of course, stole all the hearts of the fans of the louisiana hayride and became famous from the louisianade stage when he was still a teenager. and down here is, of course, the great hank williams. hank williams was actually the first really big star of the louisiana hayride. he was the greatest back then and is still the greatest. he left here after he became a big hit. went to the grand old opry. unfortunately, he had a drinking problem. he was in really poor health. he was fired from the grand old opry and came back to shreveport and horace logan immediately said, hank, you'll always be a member of the louisiana hayride and we continue that. he will always be a member of the louisiana hayride. this is the back door entrance where the entertainers would come up the steps. this is actually where i made my first entrance into the municipal auditorium at the ha we all came in through this back door and would go into one of the dressing rooms or go on stage. there was always a crowd back here of singers, musicians, songwriters. everybody visiting before the show and all during the show, act

shreveport is the third largest city in louisiana and the former home of the louisiana hayride. a radio show which helped celebrities like elvis presley get their start. learn more about shreveport, louisiana, all weekend long on american history tv. >> the louisiana hayride. ♪ >> it would start off with a big roar and logan would come out and mr. page would. the first thing they would ask is anybody here from texas? of course, a roar would go up in the auditorium. it would start off with all of that. who is here from arkansas, mississippi, alabama? >> good evening, everybody. from the auditorium in shrevepo shreveport, louisiana. >> it was like magic when you walked in the building. the vibes for that saturday night were so exciting. the louisiana hayride is actually known as the cradle of the stars. and it literally was the "american idol" of its day. the louisiana hayride embraced young talent. all of the great stars that were here that became so famous all over the world from the louisiana hayride have never been equalled. it actually started april 3rd, 1948. it was a live s

he will always be a member of the louisiana hayride.his is the back door entrance where the entertainers would come up the steps. this is actually where i made my first entrance into the municipal auditorium at the hayride. and we all came in through this back door, and would either go into one of these dressing rooms or go on stage, and there was always a crowd back here of singers, musicians, song writers, everybody visiting before the show, and all during the show actually. and this is a larger dressing room, which back in its day was very fancy, with its own shower and facilities. they put some photographs in here of elvis. however, this was not elvis' dressing room when he first came here. as you remember, he was not a star, he was a newcomer, he mixed and mingled with everybody, became good friends with a lot of the entertainers that were performers and singers on the hayride, and he loved all the girls, of course. >> he is only 19 years old, he has a new distinctive style, elvis presley. let's give him a nice hand. ♪ ♪ well that'

louisiana troops have come from central louisiana, northeast louisiana, back to northwest. and the texas infantry under walker have been in the south part of the red river valley, and they come up. although no one realizes at the time, everybody is shadowing the union and the union has no clue. in fact, the confederates really probably don't have a clue. taylor knows that if he can fight the closest come as close as possible to shreveport and to still protect it, he will do his job. he can get people to come in. he doesn't have to worry about the supply line. so he picks the place. banks stupidly comes up one long road, and he's going to find that when he gets away from the river and the big guns of the navy, which he will do, that there's only one road that he can use. and he will accordion this long column. 30 miles, and that's not the way to run a military campaign. hater knows that in a little town of mansfield about 40 miles south of shreveport, that single road then breaks into three rows. banks will have three avenues of approach. he's going to stop it at mansfield.

of the louisiana primary. >>> welcome back to msnbc's live coverage of the louisiana primary. rick santorum the projected winner tonight in louisiana. we're joined from santorum headquarters tonight in green bay, wisconsin. ron, i in tnoticed you're not i louisiana but wisconsin. >> rick santorum is not in louisiana but he is the projected winner down there tonight. like the first two gulf coast state he won, mississippi also heavily evangelical. 52% of the voters telling nbc news they are evangelical. it's helped carry him to 11 victory. looking for his first win in this part of the country, having lost ohio, michigan and illinois to mitt romney. >> thank you to ron mott. now we go to the romney campaign tonight in los angeles. garrett, what is the feeling in the romney campaign? is there some amount of fear? >> i this the the fact alone we're in southern california tells you it's on the neh scale than on the fear side. mitt romney was down on his home in la jolla. that tells you about what they're thinking.

