there's one in rochester and one in springfield. not successful as public works of art. but he did reproduce busts, drape busts, non-drape busts, the hands themselves, the life mask itself, and he did very well manufacturing these reproductions. so, that sculptors eventually brought copies of their own. he used the mask and hands for his great standing lincoln in chicago. and daniel chester french, of course, used the mask and the hands which are preserved at chesterwood in stock ridge, massachusetts, to model the great lincoln memorial sculpture. and no they don't say a.l. in sign language which is a myth about the lincoln memorial. i wrote a book about french so i get a lot of questions about that. he had done a statue, so there was a suspicion. i digress. later, the hands and mask become great collectibles and his own copy is the one that the new york historical society owns. by the way, in an accident of geography, the left hand is across the park in the metropolitan museum of art. but i guess people can run from one side of the park to see the complete set. it's int

yet he got to like and sometime of springfield a day after the nomination. he said now i'd like to cast your hands as well because you are a national figure now i'd like to make a full length statue of you as i have done of my cousin stephen douglas who you just defeated. he financed my rti education in rome but you're the man. >> let's just look at a picture of lincoln. can we just throw that up on the screen? so photograph of the animal himself. >> by the way, whatever the caption says, it's 1864, it's not 1865. >> that's from our collection. (laughs) you say in your essay that lincoln realized that in order to be taken seriously as a statesman, he needed to subject himself to make himself more readily available to painter, sculptures an artist. why is? that >> he had been photographed from time to time. obviously when that picture was taken he was already one of the most photographed men in the country. what a great choice because it shows those hands that they look when he was in repose. photographs were fine, they were becoming popular, because they cou

volk said to lincoln, this casting was done at his home in springfield. and volk said, mr.lincoln, do you have an object that you could hold. so lincoln excused himself and the next thing volk remembered is he heard sawing coming from the direction of lincoln's privy and shed and when lincoln came back he was holding the end of a stick and he explained that he had cut a handle off a broom and now he was whittling it and volk said, mr. lincoln, you don't have to do that because i'm just -- i'm not going to use the stick in the final sculpture. and lincoln said oh, i wanted to have it nice. so he continued to whittle it and that is the cast of the right hand that had shake ebb so many -- had shaken so many hands it had swollen. that is something that happened to lincoln because we know that just three years later, his hand was so swollen from handshaking at a new year's reception at the white house, he felt he could not sign the emancipation proclamation until he rested and stretched, people who were with him, about four witnesses, who he put the pen down people thought he wo

but that was in springfield and this country, it is the great meeting place for people from all over the world and somehow they are free and it's a fantastic accomplishment. they started to say america is a wonderful country. >> there are some of course you probably don't know what i'm talking about the sum that criticize some of your looks and some of the characters are one-dimensional or simplistic or play the stereotype. say that i take that with pride. if i had to find some complicated side of the great lawyer i will send you a postcard. his name will come to me. i brushed that off. >> what about the main character of miami cop and even "new york times" had to admit that he was real. they are all small choices that your characters make that distinguish them from those around them. what do you feel having common with some of your other for tagging this more specifically what did his morality reflect? >> i didn't mean to write about the cuban policeman when i started out. the subjects that interest me where the locale and i walked in and i wait for the character. i wait for the cha

missouri,pringfield springfield, illinois, slocum, texas, forsyth county, georgia. east st. louis, 6,000-plus, displaced. so when you think about -- when my newk at things like home of st. louis, missouri, the incredible concentrated generational poverty and disenfranchisement that exists place like st. louis or chicago, probably here in parts city, i want you to incorporate in your reflection on there theng problem of the presence of this past. even gotten to 1919 yet which comes just two yet, which comes two years after east st. louis, the tolls are race riot - - the tulsa race riot -- this is the black wall street case. and these should be understood as pogroms, not simply riots. they always involve either the active participation of state actors, most notably police, other legal officials, or they are at the essence of the forbearance of racial terror that is brought on the black populations. this is from elaine, relating to the case in elaine, arkansas, one of the red summer sites. newspaper advertisement taken elaine,r the pogrom in arkansas, motivated by farmworkers o

