exhibit at the oklahoma history center. this is the first permanent exhibit of the first african-american experience. strangely enough, over 500 museums and historical societies in oklahoma. when this exhibit opened in 2005, it was oklahoma's first permanent exhibit of the african-american experience. and it covers everything from the preterritorial days until civil rights movement to the present day accomplishments of african americans. this was my mother. the first african-american to be admitted to university of oklahoma school of law. 1946, when laws in oklahoma prohibited african-americans and whites from even going to the same schools together, sitting in the same classrooms together, they were dual separate educational systems in oklahoma. she was the first person to try to breakdown those barriers and did it by applying to university school of law. had to be rejected because the oklahoma laws and constitution prohibited african-americans from going to school with whites, but in doing so, it set up a supreme court dec

stand for the 45 states before oklahoma. and the large star symbols five of the many tribes that were forced to come to indian territory. starting at the top. chickasaw, chalk tau, seminole creek, and cherokee. inside the green wreath, farmer and the indian shaking hands makes a good picture of the combining of oklahoma territory and indian territory to make the state of oklahoma in 1907 we're on the fourth floor row tunld a. above there, there's a purple ring, that marks beginning of new construction. everything above that line was completed in october of 2002, so we have had a dome on our capitol about nine years now. >> how long did it take for them to add the dome? >> 16 months. started in april of '01. they were finished by october of '02. so 16 months. the cost to build this dome was $22 million. of that, some 20 million is privately financed. from the beginning, there was always a group of people that wanted to finish the capitol and build the dome. through the years, different groups have tried to raise money. governo

school at the university of oklahoma. sometimes i will do institutional books like that, but if i can put out fiver 60 years i have to be very disciplined. once the research is done in the afternoon or perhaps in the evening i devote myself each morning to writing. no one is in my office. my personal have not shown up. no clients. if someone knocks on the door i ignore them because that is my time when i sit with my research and type away. i have my research behind me here. there are some shells on the current book and writing gun, which is the centennial history of the journalism school. although research is involves a decade. i'm riding on the 1920's. here is the fullerton, research on what happened. when i complete that, very orderly fashion a put that in that box on the floor because for every box there is in the office, that means their is a book project. so it doesn't overwhelm you with a lot of information. if it's about someone lies i have often been asked to how would you put all the information about a former gov

. >> spend the weekend in oklahoma city with book tv and american history tv. saturday at noon eastern, check in on literary life with book tv on c-span2, including governor mary fallon's must read book. former senator david boren on his letter to america, if also rare books from gail lay low, coperson cuss and others from the history of science collection at ou, and sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, oklahoma history on american history tv on c-span3. tour the oklahoma city bombing material with codesigner torre booster. plus a look at african-american life and native american artifacts from the special collections at the oklahoma "history center." once a month, local content vehicles explore sfe cities across america. this many weekend everybody oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >> a discussion now on the role of courts in a democracy. a panel of legal scholars examine whether it's possible

collections at the oklahoma history center. once a month c-span's local content vehicles explore the history and literary life of stories across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >>> sunday on q&a -- >> i don't regard this as just the biography of lyndon johnson. i want each book to examine a kind of political power in america. i'm saying, this is the kind of political power. seeing what a president can do in a moment of great -- in a time of great crisis.

so oklahoma basically knew at that point that the deal was up. that they could not afford to have a dual separate educational system in oklahoma. not only oklahoma, but every other state-supported university of higher education in the united states, knew the same, they had the same problem. you see, up until that time, they had been -- states had been using what they called the out of state tuition plan. this was a plan where if african-americans wanted to study some discipline that was not available in their state at the historical black colleges, they would offer to pay some stipend for them to go out of state to go to school. and they had been using that, you know, for decades. but this supreme court decision basically brought an end to that, saying that was not good enough. they deserved a chance to have an education within the state at a state-supportedel school. and so that basically brought an end to the dual education system in high education. now, once admitted to ou, that didn't end everything, because she was admitted on a segregateded

for the oklahoma city bombing memorial with code designer tory blitz sir and a look at african-american life in 1920s oklahoma and american artifacts from special collections at the oklahoma history center. once a month c-span local content vehicles for history and literary life of cities across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >> now on c-span2 harriet washington once a corporate presence in the medical industry ones buyer issues for patients if drug research is initiated on a for profit basis. this is just over an hour.

