but still the confederacy and lee's army hoped and believed. soldier from south carolina declared, no one can incite our enthusiasm like he does. it makes one feel better to look at him. unlike many of his opponents, lee spent little time worrying about what union generals might do to him. instead, he spent his energy ke mnts,ha figuring out what he could do to union generals and their armies.ng out w his was a mind that craved the initiative. cra and he was most effective when he possessed it. most and that he largely did until may 1864 when ulysses s. grant arrived in virginia.w >> grant. unlike lee, there would be few profuse descriptions of ulysses s. grant, commander of all union s. armies. one veteran officer described d him as stumpy, unmilitary, slouchy, and western looking. very ordinary, in fact. very ordinary. a private soldier who saw him in a review said he rode his horse like a bag of meal.a private soldier who saw him in a review said he rode his horse like a bag of meal. another noted in walking he leans forward and toddles. tho

and he gave it to lee to read. and gran signed the terms of surrender that he was offering. e read it he made a couple corrections to it and gave it back to general grant. he wrote his letter of acceptance of those particular terms. and lee signed his own letter. but they never signed the same piece of paper. there is no formal peace treaty that originated from there. there was no document ever signed between president lincoln and president davis ending any of this. this was just lee surrendering his army to general grant at this particular time. in this particular case, there are a lot of uniforms and swords and flags that pertain specifically here to appotomax. these were on the men that were here with them and these flags are ones that were camtured or surrendered here in appotomax. the museums that started

this time we talk about the lost and found first novel from harper lee, best known for "to kill a mockingbird." america has changed better since the best seller and pulitzer prize winner hit the stores. as the last several months demonstrate we have trouble talking to each other about race. in "to kill a mockingbird," small-town lawyer attacus defended a black man defending him against rape of a white woman, and it says: as challenging as it can be for young people especially to confront the racial path, mockingbird gives readers a guy. sout says of her own father: charles shields is with us, an author of mocking bird. and a professor of secondary education joins us. welcome to the programme. >> thank you. >> was it predictable. would it have been imagined in 1960 when the book came out that it would become a killer of the young adult ca in the united states. >> it's a curious phenomenon why certain books become popular, and "to kill a mockingbird" is among the five popularly taught books. it's slightly strange, but in some ways we predict that based on what an heroic figure attacus is, how h

lee's eye. his hand was grasping the gun. androb fischer, still kneeling beside lee, still holding the phone he'd used to call 911. >> mr. fischer stood up and said "i'm a retired police officer. i'm a police officer." >> reporter: and there was belinda. >> she was going, "what's going on? what's going on?" >> reporter: she was in shock then or so she said later. still perhaps unwilling to get her brain around what happened. >> i don't think in your worst nightmare you wake up and see someone you love on the floor with blood around them. >> reporter: and then to be told that he'd shot himself? sure he seemed a little upset by the news he got in that email the night before, but business troubles were nothing new to lee and belinda radder, they'd been on a financial roller coaster for years. lee was always chasing the next big thing, even when they suffered when the car was repossessed or when he couldn't pay the electricity and the power was off for five days. but they got along. but during the years you were together, the big thi

he models nob nub and exercising techinal judgment in wise ways. lee is universely reect spected and sought after in the field. 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 wor

thanks to mayor ed lee and god bless america. >> there's a saying in taiwan first, you become friends then you get to work. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so, now i'd like to welcome to the stage my friend and someone we've been proud to work with mr. on the other hand, of '81 pays gallery. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (clapping) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> this is the beginning of a very beautiful exhibition. >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> the historical mayor ed lee and the honorable guests my friends from taiwan and the media i'm victor o the director of the gallery. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> many larger scale of that place in collaboration in '81 pan we all have a successful exhibition and have x ambitions in hong kong most important in 2013 a large-scale exhibition at the open air museum in japan it laughed for seven months the museum give us positive feedback we thank inform mayor lee's mayor lee's invitation. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> out of the "x" ambitions we like the civic center plaza the most this large exhibition is fanatic thank

and he gave it to lee to read. and gran signed the terms of surrender that he was offering. e read it he made a couple corrections to it and gave it back to general grant. he wrote his letter of acceptance of those particular terms. and lee signed his own letter. but they never signed the same piece of paper. there is no formal peace treaty that originated from there. there was no document ever signed between president lincoln and president davis ending any of this. this was just lee surrendering his army to general grant at this particular time. in this particular case, there are a lot of uniforms and swords and flags that pertain specifically here to appotomax. these were on the men that were here with them and these flags are ones that were camtured or surrendered here in appotomax. the museums that started a flag conservation program. these two flags are perfect examples of that where we have been able to have these flags conserved so they will not deteriorate any further than that. it is an expensive process to have done. it can cost 20 to $30,000. we have been fortunate

