as far as how the recovery process by the mckay bennett, we don't get into that at all in the book. and i am not familiar with how the treatment was between a first and second class body being recovered and third class. so i would rather not comment on that. >> i just had heard that first and second class passengers for the most part were -- the bodies were taken back into halifax and most of the steerage were buried at sea. >> there is definitely a number of steerage that were taken back as well. not all to halifax either. but to other locations. with the new -- about it thif t where the family was. but that's one area we don't really get into. we sort of go through as i say to the point where the car pait i can't rescue and then we deal with the changes to the ship itself, to the sister ship and the other ship under construction. okay. >> sam, thank you for your time. >> you're welcome. [ applause ] >>> each week american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation's college professors. this week a look at the compromise of 1850 ands collapse of the secretaries party sy

as far as how the recovery process by the mckay bennett, we don't get into that at all in the book. and i am not familiar with how the treatment was between a first and second class body being recovered and third class. so i would rather not comment on that. >> okay. i just had heard that first