lee.b by the time the armies arrived he at appomattox, he might have been only slightly less famous than his opponent. certainly, he had become a tion's central to his nation's aspirations as lee was to the confederacy. charles francis adams jr., a tedles grandson of presidents conceded grant's awkward ways but saw the man within. he's a remarkable man. he handles those around him so quietly and well. and he has a faculty of disposing of he work.aculty and managing men. president lincoln recognized grant's skills, but especially admired his persistency of purpose.admi he has the grit of a bulldog.re another officer put it in even t more colorful terms. he habitually wears an expression as if he is ally determined to drive his head through a brick wall and was wall an about to do it. general grant attached himself p to the army of the potomac in 1864 and promptly set about taking the initiative from robert e. lee. with a determination that matc matched lee's and with an army larger than the

lee radder.dly a classic son-in-law relationship. >> they were only -- they're only, like, a year and half apart in age. >> reporter: yeah, did they -- did they behave like friends, or like -- >> yeah, like -- >> reporter: father, son. >> buddies. no, not like father and son. more like buddies. >> i don't have any biological so that was my family. >> reporter: rob, like belinda, loved lee's outsized personality, his bursting confidence and charisma. >> loud-talkin' new yorker, big salesman, always filled up the room, "i'm macho kinda guy." >> reporter: this is lee's sister lisa. >> he was a self-made entrepreneur, no college degree started several companies. >> reporter: sometimes they did reasonably well sometimes, often in fact, not so much. but give up? nah. in fact, even as rob drove across the desert to phoenix on that 29th of december, lee radder was waiting for news about his latest venture, a big one. the big one. waiting for what he believed could be the best news of his whole business l

lee has been looking for supplies. his goal is to find supplies for his men and then turn south to meet with general john ton who was down in north carolina. as he is traveling from petersburg here, gran has been able to effectively block off all of the railroad supplies that lee has waiting for him as he is coming along. he gets into appotomax courthouse here, and that is the name of the village which was built on a stage coach road between richmond and lynchburg here. courthouse being spelled as two words. appotomax was a county that was formed in 1845. and in virginia the county seats are always known with the county name, and then the two words, court house. but it was a village that did have a courthouse building in it. lee arrives here on the afternoon of april the 8th. he deemploys some of his artillery here in front of him on this road on the way to appotomax station. this is where he has supply trains waiting for him. so he sends some of his artillery out into a position mere. then he sends men out here to sta

>> lee was the last one that handled the gun. dwayne cates, lee radder shot himself. true?he jury to decide that. their turn now. >> reporter: coming up -- jurors find themselves torn -- >> we were a hung jury for the first two days. >> reporter: and then -- >> have you reached a verdict? >> yes ma'am. >> reporter: the news that would rock this traumatized family all over again. >> my attorney called me, and said "are you sittin' down?" when dateline continues. be the hero of your house and save big on appliances from sears. come to sears during the memorial day event and save 40 % or more on appliance hot buys. like this kenmore stainless steel refrigerator for $1199.99. plus get 10% off other top brands. so hurry into sears. i take these out... ...to put in dr. scholl's active series insoles. they help reduce wear and tear on my legs, becuase they have triple zone protection. ... and reduce shock by 40%. so i feel like i'm ready to take on anything. >> reporter: it was december 2013, when the murder case jury. rob said he felt at peace then. or at least, as much as a pers

both grant and lee tried to dispel those rumors when they started cropping up, that lee did not ever surrender his sword. grant never requested his sword. this, in grant's words, is the purest romance. it was just a myth, it never happened. the museum of the confederacy was founded in 1890 and opened as a museum in 1896 in richmond. our collection was gathered by a group of women who were prominent in each state. they would gather artifacts from the veterans or their families to add to our collection in richmond. this flag that is here, an army of northern virginia battle flag , is one of 500 we have in our collection, the world's largest collection of confederate flags. on the top, there is a stencil number, 384. this signifies this was a captured battle flag. during a war -- the war, if a soldier captured a confederate flag and turned it into the war department, he was awarded a medal of honor. the war department would then stencil the number on it as part of their records, noting who captured it, the date, all the pertinent information. after the war in 1905, president teddy roose