. >> we know the entry wounds and the exit wounds on lee. we know where -- >> reporter: and you've got the hole in the wall behind him. >> correct. and we have the hole in the wall behind him. and so those holes don't lie. >> reporter: no, and the story they told the angle of the bullet, meant, investigators believed that lee could not have fired the gun himself. and once rademacher looked at the expert's report, he said, the fuzzy story of what happened that boozy night finally came into sharp focus. >> what we do know is what the blood tells us and what the trajectory tells us, and where things were found inside the home. and when you start putting all the pieces together, you only get one explanation and that's murder. >> reporter: and then it was a fine may morning, and rob walked out of his house to go to work. >> i was in the driveway, and i saw people running up at me with both sides with guns pointed at me. at first, i didn't recognize them as law enforcement. i wasn't thinking of law enforcement. and so you -- you -- you -- kind of y

and hem. the idea that lee offered grant the sword and grant refused to take it is one of them, be you alludedo men grant dishevelled muddy frock coat lee dressed in a fine draeszed eddressed uniform. the people are presence in the e mcclain house and accounts of the surrender read a lot into the appearance of those two men, symbolic of the societies they had mol represented. granto represented the hard scrabble farmers and wage earners, and union men were the proud of the dishevelled appearance. southerners, confederates, seen proud lee as representative of the planter elite proud of lee's appearance, and every detail, the setting here was highly symbolic and americans read a great deal into the details. >> was it after the fact? >> this was immediately. this is something to appreciate. news travels from this place by telegraph by 11:00 p.m. on april 9. in that evening, new yorkers he med have gotten word of the surrender. new york, the media capital of the country, of the northsemi then as it is now and word spreads es, wo throughout the north and in some southern places, word travels less q

in d is an aid to general lee, and he was wounded in appomattox on april 9. lee noted that he left him writhing in great pain and assumed he died. in fact, he actually survived. he posed in this uniform, that shows a bullet that was recovered from him. he was operated on by a union surgeon and continued to live after the war. the gentleman in f is his sergeant, robert parker, with the second virginia cavalry. on that morning, he was also engaged in a battle in appomattox. he is known as lee's last casualty. sergeant parker passed away at the will robertson house. he was the last man in lee's army to die before he surrendered. sergeant parker was only 40 miles away from his hometown at the time he passed away. another item that we have of what lee wore is a gauntlet and a pen he used to accept the terms of surrender. this is a code that was given to us by his son, the day -- the one he was wearing the day he surrendered. the pen was used to sign the acceptance. a lot of people do not know that general lee and grant never signed the same piece of paper. when 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 we

but had general lee been able to break loose from my forces it would not have prolonged the war and certainly would not have changed the outcome of the war. >> general lee. i. >> i had a men duty to try. i had a duty to my government bsolut and myel men. but in retrospect, general grant is absolutely right. by the time i would reach general john sob, there's no very m telling how many men i would have left. i wasild anng losing men every mile because they were exhausted and manag they were starving. they just they couldn't go any further. if i had managed to escape general grant here i'm convinced he would have caught up with me before i made excite terms the ovalley. >> how many days in advance did you begin to device the terms of surrender? >> at our last meeting on the river queen with president he presi lincoln, general sherman ver, w admiral david dickson port enand clinton myself, we asked the president in talking, we said, it's almostc2ávthat over. what then? and then president lincoln said, let them up easy. so that was my plan. president lincoln also indicated to me, you get them to

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 mr. lee saw him he went [gesture thumb up in the air] like that. and mrs. lee said, "he's telling you again you're number one driver. so brian really appreciated that; he thought that was really sweet. but he could see mr. lee wasn't doing so well so he left really quickly. and unfortunately, mr. lee passed away that evening. that had a great impact on brian and me. it was very sad, but it was so touching that he had seen mr. lee and mr. lee had confirmed that brian was "number one driver." >> this is san francisco paratransit. it's not perfect; we have our ups and downs: late trips frustrated customers stressed out drivers. but at our best, we get our riders where they need to go on time and with a smile. and when we pay attention real carefully and notice what's happening on the van, taxi or

