the st. louis passengers and the holocaust. mr. miller details the fate of the passengers after they return to europe and he's joined by other scholars and a survivor of the holocaust who was a passenger on the trip, to talk about the refugees and the policies of countries involved. the jewish museum of florida at florida international university hosted this event. this is 90 minutes. >> i'm here today to talk about an unsolved mystery that hovered over america for over 60 years. that is whatever became of the passengers who sailed on the 1939 ill fated voyage of the st. louis. late may, early june, 1939, really ton thinkable happened. the ship carrying over 900 jewish refugees fleeing nazi germany, just six months after crystalnact were denied entry in havana and then denied entry into the united states, after sailing very close to the shores of miami beach. so tantalizingly close that the passengers could see the palm trees and the hotels, and it's always very meaningful for me to speak about thi

learn more about st. louis all historykend on american tv. in st. louis we visited the missouri history museum to learn more about the 250 in 250 exhibit. the year-long exhibit commemorates the 250th anniversary of the founding of louis, through the stories of 50 people, 50 places, 50 moments, and 50 on generals. >> hello. and welcomet. louis to the missouri history museum. city.s a big year for the 250 years ago a couple of french traders officially founded the city on the mississippi river near where it joins forces with the muddy missouri. in the middle of a year-long celebration that has speakers,eenactments, fireworks, concerts, and last a birthday cake. moment history museum, our challenge was to create an a 250thworthy of anniversary. and while the city's founding by and augustle d chateau was important, we wanted not to end with that moment or begin with that moment. complexs is a rich and city filled with stories that range from serving as a gateway the west to building an arch meant to symbolize that status, but that has come to represent m

well, in st. louis, washington university scientists began collecting children's teeth when they would go to the dentist and have teeth removed or if their teeth fell out or something like that. what they found out was that analyzing these teeth, the levels of the radioactive isotrope was massively higher in children that were born after the nuclear testing had started from the children who were born before. so this was a huge discovery about what was happening in terms of public health related to these political fears that were driving testing nuclear weapons. this is a baby tooth which seems like kind of a strange thing to put in a museum, but this baby tooth has national significance. this tooth along with thousands of others got john f. kennedy to sign the nuclear testing partial ban that dragically reduced how much nuclear testing could go on. you can walk past this and never even notice it, this has a national story behind it. what is really exciting, we have some people come into the museum and s

so the st. louis set sail from germany, on may 13, 1939, again as i said six months after crystalnact. -- kristallnacht. they had american waiting numbers, 734 out of the 937 passengers had waiting numbers to get into the united states, as i'm sure you know there were strict immigration quotas, you had to get a number and wait. at that point in nazi germany, the situation was so dire that jews were willing to go anywhere in the world to wait for their number to come up. there were jews who went to shanghai, australia, south america. so those who were going to havana to cuba were considered the lucky ones, because they were going to only be less than an hour from miami beach. and those days, unlike today, you could go back and forth between cuba and the united states very, very easily. and the ironic part is that around 100 of the st. louis passengers, the men, had been in concentration camps and were released on condition they would leave the country, and they had to have a family member literally sho

st. louis. this is american history tv on c-span3. in 2014, st. louis is celebrating 250 years of history. to commemorate the founding of the city, the missouri history museum has put together an exhibit called "250 in 250". the year-long exhibit will tell the city's history through the stories of 50 people, 50 places, 50 images, 50 moments, and 50 objects. the museum public historian shares with us selections from the exhibit. we are standing in the 50 objects section of the "250 in 250" exhibit right now. this is what most people would call the real history. this is where the object is right in front of you. one of my favorite objects is the st. louis city flexing behind me here on the wall. the st. louis city flag is a great object. a lot of people think it's 250 years old. the idea of cities having flags is a recent thing. baltimore became the first city to have its own flag in 1914. st. louis was one of the first the following year when they adopted the flag. this was not the flag. they ch

st. louistv. located on the west bank of the mississippi river, it was the starting point for the lewis and clark expedition in 1804, and the city where the historic dred scott trial began. .. i spent five years researching the people of the cemetery but my research was based upon 60 years of research, they had ten statistics with primary sources. even though i worked on it 8, 10 hours a day i could never have completed this without their wonderful work, the gatekeeper and superintendent, so appreciative of them. the book contains sections which tell the history of the city of st. louis. each section contains biographies. altogether there are 80 biographies. i wrote biographies of people buried in this cemetery. some of my favorites are people in changed the world such as william clark of the lewis and clark expedition the changed the way we live because without the work of louis and clark lee westwood have not -- it would have taken much longer to settle it. they made it possible. another very

