and it's just become a symbol of north little rock. so we're awful excited about sharing that with people who come in from around the country. and frankly, it's a little bit of heaven on earth, at least from those folks who get to enjoy it here in north little rock. so we want to welcome everybody presently, as your viewers, to north little rock's old mill and ask them to come whenever they have a chance to be in the neighborhood. >>> all weekend long, american history tv is in little rock, arkansas, to explore its rich history. you're watching american history tv, 48 hours of people and events telling the american sto story. >> the historic arkansas museum is located in downtown little rock. the museum encompasses five antebellum houses situated on their original foundations. the houses are used to interpret the lives of 19th century urban slaves and slave owners. >> this is the brownly house built by robert brownly for his brother, james, and james' wife, isabelle. they had two slaves. one was tabby. we don't know the name of the othe

now, more from little rock.oktv visited the city with the help of our local cable partner, comcast of central arkansas. >> we are in the original house of representatives chamber at the old statehouse which was the arkansas state capitol from 1836 to 1911. and the secession convention was held in this room in 1861 and really one of the most dramatic moments of the early part of the war in arkansas happened here when it came down to one, only one delegate, a man named isaac murphy from north arkansas had refused to vote in favor of secession. the chairman of the convention, you know, asked him to change his, change his vote, and murphy refused to do so. after which a woman named martha trapnell who was in the balcony right behind us threw a bouquet of flowers at his feet in recognition of his principled stand. later in the war, of course, this was the confederate capital until little rock was taken on september 10 of 1863, and after that this was the seat of the unionist government for arkansas at which time isaa

good-bye. >> all weekend long american history tv is featuring little rock, arkansas. little more about little rock and find out where c-span's local content vehicles are going next online at c-span.org/localcontent. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. >> this monday watch american history tv in prime time on c-span 3 with a look at the 34th president, dwight david eisenhower. at 8:00 p.m., frank gary on his design for the memorial. following that is the president's granddaughter, susan eisenhower, expressing her opposition to the gehry designed memorial. and then an a film produced by the u.s. army. >>> between 1861 and 1868, clara barton, known as the angel of the battlefield and founder of the american red cross lived in this washington, d.c. building. she employed 12 clerks on the third floor in her missing soldiers office where they received over 60,000 letters from families searching for lost sons and husbands. a carpenter for the general services administration was helping to prepare the building for demolition when he disco

. >> we recently visited little rock. the learn more about little rock all weekend long on american history tv. >>> douglas macarthur was arguably one of the most influential military figures in our country's history, and we're actually -- we're filming in the birthplace of douglas macarthur in arkansas. macarthur's father, arthur macarthur, captain arthur macarthur was in the u.s. military following his service in the civil war and actually came to little rock, arkansas, in 1959 and spent about 18 months here serving at the arsenal that existed on the site where our building is located. he brought with him to little rock his wife and two sons and they actually lived in this building we're in in apartments that were contained this this structure. and in the following january 26th, 1880, douglas was born here and spent his first six months in this building. six months after his birth, his father was transferred outside of arkansas and he only came back to arkansas one time in his life in 1952 when he was 72 years of age. d

it's just become a symbol of north little rock. so we're awful excited about sharing that with people who come in from around the country. and frankly, it's a little bit of heaven on earth. at least from those folks who get to enjoy it here in north little rock. so we want to welcome everybody presently as your viewers to north little rock's old mill. and ask them to come whenever they have a chance to be in the neighborhood. >> find out where c-span's local content vehicles are going next. online at c spine.org/localcontent. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >> an air of mystery has surrounded this bronze likeness of alexander hamilton since the day it was unveiled in 1923. author james m. good in his definitive book on the outdoor sculpture of washington, d.c. in dedicating the ten foot tall figure that greets visitors to the treasury department building, president warren harding made reference to an anonymous donor. might it possibly have been the gift of andrew mellon whom admirers in t

we have folks who rent it for various things, and it's just become a symbol of north little rock, so we're awfully excited about sharing that with people who come in from around the country, and frankly it's a little bit of heaven on earth at least from those folks that get to enjoy it in north little rock. we want to welcome your viewers to little rock's old mill and ask them to come whenever they have a chance to visit when they are in the neighborhood. >> you're watching "american history tv," all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >>> the single largest and most impressive civil war monument in washington to a military officer is the statue of general grant. even though he was president of the united states, it's really his service as the commanding general of the union army that made him famous. it's a very unusual statue. it faces down the mall from the lincoln memorial and it's right at the base of the capitol. it's actually several statues together, and it was constructed over time. it was constructed and designed by a man named henry strait who was not a professional artist.

