the smithsonian. the smithsonian. reading what it looks reading what it looks like, and then actually like, and then actually being able to take it to being able to take it to a weaver and say you know a weaver and say you know can you do this. can you do this. i didn't necessarily want i didn't necessarily want to do it if i couldn't to do it if i couldn't fly it. fly it. i wanted to fly it. i wanted to fly it. i think that's important i think that's important for something like this. for something like this. >> and the way we went. >> and the way we went. a team of devoted a team of devoted stitchers assembled and stitchers assembled and took the work. took the work. from all across the world from all across the world want to distribute a want to distribute a stitch. stitch. there was a natural there was a natural divvying up of the duty divvying up of the duty whose worked on the whose worked on the stripes and who sowed the stripes and who sowed the two-foot wide two-foot wide stars. stars. >> >>

begin, we look to the star spangled banner, america's most famous flag is safely tucked away at the smithsonian museum here in washington. be 200 years ago it was first raised over and our determination as a young nation to succeed. ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪. >> it's a song as familiar to americans as a babies lull by. how did it become such a part of the fabric of america? >> the anthem gets the flag more publicity, and the flag makes the anthem more famous. >> so we are standing on a reconstruction of the gun impact that was here. >> this is the power of place, here is the thing, people love the anthem, they love the grab, what they need to understand is that fort mchenry where they both come together. and literally, on the exact original ground in which you andry now standing. >> is so called spar spangled banner flag is turning 200 years old. to celebrate the anniversary, the maryland historical society has researched the original flag, and is recreating it as accurately as possible, right dune to the very last stitch. >> one of the major sources was the conservati

no word yet on what led to that crash e >>> the smithsonian museum of the american indian will reopen tomorrow after a man died there today. a smithsonian spokesperson says that it appears the man jumped from a fourth floor balcony into the atrium just after 4:00 today. hundred of people were inside the museum at the time. the building was evacuated, and paramedics rushed the man to an area hospital his name has not been released yet. >>> the effort to help people sign up for health care continue today in d.c. experts from the district's health care exchange d.c. health link, helped residents enroll and answered their questions at the martin luther king library in northwest. the fair also included free health screenings, live music and yoga sessions. >>> meanwhile, new revelations tonight with ongoing problems with the federal website healthcare.gov. reports out today in the "new york times" and "washington post" detail problems with the site as early as august. in a statement tonight the company that manages the site acknowledged those issues but said that it did not anticipate the d

the smithsonian, the national archives, the library of congress and national library of medicine must work together to develop a strategy compelling enough to make congress the foundations and the public all clamor to help them create this platform. the public domain is still often difficult to get to. it is like building a national park but then making it hard for people to get to it. makes it hard for people to get to it. carl has taken the multidecade project to go and get materials. sometimes he has to buy them to get access to them and make them and make them publicly available. he is one of my heros. it used to cost quite a bit to get co copys of these. you see what is there and done download that and do whatever you want. >> i'm rick pralinger i'm founder of the archives of film located in san francisco. i'm also a board member of prelinger archive. both of the archives collections have large collections of federal government produced films. and also some films made by states and the local governments as well. the federal government is historically is the world's biggest media

host: it is the october edition of the smithsonian magazine. thank you graham much for your -- thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. c cook will talk about the 2014 midterm election. businessat, boomer week with how today stock market is performing compared to when ronald reagan was in office. and the latest update in syria, come including efforts to locate the chemical weapons. those guess, your e-mails, and ,weets onw on -- those guests your e-mails, and tweets on "washington journal" live on c- span. haveey did something they never done before -- and they stayed and they fought. as a result, three americans were killed. page of thee front times. what is going on? i thought we were winning. over the course of the next several months, he is going to from whiteg reports house officials and state department officials and military officials. contradictoryg evidence about the state of the military campaign in vietnam. >> november 22 marks the 50th anniversary of resident kennedy's assassination. sunday, a discussion about his oval offic