she is going to be at a live feed coming from a schoolhouse in springfield, mass. let's take a listen. >> tonight we heard from the people who make america work. people who put their lives on the line to keep our country going and since covid-19 hit, they have taken one gut punch after another. and what has the covid fallout done to our babies? well, i'm here at the early childhood education center in springfield, massachusetts, which has been closed for months. child care was already hard to find before the pandemic, and now parents are stuck. no idea when schools can safely reopen and even fewer child care options. the devastation is enormous. and the way i see it, big problems demand big solutions. now, i love a good plan, and joe biden has some really good plans. plans to bring back union jobs in manufacturing and create new union jobs in clean energy. plans to increase social security benefits, cancel billions in student loan debt and make our bankruptcy laws work for families instead of the creditors who cheat them. these plans reflect a central truth. our ec

springfield was a city where people who didn't get a job in boston or new york would come to springfield and say about 170,000. irish, italian. it was important for them to know where you came from. i said i hope they come from shenandoah valley. but that is the education of. it's a great reading place for people over the world into somehow i get here and it is and it's a fantastic accomplishment. there are some of course we probably don't know what they're talking about, but criticized some of the books, some of the characters are one-dimensional or simplistic or play to stereotypes. >> if i have a complicated side of the house -- i will send a postcard. >> host: what about the main character in "back to blood" figure have t had to admit thats real and that the characters all have a choice to. but the they have in common andt did the morality or choices have in common? >> guest: i didn't mean to write about it i walk in a lightweight for the characters to arrive and probably because i got a great introduction to the police with. they would steer me in this direction and it was always th

james' pulpit becomes the ymca training center in springfield, massachusetts.mber 1891, he's tasked with creating an indoor activity for a group of young men during the winter. so, he dreams this game up? >> he had to start from scratch, and that's when the thinking started. >> the light bulb goes on one night, and he's ready to start the next morning. >> evidently, he asked the maintenance man there, "i need a box -- you know, something you can put a ball in." and he came back and said, "i can't find any boxes. i got a couple of peach baskets." >> oh, my -- for peaches. james hangs one up at each end of the gym, 10 feet high -- only because that's where he could get the nails in. he picked up a soccer ball because it was big enough where you had to hold it out. you couldn't hide it. the arched shot came from the little game of "duck on a rock," a kid's game in canada. >> then, he calls the boys in. >> he describes the first game. he said, "i had multiple black eyes, a dislocated shoulder, one guy completely knocked out." >> but the new game's a big hit. his yo

about him now as easily as we thought, that he had difficulties in his personal life, i mentioned springfield, he visited lincoln on a regular basis and to think about what was going on in that home and how much he lost and he lost a child. all these things, there was a human behind this person that did so much. . . . c-span: what year did you read it? >> guest: you notice when you even mentioned the title, i i said, ah. that, i was about -- and this is where i talk about my age -- [laughter] c-span: you don't have to give that away. >> guest: i was about 7 or 8, and that was about 1961 or so, and i went to grammar school in jamaica, queens. and right across the street was a storefront library. and i can't remember if a librarian gave me the book or anything like that, but i just know that somehow this book by marguerite de or angeli featured a little african-american girl who was a brownie -- and at that time i was a brownie -- >> she had two pigtails, and the beautiful water color pictures and illustrations showed a loving family. there was a piano in the living room, there was a thanksgivi