cnn projects has won the louisiana primary. next, we're going to go to cnn's joe johns, who's standing by on the ground in new orleans. hey, joe. what do you know? you're talking to voters there. you've been hearing from them. what do they make of this? what are they saying? >> reporter: well, we have been talking to voters here in louisiana. actually been here on the ground all week, don. and it's very interesting for a number of reasons. louisiana is one of those many states that just for decades really has not been involved in the republican primary process the way they've been involved this year. so it was sort of a novelty for these four candidates to descend on this state at this time and start asking them for their vote. so we would see events two dozen seats set up or whatever and just a row of tv cameras. very unusual. one of the things that was pretty par for the court with some of the other primary states, though, was the robocalls, tons and tons of robocalls. we're told most of them that people heard from were actua

the louisiana hayride embraced young talent. all of the great stars that were here that became so famous all over the world from the louisiana hayride have never been equalled. it actually started april 3rd, 1948. and it was a live show broadcast in this wonderful building on this stage. and it was broadcast by kwkh. horse logan was the producer. frank page was the announcer along with norm and several others. and it just became a regular saturday night radio show. this building, it's kind of hard to believe, but every saturday night back in the '40s and '50s, this building was packed with people that would drive hundreds of miles to come to the louisiana hayride. the show was very loose. >> you know, folks, i had a pleasant surprise tonight. an old friend of mine dropped in to visit with me. i talked him into coming out here on the stage and singing a song for you folks. he says, furthermore, if you like his singing, he'll come back next saturday night and sing just all the songs you want to hear. it's been a long time since he

louisiana with 46 at stake. only 20 of those, though, to be given after tonight's contest divided proportionately to the candidates who get more than 25% of the vote. the rest will be awarded at the state's convention in june. our campaign karl cameron live in new orleans for us. karl, it looks like santorum will win louisiana as fox news is projecting. does this give him a significant bump? >> well, it certainly gives him a bump for the delegates. he'll get more of those mitt romney. it looks like newt gingrich won't get any tonight. with a victory, santorum has won 11 states, romney 21. santorum gets a bump in the delegates, but still only has half the delegates that romney has. still with all tht, santorum can continue to argue that he's the conservative alternative and that romney can't win in certain parts of the country with conservative voters. tonight he's in wisconsin that holds its primary on tuesday. >> i'm not suggesting he drop out, but if he wants to i'll certainly accept his resignation. you know,

louisiana with 46 to give away. only 20 of them will be given out and divided up to candidates who get 25 percent of the vote. the rest will be in june. karl cameron is in the big easy . karl we are getting exit poll results. >> that's right. as you described; this is important event for rick santorum and looks like he will be on track. possibility of a three-way tie look slim. indications that newt gingrich had faded significantly and mitt romney was off of the pace but able to qualify for delegates if he stays about that he will take delegates out of louisiana. voters in louisiana were asked not with standing their own choice who is most likely to beat president obama. romney lead over santorum and newt gingrich way back. the top issue is 53 percent say it is the economy and followed by the federal budget deficit with ooh borsion and illegal immigration following that. 57 percent said the economy is getting worse. and 29 percent think it is holding city. and 13 percent said it is getting better. ando only half of

strong showings by those folks here in the state of louisiana. newt gingrich the other very conservative candidate in the race kind of falling off a bit in the state of louisiana even though it's a southern state. mitt romney really just not much traction here in the state of louisiana, even though, in fact, he's leading in the latest national poll by double digits. actually reached the 40% mark, which is something of a threshold for him. not catching on in louisiana at least according to the polls we're seeing fred. >> you mentioned voter turnout is kind of low, thin. is that typical for a primary season in louisiana, or is this an unusual year that turnout would be so low. >> no. fully expected by the people i've been talking with in the state of louisiana. they really did not expect many surprises. a lot of people thought rick santorum frankly was just going to do very well here. no surprises so far. plus the weather is pretty good so people can come out on this saturday if they want to. we haven't seen a lot of them here. could change, of cou

joe johns on the ground in louisiana. let's listen in to rick santorum. >> i want to thank you. [ applause ] i have spent the day up here in wisconsin. i'm extremely excited to be up here, the next battleground on this race. we've had a great day. we were just down the road at lambeau field, walking the field of champions, and throwing a little football around there. we were down in cheboygan bowling with the folks in wisconsin. i don't want to brag, but i did roll three strikes in a row. [ applause ] this has been a pretty strong day on the campaign. here in wisconsin, we've been having a great time with the people here and we're going to enjoy it. we're here to fight and we're here to say that if you're looking for someone who can match up and defeat barack obama in this election, someone who can take it to the president, make him the issue in this campaign. stand up for the principles that made this country great. the people of louisiana sent a loud and clear message, this race is long and far from over and the people