we started working with the smithsonian institution. they put a display in their memorabilia room. he said maybe it is going to be like the bumper sticker. that was the first collection that we did. we worked closely with the library of congress. our next one was working to archive the year 2000 websites. we worked closely with the library of congress. they have been great partners. we give them back the data and they store it forever. they have been instrumental in making it so that the web is a living document through the internet archive and we then help them by building their collections. they work with the national archives every two years to archive the end of term government archives. and that is available for the nara.gov website. but it is when you go and use that, it is using our servers. they keep an off line copy. but we are actually the ones that host those materials. the different industries are set up to protect their existing interests. we are finding that every field needs to be addressed differently. we do that. it is an opt-out type system. with books. we digitiz

movement of the mid 20th century are being documented in an oral history project, a collaboration of the smithsonian museum of african-american history and culture. the library of congress and the southern oral history program at the university of north carolina chapel hill. in this interview we hear from marilyn hildreth who was eight years old when they infiltrated

the smithsonian has 137 million items in its collections. and the launch we've had to date just focused on a little over 20 items. the reason for that is that we were really not going for bulk at this point. we were really going for exploring the technology, making sure that this technology actually is a good fit in a museum setting, that it actually helps us with our mission of the increase and diffusion of knowledge. it's a proof of concept. but the reaction from the public has shown it this is a tremendous hit and people are really wanting to see more of this content. so we're next going to explore how we can ramp this up and create a lot more of this kind of content. >> how do you pick and choose which items to scan and to use this technology on? >> well, for the first round, we really let our museums be in the driver's seat. as you may know, the smithsonian consists of 19 museums and nine research centers. we basically asked everybody, nominate an object, a scientific mission that you think could particularly benefit from this high-end

he wrote exclusive story for "smithsonian." a soviet spy had tipped off the fbi agency and set off with david weiss calls the most self- destructive investigation in fbi history. barry, massachusetts. hi, barry. caller: with the thousands of witnesses, architects, engineers, explosive experts that have come out providing evidence that the 9/11 commission is more fiction than fact, why haven't the public figures come out and demanded a new investigation because this is not opinion. it is physics. it is scientific fact that we are being lied to. guest: have you looked -- host: have you looked into the 9/11 attacks? guest: i have. there are some flaws and it which i have written about. i think on the whole, considering the time frame and the fact that it was close to the event, they did a fairly good job. no one has convinced me what the lies are. there was poor coordination between the cia and fbi. the commission talks about that. perhaps there is more to be said about it. host: you talk about when you first got the tip, it took

the smithsonian is looking for a new secretary. this is one of the most powerful and influential positions in this country, even internationally. a lot of conversation about what the skill set for that job should be, the balance between fundraising, maybe even between whether this person comes from the sciences or humanities. what would your ideal secretary look like? and you can name names. >> i think like any institution of great consequence, the leader would need to have -- would need to consider three areas of qualities. one is quality of self. what is character of this person? does this person have integrity, good judgment, and does this person have the energy, the compatibility, the decisiveness, all those qualities. and experience. what kind of experience does this person have. it's going to lend him or her likely of success in leading an institution of that complexity. that person is likely to be someone who comes from a university or has had long standing experience in university. because the university president or anyone

tavis: the next two years to commemorate the end of the civil war, the smoke finian -- the smithsonian is dedicating a including aat time, program called fight for freedom and hosted by actor dennis haysbert. take a look at the clip from the series. >> every ship had a list of all the goods and he was on the ship. this one is taking 83 people from virginia to natchez to be sold in the cotton and sugar plantation. documenting the people. it has people's names, their coloring, their age, where they are from. sometimes people were sold multiple times. i'm going to make an assumption. i doubt you have done any project where you learned more. i could be wrong. further.d go a step artifact iow what was going to be discussing until the cameras were rolling. >> they cap you in suspense? can understand how that would have an emotional impact on what i was doing. it's really interesting shooting. this is going to be a fascinating show. i was watching ashley judd last night. i was happy go lucky. a lot of this was kind of dour for me. it hurt, and i was kind of liberated in my thinking of all the

it would add a parking deck under the mall itself between the smithsonian castle and the museum of natural history. >> i do not see the reasoning behind it, honestly. up would be aorn sad thing for a while, but it would be worth it. >> the fans -- the plan still faces questions and debate from the public. >> we have new information to report about the navy yard shooter. officials report the company that aaron alexis worked for pulled his access to classified materials. this happened back in august. restored and was the company never told the navy about it. the employer has not commented. remembers the day 50 years ago that changed america forever. the assassination of jfk. hundreds attended a ceremony in dallas today. >> president kennedy was also remembered at arlington national cemetery this afternoon. richard is live along pennsylvania avenue. >> certainly an emotional evening for many people. folks cannot believe it has been 50 years. anyone alive at the time remembers exactly where they were. ♪ at the cathedral of saint matthew the apostle -- >> 50 years ago, president kennedy was c

