portraying mary lincoln in "the widow lincoln." thank you for your time. >> in the 19th century, the federal government was very limited. they do not have many deployable resources. so t

the play writ and the actor of mary lincoln portraying mary lincoln in the widow lincoln. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> with live coverage of the u.s. house on c-span and the senate on c-span two, here on c-span-3 we complement the coverage by showing you the most relevant congressional hearings and public events. on weekends c-span 3 is the home to american history tv with programs that tell our nation's story, including six unique series. visiting battlefields and key events, american artifacts, touring museums and historic sites. history bookshelf, the best known american history writers, the presidency, looking at the policies and legacies of our nation's commanders in chief. lectures and history, with top college professors delving into america's past. our new series real america, featuring our government and educational films from the 1930s through the 70s. c-span 3 created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. tonight on q&a, filmmaker thomas allen harri

the play wright and the actor of mary lincoln portraying mary lincoln in the widow lincoln. thank you for your time. >> thank you, susan. >>> you're watching american history tv. 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on cspan 3. follow us on twitter at cspan history. for information on our schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. this april marks the 150th anniversary of lincoln's assassination. up next, theatre historian thomas bogar revisits that night through official testimony of some of the actors and employees of the ford brothers. this event was hosted by the national archives and lasts about an hour. >> it's funny when you start out to work on a book about something so well known in american history, such a signal event, you have to really aim for who you think your readers are going to be. i started to find early that there's such a spectrum. on one end you have people who are real scholars of the lincoln assassination, who are familiar with the most arcane details. and then you have on the other end what was exe

lincoln." and then honest abe sent seward down the road to negotiate with these peace commissioners who aren't going to be in the city. the vote on abolition of slavery carried in the house by a margin of two votes. there is no way that would have happened without this deception by lincoln. the peace commissioners crossed the lines from lee's army into grant's at the very hour that this vote was taken. too late for the truth to be known on capitol hill. i'm going to spend a few moments on how that came to pass. i think it's a fascinating story. it's what really drew me to the book to begin with. stanton again was dead set against peace negotiations and when he heard that these negotiators were coming, he convinces lincoln to send down to see them first major thomas eckert, who was stanton's watch dog. he was the head of the military telegraph, he had an office adjacent to stanton's, the personification of a petty bureaucrat. never wore a uniform, had never been truly a military man, had the ran

she is very lincoln. it is not my mary lincoln now. it is hers. i will let you talk about how you do that. >> well, how do you do that? how do you create the traumatic experience on stage? >> to imagine living through that, how do you capture that without experiencing something that horrific in your own life? >> well, i am an actor. i will say that any good actor can portray anything that can happen to a human being. >> it is the actor's craft. >> everyone goes about it a different way. when i was younger, it was about trying to re-create. i have been through more tragedies since then, more death and grief. i am not as surprised by tragic events. >> is it different when you put the costume on? >> painful. yes. yes and no. there is a hard time when you leave the rehearsal room. you have created everything with the rehearsal. you have a relationship to that skirt. you have put a lot of emotional investment into it. it can be very jarring actually. now that we are here and we are in it, it has been helpful. it is just how -- i have dreams about being

just reading how they treated the story of the civil war, in some ways mary lincoln, abraham lincoln, some of the plays were wild. much wilder than anything i could write. so that kind of liberated me, as well, because i realized there were writers 150 years ago trying to make sense of this time in a theatrical language, as well. so that was freeing. then i started to read books that were written in the 20th century. carl sandberg wrote a beautiful, small, slim volume. and he was part of the new wave of writers who were starting to reconsider the image and representation of mary lincoln. maybe she had gotten a bad deal in terms of -- because for about 50 years after lincoln's death there was so much negative that was written about her. i started to find some of the things that, if not positive, at least were looking at, maybe there are two sides to this. there was enough source material that i felt like i could find interesting things. >> what was the time from, yes, i have this commissioned, to the opening debut? how much time is involved in all this? >> i would say it was about thre

lincoln knew. lincoln was more than canny, more than clever, he understood that this was going to lead to some form of citizenship, and he was going to have to do the politics of that. perhaps his worst political decision that he ever made was to name andrew johnson as his vice president, and the reason he did that was, of course, for political reasons to have a border state running mate. to help him in what they called the union party in 1864 in this difficult election, and lincoln paid very little attention to his vice presidents. he didn't include them in his cabinet meetings, for example. he -- his only meeting with andrew johnson as vice president was on the day of his assassination when he told him basically to shut up. don't give speeches, you're inciting all kinds of hatreds. you're a demagogue, stop it, and i don't want to see you again. and that was their relationship. what would lincoln have done? what would lincoln have done? well we know who he surrounded himself with. there's some peo

