so lieutenant colonel william reed is who i'm re-enacting today. >> what was his life like after the war, have you done any research? >> he suffered some wounds during the battle and he died shortly thereafter. so he didn't really have a life after the battle. but most of the u.s. colored troops, if you think about it, they were from the south. so when they mustered out of the military, they went back home or went to the areas of the south that they were most familiar with. and the good part about it is they were able to take their weapons with them so they could provide some level of safety for their community for as long as they could. >> what should people who don't know anything about the u.s. colored troops, what sort of basic things do you think they should know >> well, it's a matter of historical fact that president lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation as a matter of military necessity. prior to the emancipation proclamation the south was winning most of the battles. with the emancipation proclamation it allowed african-americans to fight with forces with the union. o

william reed telling jurors that holmes did not suffer as he has alleged from delusions. >> i want to you if you formed an opinion as to whether or not the defendant was flurriedly psychotic or suffered a psychotic break on the 19th or 20th of with2012? >> my opinion is there is no indication of at all that mr. holz was, i will use the phrase flurriedly psychotic. jamie: we have a former criminal attorney and former prosecutor. ladies you almost need to be a psychiatrist to understand the distinctions that the doctor is making but let me ask you ashley the burden of proof is somewhat interesting in colorado. who has the burden of proving sanity or insanity in this case? >> well it's a death penalty case. so that is a little bit different for us. the state has to prove he knew the difference between right and wrong at the time he committed the offense. so what we normally understand as a mental illness it can overwhelm you and it can be in your actual case but it doesn't rise to the level of you not knowing the difference of right or wrong it does not help you in a criminal case. that

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william seale: wow, that's (green). susan swain: and (reedwilliams asked where and when did ulysses first encounter julia? she seems rather short, he tallish. william seale: well, he wasn't tall. pamela sanfilippo: no, he -- he was about five-eight, and she was around five-two. they met at white haven. he had been a roommate of julia's brother, fred dent, at west point. and when grant, after graduation from west point, was stationed at jefferson barracks, which is about five miles south of the city of st. louis, fred invited ulysses to visit his family out at white haven. grant did that in september of 1843, and then in february of 1844, julia returned home from the boarding school she was attending in the city. and grant says -- and julia says that initially, his visits had been about once a week to white haven. but once she returned home and he met her, his visits were daily. and he proposed to her within three months. susan swain: and we learned in this from you that they were a slave-holding family. i have a number of questions about thei

. >> william and his writing partner clarence "blowfly" reed wrote such classics as "clean up woman"unique sound. >> 50 years, 100 years from now, if you were to do an internet search and punch in the miami sound, your name is going to come up right away as principal creator of the miami sound. what were the distinctive features of the music you were making that separated it from motown, philadelphia, new york? >> the culture was a mixture of bahamian, jamaican, and people came down from georgia and alabama, but that bahamian influence was dominant. >> right. >> we would have bands who would march from overtown all the way to liberty city and back in big parades. this influence, the dancing and the moving and the marching, i would say that was the main difference. >> and you were teaching school during a lot of this period? >> yeah, i was teaching school. i would look around, put my sign in, and walk out the back door and go straight to the studio. but you know, the principal knew what i was doing. >> yep. >> i did most of the deep city music using that technique. ♪ ♪ if only i could

william blair. get our complete schedule at www.c-span.org. republican candidates marco rubio, rand paul, and ted cruz spoke at the faith and freedom conference. the organization was founded by ralph reed. >> hello, everyone. everyone enjoying lunch so far? if we can grab our seats we're going to go ahead and get started. we have a pretty full program through the rest of the weekend on the whole, but particularly for the next hour and 30 or 40 minutes, i think this is going to be well worth all of our time. i hope y'all are as excited as we are. my name is timothy head, executive director for the faith and freedom coalition. and we are thrilled -- [applause] timothy: to be kicking off this year's majority conference. but as we begin this year's conference, we're reminded -- we had just a sober reminder, actually, just in the last several hours that the truth is while we love -- we love this country, the truth is that heaven is our home. and when we are visited by tragedy our hearts long for that home ever deeper. i'm sure that many of you have seen reports either late last night or this morning the tragic events in charleston, the emanuel a.m.e. church there in charleston. a tragic sho