our core mission is to teaching about our nation's finance and financial history and we're a smithsonian affiliate. welcome back, friends of the museum and our friends from c-span who are taping today. today we have sheri caplan, author of petticoats and pinstripes. portraits of women in wall street history. while this is her first book, she is no stranger to writing. you can find her a contributor to forbes and bloomberg law and other media outlets. during her research, she used some of the resources here including a finding in our collection for the image on the cover. she has a wall street background. she was a vice president and assistant general counsel at gold man sacks and also on securities arbitration roster of finra, financial industry regulatory authority. her undergraduate work was at yale, her jd at the university of virginia.

you probably read the smithsonian article and this is your question to hear the interpretations first hand. >> thank you. >> i am a member of the press. >> why don't you get your -- >> i am a member of the press so i did get an advanced copy about two weeks through and i'm trying to get absorbing and eliminating particularly the way that you present him in the context of the later world. but as you said yourself there are many questions and mr. visa out him and i see that in the book that you pose various questions and draw conclusions, which i'm feeling are your own but supportive. >> and i am wondering how much supposition you yourself had to create in writing this book and how much were you able to verify? >> i think there is very little speculation in the book. i did a lot of work digging through archives. i gathered as many letters as i could and i also was able with a huge resources to go through the newspapers which are now online although they were not when i started this again i did that going to the library and then from arlington, but you gather as much basic information as

witness my story in the current "smithsonian." host: we will move on. if you could speak a little bit about the history. the first mole hunt begins in 1962. what is happening at this time in our history between russia and the united states question mark -- russia and the united states? how prevalent is it of russia spying on the united states and vice versa? guest: the cold war was fought largely by intelligence agencies. it was out of sight. that was principally the war between the cia --. and the russian first chief director. they are not located in the famous square in downtown moscow. they are located on the ring road. i was the first western reporter allowed in. i spent an evening interviewing a general there. it was interesting. when i asked him about the future of the soviet union and russia, it was just before the collapse of the soviet union. he predicted a lot of trouble between the rub public's -- the republics in the south. he was absolutely right. the war in chechnya came afterwards. he spoke perfect english although he had never lived in t

this includes money allocated to the smithsonian and hurricane sandy happened in new jersey. >> just wanting to be clear, i think they allocated the money for the smithsonian, which is out of the way and path here. that was just the tip of the money wasting iceberg. so how does that go through, in other words, how does that get were in another person gets allocated and if someone were to tell me that this is the dough, someone would raise their hand and say this but no one dead. >> we did talk about it at the time, but the problem was that lawmakers were pushed into passing this package because we need this money right now. >> you are quite right. i remember the tone. and no one thought if we get it out, what are you going to do with it. i was part of the delay the john boehner wanted to see, that it was going to be intended and clearly in retrospect it was not. >> the victims were taking advantage of lawmakers who pushed through spending that was completely unrelated to the disaster and we won't even know until much later where that money went because they are not even tracking impr

origins of the word, there is a fantastic article in the washington post by a senior linguist at the smithsonian. find examples where it was native americans themselves who actually referred to themselves as redskins to differentiate themselves from the white so what is inherently racist about red and skin together unless you aspire to you mayte skin, then see it as inferior? i never viewed it in that way, i don'tn't inc. fans -- think fans are disparaging when they say, he'll do the redskins. they aren't saying it in a mocking way. it's not a minstrel image. it's something that is very extent drawn some from portraits of sitting bull. i'm not going to sit here and say people shouldn't be offended, but i just want people to understand it doesn't necessarily have to be seen through the lens of a white racist aesthetic. your point notwithstanding, it makes perfect sense to me. i guess the question is whether it matters how we view it, whether we be black or white. does it matter how we view it versus how they view it? i don't know the answer. white folk can have their opinions about the use of the