. >>> douglas mack arthur, you ar actually -- we are filming of douglas macarthur in little rock, arkansas, one of the little moan pacts important a lot of people, macarthur's father, captain arthur, was in the u.s. military polling his service in the civil war. in 1959 and spent about 18 months here serving at the arsenal that existed on the site where our building is located. he brought with him to little rock his wife and two sons. they've actually lived in this building they were in in one of the apartments that was contained in this structure, and then the following january 26th, 1880, douglas was born here and spent his first six months in this building. six months after this birth, his father was transferred outside of arkansas, and he only came back to arkansas one time in his life, in 1952, 72 years of age. during that return visit here on these grounds for the first time publicly he acknowledged in a speech to 10,000 people that he was returning to the place of his birth, and for us, that's a very significant part of our site's history, building's history and embrace this and pro

i found here, little rock, almost nothing, nothing. nearly everything of value was taken away by general van dorn. what am i supposed to do? this is the legacy of van dorn. not just the defeat at pea ridge, but the abandonment of the trans-mississippi to the enemy. the federals and other officers could not believe it. for a few months, they thought this was some sort of a ploy. finally, in late spring, it dawned on them that the confederates were gone. not only was there no more threat to st. louis. there was no threat no missouri and arkansas was defenseless. and so curtis, having refit, resupplied his troops, moved eastward, dipping back into missouri and then turning sharply south through say legal and batesville and jackson port, s searcy, came within 40 miles of little rock and meeting nothing but local guerrilla resistance. it could not be stretched any farther. curtis men with all his officers and everyone agreed. sure, we can sprint to little rock and capture it without firing a shot, but it's better to march the union army to

founded in 1836, little rock has a population of about 200,000 people, and gets its name from a rock formation on the banks of the arkansas river. you're watching american history tv on c-span3. >> the collection consists of about 100,000 to 140,000 items. we don't quite have a final number yet. we are still going through everything that came to us from washington, d.c. we have lots of gifts, things that the american people thought that bill clinton would like to own. we have videotapes, dvds, portraits of them done by adults, by children. we have portraits on notebook paper, portraits on oil, beautiful things. we have a lot of t-shirts and baseball caps in our collection, probably about 45% of our collection, almost, is baseball caps and t-shirts. these were given to president clinton as -- if he visited some place and he wanted to give them a memento of their town and their organization or something like that. sometimes they have causes on them, too. we have some masked items and t-shirt and things like that that related to a specific event. but the collection represents what was i

. >> well, thank all of you so much. [ applause ] >>> next a look at our visit to little rock, arkansas, a look at its history and literary culture. you're watching american history television on c-span 3. douglas macarthur, you're actually -- we're filming in the birthplace of douglas macarthur in little rock, arkansas. his father, arthur was in the u.s. military following his service in the civil war and actually came to little rock, arkansas, in 1959 and spent about 18 months here serving at the arsenal that existed on the site where our building is located. he brought with him to little rock his wife and two sons and actually lived in this building that we're in. and one of the apartments that was contained in this structure. he spent his first six months in this building. six months after his birth his father was transferred outside of arkansas and he only came back one time in his life in 1952 when he was 72 years of age. during that return visit in 1952 here on these grounds for the first time publicly, he acknowledged in a speech to 2,000 people that he was returning to the plac