i was thinking in 2008 springfield, illinois, the obama/joe biden moment when joe biden runs out on the stage when it's announced that he will be barack obama's vice president. the thing about these tickets is you do have these moments where they are together and you want to see the story of this candidacy. and dana talked about leadership and showing confidence and showing chemistry. but then really they go their separate ways. the vice president kind of force multipliers to go places, maybe the top person can't go. so they'll go their separate ways, talk to different people in different ways. but, yeah, i mean, this is like something we've never seen before. and they are going to have to kind of make it up as they go along. the big moments will be next week with these speeches. and then for kamala harris, the next moment of course will be the debate that she will have with vice president pence. >> of course. and, david, as we report out what led to this pick, sources are telling cnn that biden chose harris because she was a common sense pick. she was seen as someone who would do no ha

the maximum-security lockup in springfield, missouri. it was a psychiatric prison with both hardcore killers and the criminally insane. >> these people all have life sentences. they're all in there and they're crazy loons. and they have nothing better to do but to try to hurt you or kill you, just for some fun. >> reporter: if he accepted beaumont's offer, keen's target would be the suspected serial killer. a mysterious man, in a van. >> coming up. every picture tells a story. >> when i put the picture down, he flinched, raised his arm up, and refused to look at the picture. >> when "dateline" continues. he picture. >> when "dateline" continues and your health is key to that. centrum supports your body with vitamin c and zinc to help maintain your immune system today and into the new tomorrow. centrum. we love our new home. there's so much space. we have a guestroom now. but, we have aunts. you're slouching again, ted. expired, expired... expired. thanks, aunt bonnie. it's a lot of house. i hope you can keep it clean. at least geico make

springfield was a city where people who couldn't get a job in boston couldn't get a job in new york going to springfield, a city with 170,000 and everybody was irish, italian, french-canadian and it was important to know where you came from. i came from shenandoah valley. what? i was in education. this country is - the great meeting place for people from all over the world. a fantastic accomplishment. >> there are some, probably don't know what you are talking about, some who criticize some of your books, some of the characters are 1-dimensional or simplistic or play stereotype. so is dickens. >> tried to find some complicated side of the lawyer in great house, the name will come to me. >> what about the main character. >> admits he was real. what your characters may, charlotte simmons, the man in fool, what did you feel they had in common, what his morality or choices have in common. >> what i mean about human voices, is a little bit backwards. oke, i walk in and wait for the characters to arrive which they inevitably do because i got a great introduction to the police. one of the great

if it had been a success, springfield massachusetts would be today's city which i as it so happens, springfield massachusetts is full of anyway. we owe our very existence to the car to the car's back seat of her if you check our parents wedding anniversary with our birthday they might find that a little too close for comfort as to where we were conceived. there was no premarital sex in america before the invention of the combustion. you couldn't sneak a girl into the wreck room of your farmhouse because your mom and dad didn't have a car so they couldn't commute so they were home all day working on the farm. and your farmhouse didn't have a wreck room because recreation hadn't been discovered due to all the farm work. saturday night you could take a girl out but it was hard to get her in the mood to put you bust into her corset because you were facing behind and of a horse and it spoils the atmosphere. so while the car was as if it destroyed the american nuclear family and anyone that has had a nuclear family can tell you that was a relief to all concerned. and they caused america to be paved.

employment in springfield here in fairfax county has been waiting for information that she needs mailed to her so she can get access to unemployment benefits, but the delays in without the benefit she earned and is entitled to choose a single mother of five and says at this point of struggling to keep my family. a woman from prince william county i haveam asked for help with the eight-foot of upland workers like myself but covid as effective. we are a family of four. i lost mype implement that we depended upon for groceries. my husbands sally hashe covered the bills i worked for groceries and interest. as of now i may be able to get $190 a week from a week from the state if they reevaluate my claim. please,'m i'm asking for bipartisan support on an unemployment package that will help families like mine make it through thisna pandemic. and finally, a woman from alexandria just across the potomac, i would like to request consideration for more emergency funding or day care in preschool facilities. my 14 month old little girl attends daycare five days a a week. or day care is wonderful but

