they were the early years of the black awareness, robert williams was active in south carolina. there was a period of time when the cot in the back of the store was a drop off for various disassembled armaments. sometimes someone we didn't know would put something under the mattress, making the cot unusable for several days. someone would come by and take the hardware away in a shopping bag and that would be it for a week or so. there was often a black photographer who would come to the shop with an empty shopping bag. when he left, he with leave in a zigzag and eventually get on a bus going south. >> i wanted to read a poem that was sent by the poet that i invited to the recent san francisco international poetry festival from iraq i've been in touch with for more than a year and a half. after the united states would not give him his visa, i asked him -- i told him about mutanabbi street and he wrote a poem and he wrote it in english, though he writes in, of course, in arabic. but this one he wrote in english. so i'll read it. one figure in the poem you should know, humbaba, whi

she spoke at the feel of robert williams, shockingly. we forget about that rosa parks.hat rosa parks who would give a eulogy for a man who stood up for arms self-defense, and was decried during the 1960s, for his militancy. she married a man who carried a pistol around town, and he was one of those earliest organizers of the montgomery naacp and was a defender of the scottsboro, who were put on trial and jailed for many years, accused of raping white women on alabama freight train. so she did a lot of things. and often her story ends up at the montgomery bus boycott but she marched in almost every major campaign of the civil rights movement and continued her activism in detroit where, as i noted in 1975, she basically headed the detroit branch of the free joan little committed to she is in 1975 continue to give anti-rave activism, at a time now and everyone thinks popular because the women's movements had made speak out feasible. black woman like rosa parks had been doing it for a long, long time. she is much more interesting than textbooks portray her as come and much

and also again named robert williams whiff of the country, but he was one of the leading apostles ofighting violence with violence in the black community. and they were a number of people who were involved in monroe, north carolina, some big titles they are for robert williams was a major figure. and he was finding an malcolm was finding a lot more followers who are arguing no to nonviolence and no to integration, which were the two pillars of the civil rights movement. and at the same time that there was this movement on the left, if you want to collect data. at the same time there was this movement on the left, the more radical edges of the civil rights movement to repudiate the very core of the movement. the result of growing pressure from the right. probably the fbi was developing plans to go after the movement with all a tad, but there were movements throughout the south among the governors and among the state legislators to essentially pass constitutional amendments that would take congresses right away to legislate anything on civil rights. it would essentially -- these consti

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williams was there. >> jimmy: and someone else. >> robert de niro. >> jimmy: no, you're making up names. [ laughter ] >ped this bus because we were going to the supreme court building or something like that. and they had to have these dogs sniff the bus for bombs. and robin williams was like, "if they're looking for bombs, i'll throw out 'popeye.'" we made a few bombs, and everyone was just going on about the movies that they made that were bombs. [ laughter ] and i remember that we all went down the line, and then we went to you, and you go, "i never made any bombs." [ laughter ] that was so funny, man. it was great. >> no, i'm not going to admit to it. >> jimmy: you're a very funny human being. do you get back to this building much? this is 30 rock. this is where you were. this is "saturday night live." >> the whole time i was on "saturday night live," i couldn't say it. i never thought i'd be in there in a million years -- ever. >> jimmy: really? >> they go, "what show are you on?" i go, "i'm on 'saturday night'"-- "what?" [ laughter ] "'saturday night'"-- i couldn't. i was just overwhelmed. >> jimm

carol, jason, christopher, kenny, robert, corey, timmy, michael, william, steve, dean, rick, william, joe, ronald, james, adam, rex, josh, howard, dillard, joe price, grover, benny, ricky are those who died. i stood vigil with their families, the mothers, the fathers, their sisters, their brothers, wives, children and grandchildren. we waited together throughout those anguishing days in the aftermath of that devastating explosion that took these 29 brave individuals too early from this earth. i prayed with them. i ate with them. and in the end i grieved with them. if i voted against this legislation, my colleagues, that might have saved their loved ones, i could never again look them in the eyes. today, i will cast my vote for this appropriately named robert c. byrd mine safety protection act. and i will continue to work with my colleagues to address the needs of our coal miners and our coal industry in the weeks and months ahead. those needs exist, and those needs need to be addressed and we need to address them, all stakeholders, that chairman miller has done so well, all stakeholde