santorum claims victory in louisiana.'s the winner of the state's presidential primary with 86% reporting. campaigning in wisconsin tonight he said the republican race has a long way to go. santorum will pick up at least 8 of the 20 delegates that were up for grabs in louisiana but is far behind mitt romney in the overall race for the nom no nomination. >>> dick cheney is recovering from a heart transplant. the former vice president waited 20 months for a transplant. he has a long history of cardiovascular issues and survived five heart attacks. he is in intensive care unit of a hospital in falls church, virginia. >>> in space, the crew of the international space station took emergency precautions on saturday. they jumped in to their escape capsules when a hunk of space junk got too close for comfort. there was a slight chance debris could have hit the space station. it didn't. it passed by and it cleared. all clear was issue cse issued . >>> protesters are rallying in cities across the u.s. this weekend. they are demandi

shows santorum up by 1 points in louisiana. after louisiana, there's a ten-day break until maryland, wisconsin and the nation's capital. rick santorum is not on the ballot here. veronica? >> tracie potts in washington, thank you. >>> a new republican election year budget proposal unveiled yesterday drew immediate criticism for proposing to cut deeply into medicaid and programs for the poor, while sharply lowering tax rates. congressman paul ryan detailed the proposal which would reshape medicare and calls for turning over to the states responsibility for major federal programs for the poor, including medicaid and food stamps and calls for slashing personal and corporate tax rates. democrats, vowing to protect the elderly and the poor point out the senate has no plans to even consider the gop proposal. >>> nbc news has learned that president obama plans to speed up the process of building the southern part of the controversial keystone pipeline. on thursday in oklahoma, the president will announce his decision to expedite the pe

the next republican primary is saturday in louisiana. rick santorum is pinning his hopes on a strong showing there after getting trounced by mitt romney in yesterday's illinois vote. a double digit win in illinois, outspending his opponents 7-1 in tv ads and grabbed his third primary victory in a row. cbs news estimates romney won 54 delegates giving him a total of 534 of 1,044 needed for the nomination. susan mcginnis is in washington to break down all of this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. romney is just about halfway there, almost halfway there delegateways, so strong position. illinois was a must win for both romney and santorum. despite romney taking illinois, santorum and for that matter all of the candidates, show no sign of giving up. mitt romney thanked supporters in illinois for his double-digit win over rick santorum. & >> what a night. wow. >> reporter: and immediately turned his focus to defeating president obama in november. >> it's time to say these words -- this word -- enough. we've had enough. >> reporter: ex

this week he spoke in port forchon, louisiana.at provides the nation with about 15% of its oil. gingrich says the way to cut costs is more drilling. >> we want drilling offshore. we want to make america the number one oil producer in the world. it's really amazing, world war ii, we produced 83% of the oil in the world. the reason we beat germany and japan so fast is they literally ran out of oil in both countries and we were literally supplying our allies, ourselves, and we had a huge volume of production. since the 1970s, we've had a national strategy of trying to solve scarcity by reducing consumption. and trying to rely on foreigners. and it's essentially the wrong strategy on both sides. the way to reduce consumption is they raised prices. the average american drives a fairly good distance to get to work. they drive a fairly good distance to see their relatives and their friends. we have trucking systems that bring us food and clothing at a time when it's the most efficient in the world but it uses petroleum. it is totally to

finally in 1912, louisiana adopted the flag we see today. >> the louisiana flag, i love, because it'sitional love. what the settlers saw, according to louisiana legend, when they first arrived there were these brown pelicans. and if food was scarce, what the mother pelicans would do was peck at their breasts until they bled, and they would feed that to their young. so, on the state flag, you see a mother feeding three baby brown pelicans. >> eventually, louisiana adopted the brown pelican as its official state bird. by the way, louisiana also has an official state doughnut called a beignet. it's fried dough with powdered sugar on top. fortunately, the official state drink is milk. with flag facts, i'm kristen. >> adopting a dog is pretty easy. animal shelters are almost always on the lookout for good owners. but as hannah reports, there's a lot more to becoming a friend to man's best friend. >> so, you want to adopt a dog, but you don't exactly know how to properly care for one. here's a way to learn how. >> volunteering at an animal shelter is a wonderful thing to do. there's a lot o