if the motorbike and company if it'd been a success springfield, massachusetts, might be today's motor city full of abandoned houses, and upon, drug dealing, violent crime and racial tension which as it so happens springfield, massachusetts, is full of anyway. but we owe the american car, we always a lot more than the entertaining spectacle of detroit's various felon mayors. many people my age we owe our very existence to the car or to the cars backseat. where if you check our parents wedding anniversary with our birthdate and find them a little too close to comfort that is probably where we were conserved. there was no premarital sex and america before the invention of the internal combustion engine. it's true. you couldn't sneak a girl into the rec room of your farmhouse because your mom and dad didn't have a car so he couldn't commute so they were stuck home all day working on the farm. your farmhouse didn't have rec room because recreation had not been discovered due to all the farm work. on saturday that you could take control out in a buggy but it was hard to get her into the moo

we are about to hear from senator elizabeth warren who is speaking tonight from springfield, massachusetts, and john dickerson. she was the last woman standing in the 2020 primary before she dropped out. many people thought shes with one of the leading candidates to be vp. will she still be infeungs? >> i think she will be which is amazing because she and joe biden had a bit of a history they fought over the course of her career. but she will be speaking in her role tonight. >> o'donnell: let's introduce now as they introduce senator elizabeth warren. >> tonight we heard from the people who make america work. people who put their lives on the line to keep our country going and since covid-19 hit, they're taken one gut punch after another. and what is the covid fallout done to our babies? well i'm here at the early childhood education center in springfield, massachusetts, which has been closed for months. child care was already hard to find before the pandemic. and now parents are stuck. no idea when schools can safely reopen and even fewer child care options. the devastation is enormous. a

. >> and i put down this little gun, the springfield, on the ground right next to the bag.elp somebody with something else. >> reporter: then, she got distracted, she said. packed up the rest of the gear, went home. and neither she, nor chris, ever saw that gun again. bianca's proof the gun was missing? this video, made just over a day later, by her british visitors, who wanted to document their uniquely american experience. in their video, there is no sign of a springfield armory 9 millimeter. >> i lost stuff constantly. and it was a bone of contention between christopher and i. >> and while the prosecution scoffed at bianca's lost gun story, her loft friends did not. >> go ahead. >> if you knew sweet bianca. she accidentally threw her gorgeous wedding ring away. we had to dig it out of the garbage. i was standing there. she can be an absentminded dingbat. >> but remember the day police searched the loft? >> they took apart my toaster. >> she was focused, like a laser, that day, said bianca. watching, intently, she said as an officer looked in the empty 9 millimeter gun ca

cities in october like greenville, north carolina, and springfield, illinois. it is the only airline that services more than half of those cities. it will take effect after federal aid restrictions expire, which included an agreement to maintain all routes through september. >>> that is work cbs money watch report for more, go to cbsmoneywatch.com. >>> more details on the shoving incident at last year's nba finals. the president of the toronto raptors says racial bias fueled attends courtside conversation. it shows the sheriff's deputy alan strickland blocking his path onto the court after his team clinched the nba title. and then a shoving match. strickland filed an assault lawsuit in february, alleging physical and emotional injuries and the attorneys included a new video and a counter suit filed on tuesday. this statement reads in part, there are some people, including those who are supposed to protect us, who will always and only see me as something that is unworthy of respectful engagement and there is only one indisputable reason why that is the case, bec

the springfield school district handbook says that kids are not allowed to wear pajamas while doing classes online at home. some parents are angry saying that the district should not be telling them what to do inside their own homes. >>i mean it's been done for my kids to be in a night out. i don't really see no need to break and come in and they want to kick can't wear and my how i don't feel like they have any right to say what happened and my how i think they have enough to worry about it's about what the kids are wearing. they make sure they're going to get better. >>other parents support the district and saying that it makes sense. it's just a little bit of respect to show up clean and ready for class when asked how the district administration plans to enforce the no pajama dress code they replied with the statement saying generally speaking there are no definitive one to one consequences outlined in our handbook for any disciplinary action. incidents of misconduct and subsequent consequences are treated an individual basis. fear and concern over the coronavirus can lead to more stress