in st. louis i know the title of the voyage of the st. louis and of course the entire journey has been written about in the book and the movie as the voyage. they never were able to land in cuba. the destination have to go back and roughly i don't know the exact numbers, two thirds of them somehow managed to survive world war ii. a third of them did not. they went back to their deaths at different times in different places. we are privileged to have two people that know about the subject and will talk to us about it. one of them is martin goldsmith. martin is the host and classical music programmer on the serious xm satellite radio and hosted the reform today. he's the author of two books, the inextinguishable symphony. he can tell you about that and i hope he wealth and the second is alex is week which has to do with his grandfather and his uncle. also joining us today, doctor diane received her phd in contemporary history from the university of paris and she had a fellowship at the holocaust museum. she's written extensively on the subje

and moved to st. louis bought a hotel and tried to do a different type of work to try to make their living. that they needed some ready cash and so they sold dred scott after they arrived here in st. louis in 1830. dred was purchased by a man named dr. john emerson who was a physician who was working with the u.s. army. posted in many different places. two of them are the things that actually resulted in the suit. one was fort armstrong, which is in the state of illinois which was not supposed to have slavery. up in the territory of wisconsin. fort snelling. rick scott was taken to these places as a slave, held in slavery there even though slavery was technically illegal in those places and then brought back to st. louis. while he was at fort snelling, he met a woman named harriet robinson who was enslaved when other officer at the fort. dr. emerson actually purchased to and allowed the scott's marry legally. which was a rare thing at the time. scott returnedt to st. louis. they had two children, both daugh

st. louis missouri. more than 100 buyries were operating in st. louis because of its large german immigrant population. hosted by our charter cable partners c-span's local team visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about st. louis missouri all weekend here on american history tv. >> a lot of times i ask myself why it is important to have an historic structure. a lot of times, you could read about the history. you read about the history where you are thinking this event happened right where i'm standing. so that is the value that you can get the moment of connection between people who are walking around today and thinking of their own thoughts and lives and suddenly they can jump back into the past mentally and at least have some sort of a connection with people from the past. we're in st. louis's old courthouse. it is a building that is no longer used for the courts today. it hasn't been since 1930 but it is an historic building that has been preserved to tell a little about st. louis's history. this courthouse is known for d

you have st. louis. you have the manhunt to the other end of the world and the new zealand police stop and when they come back to the trains station, half the st. louis is there to see them. interviews galore and he whined up being hanged. we used to have gallows at the police headquarters like a lot of towns do. >> we knew the moment came the first morning when waking in gorbachev that we were sitting in it although. a bubble is a room within a room. it is totally secure and it has big latches on the out side so that it can't be thought. bubbles generally are pretty big and when we had the one for the arms control talks that could have 25 people. in reykjavÍk the order of the smallest ever because nothing happened in a slim and it was ever classified. so we have eight of us sitting side-by-side, right next to each other enfolding free chairs, the kind that wal-mart would be ashamed to sell. cheap as can be come all squeezed in, almost knee to knee and side to side so we are in this bubble. it schultz's

learn more about st. louis this weekend on american history tv. >> in 2014, st. louis is celebrating 250 years of the city. they put together an exhibit called "250 in 250." it is 50 people, 50 places, 50 images, 50 moments, and 50 objects. the museum's public storage shares with us selections from one of the exhibit's five selections. >> we are standing in front of the 50 people selection. this section of the exhibit is

the 1850's, st. louis was the third busiest port in the united states, and its levy, which was just outside where the arch is had hundreds of steam boats lined up, side by side at the levee, they were loading and unloading cargoes and passengers taking goods to all different parts of the country. exciting partf an of the st. louis story and one of the reasons why it was so central to the settlement of the west. the object that you see behind is a pilot's wheel. it's a real wheel, i guess you'd call it a steering wheel, that was on a riverboat. of people say, it's so huge, how did you steer? actually the way we have it displayed is a little, it gives a false impression, because the hub of the wheel is would actually be where the house.as of the pilot's so only one half of the wheel stuck up above the level of the floor. still rather large. you were still grabbing onto the up.l pretty high entire wouldn't see the wheel, most of it was below the deck of the pilot's house. this recalls the days when mark twain

