lee is able to encounter. he is able to utilize the woods about 12 miles or more we are to nullify grant's covers of 123,000 or so versus lee's 62,000 or so men. now to the spotsylvania courthouse, we see our next days of war. our next stop is right over here. the idea is that right here on the land is to start to utilize earth works. from chancellorsville to earth'srg, you will see works go on. antietam, you do not see that. you saw man-made roads. fortifications. but they do not actually did fortification. starting at frederick's bird, the confederate's would dig a line. most of these are not the impressive. once you crossed down to spotsylvania courthouse in the army starts moving down here, lee realizes he is going into open country. so now he is going to change that face of war by starting to utilize fortification. to paraphrase one union staff officer, he essentially says, in three days, the confederates can have a line. he will state that they arrived at one point and will set of a low line on the first

lee. mr. lee was the dialysis patient and he's probably in his 80's and every time we would drive up to buchanan street, the hospital, mr. lee would say, "good job, fine driver, number one driver" and he would go like this [thumbs up gesture]. and then as brian would be helping him off the van, mr. lee, i heard him so often say, "brian, if anybody gives you any trouble you send them to me and i'll take care of them." and here great big old brian would say, "henry, you're the first one i would try to get help from." and he says, "the second one is elsa." [laugh] so we knew that we were being relied on by brian. a few weeks back, mrs. lee called brian early in the morning to tell him not to bother picking them up because they were already at the hospital. mr. lee was ill and she had taken him to the er. the next day or so, brian, on his lunchtime, found out that mr. lee had been admitted to the hospital and he went up to mr. lee's room and just stuck his head in just to say hello. and the minute

lee fought back. lee was prepared to abandon petersburg on september 30 if necessary to save richmond, yet he did not yield to such likely danger but battled back and saved both cities. through such biting tenacity, oh the prolonged the security of his supply lines, his army, and his country for another nine. at the end, he eventually came, and all was lost. the graycoats held onto petersburg for too long. i do not blame leave for this decision or this outcome. he did not become general in chief of all confederate armies until february of 1865. too late to affect the course of the war. the decision to remain in richmond rested with the government. as a professional soldier of the confederate republic, lee loyally carried out government policy. there is an aspect of perseverance, however, where lee may be criticized. unlike grant who learned from experience, the virginian continued fighting in ways that had worked well earlier in the war but were no longer applicable in the mid-1864. unlike at chancell

robert e lee and ulysses s. grant. it was waged by two of the finest armies of americans that have ever been raised, the resilient federal army of the potomac and the hard-hitting confederate army of northern virginia. those were the antagonists, which had grappled for the entire war, were reinforced with several newer armies that have been created only in 1864. serving in those armies were senior subordinates who had pretty -- figured prominently likether battles gettysburg and antietam, which are so familiar to all of us here tonight. these officers include such prominent northern commanders as george g meade, winfield scott hancock, and david and greg, and such senior southern sword -- soldiers as richard s you will and ap health. -- prelude,ayer you siege summarize the before we assess it. petersburg, virginia, situated on the right bank of the appomattox river 20 miles due south of richmond, was militarily important in its own right as the 10th largest city of the confederacy. the head of navigation on the appomat

well i want to just say introduce you to another lee name lee is final lee final lee we got this done and there's a lot of thanks to go around you've heard in mohammed at dpw and now from the puc and the mta and certainly supervisor wiener advocacy is very, very strong and senator mark leno said it right this is an historic street we've got to take care of it and improved it and find the street to be one of the most beautiful streets in san francisco as it deserves yes (clapping) i just saw keith jones thank you, thank you very much for your historic lifetime leadership lee jones thank you, very much. he's getting the scissors ready (clapping.) you know supervisor wiener and i have been working a lot and i want to make sure you know that 8 point that $3 million that we just spent while we can do things faster we wouldn't be able to do my of it without your help those bonds are available to the city we need to pass those bonds and the honor that we will place to you ever we get those bonds transportation bonds our responsibility is to spend it ate and get it done to go on to the next t

