on april 13, at least for the battalion in lynchburg. 60 members of lynchburg's own battery. 21 men from baltimore light. the 11th virginia, all units to have been present on the morning of april 9 at appomattox. a key junctionh, on the richman and denver railroads, the marshall reported 1614 names in a three-day period stretching from april 14 through april 17. burkeville proved to be a favorite site, because if you showed up there, not only will it be possible, not guaranteed, but possible that you can catch a ride to petersburg, but you might also get some rations. some men who showed up here are doing so because they realize that is their opportunity to get home faster and to get some rations. eville theyk also come in as units. to the keyheir way railroad junction in order to get the papers that they would need in order to get them home. 14, that on april evening, lincoln, as you all know, was assassinated. contrary to what we might think or even expect, rather than process,g the paroling lincoln's assassination made it all the more pressing that the remnants of lee's army who had n

in lynchburg the kidnapping was big news.d captured heiko driving his used mercedes coupe. there you were in your fancy car. >> yes. >> you must be worth millions. >> that was a wrong, wrong impression. >> i'm not a rich person, but i will give whatever i can get together. okay? >> we need $10 million u.s. for the release of your family. okay? >> reporter: heiko was lucky in this. when mr. so made his demands, some of the most experienced fbi hostage negotiators in the country were right there, listening in. ready to point out the right way for heiko to respond. literally. >> these are for general visual prompts that we want heiko to think about. we have all the questions related to kevin and gerfa that we think are important for heiko to consider. and while we're doing them we're going to write notes down and pass them to heiko. he would read it and hopefully introduce it to the conversation. >> where's my wife? can i talk to her? if she's okay? where's my son? >> yeah, no, uh, your son -- >> is she with you? can i talk to t

the leading edge of the eavy rain roanoke a lynchburg. this is all lifting northbound here. that's low pressure. that will give lift to the atmosphere in the middle of the day. and a cold front out to our west promises to add even a little more lift to the atmosphere. it will be a very unsettled day around here today. behind the front tomorrow, it will be ferociously windy around here. here's fure weathe early this morning, nothing all that heavy. here's the heavier rain in the middle parts of the day. rain should taper off after the sun goes down. dry weather afterto midnight ght into early tomorrow. here's 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. ithe rain done. skies will try to clear out a little t. but the northwest wind will be howling tomorrow. the skies will become mostly-cloudy. and there's a chance for hit-or-miss showers. they will be moving. the windsus could between 40 and 50 miles per hour. be ready for a windy one on your friday, with the midday showers around. saturday, no real baain, either. it won't be as windy but blustery and chilly. sunday is the day we're waiting fo

great conservatives watching across this country, especially all of our friends joining us live from lynchburg, at liberty university. i'll see you in may. [applause] vp pence: and to all of them and to all of you, i bring greetings from a friend of mine. [laughter] restored a man who american leadership at home and abroad, and the man who can't wait to be with you tomorrow. i bring you greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] vp pence: you know, it's the greatest honor of my life to serve as vice president. 28 president who gets up every day and fights to keep the promises that he made to the american people. [applause] i mean, think about it. this president promised to get this economy moving again. and what with republican majorities in the congress and in our first two years, president trump has cut more federal red tape than any president in american history. [applause] vp pence: we have unleashed american energy, and now the united states is a largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world. [applause] under the president'

. >> the name alan weisselberg has come and he seems like the lynchburg having been at the trump organizationinst fred donald trump, donald trump's father. he knows where the bodies are buried. that's the expression that people keep using. he knows about every signed check. and so of course they're going to call him. but he has limited immunity. what does that mean? >> he's an obvious person to call. michael cohen invoked his name over and over again the other day. he's the financial gatekeeper. so he has immunity, limited immunity. that's when a prosecutor says i need your testimony, i can't have you invoking the fifth so we're not going to use your testimony on this limited subject to prosecute you later. so now if he's going to testify more broadly, and it seems clear that he is. he knows pretty much everything. i think one of the quotes was he knew every dime that ever left the trump org. he's going to need broader immunity or a cooperator. but the limited immunity he has right now will not carry him through. >> without the broader immunity he goes in and pleads the fifth. >> he'll take t

he have to promise that they would not stay overnight they would go back to lynchburg each night and then come back the next morning. they would not eat anything they changed the rules. and you can stay in the dorm overnight you can go to the cafeteria. they check into the dorm. by the time they woke up the white boys were all gone. they evacuated. and when they went to the theater they have to be in the jim crow a section in the balcony uncertain of a bitter sweet thing. arthur came to play in the tournament and he just destroyed everyone. a few weeks later they gave up its sponsorship of the inter- scholastic tournament and i went to williamstown. they wrote a pretty devastated article about this. maybe they weren't so interested in sponsoring it. one of the things that he have to deal with was the love hate relationship with virginia and with richmond. it's really a token to the depth of his character that he was able to overcome all of the hurts and the insults that he have to experience he went everywhere he could. his controversial but wonderful statute. someone like arthur ash

great conservatives watching across this country, especially all of our friends joining us live from lynchburgia, at liberty university. i'll see you in may. [applause] and to all of them and to all of you, i bring greetings from a friend of mine. a man who restores american leadership at home and abroad and the man who can't wait to be with you tomorrow. i bring greetings from the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] you know, it's the greatest honor of my life to serve as vice president. your president who gets up every day and fights to keep the promises they made to the american people. i mean think about it. this president promised to get this economy moving again. and what with republican majorities in the congress and our first is president trump has cut more federal red tape than any president in american history. [applause] we have unleashed american energy, and now the united states is a largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world. [applause] under the president's strong leadership we forge new trade deals that finally put americ

host: robert is calling from lynchburg on the independent line.send awould like message out to all of the right wingers saying that socialism is bad when we have the government , one ofing communism the biggest communist countries in the world. socialism here, but they -- what is that? totalitarian, like donald trump is doing, the totalitarian regimes all around the world, instead of taking the word of his own people, and you have a whole bunch of "yes men" working for him. they don't dare to speak against him, and when they do speak against him, he talks about them , and that he said bad things about them. hired them, and they worked for him 10 to 20 years. host: coming up next, our spotlight on magazine segment. we will talk with steven shepard about election do overs after a reelection call in north carolina. then dan puskar of the public lands alliance will join us. we will be right back. morning, american history tv have live coverage of the american civil war annual symposium from the library of virginia in richmond. featured speakers includ