lee herself. >> no, for a reason, alice lee stood between harper and the media hungry world. her sister was provider, financial counsellor, lawyer, and i tried to get around her, she found out that i did the biography sending a hot letter saying i hear you are talking to my sister's friends, i don't like it. we developed a good relationship. if you asked her a specific question, you got a specific answer. i never spoke to harper lee. >> she wasn't strictly speaking a reclues. she lived a life where she was in pubic, seen and heard by her neighbours. >> harper lee and her sister alice are provincial people. they love the small part of the south. "to kill a mockingbird" is a novel of manners, it's about the way people behave. she said all i want to be is the jane austin of the south. she is. >> that's a big assignment. >> it is a big assignment. that's right. you know, she rendered that little town in a surrealistic way that i know people go back to read it every year because they want to go back to makin. >> she calls herself happy as hell that this is released. do you believe

lee met ulysses s. grant and sun rendered his arm of north virginia effectively ending the civil war. next we visit the confederacy in a appotomax appotomax. >> welcome to the museum of the confederacy of appotomax. i'm listened de lipt lipscomb. the museum hare opened three years. we are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890 opened in 1896 in richmond virginia. we house here a lot of aircraft facts that were from the confederates. we'll tell you how we got some of the artifacts. here we tend to focus on appotomax because we are in the location. a lot of people ask the question, why appotomax why did lee come here to surrender. it was not his original intend. lee has been looking for supplies. his goal is to find supplies for his men and then turn south to meet with general john ton who was down in north carolina. as he is traveling from petersburg here, gran has been able to effectively block off all of the railroad supplies that lee has waiting for him as he is coming along. h

lee. after lee left appomattox in 1865, he returned to richmond to his wife.to lexington, where he was president of washington college for the next five years. he passed away in 1870, five years after his surrender. this is one of the death masks. the image behind him is an image of appomattox court house. the village. you can see the ruins of the burned out courthouse, taken after 1892, when it burned. it had been the county seat up until that point. as we showed you on the map before, this village was built on the stagecoach line. the railroad line did not come through the village. it was a few miles away, where lee was trying to get to. after this courthouse burned, they built a new courthouse and moved the county seat to where it exists today, near the railroad station in the town of appomattox. this gallery focuses on the confederate veterans. many of them were wounded during the war and lost limbs. some of them had prosthetic limbs like this made. when this was given to us, the gentleman said he did not wear it very often. his grandkids probably played w

lee zeldin: i did. my district office is almost entirely the people that were with me in the state senate, and my office downtown is new staff. each were exciting for different reasons, but good chemistry, and constituent services is a key part of the job, and having a good team here in d.c. to make sure we are doing our due diligence is important, as well. host: what is a typical day like for you in washington, when congress is in session? rep. lee zeldin: very busy. there was one day when i have 31 things on my calendar. you might have a five-minute meeting followed by a 10 minute meeting followed by a 10 minute meeting, with the committees and the subcommittees. i try to exercise as close to every morning as i can. the evenings usually ends late. i like to -- there are other people there that have vices. you know, they might go out drinking or whatnot. i like to empty my e-mail box. that is my vice. staying on top. but for me, we might be out -- there might be an event going on. local groups from the

ulysses grant and robert lee. general lee by thomas jessee. you can all 202-748-8900. mountain and pacific, 202-748-8901. send us a tweet and join us on n histor facebook. so this moment we just saw, our thinki viewers saw onng american history tv, gentlemen, what were you thinking as that -- as general lee rode away? >> sadness. i felt empathy for the h confederate soldier. i knew how much they were suffering with the surrender after they had fought so hard for four long years. i felt it was almost anti-climatic. one of the things i noted was ndidat the silence. there were no guns, no con noannon ating, no sounds. the silence wu a sound we had not heard for four years. and it approachede wa the eerie. >> as we watched that sight moments ago, you seemed to pause for a moment before mounting. what was going through your mind? >> at that particular moment i was concerned for my horse. we were putting the bridle on anfor mo e removed the forelock from ldiers underneath the bridle. but what was going on in my mind foremost is how i was going to tell my soldiers that they w

for so many reasons lee we'll miss you. thank you for all you have done for the transportation authority and all you have done for the city. with that i think we have a special resolution for you or certificate >> for formalities, if you can call item 9 as well >> item 9 recognize lee saga deputy director for out standing service from 1999 to 2015 >> thanks igist wanted to [inaudible] we have gotten to know each other over the last few years in the presidio project. my biggest memory is riding together at 5 a.m. on that monday when it opened up, the first path and hopefully we'll do it together in a few weeks early in the morning. you have been one of those people i have gotten to know in city government that is salt of the earth and amazing professional at what you do and also great to work with. you had a ton orphsuccess with the presidio parkway project and if t hasn't been easy. i know what an amazing person you are to work with ask thank you for all your service and getting to know you and your rich history [inaudible]

