wainwright is forced to pass a message on. if food fails, you will prepare and execute an attack against the enemy." but king realizes his men are in absolutely no condition to do this. his staff tells him, "sir, within 36 hours the battle lines will be among our hospitals." the king realizes what he has to do. he tells his staff, i go to meet the japanese commander and i would rather die a thousand deaths. he later admitted he consciously invoked the example of robert e. lee to sustain and inspire and guide him through some of the most agonizing moments of his life. the next morning, he meets the japanese after sending a parlay truce forward. he comes forward and meets with them. he conducts himself with the same stoicism, the same grace, the same dignity. one of his aides that was with him said, "i have never seen the general act more like a soldier. the japanese, unlike grant, who did not ask for lee's sword, the japanese did ask for a side arm. the king took his pistol out and put it on the table. and thus handed over the

general jonathan wainwright, defender of the rock.y wainwright's pen wrote deep into the american memory. ♪ th youe death march-- the death march. ♪ they moved on. ♪ until australia itself lay open to invasion. at his milburn headquarters, general macarthur faced grim facts. s,ainst nearly 3000 jap plane he had barely 500. illions, yet 48 equipped divisions. against him were thousands of miles of jap infested islands and controlled sees -- seas. against him was time, space, and preparation. against them was an area that may be vast united states seem small. american industry and labor were converting from the nonessentials of peace to the necessities of war. ♪ conversion was low and the european theater at first call. there was little to spare for the pacific. little to travel 10,000 miles from factory to foxhole. the longest supply line in the world. a supply line won and secured by naval victory in the coral sea, land victories in the galapagos islands. ♪ but the japs were still on the move. march 2, 1943. a strong enemy convoy was

standing on other side of mcarthur and just behind him at one point where lieutenant general jonathan wainwright and panthers value who surrendered at singapore, both endured over three years of japanese captivity and their visibly wasted appearance exemplified some of the worst facets of japan's war. mcarthur would deliver what in my view was one of the greatest or rations by an american during world war ii. all of them connected to the asia pacific phase of the war, not to europe. the first had been president roosevelt's immortal day of speech on december 8, 1941. roosevelt had paralleled lincoln's gettysburg address for the sublimes virtues of levity as well as cadence and phrasing. the second speech was a sermon by rabbi rolland giddleson on ooeg gee ma. he looked down on the volcanic ash housing the remains of his comrades and friends, and he said, here lie officers in men, negros and white, rich men and poor together. here are protestants, catholics, and jews, together. here no more prefers another because of his faith or despises him because of his color. here there are no courts for how

route 108 near wainwright road, a fuel spill. that's why it's taking so long. in bethesda south 355. outer loop at the american legion bridge. a big look at the beltway and the inner loop and outer loop. of course, lots of road closures downtown. we'll talk about those. southbound massachusetts avenue still shut down for the vatican until 4:00. >> thank you, melissa. >>> how they receive their hands on the lucky ticket. >> and we're not the only one celebrating a papal >>> if you want to see the pope on the west lawn of the capitol, you will need a ticket, and they're hard to come by. congresswoman eleanor norris norton put up her 50 tickets and snagged 35 more from fellow members and house leaders. to be fair in giving them out, she had a lottery anded a had a high school senior pick from a jar filled with the names of 150 d.c. residents. >> i can't believe that 450 members and senators all have people who are going to get here and come. but that may mean i'm underestimating how attractive this pope is. >> the tickets are standing room only, so they'll have to

this supreme court decision in gideon versus wainwright.oday, despite the decades that have gone by, many -- these cases have yet to be fully translated into reality. that is a fact. but you already know this. all of you have read the reports and all of you know the data. many of you have learned this truth in the hardest of ways i -- by experiencing it on the ground. you have seen how in too many of our counties and into many of -- and in too many of our communities, some people accused us of crimes, including juveniles, they may never, may never have a lawyer. brian: how does the public defender system work? deborah: if you are indigent, and about 2/3 of the defendants in criminal cases are too poor to afford a lawyer, you get one assigned, and it can either be a public defender which is paid for by the state, or a can be -- or it can be someone who is contracted to provide a service for low income individuals, and who gets the statutory fee which , is typically capped at ludicrous levels, so that effective representation is a recipe for