learn more about little rock and find out why c-span's local content vehicles are going next online at c-span.org/localcontent. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >>> ronald reagan was leaving this hotel after delivering a speech to the afl-cio. reagan comes out, he's 15 feet from the president. he shoots pep took six shots. the first one hits jim brady, the press secretary in the head and he falls down. the second one hits a d.c. police officer who had turned around on the president's progress. he turns around and yells, i'm clear. now the path to the president is clear. hinckley has a range of 20 to 30 feet. he's done target practice. he can his a stationary figure at 20 to 30 feet. >> this weekend on american artifacts, dell clinton wilbur on the race to save a president. today on american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> between 1861 and 1868, clara barton, known as the angel of the battlefield and founder of the american red cross, lived in will washington, d.c. building. she employed 12 clerks on the third floor in her missing soldi

nine into school in little rock when obstructing desegregation era. on the last episode in a funny way to one eisenhower gives the most credit for civil rights in order to always the one that actually says the least about 10 in terms of civil rights. really what he was fighting for in little rock was not so much the print both civil rights as it was the principal federal authority. i am convinced if orville fought with type to block a highway construction project in little rock that i could have done the same thing. he could not allow a governor to use federal trips to thwart the authority of a federal court. to do so wish us to to break down and if i could do anything, he understood authority. so, interestingly i think his record on civil rights and have been quite positive, even though i don't think there's much cared to cost 10 to see it as a matter moral urgency. he did better than he thought. >> i would add to that is certainly true of segregated country in a segregated part of that country. one of the marks against him in the war was certainly b

>> next, but to be intended or not author event while touring little rock arkansas. we visited the city as part of our local content cities to her examining the literary landscapes of several southeastern cities. in the 40 minute events, ms. mcclafferty talks about the mount vernon estate set out to better understand what the first u.s. president looked like, different moments in his life. >> nonfiction books on wide array of topics from george washington to x-rays to marie curie to varian frye, an american holocaust rescuer to tech titans like bill gates and steve jobs and others peered so when i began a project they know very little about my topics and as i began to do the research, i sort of go on a treasure hunt. that's the way like to look at it. i use primary sources in order to gather the material to write nonfiction books that are not only accurate, but hopefully interesting as well. so when i began to look into this book about george washington and decided to write this book, i really began with george washington in the very same way. i knew very little abou

it's just become a symbol of little rock. so we're awful excited about sharing that with people who come in and frankly, it's a little bit of heaven on earth at least from those folks who get to enjoy it from north little rock. we want to welcome your viewers to north little rock's old mill and ask them to come when they have a chance to be in the neighborhood. >> find out where cspan's local content vehicle rs going next online. you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. up next is a film produced in 1961 by the u.s. army on two figures from the civil war era. matthew brady and clara barton. the film aired as part of the big picture series from -- into the 1970s. the series focused on historic battles and figures in u.s. military history. this is about 30 minutes. >> the united states army presents the big picture. an official report produced for the armed forces and the american people. now to show you part of the big pictu picture, here is sergeant stuart queen. >> 100 years ago, a moe mento

rain from little rock to the ohio valley. >>> and a little levity today.nies." the secret service sex scandal, of course, provided a whole lot of material this week. >> but also getting some attention, diane sawyer's big chat with mitt romney. >> you or president obama? >> i have no idea how funny he is in real life. and people don't know me terribly well. the kind of pranks we play. what it's like at home with five boys. but most of our dinner table events were involving humor of one kind or another. most of which can't be repeated on the air. >> i'll bet his pranks are hilarious. you should see the look on his face when i put the left shoes on the right side. >> 32% of our taxes go to defense. and the rest buys hookers for the secret service. >> on the secret service, these men and women perform extraordinary service on a day-to-day basis, protecting me, my family, u.s. officials. they do very hard work under very stressful circumstances. and almost invariably do an outstanding job. >> you see there. >> the main target of the committee's wrath, gsa confe

came to the arkansas state fair here in little rock, went up to chicago, went to philadelphia.so there was lots of literature about his flying machine, and there's very little doubt that wilbur and orville wright saw some of his articles, maybe even a working model and borrowed some of his ideas. but they had a gasoline-powered engine, so they invented air flight and got all the credit for it. charlie mcdermott, he said for a thousand dollars he could buy a working model, and his neighbors raised a thousand dollars, and he was ready to put it on exhibition. and the night before there was a wind storm, and his working model crashed into a tree, and he wasn't able to invent it. charlie mcdermott didn't quite invent the airplane. >> from the american museum of natural history in new york city, astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson talks about the history of nasa and the