lee zeldin: i did. my district office is almost entirely the people that were with me in the state senate, and my office down in d.c. is almost entirely brand new staff. each were exciting for different reasons, but good chemistry, and constituent services is a key part of the job, and having a good team here in d.c. to make sure we are doing our due diligence is important, as well. host: what is a typical day like for you in washington, when congress is in session? rep. lee zeldin: very busy. there was one day when i had 31 things on my calendar. you might have a five-minute meeting followed by a 10 minute meeting followed by a 10 minute meeting. i serve on three committees, seven subcommittees. i get up early, i try to exercise as close to every morning as i can. the evenings usually an late. i like to -- there are other people out there who have vices. you know, they might go out drinking or whatnot. for me, i like to empty my e-mail box. that is how i get my high. that is my vice. staying on top of

he is buried in the lee chapel on the campus of washington and lee university. where does this go after next month? the connection is pocahontas jamestown, robert e lee, ira aldridge -- both men born in the same year. both men knew exactly what they wanted to do. lee wanted to be a soldier aldridge wanted to be an actor. next month we will follow the african-american heritage more and look at senator everett dixon -- dircksen of illinois. he made the cover of time magazine a number of times. we will look at him senator dircksen basically was the catalyst of moving the historic civil rights legislation through the senate and congress in january, just this time, generally around february, the winter of 1964. that legislation would eventually be signed by president johnson on july 2 1954. that is the historic civil rights act of 1964. it took another 100 years from the end of the civil war to really begin to see some of the social equity and civil rights for blacks that whites had enjoyed since the beginning. so ira aldridge would have, 100 years later, would have

i had met general lee in the mexican war but even then he was the great captain lee with a long shadow.ishedi was a second lieutenant not long out of the academy. general lee was quite the distinguished man. he was born to be the warrior that he is. n when i met him in the parlor of at had the mclean house, i was word. dishevelled and general lee was in a uniform that had never been worn before with a jewelled h presentation sword. i was nervous.i trie in fact, in chatting with him, o trying to break the tension, general lee finally had to cough and say general, we must be about the business that we are here to attend to. reco >> yes. >> general? >> that was quite true. a i had been trying to recollect what i had looked like from the mexican war. i do have a very good memory. i remember the incident of meeting him but it was briefly and i could not recall a single feature. >> i was clean shaven at that time. i had not grown a beard. as r >> moreel importantly when he arrived, i was relieved that he was there and i was not d not concerned with hiskn appearance. i was concerned with mine becau

lee portrayed by robert jesse. thank you for joining us and being with the viewers as well. >> thank you. >> our special programming continues with a look at president lincoln's assassination which took place 150 years ago. we'll show coverage of an event that took place recently from ford's theater and nearby peterson house where president lincoln was taken after being shot by actor john wilkes booth on in 1865. >> on our next "washington journal," we'll talk to dennis kelleher talking about banking investigations and regulations seven years after the wall street crisis. then former indiana senator lugar discusses bipartisanship in congress and his work at the lugar center. later, a discussion with weicshbaum on efforts to change police procedures around the country. we'll take your phone calls facebook comments and tweets. >>> this summer,booktv will cover book festivals. this weekend live in book expo america in new york city. in the beginning of june, we're live for the chicago tribune writer's row lit fest inc

regimens of the usrtc are here when lee tries to breakthrough the traps laid and foiling lee's plan andfoa with joe's army. for troops in the army that ent of participation in the campaign looms large as a great moment of pride and earnings of the rightsumber to ses session. >> we have a numplg calls r guest. waiting. a history professor at the university of virginia and s go t joining us here to talk about this let's go to sid in denver. sid, are you there? >> yes. thank you, cnn, for the great the p program. my question, and i'm glad you alluded to the presence of olve african-american unions th soldiers, my question involves the deployment of the african-american soldiers in virginia as occupation troops and maybe you could shed some light on the -- like in winchester, virginia i know g that african-american troops were there to occupy, as so occupying forces and could you a st shed someor light and relevant insight, maybe a story to what troops that was like? >> african-american troops are among those union soldiers who are occupation forces in locations around the south. there is som