lee did not want to do it. early was so unpopular at that moment because that's battle meant so much and you are very correct. this is the first installment of a couple of lectures. it is a good time to do an advertisement for those lectures at the battlefield. throughout the valley. our national park service will have information on that. this is by no means the complete story. what we represent here are some of these nice moments where that battle is with the smithsonian collection and the pieces in this large work, that we just put out. very good though. thank you very much. well-informed comments. >> i am curious. i wonder if you could speak to a comparison between the battle of cedar creek and its significance to the end of the war in terms of sherman's march to the sea. there was a difference in scale. i was surprised when i first started learning about the shenandoah valley battles that this battle, nobody knows about this. nobody knows. >> it was a large battle. >> nobody knows that the valley was burne

lee". pleasant as it was to do, at that is ambitious for somebody who is approaching the 2. >> host: one thing we like to do when we have an in-depth guest on is find out what books they are reading, what books influenced them. what are their major influences? here's a look at michael korda's answers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> host: back live with michael korda on in depth as we continue to take calls. tom in wharton, new jersey. >> caller: i would like to ask mr. korda about working with jacqueline suzanne. >> host: why are you interested in that? we will never find out. jacqueline suzanne, you published her second book. >> guest: the first actually but the second did very well. a number one best seller. she was extraordinary. an entire film, isn't she great with me? about my relationship with jacqueline suzanne. we got along famously. it is engraved, for any reason put on hold, and would come over i want the name of the girl who put me on hold. she was amazing. she could be very nice, tremendously dif

in lee's case, lee grew up in the vast lee family, branches which extend through virginia, and slavery was as familiar to him as anything else around him. he expressioned frequently and certainly very strongly in 1858 and 1895 a dislike for the institution of slavery which he thought evil in any country where it exists. that does not necessarily mean that lee would have met a litmus test for racial equality in our final. in our time. he thought that slavery was a weigh station towards a better future for blacks. he thought that though freeing them was a worthy ambition, that they were not at present suitable to vote or be citizens. so he was not by any means a paragon of racial equality. however, it has to be said for lee that, a, he would not have fought for slavery. he disliked it. b, that he had the ability to see the slaves as people, not as objects or as potential wealth. he saw them, by and large, as people which which wasn't true of everybody. he stood up and would shake the hand of a black man who was leaving to pursue a career. he kneeled at the communion rail next to a black

i'm tavi smiley, tonight a conversation with tommy lee jones. he now co-stars with hilary swank in a movie called "the homesman." it is set against the harsh realities of the frontier. making it a frontrunner. we're glad for you to join us with a conversation with tommy lee jones coming up right now. ♪ ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >>> movies about the frontier have served as a way to deal with some more aspects. the movie co-stars hilary swank and tells the story of a woman who enlists the help of a drifter as she escorts some women to safety. the movie opens tomorrow. >>> oh. >> are you an angel? >> you're not dead. >> help me. will you help me? for god's sake? >> suppose i do? what will you do for me? >> anything, anything, as god is my witness. >> if i cut you down, will you do what i tell you to. >> oh, yes i will, swear to god. >> swear to that almighty god that you've been talking about? >> vengeance is mine, sayeth the lord, bringing in the sheaves, and do unto others, and if you cut m

lee," lee had demonstrated his skill at reckon sense.his courage without which no military virtue has meaning and his ability to keep his head when all about him they were losing theirs, to paraphrase kipling. all in all, he was the perfect warrior. >> guest: i actually thought of calling my biography, the perfect warrior, and it's not a bad title. yet i felt clouds of glory, the phrase from the poem so much better described -- because despite lee's defeat, despite our doubts today, to put it mildly, about the wisdom of forming forming the con -- confederacy, despite the question whether he should have continued fighting after failing at gettysburg, that lee had nevertheless that magic quality of self-conviction, courage, and ability to see exactly where he wanted to go and how to get there. he was the perfect warrior. he was good mannered, he was gentle in manner, and yet he was implacable, and aggressive, and bold on the battle feed. all together a very remarkable figure. >> host: this e-mail from john gibson in mobile, alabama: mr. ko