our core mission is to teaching financial history and we're a smithsonian affiliate. welcome back, friends of the museum and our friends from c-span who are taping today. today we have sheri caplan, author of petticoats and pinstripes. portraits of women in wall street history. while this is her first book, she is no stranger to writing. she contributes to forbes, to bloomberg law, as well as other media outlets. during her research, she used some of the resources here including a finding in our collection for the image on the cover. she was a vice president and assistant general counselled a goldman sachs, also on the securities arbitration roster of finra, financial industry regulatory authority. her undergraduate work was at yale, her jd at the university of virginia. and if you go to sheri caplan.com, you'll see that inspiration for her writing often comes from a nice cup of tea that is by her side or a piece of chocolate. so to provide inspiration today, we present her from the new he assume shop a hershey's bar and we look forward to your teach. welcome, sheri.

. >>> two tiger cubs areaking strides during public debut at the nation's capitol at the smithsonian debut the cubs look happy and healthy. the younbrother and sister a viewed as huge conservation success stories becae the zoo -- yeah, mom is little bigger, little faster. >>> me for a look ahead d a lookack. thousands are expect in pennsylvania today for cerenies to remember the gettysburg address. 0 years ago president lincoln gave the best-known sech at the civil war battlefield. >>> onhis day in 1985 the fit summit between presidents ronald reagan and goachev as ported on the "today" show. >> when the two men first met today, o course, at the first session they had, a handshake outside, a little bit of itchat, and then went into the one-on-onesessions, and we're told it wen for one hour and four minute,uch longer tn had been scheduled or even expected. >> nbc's andrea mitche there. >>> happy birthy to ryan ward, 34, jodie fost 51. >>> i'm richard lui, alongith bi karins. you ha >>> breaking ne. aiolent and deay morning in lebanon as explosions rock the iranian embassy in beirut. >

tavis: the next two years to commemorate the end of the civil war, the smoke finian -- the smithsonian is dedicating a including aat time, program called fight for freedom and hosted by actor dennis haysbert. take a look at the clip from the series. >> every ship had a list of all the goods and he was on the ship. this one is taking 83 people from virginia to natchez to be sold in the cotton and sugar plantation. documenting the people. it has people's names, their coloring, their age, where they are from. sometimes people were sold multiple times. i'm going to make an assumption. i doubt you have done any project where you learned more. i could be wrong. further.d go a step artifact iow what was going to be discussing until the cameras were rolling. >> they cap you in suspense? can understand how that would have an emotional impact on what i was doing. it's really interesting shooting. this is going to be a fascinating show. i was watching ashley judd last night. i was happy go lucky. a lot of this was kind of dour for me. it hurt, and i was kind of liberated in my thinking of all the

smithsonian affiliate. welcome back, friends of the museum and our friends from c-span who are taping today. today we have sheri caplan, author of petticoats and pinstripes. portraits of women in wall street history. while this is her first book, she is no stranger to writing. you can find her a contributor to forbes and bloomberg law and other media outlets. during her research, she used some of the resources here including a finding in our collection for the image on the cover. she has a wall street background. she was a vice president and assistant general counsel at gold man sacks and also on securities arbitration roster of finra, financial industry regulatory authority. her undergraduate work was at yale, her jd at the university of virginia. she got her law degree. and if you go to sheri caplan.com, you'll see that inspiration for her writing often comes from a nice cup of tea that is by her side or a piece of chocolate. so to provide inspiration today, we present her from the museum shop a hershey's

i did manage to sort of reach through the smithsonian magazine because i am troubled. i want to follow-up on charles' comment about your insinuation that rockwell is stopped dead was gay. the dots you try to connect with the subject manner. we don't have the benefit of all your resource material to reflect upon your opinions. i did find it then and i am troubled again tonight by your throwing out that they slept in the same bed. we know that none of us taken out of context. i'm sure you can appreciate. the rest of your sentence that you describe talks about the other people that were on the camping trip who also shared. and so, when you just mention that as if rockwell was the only one to do it, i think you are doing a disservice to your supposition to the reputation. and i'm concerned about it. so i hope you will take the opportunity and talking about the mysteries and the uncovering of mysteries that rockwell's work that you won't let that hang out there out of context. thank you. >> okay. i hope that the book will make you feel that i've put it all in the proper con