lee made a couple corrections to it and gave it back to general grant. letter of acceptance of those particular terms. lee signed his own letter, but they never signed the same piece of paper. there is no formal peace treaty originated on this. there was no document ever signed between the president lincoln and president davis, ending any of this. it was just lee surrendering to his army to general grant at this particular time. in this particular case, there are a lot of uniforms and flags that pertain specifically to appomattox. these were on the men that were here with them. the flags that are here are ones that were captured or surrendered in appomattox. the museum has started a flag conservation program. these flags are perfect examples of that. we have been able to have the flags conserved so they will not deteriorate any further. it is an expensive process that can cost $20,000 to $30,000. we have been fortunate that some of our supporters have stepped forward to help us. some of them might have had ancestors that fought for a particular unit, so

with this administration with mayor lee and people coming from around the world. this has been a place to be proud of to show case our city. they are not here for just parties but for doing business and exchanging ideas. i remember after that, there have been many kings, presidents, prime ministers and kings and princesses and from china. we had thousands of people here. i don't think we had the fire chief. not invited. so it was really quite an affair to have the premier of china. a few days later i got a call from the white house. mike lieber. he said i have good and bad news. he said the premier of china had dinner with the president ronald regan in the white house. i said, well he had to eat somewhere. what's the bad news? the premier said the highlight of his visit to the united states was san francisco. we hear that all the time and now mayor lee has been so wonderful to participate with all. we have 88 council generals. we fly their flag on their national day and very proud to have their constituents here and mayor lee has met with the president of france, t

. >> 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

at early education and sophie lee at sunset elementary school and kenneth lee principal at freelance middle school and barney by principal at abdominal high school how about a round of applause for the principals of the year on behalf of the entire board of education i want to congratulate our wonderful teachers and principals and extend a special recognition for the recognition of our teachers and principals i've got to tell you they received quite the gift bag a brand new laptop evenings and hotels with significant others of their choice and gift certificates to restaurants but they all deserve it i wish we could do that important all educators thank you for those who support our teachers and principals as an update as i mentioned a few weeks ago we are administering algebra one common core algebra we administered that i scripted in daily the rigorous process so i'd like to update the community about the results of that validation examine the finding are tentative and the final resolution to parents will happen late

many culleges joined mayor lee and san francisco bike coalition at city hall and their own executive director [inaudible] saent photo showing [inaudible] this week as well the central subway project celebrated a mile stone. the contractor for 1.4 mile twin tunnels for the pauject completed work. the final element of the contract including 5 crass passagess and head walk [inaudible] and construction pit. the photo's looked great. at a total cost of 251 million there work was completed on schedule and within budget. work on the stations continues with revenue service anticipated for december of 2018. congratulations to mta and entire project team. i would also like to take a few moments to recognize the [inaudible] authority staff who will be retiring next month after 16 years to the service to the agency. as you all know lee is deputy director for capital projects and during thiz tenure made many many sig contributions to the agency and city of san francisco and the region and improving transportation for everyone. i bow i speak for everyone at the ta and for many people at other city

he demands to know the terms that lee. and appomattox -- got at appomattox and for his men to get the same terms. when he is reassured he agrees to surrender. this takes place on may 11. and, let's go back. on the map here, there is bluff -- shop bluff -- chalk bluff in the upper area of arkansas. it is in jackson port that about 5000 confederate troops -- and they are all arkansas troops -- are going to stack their weapons and receive parole passes and rations. some union officers will move in and they will meet with general thompson there. this is going to be about 7000 total. the final events in jackson port take place on may 25. again, thompson is not happy with how things have unfolded. a lot of his troops have been deserting. not surprisingly. and a great deal of desertion and lack of discipline among his men. thompson will stand on board a steamship as his troops are on the shore and this is his address to them. and again, think about order number nine. "many of the 8000 men i see around me, very many of you have been s

s caretaker and often she overpays herself. >> there are individuals who allege that rachel lee did not provide sufficient care to sr., that they found at the tree farm in a state of neglect on multiple occasions. >> and my son went over to visit him one day and they wouldn't let him in the house. >> they didn't want anybody to have contact with either of the raineses. >> one of the hallmarks of a sweetheart swindle is to isolate the victim from all friends and family and business associates and in this case that's what they did. >> reporter: at one point, the suffering sr. is moved into the exclusive portland home. there he suffers one final indignity. >> the father is sleeping in the hallway. >> he was never provided his own bedroom. rachel lee, blancey lee, and their extended family members occupied all of the bedrooms in this house. >> reporter: this photo shows how helpless ralph sr. has become. >> it was shocking to us as part of the investigation, to find that out. >> meanwhile rachel is diverting funds by sending big checks to her family members, to blancey lee, and to her finan