he brought with him to little rock his wife and two sons. they actually lived in this building that we're in in one of the apartments that was contained in this structure. and in the following january 26, 1880 douglas was born here and spent his first six months in this building. six months after his birth, his father was transferred outside of arkansas and he only came back to arkansas one time in his life, in 1952, when he was 72 years of age. during that return visit in 1952, here on these ground force the first time publicly, he acknowledged publicly for the first time in a speech to 10,000 people that he was returning to the place of his birth. for us, that's significant part of our site's history, our building's history, and we hist. 1952 was a very pivotal point in macarthur's career. in fact that brings us to this room that we are standing in now. in april of 1951, after a very lengthy military service that spanned three world war conflicts, world war 1, world war ii and korea, macarthur was abruptly relieved of command of the united

. >> all weekend long, american history tv is featuring little rock, arkansas. to explore its rich history. you're watching american history tv. 48 hours of people and events telling the united states story. >>> the united states built and operated ten internment camps after the bombing of pearl harbor. the eastern most were located in arkansas towns of jerome and butler. there's a collection of crafts and artworks created by internees at the rower camp. >> the arts and crafts were sort of how they kept their sanity and it gave them something to do. depression was so bad in a lot of the camps in that people -- there was a high incidence of suicide. so people would make these things of beauty to give to each other just as a way to say we support you and we care about you and here is a little something to cheer you up. i think that they really used the art as a way of expressing hope in a time that sort of seemed hopeless. the camp opened in 1942 in september. the first people arrived then and then over the next several months the bulk of them came. they filled th

central arkansas to bring you the less known history and literary culture of the city to rid of little rocks best known as the home of the clinton library and the home of the will rock central high school, the site of the 1957 immigration purchase that quickly became national news. >> the summer of 1919 involve the most 20 racial incidents in the united states and part of this had to do with the fact that african-americans were coming back from the first world war and felt like they were entitled to be treated better and had commonly been the practice. this bitterness towards african-americans not much had changed. blacks could come back from the war and it had been over in france they had been treated as equals with coming back to places like arkansas they were not. so, by 19191 in that summer there had been the formation of the labor movement by an african-american named robert hill, and he was african-american and began forming these tough labor unions, really just one labor union but they were organized into lodges and the purpose was to get better prices for the cotton and also was to

recently visited many sites in little rock, the capital of arkansa on c-span 3, we feature some of the best-known history figures during the 150th anniversary of the civil war. visit college classrooms around the country during lectures of history. go behind the scenes at museums and historic artifacts and the president looks at legacies of past american presidents. view our complete schedule at c-span.org and have it e-mailed to you by pressing the c-span alert button. >>> next, a look at our recent visit to little rock, arkansas. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. >> the old statehouse museum tells the story of arkansas' history. we caught up for a preview of the upcoming visit there. >> we are located at the collection management storage facility for the old statehouse museum in little rock, arkansas. welcome. >> what do we have behind you? >> this is what we call our mobile unit. we have stacks. we have everything in our elects from an electric chair, two electric chairs to johnny cash's guilt tar. so this is where kind of the heart of our co

founded in 1836, little rock has a population of about 200,000 people, and gets its name from a rock formation on the banks of the arkansas river. you're watching american history tv on c-span3. >> we're standing in one of our newest exhibits called a splendid little war. the spanish american war and arkansas. it's really one of the conflicts in our state and i think our nation's history that has been overlooked when you look at the military history of our country. we opened this exhibit a couple months ago and excited about the artifacts we have on display and the chance to tell the visitors the role our state and the impact that this splendid conflict had on the development of our country and our state. while a lot of people overlook the importance of the war somehow we focus our attention on the civil war and then fast forward to world war i, and there are several conflicts during this period of time i think are very important and the spanish american war is one of them. for us it represented for us in the south, it represented the first major conflict post-civil war. and for south

