basically, george pullman, the owner of the pullman manufacturing company had to cut wages for his workers but he also owned the company town of pullman, illinois and he didn't cut rent or prices at the company store, so they felt unfairly treated and they stopped working. they went on strike. this got eugene debs involved. he was tied in with the american railway union. he managed to get sympathetic rail workers in many places to sympathetically strike with the pullman company strikers. but where it was most prevalent was here in sacramento. this was the home of the southern potential shops. it was a 240 acre facility where every piece of moving equipment on this line went through here for maintenance and repair. this stopped real traffic out of many places. by extension is stopped rail traffic moving out of many other places. so to get rail traffic moving again, the federal government got involved and attached mail cars to every train, and they were federal property so the mail had to move. the very first train moved but was derailed by a broken rail and overturned an engineer and two pe

basically, george pullman, the owner of the pullman manufacturing company had to cut wages for his workers but he also owned the company town of pullman, illinois and he didn't cut rent for prices at the company store, so they felt unfairly treated at they stopped working. they went on strike. involved.ugene debs he was tight in with the american railway union. he managed to get -- in many places to sympathetically strike with the pullman company strikers. but where it was most prevalent was here in sacramento. this was the home of the southern potential shops. every piece of moving equipment on this line went through here for maintenance and repair. this stopped real traffic out of many places. so to get a rail traffic moving again, the federal traffic got involved and they attached mail train, and they were federal property so the trains had to move. -- thery first train moved but wasin derailed by a broken rail and twoturned an engineer and people were killed in the process. so president grover cleveland brought in troops and they marched on the sacramento. they were here for two months

there is a large police presence outside the pullman hotel in paris.teve harrigan is inside the hotel and joins us now. steve, what can you tell us? >> reporter: at the windows there is a heavy police presence outside. the hotel staff has been removed from the lobby floor. police are now going room to room. we don't know what is behind this move. it shows how jumpy people are 24 hours after this attack and the real fears that the attack might not be over. police right now are going room to room. there has been no advisory from the hotel about what's going on or what to do. basically at this point, you have people hunkered down inside their hotel rooms with the lights off, doors locked, waiting for the police. >> steve, were you staying in the hotel, or were you able to make your way in once the police arrived? >> reporter: i got warnings from other colleagues who are in this hotel, which is right next to the eiffel tower that basically said don't leave your room. there's a lot of commotion, a lot of running around downstairs. so you often wonder in sit

i went to the paper depositories of jackson and magnuson in washington and tom foley's papers in pullman, washington. also senator wayne morse, another major figure in this era of transformation from the northwest. his papers at the university of oregon. i have also spoken to a lot of staffers who worked for senator mark hatfield, having been the most recent of the individuals. there are still a lot of his staffers that are active and engaged on matters of foreign policy. so, it is a lot to bring together. i think that the picture that has emerged has kind of -- has deepened my understanding, but it also has backed up a lot of -- those of us who live in the northwest -- our understanding of these individuals as truly dedicated to the public good, in a way that i think is unique in terms of talking about a region as a whole, in terms of politicians. susan: christopher foss, thank you for stopping by to talk to us. christopher: thank you so much, it has been a pleasure. >> you're watching american history tv. >> on the eve of the american williamsburg was a bustling population. american hi

legislation, labor he was able to negotiate a bargaining agreement with the holman palace car company -- pullman palace car company. it was the first such agreement between an african american union and a major american company. it launched randolph as a national civil rights leader. the brotherhood also provided black labor with a solid foundation on which to challenge racial discrimination. the members of the union were also instrumental in supporting his various mass demonstrations and movements with both their labor and their money. in world war ii and post you -- postwar years section, it focuses on the tearing down of racial barriers in a variety of areas that served as building blocks for the full scale assault against segregation in the 1950's and 1960's. we start with randolph's famous marks that didn't happen, the 1941 march on washington. mass as much as 100,000 african americans on washington unless there was an effort made by the roosevelt administration to include the hiring of african americans in the national defense industry. to halt the march, president franklin roosevelt issue

superintendent pullman. shall we go through? thank you. so, what have you got for us?ack in 2001, dr. ruxton found that bernard fletcher's fatal injuries were consistent with a fall at his workplace-- the natural history museum.

i'm detective superintendent pullman. this is jack halford, ucos. you must be thrilled.u know what this is? pass. it's a ballistics report on the gun you were carrying. bad news is it's the same gun that was used to kill a guy called eddie mayfair in 1999. never heard of him. eddie was a boxer, 21. i saw him fight once. he was very good. until somebody shot him. hang on, are you trying to dump this on me?

