today we'll talk about congressman john patrick murtha, better known as jack murtha. john murtha was a congressman that served almost four decades in washington, representing the people of western pennsylvania. particularly the people sort of in the areas to the east and the south of surrounding pittsburgh. what i'd like to share with you today is a bit about congressman murtha's career as a military man, about his influence with military spending, and also his legacy and the national park service here in western pennsylvania. jack murtha actually was not born here in western pennsylvania, but down in -- along the ohio river down in west virginia in the 1930's. both of his parents were originally from western p.a. so he finds himself coming back here as an early child. you know, the murthas, his family tradition is they were irish catholic family. his great grandfather emigrate today this country. they worked in the coal mines around places like scottsdale and mount pleasant, pennsylvania just to the east of pittsburgh. now, it's very important to know that the coal m

today, we will talk about congressman john patrick murtha, better known as jack murtha.ohn murtha was a congressman that served almost four decades in washington, representing the people of western pennsylvania, particularly the people sort of in the areas to the east and the south of surrounding pittsburgh. what i would like to share with you today is a bit about congressman murtha's career as a military man, about his influence with military spending, and also his legacy in the national parks service in western pennsylvania. inn murtha was not born western pennsylvania, but down along the ohio river in west virginia in the 1930's. but moke -- both of his parents were from western pa. so he finds himself coming back here as an early child. his family tradition is irish catholic. his great-grandfather emigrated to this country. they worked in the coal mines around places like scottsdale pennsylvania,sant just to the east of pittsburgh. it is very important to know that coal mining was very havetant here because we the home of the steel industry. and: the refinement of co

as jack murtha.murtha was a congressman that served almost four decades in washington, representing the people of western pennsylvania. particularly the people sort of in the areas to the east and the south of surrounding pittsburgh. what i'd like to share with you today is a bit about congressman murtha's career as a military man, about his influence with military spending, and also his legacy and the national park service here in western pennsylvania. jack murtha actually was not born here in western pennsylvania, but down in -- along the ohio river down in west virginia in the 1930's. both of his parents were originally from western p.a. so he finds himself coming back here as an early child. you know, the murthas, his family tradition is they were irish catholic family. his great grandfather emigrate today this country. they worked in the coal mines around places like scottsdale and mount pleasant, pennsylvania just to the east of pittsburgh. now, it's very important to know that the coal mining

big democrat and jack murtha. that is what a southwestern pennsylvania democrat was.t was old fashioned blue territory. what did you see? >> exactly. i spent the day going around to polling places and a popular trump hang out. donald trump won them over. a lot of them had been jumping on the republican wagon for a while. trump's message just really resonated with them when you talked about jobs and trade. a cult following among the junkies and trying to figure out what we miss. what's going on there. i find it interesting, the rural vote first started going republican on culture issues. over the last couple of cycles, they haven't been as republican and it could be they didn't like the economic argument and here came a republican with an economic argument to talk about it. >> that's right. and nine of them were arguing for 20 years. >> we will cut entitlements and do this and free trade here and the economy is just going to grow. >> absolutely. the guy who said no, no, no to all of it was donald trump. he inspired so much confidence and passion and they led to the nom