st. louis's role, specifically. another shift will be that when this museum was created, it was more telling the story of anglo white males going from the continent toof the the western part, which is the way that historians have looked at westward expansion. it has been look that in a different way. and we have started to see that part of the telling story. tell the story of native americans and hispanics, especially the story of st. louis, which already had existed the0 years by the time louisiana purchase was made when thomas jefferson authorized lewis and clark to go into the west. the louisianater purchase, lewis and clark made a famous journey of exploration to the west coast. they opened a new era in american history where there was an idea that the government explorers, mostly people in the military, go into the west and tried to identify important things that were located in that area. it was something that the 18th-century mind of thomas jefferson felt was important. it became a legacy, so even after jeffe

louis was the st. third busiest port in the united states, and this levy, which was just outside where the arch is today, had hundreds of steamboats lined up side-by-side at the levy that were loading and unloading cargoes and passengers and taking goods to all different parts of the country, so it is kind of an exciting part of the st. louis story, and one of the reasons why it was so central to the settlement of the west -- the object you see behind me is a pilot wheel. it is a real wheel -- i guess you would call it a steering wheel -- that was on a riverboat . a lot of people look at it and say that it is so huge and ask how you would see her -- dear, but the way we have it displayed gives a false impression because where the hub of the wheel is what actually be where the floor house, so onlyt one half of the wheel stuck up above the level of the floor, and it was a rather large. you were still grabbing onto the , but youtty high up would not see the entire wheel. most of it was below the deck of t

in st. louis, dred was serving masters in military outposts far away. by the time dred scott returned to st. louis, sanford lived on most exclusively in new york city. eliminating ideology and grudge suit as the motive sustaining litigation for 11 years, one must consider economics. but that factor is no more telling. drilling down into the details of the circumstances of these two men leads to further cases about the incongruity of it all. economic theory would have predicted the case would have settled. he did attempt to buy his freedom but his offers were refused. drug was not a particularly valuable slave. young, strong, healthy, and s killed slave men were highly valued at the time. he had none of those attributes. aging male slaves without strength or specialized skills, he had only ever worked as a valet. they were seen by masters as more of a financial liability, next room mouth -- and next mouth to feed, someone not worth their keep. he also suffered from tuberculosis. he almost died the

st. louis, missouri. you are watching american history tv. >> st. louis is celebrating 250 years of history. the museum has put together an 250."incalled the public a story and shares with us selections from one of the exhibits live sections. st. louis is a collection of incredibly diversenot just in tf architecture, but the effect they have had nationally. we have local artist draw all 50 places in the giant chalkboard mural behind me. where people can find out much more information electronically about each lace and a photo gallery one through each one. people can go find each one of these places up on the wall and they can dive further in. we have a descriptive -- we have a photo gallery of the place. some of them, they were places that were formally very noticeable and now you would never see them. river,other side of the a massive native american former and 1300s.n the 12 this is a very large urban area for the native american culture. on the st.an mounds louis side of the river, too. this

a lot of them came through st. louisurchasing their wagons, their oxen, the food they were going to need, all of their supplies. that is what we are going to dwell on a little more. we will still have the covered wagon on display, and then we will have the items they would take with them, real artifacts. real artifacts people can look at and talk about how they would pack a wagon and cram these things in for the long journey they would take. by the 1850's, st. louis was the third busiest port in the united states. the levee just outside where the arch is today had hundreds of steamboats lined up outside cargo andd unloading passengers, taking goods to all different parts of the country. it is kind of an exciting part of the st. louis story and one of the reasons it was so central to the settlement of the west. the object you see behind me is a pilot's wheel. it is a real wheel. i guess you would call it a steering wheel that was on a riverboat. say it is huge, how did you steer? the way we have it displayed is a little -

st. louis chi tha puck in behind the defense of the l.a. kings. ew dghty comes all the over,eftart o yr reen, re b louis ere, support from kreider and dough a w over, stick on . no shot on >> pierre: in this series, doughty had one game,ye 41 nus, 41 seion. eeps in he willre that. >> mikinith it there, plays by ch, summed down and covered by jonathan quick. >> eddie: i think this is the best game that brad richards has played in a long time for the rangers. it started on a power play, way back in the first period, a couple of quality changes. richards finds his pucand just getstohenet, no th ke>> prre: sro hit w ch a good playmaker, that mikne lements, pitive f m. williangs out ahead. goes in after it with john moore. aund hind. crosschecked e. wiiavoklei eene. the ba, the ot, hits front, bounced out away. lliams pivoting, a logjam of players here, the ice mark, williams again circling, by klein, puck to stoll, stoll has open, ot an s m b lundqst onwiiams! he has had td around the net. got thei