louisiana troops have come from central louisiana hud's louisiana back to northwest and the tax observatory in the south part of red river valley and they come out. although no one realizes that the time everyone to shattering the end and the union has no clue that that the confederates do not have a clue. taylor knows that if he couldn't fight closely -- as close as possible to shreveport and still detect it, he'll do his job. he can get people to come in. he doesn't have to worry about a long supply line. and so, being stupidly, but one long road and he's going to find when he gets away from the river and be candid in vb which will do that there's only one road he could use that he will accordion this young column out to 30 miles and that is not a way to run the military. at the little town of mansfield about 40 miles south of shoot port, the single road and lakes in the three rows of banks will have three avenues of church. so he's going to stop at. it's going to be an armageddon like do or die battle for the confederate man and although the union does not understand it for them as well.

then about 30 minutes in, we travel across town to the louisiana state museum to see a unique collection of autographs signed by some of our nation's founders and statesmen. >> my favorite is this one signed by john hancock. the one at the national archives is faded and rather difficult to see, whereas this one is in nice, bright signature, easily recognizable as john hancock. >> to round out the hour, a look at medical practices during the civil war as we visit the pioneer heritage center. >> we have our amputation kit. it consists of scalpel, bone saw, the big pliers that have the cutting edge to remove things like appendages like fingers. >> all these stories and more as american history tv in conjunction with comcast cable partners travels to >> freedom itself was attacked by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended. i want to reassure the american people that the full resources of the american government are work to go assist local authorities to save lives and to help the victims of these attacks. >> i was at home asleep when we got the phone call, and an editor of mine said

he's got louisiana. he's probably got texas. mathematical mathematically, considering his lack of delegates, even where he's winning, i don't see how rick can get to 11:44. if his strategy is to try to get to a cone fens and keep romney from getting to 1144, that becomes a fool's error. you're going to say wait a second, no one has gotten to a broker convention like this. you need to stand down. i don't see he can stay in for a while longer. i don't see him getting to 1144. >> everyone, stickaround. twitter at anderson cooper. coming up next, john king is going to break down the numbers just how mitt romney won. also, later on, the latest in a shooting. we'll be right back. [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu relieves your cough 50% longer than tylenol cold multi-symptom nighttime. [ snoring continues ] [ male announcer ] because snoring sounds better than coughing. greetings from the people here sure are friendly but some have had a hard time understanding my accent. so to make sure people get every word of the g

i think that's what helped us deliver the win in louisiana. i think we're going to do very well up here in wisconsin. >> let me ask you though. you're going to need to win about 70% of the of the remaining delegates in their future primary contests. what credible path do you have to the nomination given that? >> first off, i don't agree with the delegate math that the romney campaign is putting out there. for example, florida and arizona, they have it as a winner take all state. they're not winner take all. we saw an article written by the head of the rules committee on the rnc. one of the guys on the rules committee of the rnc. before april 1 no state can be a winner take all. you're looking at, you know, probably 50 or more delegates that governor romney is going to be proportioned between me and mostly congressman gingrich. and a lot of caucus states. the numbers are wrong. iowa is a good example. 28 delegates. we expect to get the vast majority of them probably up to 20 delegates. we don't think governor romney will get more than 1 or 2. y

what does all that mean here in louisiana? well, there are some people who think newt gingrich might be able to get some political traction in louisiana simply because that's the kind of language people want to hear, more going after the president of the united states, less going after republicans. still, the bottom line is, newt gingrich is in louisiana because he really wasn't expected to compete in illinois. this is all part of his southern strategy. he certainly is not a lock in all southern states. we saw that in the last set of primaries, alabama, mississippi, where he didn't win even though a lot of people said he might have to. so that's why we're here, and we'll get back to you if we have any other news, erin. >> thank you. obviously everywhere there is a headquarters, cnn is in most of the polling stations. >>> senator paul ryan came out with a look at the republicans 2013 brutudget proposal. is a trillion ondollars in revenue really possible? >>> the republicans continue to spend insane amounts of money on this camp