we continue with the look at oklahoma city. this is american history tv on c-span 3. >> my name is bill parks and i welcome you to the state capital of oklahoma. i spent time taking a look at a beautiful building. we start with solomon lake, the principal architect on the capitol. this is a 1915 drawing of the capitol and i show this to folks so they understand the dome was a part of the plan in the beginning. the building was built without the dome between 1914 and 1917. they did not build the dome then because they ran out of money, but they built the supporting substructure. when we got around to building the dome beginning in 2001, we were able to start at the roof line and go up. the base of the building is covered with pink and black granite from oklahoma and lime stone on the main part. the dome is covered with a man made stone and that's how they were able to match the building as well as they did. the floors are alabama marble chosen for its durability. you will see vermont marble in the baseboards and you see it in the

settled in 1889, oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. it has a population of about 600,000 people. and is the center state's capital. you are watching american history tv on c-span 3. >> i said my name is blue clark. and i said hello, ladies and gentlemen. hodelga -- i said that my clan is the winn clan and my church. i come out of the town. you are viewing behind me the point for the american indian culture center in oklahoma city. it is one of those monuments in my mind that happens once in a lifetime. when completed, this will be the focus of children's and grandchildren's understanding of who american indians are. non-indian, whomever passes through here. this will advertise the state of oklahoma. this will advertise the united states. this will advertise a major portion of american history which is indigenous. and on this continent, the vast majority of that history is pre-history for hundreds of thousands of years if not millenia. native people have been in this area for a very, very long time. over time they had moved with drought

welcome in to the state capitol of oklahoma. i've spent a little bit of time taking a look at a very beautiful building. start here with solomon layton, who was the principal architect on the capitol. this is a 1915 drawing of the capital. and i show this to folks just so they understand the dome really was a part of the plan in the beginning. the building was built without the dome between 1914 and 1917. did not build the dome then because they ran out of money. but they had built all of the supporting substructure for the dome. so when we got around to building the dome, beginning in 2001, we were able just to start at the roof line and go up. the base of the building is covered with pink and black granite that comes from indiana. white indiana limestone on the main part. the dome's covered with a manmade stone, and that's how they were able to match the building as well as they did. the floors of the capital are alabama marble. chosen for its durability. you'll see vermont marble in the baseboards. you'll see it in steps. you'

tour the oklahoma city bombing material with codesigner torre booster. plus a look at african-american life and native american artifacts from the special collections at the oklahoma "history center." once a month, local content vehicles explore sfe cities across america. this many weekend everybody oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >> a discussion now on the role of courts in a democracy. a panel of legal scholars examine whether it's possible for courts to be fair and impartial and maintain public confidence. from the wilson interecenter, t about an hour 40 minutes.

oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. it has a population of about 600,000 people, and is the sooner state's capital. you're watching "american history tv" on c-span3. >>> at high noon, the guns fired and the cannons go off and the flags go down and 50,000 people rush for free land. the land run was a unique way of opening the public lands. since the 1860s, congress had a policy on the books called the homestead act, and the homestead act said that anyone who would move to the frontier on to public domain and would stay for five years and make improvements and satisfy all of those conditions, they would receive title to the land. because basically free land encouraged settlement. the west was search settled, through kansas into new mexico, through arkansas, and so all of the land around us is settled in the 1860s, 1870s, and into the 1880s. well, all of this time, oklahoma is withheld from settlement at the indian territory. starting in the 1810s, congress and the president started moving tribes out of the southeast, the m

the nation. that is a good marketplace. oklahoma city is number one in the area in job creation based on large, metropolitan cities. it is a great time for you to be graduating, and hopefully most of you will be able to stay in oklahoma. before i end, i want to give you some life lessons that i have learned in my career. when is it is very important to you give back to your community, they you are part of the community, part of service to others, above self. it is rewarding in life that when you give to others and give -- you make your state a better place to live. there is no limit to what you can accomplish no matter who you are or what your background. i enter the came from very humble beginnings. -- i actually came from very humble beginnings. i've had great opportunities to do wonderful things and wonderful jobs, but my grandmother came to oklahoma in a covered wagon. i know that sounds kind of funny because we do not think about covered wagons these days, but she actually came to oklahoma five years after we became a state, in

settled in 1889 it's the largest city in oklahoma. a population of about 600,000 people and is the center state capital. you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. i'm the curator for the oklahoma historical society. and this is the storage area where we house all of our artifacts that deal with oklahoma and its american-indian history. there's not many in the world, this one left the tribe in 1865. and was collected by a colonel william clark. this was during the american civil war. they were sent to build words around the post and to improve the post.

