. >> robert lopez was a friend and classmate. >> so anything from graphic comments up until picture arteah. he was very gifted in that sense. >> erica and pedro quickly became an item. teenage lovers. but with adult dreams. >> we were a pretty serious relationship, we were a little bit more mature than the average, we didn't go out and drink we were just very focused on school and each other. >> another sharply focus classmate in their circle was pedro's good buddy, question. >> i met him through pedro, he was awesome, he was funny and he was nice and we instantly were good friends. >> christian was a soccer player who hit the books the son of, colombian immigrants became the all american boy, video games, kanye west wrap in his ears, and plans to become a doctor. >> it sounds as though to understand christian you have to realize how academically motivated he was? >> oh yeah. he was very driven. and it wasn't like his family was pushing him it was just that he wanted to make them proud. >> these three high achieving musketeers, christian, erica and pedro all went to prom to gather. and

robert told rose about this she was so intrigued she had one on one breakfast with lopez.and then she reported all this to john c calhoun who is very enthusiastic about this endeavor. president taylor though, whilst the expedition he felt like it violated neutrality. that shows you a little bit about rose and how she was a very much involved in what her husband was doing. very much involved in trying to expand slavery. rose, by the time of the civil war, was a widow. her marriage ended rather tragically and rather suddenly. robert was off working as a law agent for the newly created land commission in san francisco, california coming home one day he fell off a plank rope it was a drop of about 6 feet. he injured his leg and hip in 1854, did not really think a lot about this. it did not seemed like it was a life-threatening injury. but within six weeks he was dead from infection he died on march 27. how rose discovered this news is unknown. this is seven years before the telegram, seven years before western union. she certainly did not get the news instantly. it either came