. >> do you have time>> of course, i have time i want to recognize supervisor william kennedy's work. >> okay (clapping.) i can relax a little bit. while we thank supervisor dr. kennedy are in the house and she was our fourth president (clapping.) okay. all right. so i want to bring up unknown but before i do i want to announce there's great people in the house to thank. we do have let see commissioners from the oc ii the director of the public housing and c l and we have community partners such as a mr. walton and ed williams and dr. honey cut and dwayne jones and then we have department heads mohammed the man of the hour for me he made this happen and barbara smith the head of the housing authority and ann is here (clapping) so we're going to have supervisor cowen come up because - oh, another supervisor in front. we're so proud to have her in our district and she said he did i was her master of thesis and every time we need something she's right there like sophie we appreciate her and glad to have her with us >> good morning. i'm glad the speaker put the breaks open kathy that is w

. >> do you have time>> of course, i have time i want to recognize supervisor william kennedy's work. >> okay (clapping.)

. >> do you have time>> of course, i have time i want to recognize supervisor william kennedy's work. >> okay (clapping.) i can relax a little bit. while we thank supervisor dr. kennedy are in the house and she was our fourth president (clapping.) okay. all right. so i want to bring up unknown but before i do i want to announce there's great people in the house to thank. we do have let see commissioners from the

we take a closer look at the life and literature of gabriel garcia marquez with william kennedy.list, pulitzer prize-winning author of the "albany cycle" novels, and was a long-time acquaintance of garcia marquez. for the uninitiated, what is it about his work that resonated so much first with latin americans and then with the rest of the world? >> i don't know. he had the secret, you know. he found the secret of how to tell the story of the human race in a single book, the great latin american novel became one of the great world novels of all time, and he did it with accessibility. it wasn't complex or exalted -- it was exalted prose but exalted in an accessible way, beautiful writing, funny, great wit, and very profound insights into what constitutes the family and the family of man, and he did it with such finesse and such control. >> sreenivasan: speaking of 100 years of solitude, you were one to have the first reviewers and quoted as saying the first piece of lit chiewrd since the book of genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. that is high praise.

the book sold 20 million plus copies, and the great novel's william kennedy famously said it was the first piece of literature since the book of genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. marquez wrote "love in the time of collera." and he was dealing with dementia and left behind an unfinished novel. he died at 87. >>> a planet circling a star 500 light years away and the tun romantic name of caplar 186 f and it's notable because it's the closest match to earth they have ever seen in the heavens. it's 10% larger than earth, but not too hot, not too cold. that could allow liquid on the surface and could mean life forms. >> a milestone in flight and exploration is being remembered 50 years later. on this date in 1964, jerrie mock became the first woman to fly solo around the world. while the media at the time called her the flying housewife. she studied aeronautical engineering at ohio state and planned her mission for months. she covered 23,000 miles in a little over a month and her idle was amelia earnhardt. her own achievement faded while the space race got

once the home for william randolph hearst, president john kennedy and wife jackie o.ymooned there. it has also appeared in movies. you can find it, for example, in the godfather. >>> all of the people came together to gave texas lovers sky versions of their favorite games. hundreds were developed on philadelphia's 29 story cirrus center to create a screen for players. competitors used joystick controls to move super size shapes into place. it's all part of tech week in philly, and the 30th anniversary of techtra. up next on the abc7 sunday morning news. a fire cuts a wedding short at a historic venue in massachusetts. what the justice of peace says happened just moments after the couple said, "i do." and distracting and dazzling. what the government is doing for the first time to stop what too many of us still do behind the wheel. ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ finally, i

it was william mccolloch. he told the kennedytration in '63 if you promise not to water down this bill in the senate which had been the usual pattern and give the republicans equal credit heading into the 64 election, i'll bring the republican caucus along and that's what he did. >> everybody played. nobody tried any tricks. >> his leader respected him. >> they kept the bill strong. >> they kept the bill strong. the pattern, lbj when he was majority leader, of course, had gotten the '57 bill by weakening it. >> jacqueline kennedy wrote to him, who you mentioned there, when she got word in 1974 of his planned retirement from congress. "i want you to know how much your example means to me. you more than anyone were responsible for the civil rights legislation. you made a personal commitment to president kennedy in october of '63 against the interests of your district. there are opportunities to sabotage the bill without appearing to do so. you never took them. on the contrary, you brought everyone else along with you." pretty sophi

robert kennedy, virtually no blacks in his district. >> he was a guy named william mccucullough. just as conserve as speaker john boehner. skeptical of foreign aid but he was descendant of abolitionists, when the first time senator kennedy proposed this bill in 1963, mccullough proposed a deal. going into the 1964 presidential election he would bring along his republican caucus and that's just what happened. it seems unimaginable today. >> so many moving parts were involved in those negotiations and his importance was really highlighted by jack lynn kennedy oonassis, she said i know you more than anyone were responsible for the civil rights act of the 1960s. when he was gone your personal integrity and character was such that you held to that commitment despite enormous pressure and political reasons not to do so. how we write our history books, it was considered political suicide for him to do what he did and i suspect very few americans know who he is. >> i suspect that time very few, he had broad support in the republican caucus in the house. he just had no political self inter

when president kennedy proposed the bill in the summer of 1963 william mccullough made a deal saying if they promised not to water it down in the senate - which was the usual practice - and would give the republicans equal credit goings into the 1964 presidential election, he'd bring along the republican happen. >> so many moving parts were involved in the negotiations. his importance was highlighted by jacqueline kennedy onassis, when he retired she sent a note saying: >> reading that it makes me wonder how with e write our history booftenghts it was considered -- books. it was considered political suicide for him to do what he did. i suspect few know who he is. >> the republican party took seriously his herrage of the party of lincoln. he had a lot of support in the caucus in the house, he had no political self-interest. as the debate went on he came under pressure, he had a safe seat that he was not going to lose. he came under pressure by people wondering why he was sticking his neck out. it seems radically different from what we experienced today. >> j.f.k. was assassinated in t