you talked about the divorce between st. louis city and county. st. county with 93 municipalities. there's a fragmentation issue here. some political leaders would deny that that's really an issue, but it is. you've got 93 municipalities, 93 piecesis. you have 93 pieces of political turf and the politicians don't want to give that up. you have some 60 police departments, school districts, fire departments, all working separately. it's not a very efficient way to run a railroad as they say. it's certainly not an efficient way to run these governments here. >> do you believe that racial politics plays a role in this? >> i think it's huge. particularly when they talk about the city and the county getting together again, one of the things that you have to remember is the dominance of the african-american community here is the majority. there are a lot of good and successful black politicians here. if the city and the county ever merged or got together, that would dilute their political cloud. you can understand why they perhaps would not be too eager to s

it is st. louis go in his team's power play, handed on out, stepan, played on for st. louis, on further for brad richards, back behind st. louis, played to the outside and held. the back, john moore with it there, plays back for the hold and a beat on the red shirts, couldn't get it to the front of the net! kopitar stares out the ground, fly slides one into the glove of lundqvist. >> eddie: great move by richards, got to shoot the puck. >> mike: pouliot, matching bark, the back hand grab by zuccarello, comes to williams, seven left on the penalty kill, williams starts ahead, puts on the brake, still able to hold, delays and plays back in deeper. girardi there, watched by king. penalty time is out. full crew back in in overtime. still tired score of two the back, doughty holds, the shot, deflected wide. played on out by williams. williams delays and tries to go by girardi, williams, shot, oh, by lundqvist, a great trigger pull from mike richards, back to richards again, richards around behind, william

really any location, but certainly not in st. louis. st. louis had been very industrialized before and then after the civil war, it really picked up, but chicago became a much more likely place for the transit of goods because of the opening of the erie canal and rail rates that were going to chicago. ande were no hills mountains to climb. people were then sending goods to chicago, and the big business interests were investing in the chicago trade. so there was something of a cartel against having anything built here. rails could be put almost anywhere, and they were being put across the river in other locations, so to put them here would keep the riverboat trade viable, would keep the industries that are developing in st. louis viable, but it took some time for the riverboat industry to appreciate that. they did not trust the row right .- the you railway companies it is not trust the idea that they could be a part of that action. so what is so significant about this bridge is that it is the first one of st. louis. it is now the oldest one o

st. louis's fire happened in 1849. a steamboat along the levee caught on fire and it earned through the ropes holding it to the levee and began to drift out on the levee, a big earning fireball on the river. it drifted down the levee and hit one boat after another until 23 boats were on fire. morning, 14 block said been burned down. sites to see. the fire broke out at 3:00 and spread to the stores on the landing. and then nearly half of the heavy business portion of the city was in ashes. there was a strong wind at the time and the fire ran through block after block. fire, city leaders proposed an ordinance that require all buildings to be built out of brick or stone. st. louis is nationally famous for its brick columns today. many of the moments -- it is from a time before we could get persons to record this, obviously. so, stuff from way back when, a diary or a letter they wrote, we have a person reading and recording it today. but they're a couple of other ones where we have the real person come in and give their de

especially the story of st. louisich already had existed for 40 years by the time the louisiana purchase was made when thomas jefferson authorized louis and clark to go into the west. immediately after the louisiana purchase, lewis and clarke went on their famous journey of exploration out to the west coast. they opened a new era in american history where there was an idea the government would have explorers, mostly people in the military, go into the west and try to identify important things located in that area. it was something the 18th century mind of thomas jefferson felt was important. it became a legacy so even after jefferson was long gone there were still groups of explorers officially going into the west. there was a whole section of the army, the topo graphical core with then the 1830's goal of trying to map and described the entire geographical area of what the united states considered to be its territory. the exploration cap going on through the 1870's and 1880's. there were still floors going out trying