. >> john will be coming moment arly, and i am lee, and the deputy director with the transportation authority and this is our regular up date on major capitol projects and john fisher and don is going to be the lead consultant for the transportation authority with this project, and for some time, and a principally involved with phase two, being done as a public private partnership and he will be doing the presentation today, and for the end of the presentation, john will mention that we have a major happy milestone coming up and we are about to open the final roadway to traffic. and so with that i will introduce, josh fisher. >> thanks, lee and, madam chair and members of the commission, i am pleased to be here and on the eve of this major milestone to give you an up date. and i will show you, the agenda that i intend to discover, the project scope and schedule and the budget and funding and property ject status, which he kind of stole my thunder, and up date on the dbe, sbe westboundinger force development program and some of the challenges, the upcoming traffic switch and opening celebratio

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

areas i'm particularly proud of our work on omaha and our work on public safety together mayor ed lee and i have invested $5.4 million in incredible elevator repair at 9 inform public housing sites and also secured 2 pointed $5 million to refusal over one hundred and 60 public unit housing for families just recently we launched a rental assistance demonstrates and with concert julian to transform san francisco's publicity u public housing the rad fireman is significant and will allow san francisco is leverage $800 million in investment eligibility and $5200 million from our city to rehabilitate over 4 thousand 5 hundred units of public housing unit for over 5 thousand 4 hundred residents this will be one of the biggest public housing improvements in our country i can tell you from experience the residents needed it i'm so proud of the mayor and public housing is affordable housing and mayor ed lee and i are working to build both on public safety it has been a privilege to work with the mayor to put over 3 hundred new police officers on our streets in the next two years and (clapping.) you

is that significant, in your opinion, and how? rep. lee zeldin: there are issues that i care very deeply about. you speak up, and you talk about who are america's friends, and who our enemies are, what our foreign policy should be as relates to defeating isis. isis happens to be about 18 miles from the syrian border with israel. how is our approach with syria and iraq and afghanistan and of course, the nuclear talks the rising tide of anti-semitism around the world, including right here in the united states, and this is starting to become more prevalent on college campuses, and around the world where some iteris, some cemeteries are being converted to all muslim cemeteries without even any indication as to what they will do with jewish remains. , and maybe a next her person listening that day to help spread the word, i embrace that. host: how did your experience in the military, particularly your experience in iraq, influence, or does it your views on foreign policy? rep. lee zeldin: four's -- four years in active duty, and then in the res

important to strengthen and streamline our current framework and processes i do believe that mayor lee's and my legislation strikes that balance we have a point of view that includes the following a hundred and 20 day hard coop on short-term rentals this is the planning they needed in order to make this law enforceable and treating all short-term rental hosts by striking the currency laws fine motivating hosting and non-hosting and the city's private right of action neighbors within one feet to seek remedies of those violating the short-term rentals law in order to further mitigate the quality of life issues in the neighborhood and more importantly from my phonetics creating on office of short-term rental administration and enforcement that provides a single location for members of the public to both apply for the city register and the city staff to enforce the law a one-stop shop that is a physical location for all short-term rentals needs around registration and enforcement or making one minor amendment to the city's office lo which willable the planning department to enforce the component

of housing give a presentation so my way substantive is give 8 out of 10 john ram 6 out of 10 and olsen leet out of 10 today it is a shame that san franciscans have to go on our streets and see so many people homeless and it is a shame that the supervisors sit here and don't think outside the box when it comes to our children i see the fluff and the rain drop but not the practice illicit i when i worked for accident presidio i created the infrastructure group the real estate and property management group i understand what goes into doing things and maintain a standard your supervisors was ask yourselves do you really cater to those that need help most do you really care about our seniors especially our seniors who really contributed to this nation in the 50s and 60s and 70s and 80s today, we have at technician i didn't and the fluff i'm asking you do you center compassion and is your heart in the right place you very much. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon and thank you supervisors my name is mary beth smith i work in san francisco beetle i'm here

lee and grant me that very afternoon of april 9. one of the things that makes the appomattox surrender you knew there is an active campaign and right up to the last minute there is fighting. we do not know who the last casualty was, there is probably no way to know because the fighting spread out across the village. one of the possible candidates is montgomery from pennsylvania, that is his photograph. as the flags of truce go out and fighting dies down, both sides have a chance to pause and catch the reps -- their breath and for the confederates, this is the first time they have had to process things. we have all been in situations where you push yourself and have long days and lose track of things and make bad decisions. you are fatigue mentally -- fatigued mentally and physically. when word comes out that there is a flag of truce, it is a shock. and really shakes them to their foundations, it is really hard to accept. they have been fighting and all of a sudden the war will be over quickly. the surrender meeting takes place in the