>> everybody say lincoln! >> lincoln! >> very good. [ cheers and applause ] >> that was a nice idea. >> so when visitors first enter our site they walk in through those doors and the display case that we just put the original greatcoat in is the first thing that they see. there is a wall panel describing it and they do have to go around. it is protected against the light. so and then once they get their tickets, they go down this ramp and they go into either the museum or the theater itself. so we are heading downstairs to where most visitors start their visit and their journey through lincoln's presidency. one of the first things they see is this replica life mask which we do encourage them to touch. this is a very interesting life mask. it was made in 1860 so just months before he was to start his first term as the 16th president of the united states. and so we see a much younger, fresher-looking lincoln. now we are entering. it is in the basement of the theater itself. it does not just focus on lincoln's last day and l

lincoln. he only signed his full name for something significant. generally he signed a. lincoln. obviously he signed this and i think it's one of the most historic documents in our country's history, and probably with the stroke of a pen, no president in the united states has been more significant. the other document is the 13th amendment. as you heard earlier from sandra day oh'connoro'connor, it was completely ratified by 27 states. lincoln had no role in actually officially signing the 13th amendment because, as you all know, to get an amendment approved, you need two-thirds of the members of each house and three-quarters of the state. there is no official role for the president of the united states in the amendment process, but lincoln was so excited about it that he signed it anyway and you'll see his signature there. the congress passed a resolution and i admonish him for getting in the middle of the process. he wasn't supposed to sign it but then he ignored that anyway. he did sign abou

they were a gift of the robert lincoln family, lincoln sung the left lincoln -- lincoln's son. after his death, his wife and son presented it to the church. it is the own memorial to the president given by the president's family. we are proud to have that here. the furniture downstairs lincoln would have sat in that we have those items preserved. along with numerous personal items from the president of first lady. we also have the gym of the collection, a document written by lincoln and signed by him on april 16, 1862, right after he would have signed the d.c. emancipation. he created the next document which is on view downstairs. that document describes a comprehensive emancipation pam's last effort to get the slaveholding border states to sell their slave to the federal government so they could be out of that. when he predicted that, he immediately moved on to begin to discuss the process of the emancipation proclamation. that happened based on the president's extends politically. but also as we believe and is wrong white point -- ron white points out in his wonderful book th

lincoln health mr. lincoln developed a higher under the ending of his relationship with his thought and allow him to think more clearly from a religious perspective how the emancipation proclamation eventually the 13th amendment can best be described. with that, we are ready to begin the program. i would like to introduce the doctor in and agreement for. a history professor and chairperson at howard university. she will degrees from hampton institute at the university of illinois at urbana and phd in history from the university of maryland college park. he specializes in 19th-century united dates history and keep -- teaches courses on the jacksonian area and civil war and reconstruction. she lectures widely around the country and frequently does c-span productions and that is what the cameras are here for today. she is featured in several smithsonian documentaries. one currently on beer from emancipation proclamation to civil rights and a member of mental -- many advisory boards dedicated to the promoti

lincoln helped mr. lincoln develop a higher understanding of his relationship with his god and allowed him to think through clearly from a religious perspective, how vehement patient proclamation can best be described and encompassed. with that, we are ready to begin the program. i would like to introduce edna green medford. history professor and chairperson at howard university. shields degrees from hampton institute and the university of illinois and her phd is in history from the university of maryland. dr. medford specializes in 19 country united states history and teaches courses on the jacksonian era and civil war and reconstruction. she frequently does c-span productions. that is what the character -- what the camera is here for. featured in several smithsonian documentaries. member of many advisory boards for the study and promotion of history. she is a member of the executive committee of the lincoln forum. her many honors include the 2013 professor of the year award at howard university. in 20

that is a lincoln. you had to achieve a kind of balance, which of course, was a balance that favored slave holders. let's be honest about it you had to sustain that balance in order to sustain the illusion that this was the kind of union that the founders imagined. >> i was just thinking, you talk about the importance of jefferson's first inauguration, don't you think that we're all federalists, we're all jeffersonians, the point is to tell the federalistic that you may have lost but were no threat? >> worse than that he says, the federalist, how does he define federalism in the rest of the address? he says, federalists are people who believe in states rights. he just turns it on its head. we won't persecute the leaders of the federalists, we'll just make laughing stocks out of them. they will not lose their support. majority rule is foundational. no question about it. gary was eluding to this. that's why i was so difficult to pin down on the states of people business. that's the problem in a nutshell.