after louisiana, if he doesn't win louisiana, it's over. lets it hang around until the convention or does it mean he drops out and endorses rick santorum? because i would have a hard time seeing newt gingrich endorsing mitt romney at this point. there's a lot of personal animosity. yeah. there's bad blood. so it's a question of what gingrich would do and if he would work for someone like rick santorum. >> i'm not sure it matters at this point. he's become less of a factor than he was. ever since the debates ended, he's had less of an influence. >> that's why romney people don't really care anymore. >> exactly. even if he were to endorse santorum. there was a time early on it would have made a difference. now i'm not sure. >> i want to thank our panel. the obama campaign has kicked into high gear. we speak to obama's campaign press secretary next. not that we'd ever brag about it. turn right. come on, nine. turn left. hit the brakes. huh? how'd that get there? [ male announcer ] we can't hide how proud we are to have nine top safety picks li

this system is now in through louisiana, southern louisiana is where we're seeing tornado warnings right now, in through parts of cameron, arcadia parish, geoff davis parish, along the i-10 corridor between lake charles and lafayette. these are moving from the south to the north, all with this circulation that's not making much eastward progress. tornado watch in for most of louisiana and a sliver of arkansas for the next few hours as these storms slowly edge to the east but mostly go from south to north and with this slow movement we've got a tremendous amount of rainfall obviously going over one play. flood watches and warnings across much of western louisiana, getting up into arkansas as well, up to 6 inches possible and in some cases we've already seen that. a tremendous amount of rainfall coming out of this system as it moves slowly to the east, into a big bubble of warm air. temperatures continue to bake. chicago unbelievably, another day of 80 degree plus temperatures, 85 in chattanooga, 83 degrees in cincinnati. these are more like june as opposed to the middle of march. >> no ki

and there is low expectations in louisiana saying they expect to lose there. in this case, the romney campaign focusing on obama fully aware mr. santorum might have his day in the sun. >> bret: thank you. now reaction from santorum camp. mike emmanuel is with the candidate in pennsylvania. good evening, mike. good evening, mike. >> good evening, bret. it seems to be trying to turn the page from illinois as quickly as possible. they emphasized he won in conservative areas of illinois such as down state, western illinois. santorum emphasized delegates he would be picking up with romney winning the state that will only tag his lead after it was over, santorum insisted waits not a bad night. >> we did very well tonight. a very tough state, one nobody had expectations to win in. we did what we had to do and got the delegates we can get. and now aum conservatives to line up behind it. >> a point of emphasis there from santorum having conservatives line up with him. interesting point. a chief strategist came down and talked about not only wanting conservative owes su

. >> does santorum have to win in louisiana and wisconsin, and looking at louisiana after tonight's win, it seems like people are starting to lean towards mitt romney as he continues to build up states. would that put him in a better position to pick up, possibly, louisiana? >> i would be surprised, because if you just look at it on the demographics, there's nothing in the exit poll that tells me somehow romney's making progress with that core conservative vote that continues to sort of reject romney, and that is -- that is what louisiana is, louisiana is a lot more like mississippi or an alabama or an oklahoma than it's going to be in illinois, so i will be shocked if romney somehow wins or even comes close in louisiana, and if he does, if he does, i do think that's, once again, the beginning of the end. this very well be the beginning of the end tonight for santorum as romney tries to bring this nomination plane in for a landing, but i ultimately think for santorum, it's a one-state strategy at this point, it's all about wisconsin, he's got to win louisiana, wisconsin, if he doesn't w

they were ambushed not far from gibson, louisiana, on a rural road. there was actually the ambush laid in place by local law enforcement over in that part of louisiana who knew on good intelligence where they were going to be, what their movements were and they laid in wait for them on a stretch of road and, of course, as many people know, opened fire on the car that they were riding in and bonnie and clyde both suffered over 50 separate bullet wounds each in that ambush. the story of bonnie and clyde like the story of john dillinger and others like that from this era really is a part of, i think, a broader social commentary about america in the great depression. if you look at crime rates in the united states, there's a definite spike that takes place, particularly in armed robberies in the early 1930s and a lot of social scientists have been quick to ascribe that to depressed economic conditions, depressed economic conditions, the fact that you have banking failures, business failures, farm closures, and to the point that you could almost blame the