media of his time and even before lincoln in effect was the kind of editor of the newspaper in springfield illinois which was the leading newspaper in the state it was the illinois state journal and he wrote hundreds of editorials an anonymous we don't know all of those who he wrote and there are historians to this day trying to figure out which ones he wrote he had a deep cause personal relations with many journalists. they were complicated during the war a secretary of war i when stanton shut down 2 newspapers at one point and lincoln overrode him and those were newspapers that were and tying lincoln very harsh and lincoln allowed. nastiest kind of opposition most racist invective to be published. it was not he didn't feel it was his privilege or right to to stop that sort of thing donald trump has declared the press the enemy of the people and he's acting on it and we'll see how that plays out as we move closer to the election and how he attempts to restrict the press as part of his desperate strategy to retain power. i mean given all that you have been around in american politics what'

. >> the school dress code will be in effect for students in springfield, illinois. even on zoom.have now been told no pajamas pants are allowed during online glasses. also banned hats and slippers. they can't be in bed either. >> parents argue they have no say what happens in their homes. >>> the world's most expensive covid-19 mask. >> covered with 3,600 black diamonds and can be fitted with a filter. >> the jeweller making the mask says it was commissioned by a chinese businessman paying $1.5 million for it. >>> a big marriage proposal fake out. >> miles was about to pop the question when he decided to make things more interesting. his friend with the ring box threw it into the water. another friend immediately jumped in to retrieve it only to find it was empty. >>il the ring in his pocket the whole time. joy. >>> finally, a pigeon that's unflappable. >> this pigeon went for a ride after parking itself on the hood of a police car in the czech republic. >> it landed on the car to get away from a dog. why not hitch a ride? >> better than a ticket. add some resistance. sara, your

james naismith was a christian missionary, and the game, shortly after it was invented in springfieldssachusetts, brought to china. it has been global since its earliest days. when you think of the two most popular global sports, i don't think it is an accident that both involve ground balls, when balls, one you kick and one you use your hands. i think there is almost something evolutionary about it, about round balls, and i think most people, even if you are not a basketball player, if you are bawling a paper and shooting it into a garbage can, or you are a little kid -- i have a young daughter, when she sees a little ball, she kicks it or picks it up or throws it. david: are there any more franchises that might be for sale, by the way? adam: not that i'm aware of. david: some of these people that have bought these franchises have done extremely well. the 76ers were bought a few years ago for $300 million or 400 million dollars, the bucks for $400 million or $500 billion and when steve ballmer came in and paid $2 billion for the clippers, with the other owners happy because it made t

mary todd was the belle of springfield, so it would have been when she was 20, 22 years old.y all were in the same circle. even lincoln and douglass had been in the same circle. i love to think of mary todd when he was a young girl, we we tend to think of her as that older women who lost three of her four children. one died at 3 years old, little willie died in the middle of the civil war, tad died at 18, and he was eventually put boo an asylum but her oldest son, robert. but when lincoln first met her when she was dating stephen douglas, she was feisty, well educated. she loved poetry and politics. there's this wonderful story when lincoln first saw her, he came up to her, mary, i would love to dance with you in the worst way. and she laughingly said, he certainly did. it was rather awkward. >> host: but after they were married, he considered stephen douglas to be a little, little giant by the side of my tall kentucky husband who towers over him just as he does physically. >> guest: she said that during the period of the 1850s when he was going to be not only the opponent fo

jason, springfield, illinois. independent line. hi, jason. >> bill, beaverton, oregon. republican line. bill, you're on c-span. >> i just want to say that the republicans hit a grand slam tonight. i own a business downtown ortland, oregon. we're on the 88th evening of riots. they call it peaceful protests. people getting hurt. police. i've been a trump supporter since day one and tonight i watched the democrats last week. i watched the entire presentation tonight on the republicans on c-span and they just really hit home a lot of really good stories about donald trump. he is a good man. >> so bill, what kind of business do you own and how is business right now? > it is a restaurant and we're suffering. it is not because necessarily the pandemic. we're just people don't want to come downtown anymore. >> have you reopened for inside dining or just outside? >> just outside. >> and are you even open in the evenings minimum? >> no. we don't stay open late. it has been too much of a problem with people trying to get the employees to go home, gets them home. >> thank you, sir.

