. >> and in the weeks ahead we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennely and nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories, sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> each week american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. next we visit the henry ford in dearborn, michigan, to see the garage where ford built his first car, the quadricycle. historic structures curator jim johnson shows us ford's childhood home where he was born in 1863. both buildings were relocated to greenfield village, the living history section of the henry ford. >> my name is jim johnson and i'm the curator of the landscapes here at the henry ford and we're here at henry ford in greenfield village and here with a 1914 model t. and it was just one of the things you get to experience here in greenfield village. behind me is the bagley shed and this stood behind his house in detroit, a rented house where he developed his first gasoline engine and eventually his first car in 1896. and then we'll be having a look at his birthplace, which

kenn. he never really got over the way that bobby kennedy got in the race in 1968. the morning after. vice president biden came and speaker nancy pelosi and steny hoyer and lots of brothers and sisters, cousins, grandchildren, father you can achieve things. feet callswhat your you. my mother believed in my father, which is a very important part of his success. albert in chicago, democrats line. go ahead, house and it was clearly a very tough relationship. as you know, my father objected to his brother's choice of johnson for vice 1968 the ratic campaign from r.f.k. campaign. >> robert kennedy and people 345 are not registered this year. in 10 years these americans will inherit the problems we don't today. >> it is suggested in the next several decades people will have to wear a gas mask in new york becominguse the air is so polluted. you breathef refuse every year and the same to a degree in other areas. that will spread to the rural areas. hings we can do about automobiles and laws we can pass about dumping and throwing and e in lakes and streams into the air. othe

. >> and in the weeks ahead, we'll hear from helen bentley, barbara kennely and nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> up next on american history tv "reel america," give yourself the green light. a 1954 general motors film encouraging citizens to support programs to improve roads and highways. the film begins by depicting traffic jams, unsafe roads and city congestion and then documents the results of a nationwide gm contest seeking road system ideas, infrastructure advocacy such as this film helped result in the passage of the $25 billion federal aid highway act of 1956. this is about 25 minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is the american dream. a freedom on wheels. an automotive age traveling on time-saving super highways. future free flowing channels of concrete and steel. but these wide lanes of reality actually measure out to just a few miles scattered far apart across the friendly face of our land. we have become the nation on wheels. with more motorized mobility than ever dreamed of before. though we have the

in later years preferring to spend most of her time at kenne centeras special.use down, later calling it one of the best nights of her life and reminding the world she will always be the queen. >> i love what i do and i just wouldn't be doing anything else. i thought what would i have done? ♪ >> what a life. thank you, lester, for that report. >> and there's perhaps no better way to honor the queen of soul than with her music. her music quickly dominated the charts. fellow musicians, fans and beyond are sharing what she meant to them from detroit and around it world. in detroit with the reaction. >> reporter: good morning, philip. of course she was born in 19 -- in memphis. but detroit was her home and they loved her right back. they're unmourning but they're red a to celebrate her life. inside walks, from open doors at windows, her soulful sound rang out all ardetroit. >> she said she would never retire. she didn't retire, she just decided to rest in peace. >> reporter: outside the baptist church her father was pastor, her voice first soared people gather in he

i mentioned before, >> c you the white city was a fascinating read and i enjoyed it quite a bit.e kenne .. teddy? >> so in the >> and one of which back when it came out. with that event e-mail list. going back to back events to suggest tomorrow night just in time for father's day for his book of essays. and that would make excellent if you don't know what to get your dad or brother or husband and/or friend. without further a do our guest this evening from the science fiction author activist and journalist the coeditor and author of many, many books. and others. speeseventeen. >> hello there. i think we are live. just giving us a picture of your book. i wrote an essay. [laughter] five years ago i wrote an essay that i had written i had written this book on death it did really well and i discovered if you write something offbeat the world will conspire to make sure that you never do that again. they will make you say the same thing if you write the same book or give the same talk over and over for the rest of your life. every idea that nobody would ever publish. a lot of those died of mer