it is st. louis turning back, 45 to go in his team's power play, handed o stepan,layed on for st. r brad richards, back bind st. uis, played to the outside and held. the back, hn mooreit for the ho d a beat on the red shirts, couldn't get it to the front of the net! kopitar stares out the ground, fly slides one into the glove of lundqvist. >> eddie: great move by richards, got to shoot the puck. >> mike: pouliot, matching bark, the back hand grab by zuccarello, comes to williams, seven ft on the penalty kill, williams starts ahead, puts on the brake, still able to hold, delays and plays back in deeper. girardi there, watched by king. penalty time is out. full crew back in in overtime. still tired score of two the back, doughty holds, the shot, deflected wide. ia delays and go by girardi, williams, , oh, by lundqvist, a great trigger pull from mike richards, back to richards again, richards around behind, williams with it there, king in front and richards, preoccupd though, he has to pull away from john moore at one is cut by broussard, able to gain center, brassard bringing it on b

st. louis plays. hagelin turns behind the net. st. e blue paint but hagelin can't control the pass to him. kopitar sped it behind and voynov connects with muzzin and along the pass kicked to st. louis and the shot is deflected off kopitar. along to get it as pearson escapes one. pearson pushed it back in and tried to get after it. no icing on the play. mcdonagh turning with it there. mcdonagh glides and sends a pass directed by hagelin. the second time he played it back in. quick spiked it free. handed it over to martinez. it curls all the way to center where hagelin touched back and john moore lifted it back in. quick slows it again. this time it's doughty to take. has trevor lewis and carter out there with pearson who carries. knifed away from him. blasted one. >> pierre: the stress. >> doc: carried on by lewis. right around in front and can't tuck it alone. john moore got screened out trying to defend. and off side is called. >> pierre: the power move from trevor lewis comes from johnny moore. a right pad save and a beauty from lund

one of my favorite objects is the st. louis city flexing behind me here on the wall. the st. of cities having flags is a recent thing. baltimore became the first city to have its own flag in 1914. st. louis was one of the first the following year when they adopted the flag. this was not the flag. they chose another flag with a famous symbol of st. louis that you see outside the art is in today. -- the art museum today. people decided that flight was ugly so in the 1960's, they he

st. louis is nationally famous for its brick homes today. many of the moments in this section is from a time before we could get the person to record this. way back when is a diary entry or letter they wrote. we have a modern person recording it. there are a couple once where we had a real person give the description of what had happened. the most exciting one is the southwest bank robbery. it took place in the 1950's. kingsuthwest bank at highway in southwest avenue got robbed in the middle of the day. the largest bank heist in u.s. history to that point. it all went wrong and a cashier trips a silent alarm and the police showed up with the robbers inside the bank. lots of innocent people were in the way. the officer was the man who shot the main robber in this bank robbery. years old and we tracked him down and he gave his story. >> we pulled up in front of the bank. just as we pulled up, the dispatcher comes on and says, "attention all cars, the hold up the southwest bank is now in progress." for hairat it's like to stand up on the back o

brewing is such a big part of st. louis possis tree.is an amazing story with lots of different breweries. the most famous became anheuser-busch. era of anheuser-busch talking about millions of barrels produced each year. they are producing so much beer, this is when things were simpler. it is fun to show people this object and kind of gauge their response. in the days before they had cans or bottle caps, they put corks in the top of bottles and somebody had to sit on those things and do it by hand. you can see it has foot pedals on the bottom. that is where the operator would push down with his feet to give the court enough force to go into the bottom. three holes fort for three different sized bottles. >> next weekend, the history and literary life of st. louis, the gateway to the west on c-span- 'ss book tv and c-span-3 american history tv. >> when you see what is happening at the v.a., i think that the same kind of culture exists in other government agencies. not the national transportation safety board, not at nih, but in a number o

andext week m, the history literary life of st. louis, the gateway to the west, on book tv and american history tv. >> on may 13, 1939, the trans-atlantic liner st. louis departed germany bound for cuba with 938 passengers, almost all of whom were jews fleeing the third reich. they were refused entry into cuba, then later refused entry into the united states. they sailed so close to miami that they could see the city lights. up next, scott miller talks about his book, "refuge denied: the st. louis passengers and the holocaust." mr. miller details the fate of the passengers after they return to europe and he's joined by other scholars and a survivor of the holocaust who was a passenger on the trip, to talk about the refugees and the policies of countries involved. the jewish museum of florida at florida international university hosted this event. along with the latin american jewry initiative, the cuban research institute, the latin american and caribbean center, and the jewish studies initiative. this is 90 minutes. >> can you hear me? g