he wasn't able to give lee as many troops as lee hope for an invasion but he did give lee entire support for the even of some members of davis cabinet had wanted to weaken lee's army and sent a couple of divisions to tennessee or mississippi to deal with the threats there, especially at vicksburg. i think that's the third high point for davis and the confederacy. may be one more is the summer of 1864, when davis is actually out of, out on the battlefield in virginia as both grant and benjamin butler are closing in on richmond, but lee and beauregard now are carrying their blows as the sum of 1864 goes on, even though sherman is making progress in georgia. the cost of the war to the north and virginia is causing a swelling of peace sentiment in the north, and it looks like lincoln is going to be defeated for reelection, at least a democrat on a peace platform will win the presidency. >> host: i do believe lincoln snow. i think it was a time he thought, he thought he was going to lose. >> guest: absolutely. no question about it. apps adobe. here's an example of how the confederacy could ha

we're on the lookout for bruce lee.silver hair, jingling medals, and dogs, we'll know it's him. only one guy down here, in bad shape. strung out on drugs. this is where you actually live down here? it's unbearable. i would say this is probably about 95 degrees. with the humidity, it's about the worst, about the hottest, most uncomfortable place. >> oh, my god, unbelievable. >> reporter: they provide some medical assistance. >> the veins were broken. >> reporter: what kind of drugs? >> heroin. it's like a methamphetamine. >> reporter: they have little support from the government. have you witnessed many people die? >> yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of people die. >> reporter: all taking place just steps from the avenues of power. the prime minister goes to work here -- >> they don't do nothing. >> reporter: this is where i went in. the tunnel goes along, there's mcdonald's. this tells the story. the poverty, people living underground. it's stunning, i have to say. we visited several tunnels looking for bruce lee. rotting clothe

after pursuing confederate general lee into maryland, union army major general mcclellan attacked lee's army. at dawn on september 17, major hooker's first corps assaulted lee's left flank. attacks swept across miller's cornfield and fierce fighting took place. union assaults against the sunken road eventually pierced the confederate center. but the federals did not follow up their advantage. mcclellan did not commit all of his troops into the fight when needed. in the afternoon, major general burnside's ninth corps entered the action. at a crucial moment, confederate major general hills arrived and launched a successful counterattack, driving back burnside and ending the battle. although outnumbered two to one, lee committed his entire force, while mcclellan sent in less than three quarters of his army, enabling lee to fight the federals to a standstill. lee withdrew his army the following day. now, the conventional wisdom of just about everybody studying this battle is that mcclellan didn't put all his forces into the fight and lee did, and lee fought the union to a standstill. and th

lee was never willing to take. >> robert e. lee was incredibly conflicted.wrote letters back and forth to his wife about how slavery really was tearing this nation apart. at the same time, he never felt he could bear arms against his home state, friends and neighbors. >> selena stayed in the state several years afterwards. general lee finally freed them after the emancipation proclamation. they bought land nearby, finally leaving arlington house. but selena gray's legacy remains, both if her descendants and here in the house on the hill overlooking the capital of the united states. sheila macvicar, al jazeera, arlington. >> and we salute that american treasure. that's it for us. we'll have more of a"america tonight," tomorrow. >> bloodbath, disaster, drubbing, those are some of the nicer terms used to describe the democrats on tuesday's mid terms. we'll hear from congressmen on both sides of the aisle. award winning cheryl atkinson, how she believe the obama administration put her under surveillance for investigating the president. i'm antonio mora, those st

we can see david lee miller live on the scene for us. hi, david lee. >> hi, gretchen. this will give you some idea of the media's vantage point, and how tall the building is. we are on liberty street. this is a few blocks south of the world trade center. it's hard for the naked eye to discern what took place. let's pad up the building some 69 floors, and this is where the human drama unfolded for the last nearly two hours. you can still see from here the dangling piece of scaffolding. you cannot make out the fact that emergency crews had to cut through the glass to bring the window washers inside the building. we are told that they had to cut through two separate panes of glass in order to accomplish this. at this hour the two window washers are now safely inside the world trade center. too early to tell if we're going to be able to hear from them sometime today. as for the other piece of scaffolding we talked about, that has now been removed. lfs talk they were going to bring in a second piece of scaffolding, possibly try and put the men on that, possibly try to tethe

