african methodist episcopal church in charleston last night as parishioners gathered for a prayer meeting. under arrest 21-year-old dylann roof who took part in that prayer meeting, pulled a gun and said he was there to shoot black people. we start our team coverage with mola lenghi who is looking closer at this tragedy and those victims. early indications tell us that the nine people shot and killed are victims of a hate crime, though police are still trying to determine a motive. dylann roof is flown back to charleston now questioned by detectives. at this point it appears that he acted alone. a recent college graduate shot and killed. so was a librarian and a coach, a teacher and a few pastors including the emanuel ame church s head pastor 41-year- old clementa pickney, also a south carolina state senator, nine people ages 26 to 87 gunned down in this charleston, south carolina church. we woke up today and the heart and soul of south carolina was broken. reporter:
[indistinct chatter] tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern we will be reentering this entire symposium. some of the topics included ulysses s grant and the meaning of appomattox, chamberlain repeats appomattox, and lincoln and the press. finally, what we are about to hear shortly, the medical crisis of emancipation. [indistinct chatter] [indistinct chatter] you are watching live coverage of gettysburg college civil war institute s annual summer coverage. we will also have live coverage tomorrow starting at 8:30 a.m. eastern continuing this conference. the topics tomorrow will include consequences of the civil war the 16th connecticut regiments final year of war, and a discussion called treason and loyalty in the civil war era. that starts tomorrow, sunday, at 8:30 a.m. eastern time here on c-span three. [indistinct chatter] all right. good afternoon. as you know, i am, go. im pete carmichael i mam pete carmichael. it is my honor to introduce professor jim downs. he h
civil war institute. it s my pleasure to introduce professor joan wall of ucla. joan wall is a specialist in civil war and reconstruction. she is the author and editor of a number of books. the book, her most recent publication is a biographer of ulysses grant, called grant, american hero, american myth. it won multiple prizes including the jefferson-davis award from the museum of the confederacy. dr. wall has come to gettysburg college back in 2011. she is also a teacher instructor at ucla. she s received numerous teaching awards and i have learned that in her gilded age class, when she does a lecture on baseball that at the end of the class, she breaks out bags of peanuts. and she tosses them out to her students. i heard that she has a mean right arm. we have, joan, ordered boxes of hard tack. [laughter] she will be tossing out hard tack this afternoon. joan will be presenting the rebels are our countrymen, countrymen, [applause] thank you peter, for that hilariou
peanuts, and tosses them out to her students. she has a mean right arm. we have ordered boxes of heart attack hard tack. she will be speaking on grant and the meeting of appomattox. [applause] dr. waugh: thank you, peter for the hilarious introduction. i m not a right-hander. if i threw hard tack at you, it would be painful. well, good morning. it is delightful to be here. i have not been at the conference for a long time at the civil war institute. i m happy to be back. i love gettysburg. i have been here many many times . when i say good morning i mean good morning because it is about 5:30 in the morning for me coming from los angeles. i think that will get through this. i do want to say that while i published the book on grant, i have not finished with him yet. i became fascinated by the surrenders that he conducted during the war and really look at surrenders as a way to understand the nature of this war as i have done in my title, and what it meant for reconstruction a
night, kennedy and lincoln are sort of bookends, where i soon i assume everyone knows about who lincoln was and who kennedy was. i won t talk much about kennedy and did not talk about lincoln. i assume most people don t know much about garfield and mckinley, so we will talk more about garfield and mckinley more than the actual assassinations. the assassination of lincoln by john wilkes booze and of kennedy by lee harvey oswald, we were in they were able to get away from the scene of the murder all sorts of conspiracy theories cropped up. who did it, did they get away and did we get the right guy? in the cases of garfield and mckinley, they caught the guy right away. there was no question. charles the toe was was captured right after shooting garfield and leon was grabbed immediately after shooting mckinley. they both freely admitted they did it, so there was no question about that. today, we will look at william mckinley. mckinley is a figure who is neglected in america