st. louis. and they loved it. very quickly he became this father of lager beer and and reduce a new wave of culture, really, in the city. realized, youlemp know, he had a market on this new beer and started employing a number of people. build up a plant. it is a pretty extensive plants. another thing you learned to do, ideaslowed the latest about pasteurization, about refrigeration. these things are coming into play, he is implementing them into his plant that allows them to continue to be in the forefront of everyone else brewing beer in st. louis. he just made his fortune by being smart. as the turn of the 20th century begins, there is rumblings from the temperance women. people who are beginning to see that saloons and breweries are really not a good idea for the for the culture in general. we find that america had an owl called problem. they were really drinking way too much. concernedmen were about this. the temperance movement begins. the breweries see something is in the works of a prohi

brewing is such a huge part of st. louis history. it's an amazing story with lots of different breweries and the most famous became anheuser-busch which became the largest in the world. in the era of anheuser-busch talking about millions of barrels produced each year, we think they are producing so much beer -- this is from an era where things were a little bit simpler as fun to show people this object and gauge their response. in the days before they had cans or bottle caps, they put corks on top of bottles and somebody had to sit on this thing and do it by hand. you can see it's got foot petals on the bottom which is where the operator would push down with his feet to give the core can afford to go into the bottle and it's got three holes for three different sized bubbles. >> next weekend, the history and literary life of st. louis, the gateway to the west, on book tv and c-span3's american history tv. cameraman for hearst corporation was assigned to cover the invasion of france in 1944. this was compiled by mr. lieb from his color

two officers from st. louis went to get him, it took them ten weeks round trip.hen they come back to the chain station half of st. louis is there this see this guy. and interviews galore. he winds up being hanged. we used to have a gallows of the police headquarters. >> the history and literary life of st. louis, missouri today at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv. >> book tv asks what you are reading this summer. >> so much of my daily life is policy oriented serious things. what i'd like to do with reading which is a passion of mine is on wind. nothing like a good murder mystery. i have heard a lot of great things about this author but has never read the book. this, i love it. it is talking about the town golden boy parade, that inappropriate behavior. what is not to like? of the evasive and definitely better, but is he really a killer? we will find out. spanish, my native language, but is not practicing it as well as i should come as often as i should. .. >> the book "thief" was made into a movie, but did not want to seek the movie, because i heard the

and a discourse of st. louis missouri 18615 referenda eliot and talks about how he feels the union is right and we should preserve that at all cost. because of the civil war he sought conditions of soldiers and the health care they received he helped to found to the sanitary commission as one of his diaries that talks about a draft of a letter to the department of the west and it spells out the letter that he wrote asking them to start this individual unit in the west so they could of war resources to be better if all of with better care when they were wounded. this goes on for several pages. then also a printed copy of that item that made this happen and eliot was involved with the sanitary commission also it was related to slavery early on and he thought the slaves should be free so we have the bond of indemnity here to purchase the slave for $600 than april 15 signed by eliot and to whom it may concern under the above transfer it shall become my property but i do declare her free from all bondage and upon my d

he came to st. louis from eastern united states in 1834 as the first minister west of the mississippi. his progeny include his grands grandson. he wahe wasn't only his unitarin minister but served as the chancellor from 1870 to 1887 and also served as the board of trustees for a number of years. he helped found the western sanitary commission which was the relief effort in the civil war he worked for the abolition of slavery and education for public schools and higher education. he was involved in working for women's rights, education of voting and equality. he was an advocate and worked for prison reform. this is one of the ten diaries that we have for elliott added this page presents a day in the life of elliott. this is my present course of life must be any special morning work at home or abroad needs to be done before nine. the mission comes under my care again. 1030 through coke 1:30 they offered to work in general. it o'clock to 6:00 p.m. the parochial care and hospital wo work. leave the metaphysic

and literary life of st. louis. the gateway to the west. >> elected the current regularity environment had a thin market. now they only have a little over 50%. do two he have to things. lower-cost or yet to find new sources of revenue. but to focus on the revenue side --hink looking for new raise new ways to delight consumers. if you look at comcast and its makeonment, if you can video on demand more attractive, easier to use, number one, do not lose what you have. you also see them taking advantage of broadband. that is a blessed source of new is missed opportunity for our industry. it is growing much faster. it still has a huge orson of the market. it has good economics. it is a good business. change in the future of the cable industry with the association michael powell. >> you are watching american history tv on c-span 3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. on the presidency, a panel from the lyndon b. johnson presidential library civil rights summit reflecting on the relationship between president jo