the community members that have remained steadfast and the next person you'll here from is mayor ed lee he'll share with you his vision after the mayor maria sue between many meetings she and i have met to late out a specific strategy and services that happening happens at 66 raymond mr. mayor thank you for being here (clapping.) i think we want to make sure many have translations let me say something in chinese okay. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> cowen - raymond all right. i just said to them that supervisor cohen just announced that the 66 raymond street has been gifted to san francisco government so that we can in turn use it according to what supervisor cohen has explained for all the community uses and the seniors here that are gathered are here know this is an important thing you saw them clap they've been for years wanting to make sure they've expanded the services limited at 50 raymond to now the other side of the courtyard filled with the capacity services of the city i know that supervisor cohen has think been here for quite some sometime and through her leadership that d

at lee's college seminary, two-thirds of young men drop out. last year lee was almost one of them.the first few months of freshman year, he was lost and home sick. >> it is a huge switch from farm life. it is two months where i was absolutely miserable. it's like i don't know what i'm doing. i don't know how to do this. i felt just kind of doubt, fears. when you experience those kind of moments in seminary, their advice to you is do not change what you you're doing, stay in the same direction. don't make big decisions. so i didn't. >> lee stuck that semester out and in just a few days, he returns to seminary for seven more years. so you are excited to go back to seminary? >> i am excited. after that first semester, i didn't think i'd ever be excited. >> lee hit his first bump in the road to priesthood and there may be more ahead. >> i have a lot to learn about celiba celibacy. it is still kind of scary. do i want to go through my whole life and never being married. if i become a priest, eye giving this life up. where you headed at such an appropriate speed? across the country to en

you'll know, lee?u think god will say to you, okay, you are to become a priest? >> i don't know. and that's part of like, the mystery of seminary, like when is that going to happen? some guys will know this year, some next. some won't know until their senior year. hopefully i'm not one of those. >> until that fateful moment there's always a second path for lee, one that could some day lead to a wife and kids. and even here at seminary, he's surrounded by temptation. the university of st. thomas is a coed school, which means that girls are everywhere. a siren song of distraction from the pursuit of a higher calling. >> so you're in seminary, but the seminary is on this college campus. >> yes. >> and so you are interacting with lots of different people, including a lot of very attractive women. >> yes, that is true. >> i'm assuming you've noticed that. >> yeah. >> is it sometimes hard to maintain focus? >> it's not that difficult. i mean, can you have wonderful, chaste relationships with women. you see a

lee was never willing to take. >> robert e. lee was incredibly conflicted.wrote letters back and forth to his wife about how slavery really was tearing this nation apart. at the same time, he never felt he could bear arms against his home state, friends and neighbors. >> selena stayed in the state several years afterwards. general lee finally freed them after the emancipation proclamation. they bought land nearby, finally leaving arlington house. but selena gray's legacy remains, both if her descendants and here in the house on the hill overlooking the capital of the united states. sheila macvicar, al jazeera, arlington. >> and we salute that american treasure. that's it for us. we'll have more of a"america tonight," tomorrow. >> >>> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello, welcome to the newshour. here is what is coming up in the next 60 minutes. libya's u.n. backed parliament set to be dissolved, one of two governments vying for power >>> three israeli soldiers deliberately occupied in the west bank as tensions heat up over a contested religious site >>>

the plan in place and successful as it's been and further as that was not enough last year mayor ed leeountant a task force to look at the infrastructure out of the process they've recommended $3 billion of new local revenues to invest in the transportation system not only to accommodate all the growth the cranes in theization i sky but to invest in our core system $3 billion of new revenues i can imagine it being the transportation director in a city and the mayor comes and brings together with $3 billion to invest in the transportation city it doesn't get much better than that fortunately i don't think he's on the market we're happy he's our mayor please join me in welcoming the mayor of the city and county of san francisco mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you for that kind introduction everyone good morning. welcome to san francisco. >> good morning. >> actually, the last couple of weeks ago people have being coming up to me and saying are you i say yes, sir. i'm travis to i'm mayor travis for a few weeks anyway, i want to say thank you, ed very much fewer leadership not only as our