>> blancey lee was rachel lee's, on-again, off-again boyfriend. blancey held himself out as someone who could do home construction projects. and did a few home construction projects. >> reporter: he fixed the deck, right? >> he fixed the deck. >> reporter: blancey and rachel come from california, and until now, appear to be living a middle-class life off of rachel's earnings as a psychic. but two years into the con, things really begin to escalate. rachel, who has established herself as an authority on bookkeeping and personal finance, convinces ralph to purchase this 4,600 square foot house, a 4-bedroom tudor in an exclusive suburb of portland. price tag -- $915,000. a home he will never live in. what was the reason that they bought this home? >> rachel lee at the time led ralph raines jr. to believe that if he purchased this home it would be a good investment for him in the long run. she also let him know that it could be a place for her and some of her family members to live while they waited to sell it. >> reporter: so while ralph and his agin

let me first call on mayor ed lee. mayor lee >> thank you for that introduction secretary mac dawnal and your leadership for our entire country. helly everybody, hpy earth day. i spent most of the morning talking about taking care of earth and climate change and i am so happy we are also simultaneously taking care of the very people we value on this earth. i want to just also welcome to the podium here spl visor jewelry christensen who is a graitpartner in the erftd as well as the entire board of supervisors. i want to thank bay area leaders today like mayor shaft, but also samlocardo and also the president of santa clara county board of supervisors, david cor tezy and representatives of the invaluable pu[inaudible] that is sauch strong partner. i want to welcome veteran affairs qu we have sited roithd now in the memorial and it is such a bump setting. the sun came out when we were ready to announce this so i know is a blessing more and when we get this veterans memorial building done it will be more fwlessing, so than

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 m

lee: good. up on top? >> disease. prof. lee: disease. we are reading right to left as the chinese would. this one says ruin. can anyone point out those last two? >> ruin to white labor. prof. lee: right. so, chinese immigration is bringing filth, immorality disease to white labor. it is catastrophic to san francisco, to california. the foundation of the statue is crumbling. the ships coming are capsizing. the moon has slanted eyes and -- the moon in the background has slanted eyes. this is the future of california, the future of the u.s. this is not an outlier. this is not a far right or far left or extreme example about this anti-immigrant sentiment. this is one of the most well respected, well read illustrated magazines in the late 19th century. what is the effect of some of this popular sentiment? one is through violence. there are countless episodes of the chinese being driven out -- literally with mobs driving them out of small towns like eureka california as well as big cities like tacoma and seattle. this is an illustration of one

lee surrenders to grant. because of the surrender, the reconvening of the legislature is a moot point. lincoln rights to weitzel and says as much. lee has surrendered. virginia does not need to rejoin the union at this point. stanton has lost total confidence in weitzel. he writes to grant. april 14 was good friday. today is good friday. easter a little early this year or was late that year. general or comes in and resumes command of the army of the james, and weitzel is directed to move his black troops to petersburg. before he leaves, however, he gets word that robert e lee has returned home. i've days at the disorder, lee returns to his home on frankfurt street -- five days after this order, lee returns to his home on franklin street. thomas graves writes that he goes to the confederate home of robert e lee on franklin street. he knocks on the door and fitzhugh lee answers the door. he's the nephew of robert e lee and a classmate of godfrey weitzel. graves announces he is here from weitzel to tell lee to t

mar here clinch here, lee? here mccray present. melgar here. walker here. >> we have a quorum next item is president's announcements. >> good morning web to the may 20th. 2015 bic, meeting, forgive me if i mispronounce any names, as follows, tom hui briefed san francisco committee may first, and gave them an overview of the dbi, current responsibility in building load. we also talked about the retro fit program, noise, policy for adding dwelling units shg where they can be added with the existing building. chief inspector ron tom, joined them on a workshop may 11th. that attracted over 40 participants, on the focus on preparing your home and property for the next earthquake, this is the second held of the four that dbi is hosting, during the safety month. the first workshop was held may 6th chief commissioner vas kwez-to-for fife safety tips and the library. dbi staff participated in over site committee, and follow up of the city response to june 2014 civil grand jury, report on rising sea levels the board reject the modifying building and plan