the more st. louisciated with, the less shot you have statewide, that it's better to be kansas city, if anything else, like claire? >> but even kansas city is not really a guarantor of anything, because like a lot of states, chuck, missouri is split between urban and rural more than it is republican and democrat. and so if you're going to succeed like claire mccaskill, you have to make an appeal to rural and largely suburban voters as well. that's what she was successful at. that's what democrats have to do to win in this state. >> all right. missouri obviously it's known because it was a compromise state. it is a border state. for me most of my -- half of my lifetime i thought of it as a midwestern state and now i feel like it's appropriate that it join the s.e.c. in football, the university of missouri, because it does feel like it's more of a southern state today than it ever was. >> without question. a good comparison is georgia, maybe, virginia, arkansas. mike huckabee was very popular here. one of

two-run homer 14th of the season in 27 games of st. louis dmrich 3 runs and phillies win 4-1 for fourth straight victor yivrment. >> eagles have wrapped up their three day mini camp no drama no controversy just football. that's the way coach kelly likes it players won't be back until training camp a month from now. they may look forward to the break but not chip himself. >> i don't look at this as i need a break from what we've just done this is our life choice and we enjoy it if it's not like i can't wait -- this is not fred flintstone yabba dabb yabba dabba do. >> you have to give your mind time relax but at the same time you can not get out of shape. >> andrew wiggins third overall may have a giant hole in it what if the kansas guard is done. that's a strong possibility. joel embib needs surgery in his foot. cleveland was expected to time him and parker to milwaukee. parker will likely be off the board by then. nba draft is one week away. >>> still to come in sports a decision made on josey altidore's status for this weekend's world portu

settled down by st. louis. gotten by stoll. st. louis comes by. it's forced to cross and brushed ahead and flying with it is carter. brings it in and shot one that's deflected up into the mesh with 43.5 seconds to go in this overtime period. >> eddie: darryl sutter manages his bench so well. he had jeff carter and sutter had him playing right wing. i think some of his creative coaching got los angeles into this game. i know you know him real well of which players are going and which aren't. >> eddie: i played with him in the early '80s, knowing the time and the situation like what pierre is talking about putting carter at center or the wing position late in a period. >> doc: muzzin with 30 seconds to go. tries to bully him. rebound in front and it's on that puck is jonathan quick. >> eddie: what a power move by rick nash. i know the points and goals haven't been there as much for rick nash as he would like for a lot of fans. this is a power move. you take the puck to the net. there's chris kreider hanking around the net. outstanding move. >> pierr

tampa bay needed a prayer facing st. louis. scoreless the last three games. st. louis strikes first. he grounds toward right field allowing allen craig to score. barely missing the glove there by inches. st. louis up 2-0. then after 32 scoreless innings, tampa bay finally scores to st. louis's peter borgis and nails one for a possible come back. diving for that catch. tampa bay's prayers answered, betty. they win 6-3. a little trickery during a high school regional finals game. the pitcher pretends to throw the ball toward second to catch the runner off the bag. the runner thinks he can go to third. oh, no, you don't. he finds out he has been fooled. umps call the out. sorry, bud. >> that is crazy looking. i was trying to follow it in the midst of all the dust. >> got to keep your eyes open. >> thank you. a house in texas teeters on the edge of a 75 foot cliff. pieces of the home became crumbling into the water on tuesday a year after authorities noticed a massive crack in the cliff below it. luckily there's no injuries because the owners moved out two weeks ago.

a report from st. louisas the venice of south africa. >> reporter: dreading what the ocean will take from them next. 700 con greet buildings were washed way by the rising ocean including his home. >> translator: here was my kitchen, there by bedroom and bath ma'am. it's all gone. >> reporter: when the tide is out the neighborhood mosque reappears, still standing. but for how long? in this specific location, the atlantic ocean swallows almost 20 meters of land every year, it's only a matter of time before this, too, is washed aw away. >> translator: all of the villagers have left far away from the coast. >> reporter: once france's old colonial capital to south africa, st. louis is the second largest city. barely a meter above sea level. >> translator: st. louis is in danger, the grain i think system in insufficient so during the rainy sees tubs the season is consistently flood of at least 700 households need to be immediately displaced. >> reporter: in 2003, the authorities dug a small canal in one of the isl