this is the next to last portrait of lincoln.s is where political portrait disappears into myth. this is alexander gardner's famous cracked plate of lincoln of which there was only one. the plate -- no film it was a , glass plate negatives. gardner somehow took the plate out and it cracked slightly. you can see the line. gardner took one image and said, that is not any good and threw the plate away. so we have the only cracked plate image. it is february 1865. the war is winding down. lincoln knows he has won it. because of the plate cracking, you can see this is out of focus. this is where the plane of political portraits hiding things becomes broken and we start to step inside the space inhabited by an actual human being. because this is lincoln between life and death. he is looking forward to reconstruction, looking forward to a second term, looking forward to winning the war. we know he is going to die. this is us triangulating backwards from our vantage point, meeting the past halfway with the assassin's bullet. you can even

lincoln. a huge challenge too for all of this was timing out what occurred during that performance of "our american cousin." every account that i would read, interviews some of these actors gave 20, 30, 40 years later. some of them lived into the 1930s, 70 years after the deed. and as i read their interviews they would say, well, so-and-so was just coming on from the stage during the milk maid scene. or, it was in act ii scene i that i realized something was happening. so all of the actors and the stagehands were talking about this in terms of the script. so to get a chronology of the day, i read out loud the script. and there are about seven versions of the "our american cousin" script. i used the 1865 version. read it out loud, timing, pausing for laughs. and documenting every five minutes what would have been occurring so that i could get a timeline for the night. and it gave me a nice sense of coming and going. and finally, by the end of all the research that i did, i was able to pinpoint

lincoln. a month later, there's the pratt street riots. so it's an area of those who came from baltimore being sympathetic to the south and the remarkable thing i kept finding is that ford's theater was in many ways a hot bed of that thought. and yet working side by side, day by day, through these long rehearsals and performances throughout the whole civil war, there were union veterans working side by side with confederate veterans back stage. people who had had family members killed, sons, brothers, some who had -- still had members of their family out in the field working together side by side. so there's the tension that went with all of that. all of which begs the question for me at least, how many unanswered questions are there. who knew what. imagine how many letters must have been thrust into fireplaces in the days following the assassination. how many people distanced themselves as quickly as they could from booth. they were friends of his. it would be like brad pitt going backstage a

down, gang, all northbound lanes, closed, on the lincoln drive, anyone who uses the lincoln, northbound lanes, is where the water comes down offer of the hills. and that's where the ice developed, where the accident first hit us this morning, so penndot dispatched salt crews, but until then, they have all northbound lanes closed. so, from the schuylkill expressway, folks are need to go use the roosevelt boulevard up to wissahickon avenue. here is a live look, here comes some sun glare, coming around the belmont curve but again, it is just slowing us down, not warming us up any at least not yet. east and west on the schuylkill expressway see the normal volume. ninety-five northbound, heavy from the commodore barry, up in toward the airport area. and new jersey transit, they're running with ten minute delays system-wide this morning, because of the weather conditions. and we have those detours that remain with us in norristown, around the early morning four alarm fire, and the four main septa bus routes through norristown, are also, on a detourment mike, alex, back over to you. >> 8:04. l

this is lincoln between life and death.e is looking forward to reconstruction, a second term, looking forward to winning the war. we know he is going to die. this is us triangulating backwards from our vantage point , meeting the past halfway with the assassin's bullet. john wilkes booth, you can read the crack as the division of the union. but what this is as an historical document editors the commendation of myth and history. now he belongs to the ages. it was noted that lincoln was shot on good friday. the element of mythmaking begins almost instantly with this. that transports us away from the vernacular of political portraits that i have been discussing. which gets reestablished in the 20th century. oil painting remains -- it will be interesting to see who the first president is who does not photograph or some other media some other medium to represent himself. or herself. see what i did there? but oil painting remains king. this is a study of frank when roosevelt that completed because of his death. someone said a por