i am the oil and gas direct earn in the state of oklahoma. i'm the director of well and gas conservation division of the oklahoma corporation commission. we are the agency that reg lates well and gas drilling and production operations in the state of oklahoma. i'm also here talking to be as a member of the board of stronger, currently serving as chairman of that board, and a member of the board of the ground order protection council as well. i'm going to talk a little about a couple of the programs that those organizations have underway that are address kg hydraulic fracturing issues. i do want to emphasize, though, how whether or not it is for everybody to understand states do regulate hydraulic fracturing. just how they go about regulating is documented in the stronger reports that i'll describe in a little more detail shortly. but those programs that the states administer have been around for many years. they are comprehensive. they are continually improving, and i think you can summarize them by saying they're strong, they're responsive, t

there was men all on the side of the oklahoma. i have seen these other men from the part of the ship. i could see them through the edge of the fire and the smoke trying to go down that line that had been thrown to them. and i seen them go down like circus people down that line. i seen people trying to jump from up in there. and it seemed like they swing and they go out and then like they are going to try to land in the water and then they got about this angle out to the outer edge of the curve of jumping. the fire and the heat seemed to suck them right in. and they never did hit the water. they went right into the fire. then we come to the gally deck and here's some of the cooks standing there that i recognized. you recognize a man by his physique or his voice. no clothes on, charred, burned black, standing there. they wouldn't live long. they were in shock. one used to cook our early breakfast for us. i was on the marine well boat team for the ship and he used to cook breakfast for us and there he stood with one leg on, one leg of

in the state of oklahoma, absolutely. but especially to be here up on the stage with some of oklahoma's top, brightest business leaders in the state and certainly some of our best leaders and civic leadership in our state, with gary, with cliffs and with pat and ray. i am so honored to be able to receive this honor larry doctor with such outstanding oklahoma role models. i hope you will all emulate the things these leaders have done for this university as you continue on. i have to tell you, you have done a great job, president henry, at this university. this university is one of our shining examples, shining stars of success of education in the state of oklahoma. it is a great honor to be here today to celebrate and to congratulate our outstanding new oklahoma graduates. you have helped me increase -- helped me reach one of my goals of increasing the number of graduates in our state. to all the graduates, we are very proud of you. you have worked very hard to get to this moment. now hopefully you can get a little sleep, t

he was the oklahoma resident attorney. and so we were standing outside of the church on our way into the church, and i heard my mom say, "thurgood." and then i saw mr. marshal turn around, and he said silt, which was her nickname and grabbed her and hugged her. and on the way back, i said, what was that all about? and then she told me what it was all about. so at that point, i really realized how significant that court battle was. up until then, she was just mom. i mean, she was -- and my friends, you know -- have all been shocked in the last decade, because they have learned so much more about my mother since we have opened this museum here at the oklahoma historical society and talk about her here, and she gets a lot of recognition in oklahoma. but up until then, she was just mom. she made the best popcorn balls, and that's what everybody thought. that she was so special in that way. but now they have so much more appreciation for how important she is in american history. >>> stay tuned all weekend long, as american histo

in the same classrooms, they were separate systems in oklahoma. she was the first person to try to break down those barriers and she did it by applying to the university school of law. she had to be rejected because the laws and the constitution prohibited african-americans from going to schools with whites, but set up a supreme court decision that in 1948 said basically that she had a right to get a legal education as soon as anybody else has a right to get a legal education. it did not end separate but equal, but put the system on trial. he had a pretty good lawyer. he was there for the naacp with the defense fund. they had decided that nationally they were going to try to bring an end to segregated education. they were looking for cases to get them to the supreme court. my mom had graduated from college and she was the valedictorian and an honors student. they were discussing it and she agreed to be the plaintiff. they begin the legal process. that took from then until january of 1948, two years to actually work itself through the legal process.

