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African-americans, the american dream was working. >> reporter: scott is a tulsa native. he's been searching for the truth about what happened for most of his life, reporting his findings in his new book "the groundbreaking." >> something happened in an elevator in downtown tulsa between a 19-year-old shoeshiner named dick roland and 17-year-old white elevator operator named sarah page. >> reporter: a scream from page leans to roland's arrest the next day. and then a lynch mob gathered outside the house where he's jailed. >> the mob gets large, 500, 800 people. >> reporter: and a group of blac...

Burning homes and businesses and murdering an unknown number of actual sans. in 1997, the oklahoma state senate forced the first investigation into what happened. they were charged with finding out the basic questions of what happened. who and how many died? where are they buried and are reparations appropriate? 24 years later, we still don't have answers. i want to welcome hannibal johnson. he chairs the education committee for the tulsa race massacre. thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it. i want to take people through the a, b, cs here and specifically how the massacre began. an...

Black man was accused of assaulting a 17-year-old white elevator operator. no actual evidence emerged but the accusation alone was enough to spark what is believed to be one of the deadliest and most destructive race massacres in american history. >> all hell broke loose, right? it was either you stay in your house and get burned to death because arsonists were going through, or you take the chance you run out into the street and die from gunshot. >> reporter: nobody knows how many black tulsians were culled but some put the number near 300. greenwood in all its excellence, was burned down. an...

Watching everyone speak from bomb sides of t both side of the aisle. it struck me that the first time i went to washington many, many years ago, the only job i could get, and i took it, was as on elevator operator in the cannon house office building. and i saw many members of congress on a daily basis, both from the senate and the house giving them a ride up on the elevator. republicans and democrats, i saw bob dole and tip o'neil. i saw bob michael and dan ros10cowski. i saw members of both parties who got along. this was during a turbulent period in our country's history, vietnam, civil righ...

>> "the apartment" is about a new york clerk named c.c. baxter who is trying to get up on the corporate ladder. >> is this the place? >> and so he agrees to lend his apartment out to executives for their affairs. >> i have something i think belongs to you. >> me? >> i mean the young lady, whoever she may be. it was on my couch when i got back last night. >> oh, yeah. thanks. >> the mirror is broken. it was broken when i found it. >> all of it comes crashing down when he realizes that the girl he's fallen for, the elevator operator, miss kubelik, played by shirley maclaine, that she is one of t...