. >>> next a look at our recent visit to little rock, arkansas. a look at the city's rich history and literary culture. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >> the old statehouse museum in little rock tells the story of arkansas' history. we caught up with curator jo ellen maack for a preview of upcoming visit there on civil war battle flags. >> we are located at the collection management storage facility for the old statehouse museum in little rock, arkansas. welcome. >> what do we have behind you? >> this is what we call our mobile storage unit. we have stacks. we have everything from in our collection from an electric chair, two electric chairs. >> sure. >> to johnny cash's guitar. so this is where the kind of the heart of our collection at any given time, there's less than 2% of things on exhibit so this is where we keep them. this is a controlled environment. the temperature and humidity and light levels are all controlled to make sure that the artifacts are safe. >> and this is one of the electric chair

[applause] now more from little rock. booktv visited the city with the help of our local cable partner comcast of central arkansas of arkansas and basically it is controversial people of whom there are some questions that maybe can be answered and maybe can't, but people are always complex and it's always a mistake to try to simplify them and say they did this just one reason. one of the interesting people in the book is a woman born in ohio but her parents moved to arkansas which was a little girl and grew up here and lived the rest of her life in arkansas. the temperance was the idea of the women's suffrage ones and little rock although she didn't finish and earn a degree so she started doing research in various things as they did abraham lincoln and more than one biography of abraham lincoln but got upset when in arkansas lincoln middle kind of jokes about arkansas and wanted to prove the arkansas gazette uncivilized and uncultured. the natural history of indian artifacts and various kinds of things that were founder o

serial numbers accord, including the republican congress from a district east of little rock. the election was stolen and he went to a little town in to investigate to investigate the fraud either were chased away or disappeared. so he went there on its own to find out what happened and he was murdered. after that, other people had been murdered to keep it quiet. and there is a kind of acceptance of that in the community because everybody understood that this was importuned, to your side won. so whatever was done to see the right people got into office was permissible from acceptable. so in that instance, no one, although there were dozens, perhaps hundreds of people involved in all of the fraud nonetheless nobody was ever prosecuted. no one was ever punished for it and even today there are people in that community who trace their lineage back to people who were involved in not voting fraud. make great, great, great grandfather through straws to see who is going to be assassinated by john clayton. at least that is the thesis of arpa, is that became the basis of the political cu

. >>> next a look at our recent visit to little rock, arkansas. a look at the city's rich history and literary culture. our watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >>> my name is christine mouw and i'm the curator at the clinton presidential library of little rock, arkansas. it consists of 100,000 to 140,000 items. we don't have a final number yet. we're going through everything that came to us from washington, d.c. we have lots of gifts, things that the american people thought that bill clinton would like to own. we have videotapes. we have dvds. we have portraits of them done by adults, by children, by everyone. we have portraits on notebook paper. we have portraits on oil. beautiful things. we have a lot of t-shirts and baseball caps in our collection, probably about 25% of our collection almost is baseball caps and t-shirts. these were given to president clinton as -- if he visited some place, and they wanted to give him a momento of their tone or organization or something like that. sometimes they have causes on t

[applause] >>> now more from little rock. book tv visited the city with the help of our local cable partner comcast of central arkansas. >> nine different people from arkansas they were not all born here but they moved here and they are part of the story of arkansas. for the simple, sydney wallace it is fascinating because they're three different interpretations of it in three different ways of explaining it. he lived about 100 miles upstream from the river in a city called clarksville and he was 12-years-old during the civil war when his father vincent wallace had visitors in the last day of the year 1863 and nobody knows what they said the tape shot and killed his father. his mother is now raising him and his brothers along with the help of their former slave there's still servants and according to one version of the story, they just ran wild after the war and it was still western arkansas and they would just basic outlaw scum and there was a traveling salesman outside and his companion came into town and he said was the wa