geology the statement in utah, in pennsylvania and oklahoma? same rock, same depth of water, same soils are things the same in all three of your states underground? >> no. absolutely not. why all this attention? there was a great article about this called everythingoff heard about fossil fuels may be wrong. it's in the new america foundation. it's all about what he thinks why all this attention has grown. natural gas which used to be viewed as maybe a bridge fuel, a fossil fuel for people who don't like fossil fuel could hold their nose and get through could be the fuel of the century. that has caused some cognitive disdense among some interest groups ere go the push back. >> you've seen and there's a shift of investment out of the west to the east i assume you mean out of the lands and there is a fear that you have that you're about to lose the potential of getting energy is it because you're running out of energy underground in your area? what would be the reason that there's this sense of investment moving away from your area? >> first of all

the authors website. people.virginia.edu. local oklahoma author bob burke tells us about the book writing process now from oklahoma city. >> when i wake up in the morning, because i am an old farm boy, i'm ready to go. i don't want to lay around in the bed and do nothing. i immediately get up. i can get out of my house in 19 minutes. freshly shaven and freshly showered. i want to come to the office. it is usually in the shower in the morning, when i know that i want to spend three hours writing, i developed the title to the next chapter. that is something i do in the shower. rather than singing, because i do so very badly, i come up with a title for the next chapter. i try to write one chapter of some book every morning five days a week. except for vacation times during the year, because my goal is always to preserve oklahoma history are mostly biographies. reports of my books are biographies. the others are institutional books like a history of the state capital. the history of the governor's mansion. a book that i just completed the 75th

alfalfa bill murray becomes the governor of the state of oklahoma in 1930. then he runs for president in 1932. here is an interesting piece. this is from his presidential campaign. it is a candy wrapper from candy bars he handed out on the campaign trail, 5 cents, and putting alfalfa bill before the voters. he also was quite the populist, here is his platform, the murray doctrine. the first point, i hold that civilization begins and ends with the plow, no government can stand without the freedom of the farmer, free from roe -- from oppression. he talks about the banking act and some financial institutions of the day, themes that are probably reminiscent today as well. >> how was he received as a candidate? >> he was seen as somewhat of a populist, more fringe candidate if you will than mainstream candidate. would have been running at the same time franklin delano roosevelt. we have paper in a lot of different forms. we also have audiovisual materials in our collection. that's a newer development that we're having to change some of our collection practices wit

to help you in your race for the president of the united states. in oklahoma is a great state, we're a very conservative state, governor. we are people who believe in the power of the individual, we believe in economic freedom, we don't believe that government solves all of our problems. and i know governor romney that you believe in the same thing, and that is why i am here today to lend my full endorsement and support of governor mitt romney for president of the united states. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >> i'm going to do everything i can to help governor romney and his campaign. i know governor romney, that i believe, like i think many oklahomians believe and many people in our nation believe that our nation is headed on the wrong track. and we need a president who is going to get our nation back on the right track. it's critical to our future. and i know governor romney, you're going to get our nation on the right course going in the right direction. i know that governor romney, as i believe, as i also believe knows that our nation is on an unsusta

the blood shed. >>> and severe storms. oklahoma city gets pounded by a big time hailstorm. >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, may 30, 2012. >>> good morning, everybody. so good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. >>> it was a prize mitt romney has been chasing for five years. he clinched the republican presidential nomination with a win in yesterday's texas primary, calling it an honor and a privilege. he'll be officially nominate add the republican convention in august. cbs news estimates romney has 1,198 delegates after picking up 90 in the texas vote. and romney has already ramped up his attacks on president obama. susan mcginnis in washington with details. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, romney all about endurance has finally paid off. look for romney to enter a critical phase of the campaign. watch for him to step up his attacks on the obama administration and to defend himself from their attacks, including most recently, his association with donald trump. mitt romney campaigned in the swing

the gsa was time to save money. oklahoma city was not considered a place that was eloquent of anything happen. and that was that. another let down i think. and then the bigger ones that think affect the country as a whole and really gets to the core of what i'm writing about in the book is that after waco, after ruby ridge there was an awareness among federal agency follow these things were living that there was a very serious threat of some kind of major attack. this is not a mystery to the people who track, the groups like the -- in the 1980s who committed assassinations, bombings. they were a lot of all farming things. they were very concerned about radical antigovernment move. they're very concerned in particular about a community in oklahoma city which we'll talk more in low bit, which some of the what been active in the 1980s were gravitating back to that place. information will start to come out the other dangerous criminals who were later posted for other crimes are either living there or passing through. much has ha

