When you are connected, you are not alone. These Television Companies support cspan two as a public service. Good evening. My name is jane campbell. As president and ceo of the United States Capitol Historical Society, i have the honor of serving as the master of ceremony for this event. I want to acknowledge that several of my Board Members are here. I have to be especially nice to them. They are my bosses. John carlson, my board chair, john perry who else is here from the board . Wave your hands. Thank you very much for all that you do to keep the society going. The Capitol Historical Society was founded in 1962, chartered by congress to encourage in the most comprehensive and enlightened manner and understanding by the American People of the significance of the capital as the tangible symbol of their representative form of government. We celebrate the capitol every day. Before we get started with todays program, we want to take a moment to acknowledge the passing of my immediate pre
Would you minds i went out and came in again. I would lake to say how special this night is but you beat me to it. Im steve roth rothstein, and on behalf of all the colleagues, were really thrilled you can be here. All of our forums are great but tonight is really a treat because of the speakers who is here and also the beginning of the john f. Kennedy centennial weekend and we planned this months ago, and we really literally thought, who would be the best pair about speaker of and moderator we can get for this historic time and were thrilled there here. [applause] before i introduce them, a few brief announcements. First i want to thank our underwriters and sponsors. The lead sponsor, bank of america, the lowell institute, our Media Sponsors, the globe, xfinity, bur and the Media Sponsor for the centennial, wcbb tv. As i say, were kick off the centennial and there are information when you leave or maybe on your chairs about what we are doing over the next few days but, there are oppor
Competition in canada. When the orioles are in toronto or when the flyers are there, we play the canadian anthem and the american anthem and then we get at it. I have to admit to you, i have to admit that sometimes when we compete at the Olympic Games and we do not come out on top and you are getting the gold medal presented to it the United States of america and we stand at attention when the flag is raised, we grind our teeth in respect when that happens. We have been friends. We have been allies ever since the war of 1812. We both claim we won the war of 1812. Canada was a little under estimated. I think jefferson said we just march in. We like to be underestimated. But we like to be reliable allies with our nato partners and with our neighbors and partners of the United States of america. [ applause ] we have been together in world wars, in korea. We are transitioning out of afghanistan together. We were together in libya. We worked together in all the threats that we might have in
Elliott use kyra artifacts and facts to trace the house beginning in 1917 and ending with the story Margaret Shea smith here today at 6 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan 3. Each week, American History artifacts takes ou to museums and historic places. Were in the Senate Caucus room in the Russell Senate building before cspan started covering the senate in was the most famous room in the capitol and in the capitol complex because this is hearings have been televised going back to the ews reels covered it in the 1920s and 1930s, but television came along in the 1940s, so 1941, a senator from missouri named harry truman said were war. Ing ready to go to were spending millions of dollars in defense. We need to look into the way the contracts are being allocated. We need to make sure that money spent wisely and not being gypped by unskrup louls developers. In fact, truman was a great scholar of history and read a ot about the american civil war. And knew that a lot of shoddy equipment had been
Thursday. Its happened again. The socalled black hat bandits have robbed another bank. Today it was the wells fargo in falls church. Right now detectives are investigating an area right behind the wells fargo. Witnesses say that after robbing the wells fargo the suspects ran right through here so thats why this area is important to police. This wells fargo in falls church is the eighth bank in maryland in Northern Virginia that these so called black hat bandits have hit since january 2nd according to the fbi. Reporter todays robbery happened around 12 45 this afternoon. Authorities say three men are involved. Two armed men one black one white who enter the bank, and one who waits in a getaway car. Im told today they were in and out of the bank in roughly two minutes. While theyre inside the fbi says theyve gotten more brazen with each attempt threatening customers and tellers, at items pointing and holding guns to customers heads and jumping the teller counters as they make their deman