barbara kennely, nancy johnson and lynn woolsey. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> >> 2018 is the centennial year of u.s.cipation in world war i and american history tv is marking the anniversary with a variety of programs. previously on american artifacts we visit the u.s. army heritage and education sister's living history event in carlisle, pennsylvania, to talk to reenactors who portray french and german world war i soldiers. we return to carlisle to learn what life was like for the 2 million american dough boys who served overseas. >> my name is michael mccloskey. i'm here to talk about what the american average soldier from the merp expeditionary soldier would have thought, felt, carried, that sort of thing. what we have here to start with, this is the 1910 haversack. this is what we would call a knapsack or backpack today, but this was the -- what all of the soldiers would have carried, everything they would have needed, at least according to the united states government's view. in the back here you have -- then to open the pack, you would unattach a buckle beneath the front flap. and then you wou

it's not on stage at the kenn--. i hear you spoke with one of the actors. >> we did. >> it'sre music. whatome of your favorite numbers and i think there's one where you get a little redemption? >> there is. a couple favorite numbers is adriana hicks is singing "i'm here." it's a song called celiy's curse. you get so see the character mister redeem himself.it ecame a broad way show in 2005 and won a couple of tauony. >> heard a lot of buzz about it. some good concerts t including summer spirit festival. who is going to be there? roots.the there's a lot of great acts out there. at wolf trap you get bryan adams. . i hate to say it but hanson. >> you're covering all the basis there. great weekend. thanks so much for your inside as always. thank you. activitiesiday night will almost be rained on but just how much? lauren has a final check of the forecast. don't forget to check out the ellen show today at 3:00. be sure to stick around howl whimper yap yap yap yip is your dog trying to tell you something? licking, scratchin

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be grateful for what we've done for you with whatas you know, john kenn gained more in death than he did in life as a reputation for what he did for plaqueblack peo. on the one hand, there were the white bigots he had to appeal on the south who literally called black people - - from his elevated judicial bench. even striking for back then in 1962-and 1963. then the georgia governor vanderburg robert john kennedy called to get martin luther junior king out of jail. he placed a call to the governor and they got king out before the election.kennedy became president. he also told him, i will not use federal forces to intervene on behalf of integration and against segregation bid then he's telling black people, i will help you with civil rights. bobby kennedy was the younger brother. less knowledgeable than jfk but more inclined to have conversations like where having here today.he stepped into the room. it was their penthouse on south central park. then he said look, i'm trying to figure out what rage is going on in black america. listening to the black muslims and not martin luther king

. >> in a remarkable coincidence, he died nine years to the day of his great friend, senator ted kenne kennedy, of the same brain cancer. they seem to represent an era that has passed, congresswoman. >> their relationship was one that i think all of us admired, and were grateful for. certainly -- as you said, the irony of the timing and the cause of their passing is a remarkable coincidence, but maybe the identity of their lives just determined that would be the case. in any event, i know that ted kennedy and so many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whether they were in complete agreement with john mccain, were all in agreement that he was formidable, had enormous integrity and was acting on behalf of our country and what he truly believed. >> your democratic colleague in the senate, chuck schumer demanded that the russell senate office building be renamed after john mccain. is that an appropriate tribute? >> i think it would be a great tribute because then, for decades to come, everyone who came to washington would know the very special place that john mccain held. it has

. >> and we'll here from sue myrikq, eva clayton and helen bentley and barbara kennely and lynn woolsey. watch oral histories sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. >>> sunday night on q&a, congressional historians richard baker, donald richie and ray smock. >> one of the questions that i hear people asking all of the time is this the most uncivil time in history? >> it is close if you were to pick another period, certainly the years leading to the civil war when a house member came over in 1856 because he disagreed with what he said and there were senators that cheered on that host member. >> there is a broadway musical about the sitting president alexander hamilton by the vice president of the united states. >> there was one brawl in 1858, before the civil war, that had 80 members rolling around on the floor fighting one another. >> one of the members who had a wig, his name was kite, one of the members pulled his rig off during the fight and someone else yelled you scalped him. and that was enough levity to stop the fight. >> congressional historians on sunday night at 8:00 easter