this lincoln group of d.c. event , martin wondered 50th anniversary of the 13th amendment, is about two hours. >> as roger started to allude, this is lincoln's home church. we tried to keep the current ministry and legacy of the lincoln's participation alive. he would sit in this view. this is not the original lincoln church. his was torn down and replaced by this church in the exact spot. the pew was preserved. he would be listening to the pastor who would be speaking from this pulpit. this was the original pulpit. preserved his memory through the lincoln window. the stained glass windows were dedicated in 1968. you can look at the second the last. lincoln standing in prayer which was his custom when sitting in this pew during the services. you probably past the hitching post. there was a sign that would've been used by the president when he attended. you may have heard the bells. the lincoln chimes. they were a gift of the robert litan family. when composites son -- lincoln's son. it is the only memorial to t

lincoln. yes. but his wife. >> virgin -- >> mary -- >> you said the name already. >> mary lincoln. oh, all right. >> there's a bridge. >> named after her? >> yes. >> it goes to new jersey. new jersey from manhattan. >> george washington? >> it's his wife, remember? we're doing wives. >> i know. but you're supposed to give the clue of her name. >> wow. >> okay. [ cheers and applause ] >> that was worth -- >> i wanted her name. >> i can honestly say 60 seconds have not felt quite so long. two correct. 100 points. second place. now, erin and john, you were in second place. come on down. >> oh, boy. >> famous people who are friends with or connected to presidents. all right? famous people, friends with or connected to presidents. 60 seconds on the clock. go. >> had an affair with -- had an affair with jfk. >> marilyn monroe. >> yes. pass. married angelina jolie. >> brad pitt. >> correct. >> pass. married beyonce. >> jay-z. >> pass -- i mean, up next. has a talk show. >> oprah. >> bullhead. man bal

we sat down to talk about the widow lincoln. that's monday night at 9:30 p.m. eastern on american history tv. >> all this month, the presidency, we will be focusing on the life and legacy of george washington to mark the anniversary of his birth on february 22. next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of george washington. it explores the works of gilbert stuart and john trumbull

let's take lincoln. i will step back with the treatment of lincoln.he issues a proclamation offering amnesty to almost anyone that would return to the union. johnson, after lincoln is assassinated has an amnesty plan that is not too much worse than lincoln however, when congress comes back in session in december of 1965, they do not like what johnson has done. he has allowed many of the former planters to re-enslave the former slaves by the vagrancy laws requiring 9:00 curfews, having certificate saying you are employed. if not, you will be put in prison. this happens. when congress comes back in session, stevens in the house and sumner in the senate are aggressive in their leadership in changing this. you get the 14th amendment. you get the 15th amendment. in 1871 which this film deals with a great deal, it is when you get your anti-ku klux klan act. if you believe wilson, grant was reluctant. he reluctantly comes aboard. if you read the congressional goal, it was granted that requested congress stay in session on march 23 1871, so they could pass th

portraying mary lincoln in "the widow lincoln." thank you for your time. >> in the 19th century, the federal government was very limited. they do not have many deployable resources. so the army does a whole variety of things. they are discoverers. they are explorers. army contracts were an important part of the western economy. the army plays a role in conservation. in the recent ken burns's earrings on the development of national parks, it points out the perks were established in the 19th century, but there was no one to protect them or preserve them, keep trespassers away, keep hunters off of them. and so the army, really because of the efforts of the commanding general at the time, the army steps in and literally saves the national parks until another organization can be created. for better or worse, the army in the west did much more than just fight indians. the american people have historically had an antipathy a year of the regular army, from our english traditions and revolutionary war traditions. we fear a standing army. it

rose had two nicknames for president lincoln. weapon was bean pole, and the other -- one was bean pole and the other was satan. [laughter] gives you an idea of her feelings there. and it was really fascinating to learn more about her spy craft. when she didn't have time to write messages in her cipher, she found other ways to communicate with confederate officials. she learned the morse code, for example, and at certain appointed times confederate scouts were told to watch her windows for signals and rose would raise and lower her blinds according to to the dots and dashes of the morse code. and she could achieve the same effect by using the precise flutteringings of her fan -- flutterings of her fan, so pretty crafty there. and her spy craft proved useful very early on in the war. lincoln and the north basically thought the war was going to be over in 90 days. their grand plan was to meet the confederates at the battle of bull run. i once got in trouble for saying bull run in the south, so i won't make that mistake again, the ba

