande will stick to his guns and simple math is going to force him to compromiseit didn't raise a red flag for you? >> i think europe is already in recession and heading fast towards depression and like most socialists, he's going to take the easy option of more quantitative easing and federal reserve chairman bernanke and in doing so he will be supported by the angry american elite that support debased money and the struggle against strong us a industry general school money led by germany. so he will leave germany. this will force germany out of the euro and out of the european union, i can see. >> we're not going that far. you've gone too far. we're just talking about whether or not we actually think he's going to give himself cover so he doesn't have to do everything that he promised to by saying that sarkozy left it worse than he thought. >> i think he will do what he said. >> keep on spending away? >> yes. >> steve, is the math going to force him to compromise? >> well, yeah. the country is pretty much broke. there isn't a whole lot of money to spend. these t

my favorite story about john is one that willie brown told me. aid one of john's constituents lived a message and john called the constituent back. the constituent made her case. then she heard from john. at the end of the conversation, she called willie brown and said, i just got the worst conversation from john burton. he we -- he used words whenever use. and he said, you should be thrilled he called you back. [laughter] with that, i would like to introduce to you the honorable john burton. [applause] >> does anybody ever believe anything willie brown ever tells them? [laughter] i do not. anyway, thank you, mark. anyway, it is a pleasure and honor to be here as a guy who grew up in the sunset and spend an awful lot of time in the park. and have nancy pelosi in between john f. kennedy and martin luther king, jr., is not a bad place to be. i would like to say that. [applause] and that is, for those of us that follow hockey, that is a real hat trick, but 25 years ago, a little bit more, when we were involved in a congressional campaign. i think we

. >>> you are taking a live look at the inner harbor where the liberty ship ss john w. brown will be docked. the oldest surviving ship will be on visit until may 22nd. the brown will be open for public tours during the visit. >>> governor o'malley will be akeynote speaker at clinical trial forms focused on developing and creating jobs. it takes place at the university of maryland baltimore campus at 3 this afternoon. >>> with the g8 summit beginning and her husband at camp david, the first lady will host the leaders spouses for a lunch and tour of the white house. >>> around the country, people are encouraged to take a moment to thank members of our nation's military and today is armed forces day. and since 1949, this day has been used to give thanks to those who are serving our country. >>> well, she helped put disco music on the top charts in the 1970s and this morning we pay tribute to the life and music of the queen of disco. donna summer. >>> plus, a second grader gets in trouble for going to school like this. he painted his face black. why his dad says he's proud of him

found, almost delirious ironies, individuals, there's one story in the 1840s of an individual, john brown dylan in indiana who stood before a crowd and gave a speech called the decline to miami. essential to what he was arguing was, you know, that it was really sad. what was interesting to me was there's documentation that miami community members were standing there in the crowd listening to this guy limit the fact that they were no longer there. and so it's the irony that i found i kept finding over and over again that maybe want to investigate it further. >> oklahoma city is the of the 1995 attack of the murrah building by timothy mcveigh. booktv visits the city to share the local literary culture of the area. >> hi. my name is joe entered and the acting curator of the john and mary nichols rare books and special collections at the university of oklahoma. this is a wonderful collection that was named in honor of john and mr. nichols the on the other longtime service to the university and to libraries. with the generous support we have established this collection on the campus of univers

. >>> a live look at the inner harbor where the liberty ship ss john w. brownill be docked later on today. you can check out the america's oldest surviving ship from now until may 22n. google self-driving car goes for test drive in the cap -- nation acapital. it could reduce traffic deaths significantly. the cars use sensors to watch cars, pedestrian and other obstacles. >>> and don't r surprised to see -- don't be surprised if you see more bikes on the road. it's the 5th year for the bike to workday. it's to promote a clean, fun and healthy way to get around. and it's a record breaking first quarter more than 4.9 million people flew through b w airport. that's a -- bwi airport. it's an all new record for the first quarter for any year. >> let's talk temperatures because we are chilly. 40s in ellicott city. 46 there. baltimore right now 46. more of the same. >>> barnesville. frederick at 47 degrees. and then we see the 50s along the eastern shore. 53 in rock hall. good morning to you northeast. you are around 51 degrees. so make sure to have the jacket as you h

there was this delicious moment that i, in the research where the former chairman of bp john browne published a memoir in britain about six weeks before the deepwater horizon. it wasn't published in the united states i think for a reason. but in it, he recalls that when the exxon valdez pill happened, he happened to be in alaska visiting bp properties. he heard about it and he ordered a helicopter to fly over prince william sound and see the terrible damage. and he's recalling this moment in the memoir, all these years later, but without the foreknowledge that the deepwater horizon is about to destroy bp's reputation. and he says i flew over and i saw the black slick spread on the sea and i thought about off the whales and all of the wildlife that would be damaged. and i thought to myself, there is now one corporation in the world that will be the most hated. and that's exxonmobile. and so you see the world turns. and so one of should be careful about such-- but especially in a high-risk business like oil drilling. >> do you know what you will write next. >> i do. i am going to write a secret

president yee: john templeton, reginald brown, take two minutes. >> one of the reasons why there are such disparities in the achievement gap is the failure of the district to connect african-american students with local history. a good way to springboard into the next year, we are doing a series on african americans in the golden gate bridge that ties into the anniversary. students will be able to see some of the important changes going on during those three years as the bridge was been built. many of those changes resonate to the state. there is also opportunity in the directive on monday for professional development tied around a gentleman named doctor robert gordon. anytime you use a laser pen, you are relying the patents he did. on june 14, we have professional development. it will teach how to replicate his success. he was a national merit scholar, the was the first black to get a ph.d. in applied science from stanford. if he was able to do that, we need to look at what were the factors that helped him to be successful. this professional development on june 14 will look at the s

brown was supposed to play a show here on april 21st. but then he fell ill on april 1th. he was hospitalized. his daughter says he died from complications of pneumonia at johns hopkin university in baltimore. the 75-year-old brown grew up in washington, d.c. when he was younger, spent time at lorton penitenty and he said he traded five packs ever cigarettes for his first guitar. he began playing with local bands in the mid-60s and than formed his own group. go-go sound was born in the 70s, a mix of jazz, blues and

