you talk about william harrison who says he was with grant at appomattox, a former slave that had alload his owner as a servant. could you please talk more about the role of u.s. colored troops and why we don't see them here today? elizabeth: it is a fascinating story. there has been in the course of this commemoration at the park service, there has been a great deal of acknowledgment about this vital piece of the story but there's always more to be said as the caller has suggested. i alluded to the role of the united states colored troops year as liberators, members of the victorious army. but africans in this section of virginia and throughout the south regarded april 9, 1860 five, as a general day of liberation. part of my research that surprised me most, is african-americans across the country celebrated that april 9 anniversary of until the world war i era will stop what were they celebrating? in this war, freedom follows the union army where the union army was successful. lincoln issued his famous proclamation in 1863 but until the confederacy had been brought to heel, it could

presidents walked through the gate in the 1800s, andrew jackson william harrison. >> we decided we did not want to get rid of this gate. >> so today the portico is on its way to becoming a gate again and on sunday april 19th people will once again walk through its doors. >> the fact that it is still here, we were able to fix it. >> just the fact that anything can survive 100 and some years kind of neat. >> a history of faith and community a resurrection of sorts, a reminder of hope on this easter holiday weekend. eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >>> ducis here with sports and the phillies are just a few days away from their home opener should we be excited? >> it could be a long season after spring training it's over and that is the only good news, today the phils lose again. shirt size? youth medium. david dejesus smacked a homer and herrera continues towards spring, this solo shot in the spring his average, .355, jonathan papp bon wearing his jersey he allows four runs in a third of an inning the phillies lose their grapefruit league finale 10-1 and the manager talks about the p

presidents andrew jackson, james buchanan, walked through it along with william harrison. >>> this morning, i-95 is bills as we look live, the sin tells us up ahead a crash southbound at girard avenue blocking two right lanes. the right lane is getting by. expect early morning slowing heading toward center city. a lot of zones have not cleared out, including 130 southbound at cooper street right lane blocked by the 45th street pub. >>> through the the day we'll is on and off rain, but it will be mild, the high will be 68 we'll sit on that for a few hours this this afternoon. we're looking at a blustery wind. most of the action in the east had severe warning watch boxes. if you're flying to saint louis maybe a delay. as we look at the big board no delays at this early morning hour and no rain in our most frequently traveled destinations. >>> a national health and nutritional survey evaluated the eating patterns with children. the study suggests 13% of younger children and 17% of 9 to 15-year-old skip luncheon the weekends. it means they are lower intake of nutrients. >>> night owls, go to b

you think about harrison williams, and now this. there's been an investigation that's been going on for years. >> this one for about three years, and it's interesting. harrison williams' nickname was pete williams and this all began with an anonymous tip from somebody who called themself pete williams and alleged that menendez slept with an underage prostitute. that was later shown to be bogus. but it seat off this inquiry into the relationship with the two that brings us to this point. >> and there was a separate inquiry, the fbi looking at his records, over an $8 million building dispute through the doctor's offices through medicare. >> look i don't think that new jersey politicians are anymore crooked than anybody else. i think they aren't as careful. the basic problem here is that menendez was taking cash in exchange for political favors. that's the american political system. >> you mean contributions, which is what this is. this indictment does not say, here's the bag of cash. it says these were contributions to the political ca

, accidental presidents in the 19th century already untimely deaths of zachary taylor and william henry harrison. so you know, lincoln and the republicans knew that johnson might end up being a man. and one of their great campaign tactics was to say, our second guy, johnson, can be counted on, mcclellan's vice presidential candidate, pendleton was one of these copperheads who was negotiating the wars away. it's politics there. any other questions? >> from greensboro. >> hey. >> i think we sometimes have a tendency to have him stand in for all of african american fought in the 19th century, and that's a mistake because george washington, oowilliams, and others were important voices too and there were political disagreements in the black community as one would expect. but douglas plays an important role in the story i've told. in the sense that douglas will say very famously in 1878, there was a right side in this war and a wrong side in the war. no sentiment ought to cause us to forget. why would douglas say in 18.78 we need to be reminded. he said it because he felt people were forgetting it. in

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they had to expel harrison williams the last us senator found guilty of any criminal charges while in office, here in new jersey, and that was back during and scan, people still remember that here in south jersey for sure. >> steve, see how it all plays out, thanks so much. >>> wells fargo hoping judge will approve of selling the former casino to florida developer for $82 million today. they say they have already spent over $60 million in the bankruptcy case. former business tenants insist new bidders are interesting wells fargo says there are no other serious bids. revel cost over $2 billion to bid. it was unable to turn a profit and close in september. >>> in delaware county police looking forearmed robber targeted three chinese restaurants, concerned the incidents could escalate if this guy is not taken off the streets. fox 29's jennifer joyce live outside upper darby police headquarters with the latest on this investigation. hi jenny. >> reporter: good morning, lauren, that's right police want this guy off the streets and fast. as you mentioned, he is want in the connection with a

a previous new jersey democratic senator named harrison williams, like in 1980, he ended up fighting,rying to stay in the senate while they brought bribery charges against him. he got convicted and expelled. john enson resigned rather than even face the ethics committee. so there's no clear precedent on when they go, but if he stays, there is the question of all the power he's got in the senate. he's the ranking democrat on the foreign relations committee. he is going to step down presumably from that position? >> yes, he has already. >> so the republicans have a rule about that. republicans say if you're under indictment, you can't be in leadership and you can't have serve high-ranking positions. democrats don't have that rule, but he did it any way, right? >> right. everyone expected him to do that with this. also, harry reid and amy kobichar are both people he attempted to manipulate to help this donor. while there's no question whether they did anything wrong, their names ended up in an indictment on corruption charges. those are the kind of things that are built on personal relat