all good here on lincoln drive. you can see cars moving freely, temperatures today a maid it in the mid to upper 40's. that is a few degrees above average. in threat of any ice this evening. the so no problems there. tonight we will track another arctic cold front to allow temperatures to crash. so again tomorrow morning we will deal with black ice and snow in some areas. but this was the the scene earlier today such a different story. check out this video this was lincoln drive part of it was closed down again, lincoln drive was shut down for a while. black isis being blamed for causing several accidents. black isis hard to spot the because it appears dark and gloss i on the pavement. black isis more likely to form under the shade or tree cover as well as on bridges and overpasses. we have plenty of shade here on lincoln drive. we are surrounded by hills. we have run off coming down so water is able to freeze on the road. we have to keep in mind again tomorrow morning. we are talking about little bit of snow breaki

would i avoid lincoln drive.rive is a mess to begin with without any ice let loan icy spots. no problems on the the schuylkill we're looking good on i-95. chris and lauren back to you. >>> more sad news to pass along this morning from the family of the whitney houston. >> according tomorrow family statement, bobby cristina brownies fighting for perfect life. she was placed in the medically induced coma over the weekend after she was found unresponse any of a bathtub inside of her home. statement says that the brownies surrounded by immediate family, and the family is requesting privacy. whitney houston was found dead in the hotel bathtub three years ago. >>> 5:50. death row record founder suge knight is scheduled to be back in court after being charged with prosecutors. prosecutors alleged knight intended to run down afrin and he another man, one man was kill. knight's attorney says helps client accidentally ran over the men as he tried to escape an attack. knight's two million-dollar bail was revoke after judge

lincoln drive has just reopened just in time to get to work. but black ice remains a concern as you head out the door. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo joins us now near that scene with the latest information. jan, good morning. >> reporter: erika ukee, good morning. that's right lincoln drive has reopened, did so right around 4:00 this morning. police had said they wanted to get the road reopened before the morning rush. they have sends done that. city trucks were just out here putting down yet another layer of salt in hopes that this fixes this icing problem in this area once and for all. if you take a look at the video being you can get better look at the conditions down there, just short time ago. a lot of water a lot of ice those conditions at this location have been problematic since yesterday. road crews had to close lincoln drive last evening due to ice. police say the sure couldn't handle the run trough yesterday's snow rain, so water back up on to the road. lincoln drive did reopen for a short period last night but closed again

i would avoid the lincoln drive if you could this morning. the another drive, kelly drive has a tendency to gettized over. anything that looks wet or that far right or left lane where you pick up that water run off could have potential of being ice think morning. otherwise bridges and the airport looking good chris and lauren back over to you. >>> good news, thanks very much. >>> number of measles cases is on the rise, more than 120 people have been infected in 14 states. officials say most of the cases have been link to the out break of the virus in disney land in california. the the cdc warns that measles is extremely contagious and spread through the the air and on surfaces. infected person can spread to as many as 18 other people. >>> new jersey governor chris christie offered his opinion about vaccinations speaking during his three day trip to england christie told reporters, parents should have some choice on whether to vaccinate their children. governor stressed the need for a balance depending on the vaccine and that disease. >> i als

abraham lincoln said that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth. you have the power to reclaim our nation's destiny. you have the power to rid washington of the politics of money. you have the power to make right as important as might. you have the power to give americans a reason to vote again. you have the power to restore our nation to fiscal sanity and bring jobs back to our people. you have the power to fulfill harry truman's dream and bring health insurance to every american. you have the power to give us a foreign policy consistent with american values again. you have the power to take back the democratic party. you have the power to take our country back. and you have the power to take the white house back in 2004 and that is exactly what we are going to be doing. you have the power. you have the power. you have the power. you have the power to take this country back. you have the power. thank you very much. thank you very much. we are going to take our country back. thank you very much. you have the power. thank you very m