>> one hour ago was sentenced to life without parole for the murder -- murder of trooper wesley brown. john gonzales joins us from upper marlboro. >> the prosecution described this as an evil deed and they asked the judge for the maximum penalty. the judge said in court he believes this defendant would try to kill again so he did give him the maximum, life in prison without parole and additional 25 years. the 29-year-old learn his fate this afternoon convicted of killing maryland state trooper wesley brown. >> it has been a long journey for us. the hurt and the pain the tragedy of the event but we are glad that today it is finally over a justice was served. >> locals remember this heinous crime as the applebees murder. leslie browne was moonlighting as a security guard and through the man out. he returned an hour later with a gun. he and the bad gun as the trooper walked out of the restaurant. >> mr. williams is sentenced, i believe, and justice has been served. it provides no consolation to us whatsoever. >> today's sentencing was emotional, filled with heartfelt testimony from troopers, h

jason and john did "brown eyed girl", got all the girls going.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. so it was deathly quiet. >> 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 was marginal,

john donaghue at brown university developed the system after decoding some of the brain's electrical language. how well do we understand this language? >> we know that there's a general pattern of, for example, left, right, up, down, even fast or slow. >> kathy now has neural control over that cursor. >> pelley: four years ago dr. leigh hochberg of massachusetts general hospital explained as hutch hinson moved the computer cursor with her thoughts. >> she's thinking about the movement of her hand and she's moving the cursor much as if she had her hand on a mouse. do you want to play some music? all right. >> pelley: she just clicked "play." >> she did. >> pelley: (laughs) that's pretty amazing! now four years later in the study published today in the journal "nature" researchers report hutch kheufp son has gone even further, using her mind to control a robotic arm. >> she was able to reach and grab any ball in any location about half the time which is to us was remarkable that he could do any of that. >> pelley: once they proved it worked they wanted to see whether the technology cou

brown died at johns hopkins hospital wednesday from multiple organ failure. >> closing arguments are expected today in the john edwards' trial. defense rested yesterday without calling his daughter or his mistress to the stand. >> and a new world record for the biggest snake head. that is a big fish. you'll hear the effect they have on the ecosystem. >> a little known fact about our own la net charles. you looked like you were going to jump out of your seat when that video popped up. >> sharily is scared of snakes and magan doesn't like rats and mice. what about you? >> all of the above. maybe not so much frogs. no s. >> how the are roads looking this morning? >> the roads are in great shape so far. no delays from harford county all the way down to the fort mchenry tunnel. the beltway going to be clear up to town send and the jfx is also going to be nice and clear. >> weather wise -- >> i think it's time to leave. >> weather wise things much better after monday and tuesday. wednesday was great. keep it going. >> things are looking good this morning. radar is nice and dry as of now. w

most notable attendees have been queen beatrix of the netherlands prince charles tony blair gordon brown john edwards timothy geitner george soros alan greenspan colin powell bill clinton ben bernanke bill gates madeleine albright paul wolfowitz richard holbrooke james wolfensohn of the world bank peter mansbridge of c.d.c. had their recent editor of huffington post canada mortimer zuckerman publisher of and why daily news and admin clarke c.e.o. and president of t.d. bank henry kissinger and david rockefeller are involved as the honorary members of the building steering committee which is responsible for selectively carefully selecting the attendees every year some of called the builder group a harmless think tank or just a discussion group but those have been following it for years so there is something much more sinister at the root of the claim the group gets together to plan policy for a new world order global domination of the subjugation of the rest of humanity according to a recent poll that drudge over fifty percent of the pollsters agreed that the builder hosts the real power master

chuck brown died at the age of 75 today. he was at johnopkins battling pneumonia. >> fox 5's audrey barnes begins our coverage. audrey. >> reporter: chuck brown was perhaps best known as the gadfather of go-go, but he was an incredible family man. he scheduled his concert appearances around his son's football games and he passed his music to his other son. he left his mark on d.c. as well. >> talk about going to ben's chili bowl. you talk about the lincoln theater, the howard theater, and you talk about chuck. because they are all institutions. >> love grown up loving chuck brown. he sang at her high school prom and to this day, she still moves by his music. >> i know all those chuck brown songs and when i hear one, i will get out of my car and dance in the street if i have to. chuck brown could not only sing, he also played the guitar he nicknamed blonde. he helped launch a new genera of music called go-go. it was quickly spread beyond d.c. he was nicknamed the godfather of go-go and it stuck. chuck brown was set to reform at the howard t

. >> brown: we update the trial of john edwards, as the defense rests its case without calling the former presidential candidate or his mistress to testify. >> woodruff: and we remember mexican writer carlos fuentes, whose prolific literary career spanned more than five decades. that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: 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: the confrontation over raising the national debt ceiling consumed washington for much of 2011. now, the issue has re-emerged. it was raised at a white house meeting today, and sparked a new war of words in congress. >> the issue here is the debt-- almost $16 trillion worth of debt, $1.3 trillion budget deficit again this year. >> woodruff: battle lines were already being drawn today for a new fight over raising the country's borrowing limit. the government will not reach the current