the gst was trying to save money . oklahoma city was not considered a place that was going to have anything happen, and that was that. another letdown, think. and then the bigger one which i think affected the country as a whole and really gets to the core of what i'm writing about in the book is the after waco, after ruby ridge there was an awareness among federal agencies the fall of these things for a living that there was a very serious threat of some kind of major attack. this is not a mystery to the people who track the order. committed assassinations, bombings, they're robbing armored truck, a lot of very alarming things. there were very concerned about the radical anti-government movement. there were very concerned fit in particular about a community in a, which will talk about more a little bit, in part because some of the people who had been active in the 1980's were gravitating back to that place. information was starting to come out that other dangerous criminals to will later prosecuted for other crimes or other li

collections at the oklahoma city history center. once a month explore the history and literary life of cities across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span 2 and 3. >>> the civil war battle of shiloh took place april 6th and 7th, 1862 in hardin county, tennessee, and resulted in a union victory over confederate forces attempting to defend two major western railroads servicing the strategically important mississippi valley. nearly 100,000 troops took part in the fighting which produced nearly 24,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle to that point in u.s. history. american history tv visited shiloh park where stacy allen, the chief ranger gave us a tour of the battlefield. >> if you'd been stand hearing in april of 1862. even march of 1862, this would have been a very busy landing, in hardin county in the southwest section of the state of tennessee. the area was being used as a base of operations by the united states army. the army that disembarked was under the command of ulysses s. grant. the reason the army was

collections at the oklahoma history center. once a month the c-span local vehicles explore the city of city life in america. >>> representatives from the three major coverage major credit agencies testified before a british parliamentary committee on the implications of bank ratings and credit scores. members asked witnesses about the recent downgrades of the u.s. and other euro zone countries. >> thank you very much coming to see us this morning it's the second hearing we've held on the risk and rating agencies. can i begin, mr. kramer, with the decisions that have been taken on the u.s. downgrade? does this -- it made a $2 million mistake in assessing the size of the u.s. budget deficit reduction plan? >> good morning. the u.s. downgrade in august last year was based on three main factors. the first one was the high level of debt. >> you're -- >> the answer is no. >> you don't accept? >> i don't accept that. >> i was about to accept what happened? >> what don't you accept of what was sent out by the assistant secretary for eco

collections at the oklahoma history center. once a month c-span's local content vehicles explore the history and literary life of stories across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >>> sunday on q&a -- >> i don't regard this as just the biography of lyndon johnson. i want each book to examine a kind of political power in america. i'm saying, this is the kind of political power. seeing what a president can do in a moment of great -- in a time of great crisis. great crisis. how he gathers all around. what does he do to get legislation moving to take command in washington? that's the way of examining power in a time of crisis. i said, i want to do this in full. i suppose it takes 300 pages. so i couldn't -- that's why i just said, let's examine this. >> robert caro on the passage of power, volume 4 in "the years of lyndon johnson," his multivolume biography of the former president. and look for our second hour with robert caro sunday may 20th. >>> environmental protection agency administrator lisa jackson too

settled in 1889, oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. ner state's capital. you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. >>> my name is matt reed. i'm the curator of american indian collections for the oklahoma historical society. and it is the storage area where we house all of our artifacts that deal with oklahoma and its american indian history. this is a yankton bison hide tepee. there's not many in the world. this one left the tribe in 1865 and was collected by a colonel william clark. he got the tepee because he was stationed, or posted to fort rice in dakota territory. this is during the american civil war. his volunteers were basically sent there to build roads and infrastructure around the post and to improve the post, fort rice itself. and while they were there they had a fairly amicable relationship with the yankton that lived in the area. and he had the opportunity a couple times to go out on buffalo hunts with them. and during one of those hunts he had an accident and that's how it's described in our records. and before he