. >> well, thank all of you so much. [ applause ] >>> next a look at the recent visit to little rock, arkansas, a look at the city's rich history and literary culture. you're watching american history tv all weekend on c-span3. >>> the historic arkansas museum is in downtown little rock. it encompasses five houses situated on the original foundations. the houses are used to interpret the lives of 19th century urban slaves and slave owners. >> this is the brownlee house. built by robert brownlee for his brother james and james' wife isabelle. they did have two slaves. this is the slave that would have spent her time caring for the house where we are now is the bedroom. this is typical of a middle class bedroom. thgs this is dated 1848 to 1852. we know she did needle work. so we have placed items in here that she might have used working with yarn. miss brownlee is isabelle brownlee, who married james when she was about 14. she came here when she was about 16 years old. so she was a young bride. she was away from home, far, far away from home, and was hoim sick and very unhappy and she w

. >>> next a look at our recent visit to little rock, arkansas, a look at the city's rich history and literary culture. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >>> the historic arkansas museum is located in downtown little rock. the museum encompasses five antebellum houses situated on their original foundations. the houses are used to interpret 19th-century urban slaves and slave owners. >> this is the brownly house, built by robert brownly for his brother james and james' wife isabelle. they did have two slaves, one of them was named tabby. we don't know the name of the other slave. tabby is the slave spending her time caring for house to and the out buildings. where we are now is the bedroom. this is typical of a middle class bedroom. this is dated approximately 1848 to 1852. we know mrs. brownly did needle work, so we have placed items in here that she might have used working with yarn. mrs. brownly is isabelle brownly who married james when she was about 14. she came here when she was about 16 years old. so she was a crowning bride. she was aw

all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >> north little rock, all of our square miles are places that i have a great deal of affection for, but this one i have to say is special to all of us. the old mill was built in the late 1930s. it was originally built by a developer who built the lakewood area which is one of our residential subdivisions, and it was dedicated to kind of reflect a bit of art. in fact, a lot of art. the concrete as you can see around is actually looks like petrified wood, but it's concrete, you know, the mill was actually never an operating gristmill but, yeah, it was constructed to reflect that kind of an ambience about the city's and the country's early history in milling flour and turning it into bread. but it was done by an artist actually out of mexico, a fellow by the name of rodriguez was commissioned by the matthews family to come up and build this as part of that residential neighborhood, and over the years the city took it over, and now operates it as one of our parks. one of the things that's interesting from a historical note is that this old mill is p

[cheers and applause] >> next, from little rock, arkansas, we talk to grif stockley. mr. tockley introduces us to the elaine race massacre of 1919, a little-known but devastating story in jim crow-era arkansas. the author uses letters, interviews, newspaper and trial transcripts from 1919 to help reveal the tale of at least 20 african-american sharecroppers who met about and protested unfair settlements if for their cotton crops from white plantation owners. booktv toured little rock with the help of our cable partner, comcast of arkansas, to bring you some of the literary culture of the city. little rock is best known as the home of the clinton library and the home of little rock central high school, the site of the 1957 racial protests that quickly became national news. >> red summer of 1919 involved over 20 incidents, racial incidents, race riots throughout the united states. and part of this had to do with the fact that african-americans were coming back from the first world war and felt like they were entitled to be treated better than had commonly been the practice.

bit of heaven on earth at least from those folks that get to enjoy it in north little rock. we want to welcome your viewers to little rock's old mill and ask them to come whenever they have a chance to visit when they are in the neighborhood. >> find out where c-span's local content vehicles are going next at c-span.org/localcontent. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> for the second time in recent months, former first ladies barbara bush and laura bush sat down for a conversation about their time in the white house as part of a series of conferences on america's first ladies in this discussion, moderated by historian and biographer doris kearns goodwin, we hear barbara bush on her husband's 1992 loss to bill clinton and thoughts on the 2012 presidential campaign. laura bush speaks about her work on behalf of women in afghanistan and about the moment they realized that average americans really do listen to what the first lady has to say. this hour-long conversation took place at the george w. bush presidential center in dallas, tex

