Soaking up the sun. And the president is writing to his wife saying what a fabulous place this turned out to be. The cold has disappeared in just a weeks time. As he leaves key west after that first week he promised our city commissioners whenever i get tired i will be back. 12 weeks later hes back. So each november and december and each february and march the president would take up residence a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month at a time. And it becomes literally the functioning white house of the United States. President truman on his first vacation to key west is invited by the navy to go out on a captured german sub. So he and his 16 closest staff go out on this captured german sub. The captain of the sub is a missouri native. Of course as fate would have it they submerged to 450 feet and the sub springs a leak. The logs are on our official website. They werent the least bit concerned. They had a missouri captain. They knew he would look out for them. After time, the instrument
Into the back seat of the car. Knows, when he gets in that car what will happen. Black man in alabama, you know. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q and a. 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signed the bill creating the National Park service. Today we look back on the past century of these caretakers of americas natural and historic treasures. Beginning at 10 00 eastern and throughout the day we take you to National Park Service Sites across the country as record by cspan. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern were live from the National Park services most visited historic home, arlington house trork, the robe lee. We stalk with Robert Stanton and brandon buys who will oversee the upcoming year long restoration of the mansion, slave quarters and grounds. Today the 100th anniversary of the National Park service, live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. We are sitting in the former sales room for the ryans mart auction complex. Were up on the second flo
Mart museum in 1937. And opened, i believe in march of that year. So opened this building as the first africanamerican museum in the country. President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation creating the National Park service on august 25th, 1916. To mark the centennial American History tv is featuring sites throughout the country. We continue now with another stop on the cspan citys tour. On the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the Federal Building in oklahoma city, oklahoma governor dedicateed a National Memorial to the victims on the site where the building once stood. 168 people including 19 children died in the 1995 blast. On april 19th, fire years ago, another spring wednesday like today, the flag of our nation was flying over the murrah building. It is flying over our memorial today, and i know it flies proudly in all of your hearts. For those who perpetuated this act, we have one message in america, you can speak and write and vote and complain, but there is no right to maim and
Charleston, South Carolina was one of the largest slave trading hubs in the south. A tour of the slave mart with nicole green, director of what is today the Old Slave Mart museum. We are sitting in the former sales room of the auction complex. We are on the second floor, but originally this building did not have a second floor. It was just a long, narrow building that was part of a complex of four buildings that made up ryan smart. Ryans mart. Port of entry for enslaved africans coming into what is now the united states. About 40 of all enslaved africans coming into this centuryin the 18th entered through the port of charleston. The Transatlantic Slave Trade was abolished in 1808, although there was smuggling. The domestic slave trade, since the majority of enslaved people who were sold here were americanborn. Were the children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren of enslaved africans, brought here against their will generations before. In 1856, when we see the first advertised slave
And Chattanooga National Military Park, one of several small areas that are part of the Missionary Ridge battlefield of the larger chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The veterans will come together and get congress to establish in andst of 1890 chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park as the first such public area in the United States. Subsequently, battlefields at antietam, shiloh, gettysburg, and vicksburg will be created in the first era of preservation and commemoration of the civil war, on the very ground where it occurred. Today, this National Military park, with its units at the chickamauga battlefield, on lookout mountain, the small areas preserved here on Missionary Ridge still tells this story, a vital story in the course of our nations history, an important part of deciding how the civil war turned out. You can read about our countries but here youoks, can walk some of the very ground where those decisions were made. Even though here on the chattanooga