but in the final twist it's at 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 that 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. 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. 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 newby who was a freed black man who had his wife and six children -- 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 and continuing to do that. this is something we do with o

the author examines john wilkes booth's relationship with his older brother. "history bookshelf" airs three times each weekend on american history tv, including saturday at noon eastern. >> i want people to get from the book is a better understanding of who she was, what she was like during that four-year period. because there are been a lot of books written can most of it has been written to people who talked to friends of friends of friends. they really don't have the information themselves. i happened to be there. i knew her 37. >> from late 1960 through 1964, former secret service agent clint hill served on the protective detail to first lady jacqueline kennedy. >> there isn't any gossip in there, no salacious information. what happened, what she was like, things she liked to do, how humorous she was at times, how athletic she was at times and how intelligent she was. and how kind of ram bunks she was. she tried to put me to the test many, many times. and i did my best to meet that. >> more with clint hill sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q & a". >>> next

o'reilly wrote a controversial book about another great president called "killing lincoln" i think john wilkes booth was innocent. i don't even think it was an assassination. i believe that abraham lincoln had a vision about what the republic party would become in 150 years and he he shot himself. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> bill: applause and wild laughter. is this because the correspondents are overwhelmingly liberal and democrat? >> yes. >> bill: that's it? >> yes, that is it, actually. jim were kimmel is a pro. he knows who his audience is he knows they are overwhelmingly liberal and democratic. he also knows that this president spoke to the same audience just a few years ago and said many of you covered my campaign and all of you voted for me and they weren't even embarrassed. they applauded. exactly. so i think kimmel -- look, this joke was funny if you are a liberal democrat and that's who was in the audience overwhelmingly. >> bill: all right. bernie goldberg, everybody. senator john mccain on deck. is he furious that a new obama campaign ad implies mitt romney would have shied away f

o'reilly wrote a controversial book about another great president called "killing lincoln" i think john wilkesinnocent. i don't even think it was an assassination. i believe that abraham lincoln had a vision about what the republic party would become in 150 years and he he shot himself. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> bill: applause and wild laughter. is this because the correspondents are overwhelmingly liberal and democrat? >> yes. >> bill: that's it? >> yes, that is it, actually. jim were kimmel is a pro. he knows who his audience is he knows they are overwhelmingly liberal and democratic. he also knows that this president spoke to the same audience just a few years ago and said many of you covered my campaign and all of you voted for me and they weren't even embarrassed. they applauded. exactly. so i think kimmel -- look, this joke was funny if you are a liberal democrat and that's who was in the audience overwhelmingly. >> bill: all right. bernie goldberg, everybody. senator john mccain on deck. is he furious that a new obama campaign ad implies mitt romney would have shied away from killing

samuel mud, the man who set the broken leg of a run-away john wilkes booth after he assassinated abrahamved time here. >> so he actually records in his diary about cutting these holes into the floor to help divert the rain water away from his bedding area. >> reporter: during a yellow fever outbreak, the fort's physician died. draft mud treated the afflicted and was eventually pardons. construction on the fort stopped in 1889. why wasn't it finished? >> as the united states navy grew after the civil war, ports like this started dwindling in importance. the artillery began to get larger than these rooms could facilitate. >> reporter: and there was another problem. this thing is on a sand bar. >> it is. >> reporter: how does it not sink? >> well it was hen sinking since construction began. >> reporter: but that hasn't stopped nearly 80,000 tourists a year coming by ferry or sea plane to fort jefferson, a stunning monument to america's rise as a military power. >> osgood: still to come, the island that put rum on the map. and later, nancy giles visits ♪ 15 men on a dead man's chest ♪ ♪ yo,

john wilkes jr., a lawyer on the ballot from tennessee got over 40% of the vote there.inching the g.o.p. nomination. remember the magic number, it's 1144 and right now, he has 1,065. he could clinch it when texas holds its primary next week. it could be struck down by the supreme court in just weeks. the department of health and human services giving $20 million of your money to a p.r. firm to push obamacare now. former alaska governor sarah palin says the plan itself isn't the only thing that's questionable. crony capitalism steroids, greta. the $20 million is going to a firm that employs and has as head haunchos as as a surrogate. >> those are your headlines this morning. >> privilege to bring with us, the former secretary of state, general colin powell, national security advisor, everything else. great to have you. >> good morning. >> how are you? >> you even looked younger since being in government. >> being in government is not good for your health. >> no kidding. >> we'll talk a little bit about your book and it's terrific in a minute or two. first, we'll talk abo

that is what john wilkes booth said and that is what is underlying are filling. very important in his/her country. now you can understand this image from occupy wall street. a very common image at occupy wall street. most of you, i assume, support occupy wall street. did you ever pause about images like this? is the 99% get-together but they can crush this like a bug. the 1% are bullied and dominating and we need to band together to take them down. of course, the tea party is all about this reflects. don't tread on us. the government equals less freedom. everybody cares about this, but they handle it in very different ways on the left and right. here is the situation. we have a moral foundations questionnaires. there are pics questions of the foundations. here is an item. compassion for those who are suffering as the most crucial virtue. people who registered desk when they register, when they say they are very liberal, you can see plotted on the left. liberals on the left, conservatives on the right. the y. axis is how much you endorsed for those sorts of items.

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