severe thunderstorms delivered damaging hail to the oklahoma city area overnight. ilstones more than 4 inches in diameter were reported northwest of city and downed power lines left 63,000 customers in the dark. more strong storms with hail and possible tornadoes are expected in oklahoma and western arkansas today. >>> "cbs moneywatch" on a wednesday morning. wall street posts one of it's best days in may and how low will facebook stock go. ashley morrison in new york. >> good morning to you. concern over spain's economy and a report that china would not take major steps to stimulate its economy sent overseas stocks -- markets lower. nikkei lost 0.5% while hang seng fell 2%. >>> the worries about europe didn't seem to trouble investors on wall street. the dow rose 125 points while the nasdaq was up 33. >>> but europe's slump is contributing to deet klein in the cost of oil. prices are close to $90 a barrel, that's down 15% from a month ago, but that also means drivers will end up paying less at the pump. analysts say gas prices could be as low as $3.50 a gallon by t

collection at the oklahoma history center. once a month c-span's local content vehicles explore the history and literary life of cities across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span 2 and 3. >>> with congress on break this week, we're featuring programs from american history tv. seen every weekend on c-span 3. our lectures and history series continues with former defense secretary donald rumsfeld on the bush doctrine, compassionate conservatism and the war on terror. and in two hours, a look at urban america in the mid 20th century with college professor brian purnell. he teaches a course on the political, social dynamics of u.s. cities after world war ii. american history tv all week on c-span 3. >>> each weekend you can see lectures in history from colleges around the country. they're here on c-span 3 on american history tv every saturday at 8:00 p.m. at midnight eastern, and sundays at 1:00 p.m. next former defense secretary donald rumsfeld on the bush doctrine. he spoke at the citadel in charleston, south caroli

the u.s. house of representatives from oklahoma from 1977 to 1992. he's now vice president of the aspen institute and an associate of the program in law and public affairs at princeton university. linda greenhouse is a senior research scholar in law and knight distinguished journalist in residence at yale law school. previously, she covered the supreme court for "the new york times." share lynn ifill is a professor of law at the francis carey school of law. previously she served at the naacp legal defense and educational fund. and finally jeffrey rosen, professor of law at the georgetown university lieu school and is a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. please welcome our panel. i want to begin with the the concept, everybody know the concept of the elevator speech? did any of you have to tolerate one on your way in today? this is in sort of sales or marketing or public relations this idea that if you have only captured a person's attention for the time it takes an elevator to reach its destination and let's pretend it's the wilso

tour the oklahoma city bombing memorial with the co-designer. plus a look into african-american life in 1920s oklahoma. and native american artifacts from the collections at the oklahoma history center. once a month c-span investigates cities across america. this weekend from oklahoma city, on c-span2 and 3. >> now from the bloomberg summit on the economy, economists give their assessments of the fiscal state of the country calling on congress to address the debt and the deficit. this includes former fed vice chair and chris van hollen who criticized the budget put forward by house republicans. this is just over an hour. >> great discussion that teases up for the next conversation. and for me that means i get to be part of this panel so i'm looking forward to it. i'm going to invite the panelists for this next conversation as we get the chairs situated. we're talking about the legacy of the financial crisis and ensuring against a repeat of the financial crisis. our guests as they step on stage, i think we lost one, i'm sorry to say carmen ryan he

is with held from the settlement as the oklahoma territory. starting in the eighteen teens, they started move thing indian tribes. so it's just one vast indian reservations and other indian reservations are abolished, there's this one little island, in 1889, there are no more tribes to bring into the territory. but yet there's one parcel right in the middle of the indian territory that's unassigned so it gets it's name is unassigned lands. today it goes from roughly from still water on the north to norman, oklahoma in the south, from shawnee on the east, to elreno on the west. it's about six counties of oklahoma. not owned or settled by any other ittian tribe. so congress decides, we are going to open this under the homestead act and let people claim the land. how do you do it? a small parcel of land, a lot of people wanting the land, so if you take the political philosophy at the time, the government needs to step back into the shadows, keep their hands off of daily life, threat the free enterprise system work. and a second philosophy, the sur

the garnish. not this year. witness oklahoma where they booed and screamed at the governor when she said at the convention that the single goal was to elect mitt romney as president. >> sounds like we have obama lovers here. >> this is oklahoma. the reddest state in the union in presidential politics. there no obama loves there. they are the only state in which barack obama lost every single county to john mccain. if the republican governor of this super republican state cannot stump for the party's presumed nominee without getting loudly booed, the republican party is truly having trouble conducting the most basic business. this weekend it was supporters of texas congress men who were lodging complaints about the way the convention was being run until the lights went out. >> they're said there was a lot of disagreement throughout the day, but things came to a halt when the lights were turned off and they closed on one group. >> my heart was totally broken when the convention just was put into shambles. they were turning mikes o