nixon: 108 years ago, the newly elected president of the united states, abraham lincoln, left springfields in, never to return again. he spoke to his friends gather that the railroad station to listen to his words. today i leave, to take on a task in washington. the great god that helped him must tell me. without the great assistance, i will surely fail. with it, i cannot fail. abraham lincoln lost his life, but he did not fail. the next president of the united states will face challenges which, in some ways, will be greater than those of washington or lincoln. for the first time in our nation's history, an american president will face not only the problem of restoring peace abroad, but restoring peace at home. without god's help and your help, which will surely fail. but with god's help and your help, we shall surely succeed. my fellow americans, the long, dark night for america is about to end. the time has come for us to leave the valley of despair and climb the mountain so that we may see the glory of the dawn, a new day for america in a new dawn for peace and freedom in the world. [a

morning as did the series of funerals retracing his inauguration from washington all boy back to springfield. valerie: we have an image of city hall during that time. there were national demonstrations of remembrance. the new york city funeral was the biggest. what was it like? mr. holzer: look at the throngs. we know it is barricaded. you can't get more than three people in. hundreds of thousands of people lining every area from the train station where his body entered all the way down broadway to city hall. .hen he lays in-state and wetop of the steps, have an engraving of this. frontlying in a coffin in of the room where he had been insulted by the mayor of new york at a reception. here he is with 100,000 people walking by. one young man put the al on his chest. raucous.ittle bit a demonstration of grief, black people, white people. you've never seen anything like it. indeed until grant's funeral. it continued. albany, buffalo, chicago. we have another image of new york. throngs of people. mr. holzer: the hearse being drawn down or up the street. it is hard to tell. moments, young theodor

know on a on a very fun foundational level with the coots response that we have here in eugene in springfield oregon when that call is made to the public safety dispatch center and the coots goes our objective is to support and stabilize somebody providing the least intervention necessary to really get them through that that initial period of crisis you know we're not going to be able to solve every problem you know we're not going to be able to implement long term solutions but what we can do is work with that individual recognizing that they're the expert in their experience and that we as as responders really need to listen to that experience listen to their expertise and then engage in a collaborative process that keeps that person empowered and that keeps them in the position of autonomy you know really being able to figure out what is it that that is the most emergent unmet need you know and what can be done to address that maybe it's 3 in the morning and there's not you know that business isn't open but we can we can still work together we can still come up with a plan to support that

i am here at the early childhood education centre in springfield, massachusetts which has been closedlready ha rd to months. childcare was already hard to find before the pandemic now parents are stuck, and ideas when schools can safely reopen and fewer childcare options. the devastation is enormous and the way i hit said, big problems demand big solutions. i love a good plan. plans to bring back unionjobs in good plan. plans to bring back union jobs in manufacturing good plan. plans to bring back unionjobs in manufacturing and clea n unionjobs in manufacturing and clean energy. plans to increase social security benefits and billions in student loan debt and make our bankruptcy laws work forfamilies and make our bankruptcy laws work for families instead of the creditors who cheat them. these plans reflect the central truth. 0ur economic system has been rigged to give bailouts to billionaires and kick dirt in the face of everyone else. but we can build a thriving economy by investing in families and fixing what broken. just plan to build back better includes making the wealthy pay thei