police blocked off lincoln drive near gypsy drive in the east falls neighborhood. trucks will be clearing the ice, but watch out for repair work there. >>> parental guidance? a philadelphia woman and her teenager daughter are accused of shooting two women at a laundry mat onaround 5:30 last night. the woman and her 13-year-old daughter know the victims and following them to the laundromat and opened fire. one of the victims was grazed in the head and came within an inch of loser her life. >> reckless, because kids could have gotten hurt. they walk around every day. anybody could have got hurt. >> the other woman was shot in the leg. both are in stable condition. mother and daughter are in custody but not charged at this point. >>> 4:05 now. happening today, delaware county leaders will tour a place that promises to produce jobs but has also produced controversy in a neighboring county. this is the marcus industrial complex, a former oil refinery on the delaware. sunoco logistics is turning it into a processing center for ethane. sunoco said this will create hundred

it marks lincoln's constitutional push to end slavery in america. the event will feature a panel discussion by scholars humanitarians and philanthropists. you can also get a rare viewing of the 13th amendment. philadelphia will hold its annual lincoln day parade this afternoon. it starts at 1:55 at union league. it will wind up at independence hall for a ceremony there. today marks lincoln's 206th birthday. >>> students in the east falls neighborhood got a visit from a living legend. one of the tuskegee airmen spoke yesterday. dr. eugene richardson gave a lecture about desegregation in the military. he was there when truman ended racial segregation, opening up a world of opportunity for african-american men. >>> in boston look at this. street crews dealing with tons of snow are trying to get the city back in ship shape, but that's tough to do when a ship is blocking the way. look at this. a truck carrying a 43-foot yacht got stuck in a snow pile yesterday. it snarled traffic in boston's downtown financial district. workers had to dig the truck out t

howe meets lincoln in the white house, and lincoln needs her because he cannot get any recruits, so shea song and start circulating it, and suddenly lincoln has millions of recruits. this film was especially popular in the south. another example of the southern embrace of "the battle hymn of the republic" is that the university of georgia, from 1890 to today, its fight song is "the battle hymn of the republic." reconstructing "battle hymn" requires both a remembering and a forgetting. it also becomes a progressive anthem. teddy roosevelt's favorite hymn, favorite song, favorite poem was "the battle hymn of the republic." it fit perfectly with his notion of a strenuous life. he almost got "the battle hymn of the republic" passed as the official national anthem, but there were a few southern holdouts of people who did remember the link with "john brown's body," and they were not about to accept that. in fact, teddy roosevelt helps to circulate it during world war i. it becomes a british anthem. winston churchill's favorite hymn was "the battle hymn of the republic," because he heard ameri

sierra lincoln heights were robert e. lee had lived and if you have ever been to washington you know why they did this. because of the confederacy had managed to fortify those heights overlooking the city of washington you could have destroyed washington. and in time as the casualties mount in this were union authorities are going to decide to turn arlington the state were robert e. lee married the daughter of george washington's adopted son into that cemetery that we know today. and that is just the beginning. i think as you read how lee's decision to fight against the union toward its ties to its founder you'll be astonished because it's shockingly personal the price that we paid. now my wife, i bring her up again, we'll tell you that the reason i became so fascinated by it this decision is how a reversible it was. and as a writer i have a very different -- because i can write something in research and i can change it a million times and revise it and that's what writers do. but we never had that luxury. there was no go

that's what abraham lincoln understood. he had his doubts. he had his defeats. he had his setbacks. but through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people. it is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, north and south, slave and free. it is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after lincoln was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people as americans. all of us know what those challenges are today a war with no end, a dependence on oil that threatens our future, schools where too many children aren't learning, and families struggling paycheck to paycheck despite working as hard as they can. we know the challenges. we've heard them. we've talked about them for years. what's stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plans. what's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics the ease with which we're distracted by the petty