. >> ladies and gentlemen if you will please give a round of applause for the honorable mayor edwin lee of the san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) on behalf of mc governmental of at any one city and county of san francisco the san francisco arts commission and the welcome to the u.n. sunnyvale of animal by the 81 wednesday artist. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> we have a number of people that want to pay tribute i'm going to ask the speakers to please speak briefly, of course with the expectation of the mayor he can speak as long as he likes. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so without further ado our honorable guests mayor edwin lee of the city and county of san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping.) well, everyone welcome to city the san francisco this is very special for me today because the artists one thing yee as pleased us in the front gardener with those wonderful whimsical characteristics playful and dilate full and represents the art contemporary art we want to continue supporting in your city of san francisco and now it has a

mayor ed lee. [ applause ] >>mayor edwin m. lee: okay, naomi, that tells me a lot. everybody, thank you. thanks for coming. this is a wonderful time we are here at city hall and of course i was joking when i wished mayor brown a happy 100th birthday. first of all i do want to say officially welcome to the people's palace. this is of course a time when we get a chance to reflect not just the brick and mortar although i must say every time i have a chance to look up and look around i have to marvel at a building that moves in base isolate ors and has become a beautiful beautiful building and everybody i have talked with and stepped foot whether it's the elevators or walking up or the rotunda, their eyes are always looking everywhere and marvelling at this historic building. as i look around today, most of the people are the ones who occupy and come through and make this building come alive. that's you and the thousands that come through this building everyday. i want to say from a very start thank you to mayor brown and charlotte and when we first began talking about

lee: good. what is the title of the cartoon? >> a statue for our harbor. ms. lee: right. in san francisco as opposed to new york. in new york, they have a statue of liberty welcoming european immigrants. in san francisco, this is what our statue would be if we allow chinese immigration to come without restrictions. a couple things that jeremy just mentioned. we can recognize this as a chinese male. he has this long hairstyle. this care style was mandated by the cheating empire. in the u.s., it became a sign of femininity, exotic miss, sub humanness. he is wearing robes. they are very tattered. this is not the classical greek figure. it has no dignity. he is standing on a skull meaning that he is bringing ruin. does anyone see what he is holding in his left hand? joy. >> and opium pipe? ms. lee: yes. another symbol of the vice of chinese immigration. they are bringing drugs and immorality. there is rioting emanating from the -- writing emanating from the ring around his head. can you see what that is? it is hard to see from the middle. the bottom right is filth. what else?

muhammad was going to be lord over and lee would be one of his soldiers.ieved that. >> he was so enamored with john muhammad that he would have done anything. and what muhammad was asking him to do was kill other and over again. >> lee boyd malvo. >> yes, sir. >> two years after the shooting, lee boyd malvo was convicted on two counts of capital murder. he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. three years later, he wrote from his cell, i'm still grappling with shame, guilt, remorse, and my own healing, if that will ever be possible. as for john allen muhammad, he too was convicted of capital murder. the sentence? death by lethal injection. his own motive for the killing spree remains a mystery. >> all we know about muhammad's approach to these shootings is largely what other people have theorized because muhammad never really explained why it happened. there are theories that he was randomly shooting people in that area so that perhaps he could kill his ex-wife and then swoop in as the grieving ex-husband and take the children

here is the journey of mary lee. so who or what is mary lee. she is a great white shark and scientists are following here for years she pings when she hits the surface because she has been tagged. >> kenneth moton is on the mary lee watch. >> we are told this is not a jaws situation. people are looking through the fog wondering where is mary lee the shark. fishermen were trying to reel them in and they want nothing to do with mary lee. >> that is a nice name and i done want to run into mary lee, i fish a lot on this beefrp i don't know what i would do if i caught it. >> a 16 foot long great white shark swimming off the jersey shore. >> jaws out there somewhere. mary lee was tagged by nonprofit o search she was 10 miles east of prig teen this morning in atlantic city. >> they were doing this for eons but we didn't know it we have the technology to know, it proves they are not interested in us. robert has been on o search led expeditions and these squiggly lines show her journey up the coast. she likes to come to the surface. >> we see the daily

lee live the five years afterews ha surrender, so lee's views have ose to to be reconstructed from sources i wi close to him from the ways people reacted to him and i'll say lee was a controversial figure. >> elizabeth, our guest, author of the victory defeat, and freedom at the end of the civil : than war. we thank you so muchk for being here and speaking with the viewers. >> thank you, all, for coming this afternoon. you are the loyal die hard. we've been here all day watching the magnificent tableau of the ve alrea reenactors in front of our eyes. they are irresistible. i already watched two marches ind that stacking of the rifles, and there's going to be a third, andy to g i'm toldet that's bigger after we get done here.. i'll try to get done in a hurry. not to be missed. i want to first honor and praise the national park service, john all the other park service staffe today from battlefield sites, seen people here from other places you pulled off -- [ applause ] an amazing event. cal i've been calling home saying you have to see this to believe h c-span it. watch g, ac-span, i keep sa