coral reefs, mangrove forests, and grass beds, including a biological reserve being studied by the smithsonian tropical research institute. ecologist jeremy jackson is one of a group of scientists working there hired to study the ecological effects of the spill. dr. jackson: we worked all the way down the coast for something like 50, 60 miles to get to places that were less and less affected by the spill. and so we had what were in effect control reefs that were along the coast, and we were monitoring the condition on the coral reefs and the mangroves and everything here and then further and further and further away from where the spill was. narrator: the results of the study were not surprising. the area affected by the spill was severely damaged compared to the unaffected, or control, areas. but for jackson, it was the findings made in the control areas after the initial study that would be much more alarming. dr. jackson: two years later, almost all the corals died in the control areas, and they died for reasons that had nothing to do with the oil spill. they died because of disease, becaus

his work resides in the sachi and smithsonian and others. he has written about in art publications his work was recognized by time magazine as one of the top ten inventions of 2012. it is represented by lonkini gallery in london and now i would like to have him come up and speak. [ applause ] i'm benat and based in amsterdam and i want to show you some works. so, my work and installations, and sculpture and photos and site and working on the architecture or the history of the location. i am interested in a motion of friction between construction and de, construction and the physical state of a building and a moment of revolution and perishableness and in these transitional situations you are not sure what you are looking at. nor this is as a clear function yet and therefore it is opened for interpretation and it is really interesting. and this work broad art, it is really the space that is important. because it is the location the museum that gets the contexts to just change the interpretation of this painting while it is resting against the

movement of the mid 20th century are being documented in an oral history project, a collaboration of the smithsonian museum of african-american history and culture. the library of congress and the southern oral history program at the university of north carolina chapel hill. in this interview we hear from marilyn hildreth who was eight years old when they infiltrated an oklahoma drug store lunch counter. she talks about her mother's activist role in the movement, her personal bravery and how oklahoma city changed rather peacefully, compared to other american cities. >> thank you for welcoming us, it's a real honor and pleasure to be with you. thank you. >> thank you for coming. >> we're interested obviously to hear about your, to begin, about your mother. of course we'll want to hear much from you about your own experience directly. as you were right in the middle of all of what happened in the late '50s, early '60s here in oklahoma city. could i ask you to talk about your mother? >> i would love to. that's a good starting point. my mother has been an educator most of her life. she had an opportunit

a black tie dinner for the award recipients at the smithsonian national museum of american history in its twenty year old grandson jack schwab were under the nominees. this award recognizes those who push forward into new frontiers of art literature science diplomacy in activism because they are there the medal of freedom acknowledges not just that something admirable has been going up to bed. these recipients have committed themselves their lives there could be yours. the creative capacity and passion to all of us. schloss truth is both jewish and canned food to teach reported the sale of goods will be for obama to his speech he spoke on his grandfather's legacy. we are told as my generation often is that the challenges we face are insurmountable. or that our ability to confront them is inadequate. we must remember a president who not only welcome the challenges of his day. you also saw the wisdom of recognizing vision and passion wherever they are. and so as our nation welcomes the challenges of our time thanks to president kennedy and his successors. we may draw on outstanding exam

. >> a leading linguist at the smithsonian institute had a study. the word "red skin" was used initially by native americans to distinguish themselves from the white. so what they were doing, his argument is, is defining themselves in moral superiority to the white. >> leigh as chafing here. >> an example of a brilliant man who's a red skin fan. because the issue is simply this. are there people in the world that feel totally discriminated against. >> excluded. >> i understand that. >> for which this word is a problem. and if there are, it's not worth having a sports nickname. >> every time i went to play the redskins, i was -- you have to kind of dumb yourself down. because you know that it's offensive. >> so you thought about that while you were playing? >> every time i played against them. i thought, man, this is the redskins. how can they still have this name? in washington they would follow that team regardless of what the name was. >> all right. that is going to be the last word. but thank you guys for some very smart discussion. it's importan

and wednesday evening, the president pls to deliver an address on kennedy's legacyof service at the smithsonian american hisry museum. and stay he with nbc news. there will be specia coverage of the anniversary of keedy's assassinationthroughout the week on all our programs and platforms. >>> the is new conce tonight among thecountry's police that it becoming much easier to make lethal plastic guns that could be slipped past metal detectors just as an important protection against tho weapons is about to be lost. we get more on that story from nbc's justice correspondt pete wiiams. >> reporter: this is what has law enforcement organizations so worried, a plastic gun that can withstand firing seval bullets but cannotbe discovere by metal9/ detectors inpublic buildings, schools, sports arenas and airports. >> this would be really dangerous for travelers, it would mean a terrorist, crimal, menlly ill person could walk tough a metal detector undetected, completely undetected and pfectly legal. >> reporter: theun is made using machines called 3-d printers widely available that layer downthin layers o