louis to little rock, all the way into parts of southern texas.eanwhile, all is quiet around here after a toasty warm day. unfortunately it's going to be dry through the overnight and feel a lot like summer around here for your monday. we need some rain showers. we'll talk about whether or not we'll get any anytime soon coming up. >>> tonight, president obama says he'll be angry if the allegations against the secret service are proven to be true. 11 agents were put on leave accused of hiring prostitutes during a trip to colombia. brian mooar has the latest. >> reporter: president obama's summit visit to colombia has been upstaged by allegations of scandalous misconduct by some of the secret service personnel sent there to ensure his safety. >> if it turns out that some of the allegations that have been made in the press are confirmed, then, of course, i'll be angry. we're representing the people of the united states. and when we travel to another country, i expect us to observe the highest standards. >> reporter: the hotel carib ne cartagena is sa

i was in little rock, arkansas, and we were on our way for the first time in my life.und a song, and he said, "why don't we do this in san francisco?" i said ok, and i have no idea, but there was a bartender who said, cassette and i don't mean to interrupt your rehearsal, but if you record that song, i'm going to be the first customer -- "i don't mean to interrupt your rehearsal, but if you record that song, i'm going to be the first customer." as i started singing it, the people came up and said, "you have to record the song immediately." i always thought it would be a local song in the area, but the fact that it has become such an international song throughout the world -- everybody loves it, and they love this city. it reminds me of one time when i was playing the fairmont hotel, gorbachev from russia with here and travel throughout the whole united states and in front of the company could tell, i was listening to him speak about san francisco. he said, "i traveled to every city in the united states, and i was disappointed with what i saw. there was not one city tha

[applause] >> it's a little rock weekend on booktv. throughout the weekend here from several local authors, tour the city and learn about some lesser-known history. arkansas became the 25th state in 1836 and little rock was named the capital city. the air is best to bring the home of the clinton library, and little rock central high. >> rushing water, thundering water, caring destruction to a peaceful valley of the ohio. were yesterday for the friendly river, today may flood. i'm heeding man-made obstacles, the swollen river throws its might against man and his work. >> it started in northeast arkansas, right around new years you're there was a lot of heavy rain, and the north-south flowing river, this is a sharecropper country we're talking about here where people are living on less than $200 a year where they carry lucky both in the pockets. these other people are getting hit first. and a run in early january, then all that rain over the next couple of weeks is going to track right up the ohio river, all the way, all the way to pitts

wet weather around nashville, memphis and little rock.rom amarillo, texas, up to nebraska, kansas and colorado. thunderstorms from phoenix up to the canadian border. showers along the pacific coast. >> 67 in sacramento. 57 in portland. 82 in albuquerque. mostly 50s from fargo to chicago. 61 in detroit. 60s from boston to baltimore. 83 in new orleans. >>> you know, i had a sense that today was going to be special. >> something in the air. >> something in the air. i know it had to do with food. you know how we love food on this shift. >> we are pigs on this shift. >> so true. this is the reason why. today is national pretzel day. >> amen. another excuse to snack. another great american holiday we're going to mark on this show. rip into that thing. get you some grub. did you know pretzels are believed to be the world's oldest snack and they date back to some monks in france in the year 610 a.d. >> talk about a classic. pretzels have lots of religious symbolism. some say their traditional shape represents a child's arms folded in prayer. isn'

volunteered to enroll at all-white central high in little rock, arkansas in 1957 after u.s. supreme court ordered the desegregation of all nation schools but carrying that out required presidential intervention, and federal guards to deal with angry white mobs. it was a pivotal point in the civil rights movement. >> on that first day of watching that opposition i said i'm coming back no matter what. >> her story is one that former bay area high school history teacher jeff steinberg wanted his students to learn. so starting in 1999 he began loading up buses and heading down south, stopping to introduce his classes to ordinary people who did extraordinary things during that challenging time. >> i want them to know at 16 you can take responsibility and you must. >> when they're no longer here who is going to continue the legacy if we don't know the stories? too much pain. we need to know stories so they can get passed down from generation to generation. >> so far, more than 6,000 students have taken part in his program and it was honored by michelle obama at the white house wit