was a law student of abraham lincoln's and was his bodyguard when he traveled to washington from springfield to become president. they were acquaintances. and then organized a unit when the war started and got into the fray, really before it actually started for most people. at the beginning of the war, ellsworth turns out to be a war hero, actually kind of a martyr. would you tell our audience why? in fact, he was the first war hero from the north. when the war started, when four sumter fell -- when fort sumter wantedederal authorities to secure the virginia side of the river opposite washington, d.c., and that meant alexandria to start. ellsworth was a frequent guest and playing house with the lincoln boys on the roof of the white house, he noticed a huge confederate flag flying in alexandria. he could see it with a telescope . it was big. his soldiers march across the bridge to the other unionf the potomac as the forces captured alexandria. he went to this hotel, marched up the stairs to the roof, tour the flag down and put it over his shoulder and descended the staircase. as he got midwa

i'm calling from springfield, illinois with a non-lincoln themed question. i wanted to ask the panel about 1824 and the corrupt bargain charge against henry clay, when he backed john quincy adams against jackson and accepted the secretary of state position. do you think that's the reason why we're referring to henry clay as contender instead of president? >> the 1824 election. >> that was used against henry clay the rest of his life, and it was one of his major political mistakes. there were four people in that race, the constitution says the top three vote getters if there's not a majority will go to the house of representatives where each state will have one vote. henry clay ended up number four on that list. he probably should have been on the list, because if he'd gotten in as speaker of the house, he would have been able to use his vast popularity to win the president by one on one campaigning in the house of representatives, but he didn't, so he became the president maker, not the president. jackson, he called them year general. he feared america would

which is it so happens, springfield, massachusetts is full of anyway. but, we owe the american car, a lot more than that entertaining spectacle of the fallen mayors. many people my age we were very existence to the car. to the car's backseat. where if you check out our parents wedding anniversary with our birthdates and combine them, a little too close to comfort, that's probably where we were conceived. there was no pre- marital pretty true. you cannot sink a girl into the rec room a farmhouse, patient almanac, they do have a car so they can commute so they were to accommodate working on the farm. here farmhouse didn't have a rec room because recreation had not yet been discovered due to all of the farm work. so the saturday night you can take a grande in the buggy but it was hard to get her into the mood to let you bust into her corset because you were to facing behind in the horse. just kind of spoils the atmosphere. so the car let us out of the barn. mother car was at it, it destroyed the american nuclear family anyone who is headed in the american

of abraham lincoln in his law office and was his bodyguard when he traveled to washington from springfield to become president. so they were acquaintances, and then organized a unit when the war started. and really got into the fray. valerie: well, at the very beginning of the yeerks ellsworth turns out to be a war heat sandrow actually a kind of martyr. would you tell our audience why? harold: yeah, in fact, he was the first war hero for the north. so when the war started when fort sumter fell, federal authorities wanted to secure the virginia side of the river opposite washington, d.c. and that meant alexandra to start. and ellsworth was a frequent guest of the white house and playing with lincoln boys on the roof of the white house. he noted a huge confederate flag flying in alexandra. he could see it with a telescope. by the way, i've seen the remains of this flag. it was big. so he decided to march his -- across the bridge to the other side of the potomac as the union forces captured. he went to the hotel. he marched up the stairs to the roof. he tore the flag down. he put it over his

student of lincoln's in his law office and was his bodyguard when he traveled from washington the springfield to become president. so they were acquaintances. then organized the unit when the war started and got into the fray really before it started for most people. >> as the war, well, at the beginning of the war, elsworth turns out to be a war hero and kind of a martyr. would you tell our audience why? >> yeah. in fact, he was the first of more hero for the north. so, when the war started when ft. sumter fell, federal authorities wanted to secure the virginia side of the river opposite washington, d.c., and that meant alexandria to start and ellsworth was a frequent guest at the white house and playing with the lincoln boys on the roof of the white house, he noticed a huge confederate flag flying in alexandria. he could see it with a telescope. by the way, i've seen the remains of this flag. it was big. so he decided to march his zarobs across the bridge to the other side of the potomac as the union forces captured alexandria. he went to this hotel. he marched up the stairs to the roof. he