. >> reporter: that's when garcia valseca ran his papers from a luxury pullman train car. the one which, decades later, eduardo owned. though, when he invited this beautiful woman he'd just met to mexico for a train ride, she had no idea that the train was his. >> we're walking toward it and this man comes out with a white jacket, white gloves, black bowtie with a silver tray, i was just completely speechless. >> reporter: she soon discovered that the train car was about all eduardo had of family fortune. the rest, along with the newspaper empire, had long since withered away. but jayne fell for a man, not money, and what eduardo lacked in fortune he replaced with laughter and passion and a huge jayne was in love, and soon married, and swept off to mexico, to a fresh place for a new life, new roots, new family. and that famous name, valseca. one thing the legacy did afford them was the chance to live pretty much anywhere they wanted to. and eduardo suggested a town in north central mexico called san miguel de allende, 450 years old, rich obviously in history, but also in c

another measure of the state of alert a false alarm, raid on the hotel pullman, big police presence around the eiffel tower that turned out to be false alarm. why are they doing this? because, as french official has told cnn, they do not know that they have all of the attackers. but they also know, they believe at least, french president hags said this, they believe the network behind the attack or these attacks goes larger than those seven attackers, there had to be a support network that helped them get explosives, guns, cars, and we're seeing the investigation spread beyond france to belgium, bermgermany. >> we saw that after the "charlie hebdo" attack. >> that's right. that's right. the "charlie hebdo," taking over the kosher market there. that is the fear. but there are other questions, right? how you had such an extensive operation, seven attackers carried out deadly attacks with a horrible death count, as we know, nearly 129, 352 injured. with the state of alert that has been here. we know that french authorities have been looking out for this kind of thing. this is an enormous netw

i have a pullman here. in here. a pull them i'll to the liberty of reading it.etimes you can say things with a poem in a different way. this was written in 2003 right at the point of the invasion or just before it in february 2003. it takes place in iraq or what used to be babylon, that part of the world that is traversed by you'reers tigris and afraid he's called back to babylon. . why briefly return to play unbroken places to mock the ground, to collect entered shards, coins, fossils were the familiar empty canisters and casings that went from poisoned roots in the blackened dust believebad ghost and we we too will fade as her acrid smoke and strange flakes of skin and strains of here will into largely undocumented extinction, lie down, lie down. sleep is the best thing for being awake. do as we have always been told and done in a backward glances her second thought leaving son mark is buried in the sand. sleep now, dream of children with their heads still on our grandmothers unburdening close lines at twilight, a full kettle nameless victims to claim remains

the exhibit that we currently have is the 1894 pullman strike. it was a national strike the the labor was manufactured on inlman cars and to that illinois he did not have the and he wase prices the president of the workers of the world, tied into the torican railway union sympathetically strike, where becausee former nonemento was the home since the building repair. the workers just stop out of sympathy for the strikers. this stopped traffic in and out of sacramento. by extension of stopped traffic in and out of other product -- traffic in and out of other places. the mail had to move. the very first train that left sacramento fell victim to sabotage just a few miles west, near the city of davis, california. the train was derailed by a broken rail. they were here for about two months. the camp out city parks and had contingent.in it was a very hot summer. and some of them bring their loyalty back to the i know thatrailroad you think it's broken, right -- did establisholn the holiday. >> it's really hard to imagine sacramento or california without

there was this incident at a planned parenthood in pullman, washington in september which was ruled arson. just weeks earlier protesters gathered outside the clinic. planned parenthood officials in colorado said some employees escaped yesterday's shooter by fleeing to safe rooms. >> julianna goldman in washington. thank you. >>> dangerous weather is slamming the central u.s. with ice, sleet, snow and rain. it's storm warnings in the texas pan handle and central oklahoma ay lahoma through noon today. when their cars were washed away in flash flooding in north texas. the airport recorded more than 53 inches of rain for the year and that is a record. the same weather system dumped snow, sleet and ice in texas. crews are working to restore electric. icy conditions made travel hazardous. >> and details on the weather for the rest of the holiday weekend. and jeff ray joins us from dallas ktvt with the forecast. good morning. >> good morning. thank you so much. you can see this large swath of rain and ice continues across the central plains. this is actually tropical moisture coming into very co