robert liles, cbs5. >>> other bay area headlines now. the man police say beat a priest in loss galt ospleaded not guilty today. williamch says the priest, gerald lindner, moe lefted him and his brother nearly three decades ago during a camping trip. the priest denies the accusation, they say he tracked him to his retirement home and beat him up this year. >>> supporters of the dream act held a candlelight vigil tonight. it would allow young isa chance to earn citizenship if they meet requirements includingen rolling in college or the u.s. military. the house is expected to vote on the dream act this week. >>> they said "are you deborah collins," i said"yes," i was so shocked he knew my name. it was like "i'm found." >> the woman stranded in the santa cruz mountains for nearly a week held a news conference tonight. deborah collins said she stayed positive and new she would be found. she said she was walking in the woods late last month when she twisted her ankle. she spent six nights in 30 tree temperatures. two hikers set out to find her and did. she was weak, tired, and cold, but not seriously hurt. >>> well it's ful

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studio head, harry cohn told his stars, william holden and glenn ford, if you must get in trouble, do it at the chateau. and they did. robertd for drug use while living here. jim morrison of the doors was injured falling or leaping from a fourth floor window. and then in 1982, comedian john belushi was found dead of an overdose of cocaine and heroin in one of the chateau's secluded bungalows, securing for a new generation the hotel's reputation. at once famous and infamous. >> how long did it take to you renovate this? >> when andre bought the seven story faux gothic chateau 20 years ago it was in distress and disrepair and about to be demolished. he refurbished the grand dame, replacing the old stuff with new stuff that looks owed. returning it to its former shabby chic glory, the furniture delightfully mismatched, the atmosphere like a stage set from a familiar old movie. >> we've tried to do is bring it to life without imparting sense that it's changed. >> it's a style, call it gothic glamour, that seems never to go out of style. the old place as seductive and popular as when led zepplin famously ran the motorcycle up an

>> white house press secretary robert gibbs was asked if president obama is still smoking and you know, they always try to get around. here is brian williamsjudge. >> a reporter asked the press secretary at the white house if the president has, in fact, been able to fully quit. >> i have not seen or witnessed evidence of him smoking in probably nine months. >> steve: jay guy is good. >> brian: 28 minutes before the top of the hour. much more show to go. >> steve: speaking of the white house, the white house is keeping a close watch on capitol hill where the tax cut compromise has cleared a key hurdle in the senate yesterday. the sailing might not be so smooth over in the house. wendell goler is live at the white house with a look at the bumpy ride ahead. good morning to you. >> steve, the ease with which the tax cut bill cleared that first hurdle in the senate, the 60 vote requirement to end debate has given the folks here at the white house a lot more confidence about its prospects in the house. even though republicans and democrats both have complaints about the bill, it passed that cloture vote. illinois democratic senator dick durbin s

william jackson kept it so carelessly and i've come to think of them as robert scoundrel, of madison's notes which are magnificent. and then collated them, with notes taken much more partial to by other members of the convention, often for their own preference. they didn't i think of the same mission of preserving these days for prosperity, but they put them together, collated them so for any one day you can prepare the accounts that went on. now, editing is not just copying manuscripts and printing them. take what fran have to do with's notes. madison apparently changed his manuscript notes circa 1921 after the official journal have been published. he assumes a journalist authoritative. it was not. so in some ways he thought he was thrown, he'd fix it. and often where the wind was from accuracy to error. what do you do with this? he had to look at the manuscript and figure out where madison made changes in 1921 broccoli. fortunately as he tells us, it wasn't so hard to do because the inca medicine used in 1921 faded in a different way than that and she accused in the 1780s. so he coul