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. >> just in time for the the morning commute lincoln drive has reopened to traffic. over night, a backed up drain and below freezing temperatures turned part of the road into a sheet of ice. "eyewitness news" reporter jan carabeo at the scene right now in east falls to bring you to up date. jan? >> reporter: ukee, good morning. that's right lincoln drive here in east falls reopened right around 4:00 this morning. police had said they wanted to get this road reopened before the morning rush. they had certainly done that. city salt trucks were out here putting down yet another layer of salt in hopes this finally fix this icing problem here in the area. take a look at this video to get a bert look at the conditions a short time ago a lot of water and a lot of ice. those conditions at this location had been problematic since yesterday. road crews had to close lincoln drive last evening because of ice police say the sewer couldn't take the run trough yesterday's snow and rain, so water back up on to the road. lincoln drive did reopen for short period last night but closed

lincoln had his head screwed on right in more ways than one. i will tell you, that is the way we will do it. people say howie -- how are you going to pay for this? i will go to the american people, and i'm going to say, it is time to make a choice. this is a free country. here is your choice. it is called the ballot. if you believe, if you want to continue to spend $160 billion per year of your money defending europe from the soviet union or whatever it is called now forget about the fact that the german economy is growing five times faster than ours. if you want to continue to spend $160 billion of your money every year defending europe, then you cast your ballot and you put it in the bush box. if you believe like i do, that europe is rich enough and strong enough and powerful enough to defend itself if it wants to, and we can take some of your wealth, it is your wealth and your money, and we can take some of that and invested in america and build better roads and highways, better energy systems, educate our kids, have better health care, you

that honor belongs to abraham lincoln. herman melgar once wrote that who exactly must think of washington and deep with grievous meaning as that. i hope you'll read about in my book and i hope you'll come to washington to see some of the places i describe. i'm so thankful to all for coming in and be happy to answer questions. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> there are is a story after the war in a church a black man comes forward come you know the story. myself i don't believe it but i would like you to comment on it. there are several ways it could be very factual. >> the story is the robert e. lee is in church and a black man is praying and robert e. lee and no one knows what to do. robert e. lee goes up and -- and that's a story told by many people. the truth is we don't know. it was told many years after the event so it's very difficult to evaluate the accuracy of the story. it just actually seen a recent article of people debating is so unfortunately i can't answer the question. if there is some evidence of somethi

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it says as every will does, ray falk of lincoln, illinois, being of sound of mind and memory. he? >> yes. he knew what he owned. he may have been odd, but he was of sound mind. >> my next stop is to meet kevin in california. >> i received a letter that was really about to change my life. jamie: it's here in the land of sun, surf, and palm trees, kevin started his career more than 30 years ago. >> this was an episode of lucan. boy raised by wolves. the pilot went to 12 episodes over a 2-year period. jamie: as so many actors will say, it was a good ride while it lasted. it didn't last for you. >> my window was in my 20s. had my go. then the phone stops ringing. jamie: when the phone stops ringing, kevin finds a new line of work. takes a job as a doorman at the posh hotel bellaire and keeps it for the next 27 years. >> the hotel then closed. they went for remodeling. i was applying for a job. then the letter. i refer to it as the letter. comes. this is the original letter from the attorney saying, you don't know me, but i represent ray falk. he was a hermit and a hoarder and a fa

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that honor belongs to abraham lincoln. herman melville once wrote who looks at lee must think of washington, and must-thought deep and greatest meaning in his thought. i think we didn't for too long and hope you read about in my book and hope you come to washington to see some of the places i describe. i'm so thankful to overcoming and i would be happy to answer your questions. thank you. [applause] >> yes? >> there's a story after the war in a church a black man comes forward, you know the story. myself, i don't believe it but i would like you to comment on it. because it is told in several ways it could be very factual. could you comment? >> sure the story is that robert e. lee is in a church and a black man is praying, and robert e. lee -- and no one knows what to do because and robert e. lee goes up and he kneels beside him and that's the story that's been told by many people. and the truth is we don't know. it was told many years after the event, so it's very difficult to evaluate the accuracy of the story. i had just

we have had icy conditions overnight on the lincoln drive. we will hear from general any just a moment. lincoln drive is opened but all that water that was running off in that same scenario could be repeated this morning on any roadway even maybe the kelly or martin luther king drive. so again just take it the ease think morning. coming from the suburbs not bad at all bridges are fine and in delays at the airport. mike and alex, back over to you. >>> well philadelphia man shot in the chest and then flagged down police, early this morning. he drove to the police station in that area. >> yeah, then told cops i have been shot and then took them to the hospital. there is steve. >> reporter: well, three bullets we know hit the car. one unfortunately hit the the driver but it was deadly aim hitting him square in the chest. one bullet hole in his driver side window, one bullet hole in the rear driver side window above the window another bullet hole we can see in the roof or the top of the passenger door in the back. he drives this chevy mal will buy