yesterday with you still showers and downpours, north of oklahoma city near tulsa, fort smith, little rocka. if you're in those locations bring the umbrella with you we could see scattered storms, dry and chilly in the northern planes and warm and moist in texas. everyone else, very quiet. that is a look at the national forecast, here is weather outside your window. >>> in denver, we will see a chance of afternoon storms, most of the day dry, some of the storms in the front range could be on the strong side, temperatures warm there, too, getting in the mid 70s. beautiful weather in atlanta after a chilly start, nice afternoon. >>> the big story, no rain. we haven't had a lot of rain on the eastern seaboard this spring. >>> bill, thanks so much. >> alcoa kicks off earnings, as if filing taxes wasn't enough, what you need to know about tax day. the business headlines are straight ahead. >>> everyone knows the simpsons live in springfield, now we know which springfield. >> ozzie guillen apologized, the boys in blue celebrate dodger stadium in style, you're watching "early today." >>> good mor

this past weekend featured little rock, arkansas. with book tv at the university of arkansas. >> the high school collected photographs and he was particularly, again, interested in the 19th century, the civil war in particular. these are two friends, union and confederate, who knew each other prior to the civil war, who fought against each other at the battle of pearidge in 1862, survived the war, came out alive and remained friends after the war and here they are age 100 sitting on the porch talking about the old days. >> american history tv looked at life in a world war ii jap these internment camp. >> a lady wrote a wonderful book and gamman meant surviving the unsurvivable, sort of. and she talks a lot about how the arts and the crafts were how they kept their sanity and it gave them something to do and about how depression was so bad in a lot of the camps and that people -- there was the high incidence of suicide and so people would make these things of beauty to give to each other to say we support you and care about you. >> th

right now, severe weather associated with this system is down to little rock.irline of the tornado watches have been issued. this continues to move toward the east. the good news for us is that it will fizzle out by the time it reaches our area over the next 24 hours, this time tomorrow night. temperatures will be falling only into the upper 50's. tomorrow, it will not be that bad outside. the temperatures, about 85 degrees. further south, you may see pockets in the upper-80's. i think most of the records will be safe. we have the cooler and drier air that will funnel into the area from tuesday into wednesday. mainly clear and mild overnight. tomorrow, it looks great, warm and maybe even a little bit humid outside. here is the extended outlook showing a cool down by wednesday. our focus friday night into saturday some models so the potential for severe weather. we have a new photo gallery. >> you said it made a milestone. >> right. check it out. >> call it an honest mistake. a wisconsin man's fund keeps ringing off the local because of "dancing with the stars."

[applause] more from little rock.booktv visited the city with the help of our local cable partner comcast of central arkansas. >> i'm deborah baldwin, associate provost and the university of arkansas little rock center for arkansas history and culture, and we are in the arkansas studies institute building in little rock arkansas he's affectionately known as jay m.. he moved here in 1902 from tennessee with his family when the family bought the controlling interest of the arkansas gazette. he was editor for 70 years and lived to be 100 guided the arkansas gazette of important times in history through the world war got through the imam. she's best known for his coverage of the 1957 central high school crisis and he won two pulitzer prizes. he began collecting in the 1920's, and by the 1950's, he was probably one of the few newspapers editors to have on staff before the prime historians. he collected everything related to arkansas. he collected a variety of assortments of things and includes 40 minutes collections, newsp

also we have some showers from little rock and memphis. >> the northeast will start off quite chili but warm up quickly into the 50s and 60s. salt lake city, omaha, kansas city in the mid 70s. >> now, remember this, remember this little thing, to our boom, favorite story of the day. >> we missed it! >> that's ought. from keep west, florida. the craziest stories come from, folks in key west know how to party. they don't want to get out of bed. >> not that they are easy, competing in a race, the most fun you can have in bed with your clothes on. bed racers are pushed or pulled by team members. first team to the finish line wins. >> the race wrapped up a ten-day celebration. marking the 30th anniversary of the keys secession from the u.s., calling it the conk republic, conk, sorry. >> that is a good place to retire. look how much fun they're having. and they're moving. >> usually not good to go that fast in bed. but they made it work down there, you know what i mean? >> i do. >> welcome back to the overnight. >> i'm back. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now" after this. ♪ ♪ bu