there is lee oswald. >> he's been shot! he's been shot! lee oswald has been shot. a man with a gun. absolute panic, absolute panic here in the basement of dallas police headquarters. detectives have their guns drawn. there is no question about it. oswald has been shot, at point-blank range, fired into his stomach. >> he is shot. he is shot. oswald is shot. >> it is oswald. >> do they have the man that shot the man? >> that is the man that shot the man. >> immediately after the shooting, our only witnesses that we could talk to were other reporters. >> where did he go? >> he was here just -- they just put the gun down, so the flash on your black sweater. >> right in his belly? >> yeah, right -- >> point plank range. >> did you see -- >> i see the group of men right here. >> one of us or what? >> i thought he was one of the detectives. >> the situation is now that lee harvey oswald has been shot. the man who saw the shot fired said it was fired by a man wearing a black hat, a brown coat, a man that everyone down here thought was a secret service agent. we can hear si

of his enabling lee to fight the standstill.a lee withdrew his army the following day. now, the conventional wisdom of just about everybody studying this battle is that mcclellan didn't put all his forces into the fight and lee did, and lee fought the union to a standstill. was that. the argument that tidball makes is regardless of the fact that all his forcesg to bear, had he used his field artillery better, had it been organized more effectively to fire support, that even with the forces that were the unionhe believes could have turned the tide. makes that point that the battalion organization of the confederacy was more and effective in providing fire support, while was converselyy hamstrung by its inability to its artillery efficiently or effectively. hires what tidball has to say. his artillery organized into ba battalions of four to six batteries each. command of each battalion was assigned a colonel or a each,nant colonel, and to two batteries and a major. his artillery was always in hand servicelable for whenever and wherever most needed, consequently, a smaller

>> second. >> and a second. >> so can we take the roll call on this. >> lee. >> aoe. >> nuru. >> aye. >> harper. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> item ten is approved. >> and next is approving the minutes of the september 11, meeting, and no members of the public want to address you. >> are there any amendments or comments on the board members? >> seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. and on do we have a motion to approve the board minutes? >> yes. >> so moved. >> second. >> and roll call on the item. >> director lee. >> yes. >> nuru,. >> aoe. >> harper. >> yes. >> kim. >> aye. >> and the minutes are approved. >>ty, and i believe that we do need to take a motion to rerecess, and so we will recess the meeting to convene in closed session and i do need to take the public comment on item 14, is there is any? >> seeing no public comment, public comment on this item is closed and can we take a motion to convene into closed session? >> yes. >> and we have a motion and a second and we can do that, without opposition, and we just do ask tha

and ed lee there's a new era the city is broken your breaking and entering people from all over the country and not sit down and talk to people like myself not one time not one time have they come ask the expert that's okay. i'm going to file an injunction this is a new era and all those pope's people are coming and complaining but we as african-americans have been doing this over 25 and thirty years displaced and put together the self-corporation i forget but no one is going to ask me is question and olsen lee knows me and mayor ed lee i can't understand the city and county you go outside our city limits to answer the questions need is our community this is a new era and dog done it i don't have time i hope you have a meeting are olsen lee i'm asking for a meeting all hands on do everything we can and sit down so we as people from the community that have been here years can work with the new comers and the developers taking over public housing those nonprofits even in our district 6 ac/dc is in may be district they're in total violation so there's a new beginning yours truly eye wa

say is null elected school board pointing hallway man before i turn the microphone over to mayor ed lee i want to say for most of you i know who are in the audience in addition to the work i live here in this communicated this is a great moment for me, i come from a mother who never left the house without a hat and glove and i come from a father that had a perfect double black and white inch and a half cuff with a medium break you know what i take the opportunity i'm talking to you i've been known to do a bit of shopping in my day this news is exciting news with that i i'm going to turn it over to you're also also snaply dressed mayor ed lee chp thank you la shawn welcome to candle stick our wonderful hunters point and our beautiful southeast sector of the city of san francisco you know as soon as i saw la shawn he's in the business of carrying anti elected official whiz with our youth we're going to work closely together every time i'm here in this community pits burglary something we'll work together on fulfilling promises whether our youth or our former redevelopment commissioners in