it was a massacre in east st. louis, but in houston the so-called houston rockets, black soldiers went into -- houston riots. took revenge on to something that happen with black woman involved with a black policeman. there were people who were killed. and, of course, 13 members of the 24 division, i'm sorry, regiment were actually summarily executed. and were to be many more who were to follow but finally wilson and newton baker involved themselves and held off on the execution of any other soldiers. then there was actually a new procedure, a review process that had to be put in place. but yes, you are right that there was fear of what happened in houston happening in spartanburg. >> it's interesting because you have noble sissel restrained himself after being abused and beaten in the hotel. white soldiers coming to his defense. but also here at the chapter, you say that beating is one thing but if there was a lynching, there was a sense even in terms of top military brass that that was something that african-american s

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. >>> a prayer needed against st. louis, scoreless the last three games. st. s strikes first, though. javier molina to right field allowing alan craig to score barely, just missing the glove. st. louis up 2-0. after 32 scoreless innings, skies open up, tampa bay finally scores two. st. louis' peter bore nails one for a possible comeback, but, nope, kevin heemire dives for the catch. tampa bay's prayers are answered, winning it 6-3. >>> a little tricky during a high school regional final game between beale city and muskegon catholic. the pitcher pretends to throw the ball towards second base to catch the runner off the bag. the runner thinks he can go to third, oh, no, you don't. quickly finds out he's been fooled. umps call the out. >>> "early today" is brought to you by touch of gray mustache and beard. get the look you want. >>> just ahead, paula deen is back in the saddle again. and barbara walter has a major hollywood crush. >>> a rare story about twins born 24 days apart. a medical miracle coming up. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more o

he was at the magnate schools, a sophisticated program in st. louis public schools. he was an artist. he painted. he drew. he wrote poems. >> i don't think it was just that he was black, i think the real issue was she had a boyfriend and they could no longer control her. >> when the fbi heard about tina's death, they called lead investigator harry hager with some astonishing news. u.s. intelligence had photographed zein isa attending a meeting with known terrorists in mexico. all had ties to the palestine liberation organization and international terror broker, abu nidal. >> abu nidal means father of war. abu, father. nidal, war. and he was one of most vicious terrorists around. he's responsible for simultaneous bombings in vienna, rome. >> over a two-year period, zein isa traveled overseas 14 times to caracas, athens, london, israel, zurich, and madrid. >> the fbi, among others, were maintaining a watch on middle eastern families, some that might presumably have connections with terrorist cells. the isas were maintaining what might have been a safehouse for one of t

richards too far for st. louis. now st. louis plays the puck. sends it across.d that deflects wide left of quick. richards once again for the rangers knocked down behind the net for muzzin. doughty tied up by hagelin. pearson sends it along for justin williams. 20 shots in the third period, rangers just three. early in overtime tied at 2. benoit pouliot opened the scoring. brad richards. pouliot keeps it away from mitchell. now to zuccarello. who misses high and wide. zuccarello, first norwegian born player to participate in a final. pouliot with the puck. played by zuccarello across to di diaz. kings went to overtime on sunday in chicago. game seven, alec martinez scored the game winner. kevin klein with the puck. kept alive by dwight king, now jarrett stoll. rick nash. chris kreider had an overtime goal in the playoffs last year against boston. brown went sliding. doughty lost the puck. stepan with a shot. stopped up high by quick. dwight king unable to clear it out. kept in the zone by the rangers, stepan moves it in behind. now both teams look to make change

you have st. louisand a manhunt to the other end of the world, and the new zealand police stopped him. two officers from st. louis actually went to get him. it took them 10 weeks for the round-trip. the traincome back to station downtown, half of st. louis is there to see those guys . interviews galore and he winds up being hanged. we used to have a gallows at the police headquarters like a lot of towns did. >> we will look at the history and literary life of st. louis, missouri throughout the weekend on st. louis -- on c-span book tv. >> i think my colleagues and journalism would get a similar concern. the freedom of information process has become a joke. it was already well on its way prior to the obama administration. this administration has perfected the stall, the delay, the reductions and excuses. it is shocking because i feel very strongly that the information they withhold and protect the lungs to the public. we own it, but there is no sense of it when you ask for it. they covet it as if they ar