. >>> and kobe and the lakers take a seven-point lead into the final two minutes in a crucial game two in oklahoma city. the question is, what happened to l.a. from there? it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning. i'm willie geist, and this is "way too early," show that's polling well among swing voters whose night terrors keep them awake. i'm glad you're up with us this morning watching on msnbc or listening live on sirius xm radio. e-mail me, won't you? waytooearly@msnbc.com is the address or tweet m me @williegeist1. i want to know why you're awake this hour. or do what the london whale does, text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this thursday, may 17th. a lot to tell you about, including the census numbers that some are calling watershed. for the first time in american history, most newborn babies come from minority groups. we'll look inside those numbers. plus, the epic meltdown in the final round of "wheel of fortune" that stunned even a cool veteran like sajak. look a

the tribe migrated to south central oklahoma in the mid 1800s and have worked to preserve their heritage ever since. booktv talks with mr. lovegrove in oklahoma city where we visited to explore the area's history and literary culture. >> henry johnston was governor of the chickasaw nation from 1898 to 1902. constitutionally, the governors could not succeed themselves more than two terms, so he had to step down in 1902 when his successor, palmer mosley, was elected governor. and, essentially, after mosley's term he was, johnston, was appointed governor from 1904 to 1939, until he died, by president theodore roosevelt. so e essentially, once he was appointed governor, he was governor for the rest of his life, serving longer than any native american chief executive in our nation's history. he was a man who was very progressive, he was a very well educated, very steeped in the southern tradition. he was, his ancestorslied in mississippi -- lived in mississippi, they came across the so-called trail of tears which all the five tribes as a result of the indian removal act of 1830 made the journ

a lot of the people were left in oklahoma city a few days before the bombing. she, herself, was i blew largely suspected of being an informant. what is shocking is that from the point of view of the fbi and the atf, talking to the agents who were deeply concerned about this problem. they fully expected that the fbi but then somebody else, they would send agents in and start to interview people. and they never did. in the meantime, all kinds of other things were going on here in oklahoma city. again, i think that the city was done a great disservice. one thing that was going on was that there was a huge bureaucratic war going on within the fbi itself. the director at the time was attempting to remove every single division sheep from the country and replacing them with his people. one of the people who he had, in fact, was the special agent in charge, rick had been a candidate. there was in abiding institution. you put somebody in over their head -- he is on the verge of retirement, brings him in and what immediately affected this was the split investigation righ

here's the oklahoma capsized. here's west virginia, burned. and behind her the arizona is in shambles. i said, good god, there's our battle fleet. i do remember this much on the hospital ship though. it must have been hours later because i was laying there half asleep probably. somebody woke me up and here, drink this. they put this tube thing in my mouth. i looked at the guy and he's oriental. i thought oh god, they have captured us, see. and i -- get the hell away from me you so and so jap. and someone said, no, he's one of our orderlies. he's okay. so they brought me another and i was hungry and i sucked that soup completely down. two busted lips, but i drank all the soup any way. i spent a quite a number of days in the hospital ship. i didn't feel too bad because i see guys in the bunks next to me that were dying. and i wasn't dying. >> i was asked if i wanted on a battleship and i thought that would be an ideal place. a nice, big ship in the pacific. so i took that assignment. and joined the marine detachment in long beach, california, on

you're viewing behind me the point for the american indian culture center in oklahoma city. it is one of those monuments, in my mind, that happens once in a lifetime. when completed, this will be the focus of children's and grandchildren's understanding of who american indians are, whomever passes through here, this will advertise the state of oklahoma, this will advertise the united states, this will advertise a major portion of american history, which is indigenous. and on this continent, the vast majority of that history is pre-history for hundreds of thousands of years, if not millennia. native peoples have been in this area for a very, very long time. over time, they had moved with drought or buffalo herds or other reasons, and then other american indian groups came in by force called removal into this region. some came voluntarily into this area from the southeastern united states to avoid the expanding frontier. some were buffalo hunters, some were mixed-blood traders with spanish, german fur traders, spanish settlers, french, a few english, other indians, long before