s smithsonian national zu debuted two baby tigers. they were given a swim test to make sure the cats could doggy paddle. they passed although they did seem to resent it. we should say there is a reason they threw the cats in the water to make sure they can swim if they fall in the water in their new enclosure. tune into gma first thing in the >> tracking the storm. happening now the first significant rain of the season is moving into the bay area tonight. hears a life look at the san francisco sky line. cloudy skies show us what is coming. good evening. >> sandhya is tracking that storm with life doppler 7 hd for us right now. sandhya. >> yes. some rain has already reached the ground in the north bay. let's check out live doppler 7hd radar tracking it. so far only/100ths inch in santa rosa and i take you closer here. ukiah 6 hundredths of an inch. clover dale, healdsburg zooming in closer light rain here hasn't made it very far past santa rosa. i do want to show you computer animation here and see is what coming here for your morning

how can the nfl start to ladies and gentlemen is la-- legislate >> a leading linguist at the smithsonian institute had a study. the word "red skin" was used initially by native americans to distinguish themselves from the white. so what they were doing, his argument is, is defining themselves in moral superiority to the white. >> leigh as chafing here. >> an example of a brilliant man who's a red skin fan. because the issue is simply this. are there people in the world that feel totally discriminated against. >> excluded. >> i understand that. >> for which this word is a problem. and if there are, it's not worth having a sports nickname. >> every time i went to play the redskins, i was -- you have to kind of dumb yourself down. because you know that it's offensive. >> so you thought about that while you were playing? >> every time i played against them. i thought, man, this is the redskins. how can they still have this name? in washington they would follow that team regardless of what the name was. >> all right. that is going to be the last word. but thank you guys for some very smart di

the airport will also be sending the dna of the birds to the smithsonian so they can test and find out what kind of bird was involved in this accident. reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> and coming up, more on the adventures of bat kid in san francisco. stay with us. of using toothpaste to clean a denture. but dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can grow and multiply. polident is specifically designed to clean dentures daily. its unique micro-clean formula kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains, cleaning in a better way than brushing with toothpaste. that's why dentists recommend polident. [ male announcer ] polident. cleaner, fresher, brighter every day. >>> happening on capitol hill, it is the house's move now. before that, we want to show what's going with the bat kid. >> look at him go. there is the bat mobile live over san francisco where myles has just apprehended the riddler for a terrible crime of trying to rob a bank. now he's going to hav

my works are in smithsonian because of bill. >> reporter: arnett introduced thornton diahl to the art world. >> i think the work is incredible. >> i think he's work is as great as picasso. >> the extraordinary contributions-- >> reporter: arnett had his critics. those who accused the white art connoisseur who ripped off black artists. >> those who accused me of ripping off black artists or profiting from them hurt me. >> my dad went through many years where it was hard for him to get out of bed. >> reporter: lonnie holly made it clear what he thought of the charges against bill arnett. >> bill arnett did not take advantage of myself. as far as i'm concerned no other artist. for me he was coming in our lives. he was giving us more for our works of art than we ever received before. he gave us time to actually develop, and also he was taking the time to take the work to the next level for us. >> reporter: but the rumors scared off the galleries and museums which were about to feature the work that arnett had discovered. >> the next thing you know diahl can't have a show anywhere, it gets

. >> when smithsonian magazine named great barrington, massachusetts, the greatest small town in america. >> when people come to the berkshires, there's hardly any chain stores at all. we've managed to hold them off by having such a unique and original environment here. >> we have a really great, eclectic group of businesses, a little bit of something for everyone. >> we have a great community in the locals and out of towners. >> and that well loved and unique downtown, like many main streets around the country, is about to get a facelift. after many years of heated debate, next year will mark the start of a massive reconstruction project with plans to rip up the roadway and sidewalks and replace the curb, park benches, and trees. no doubt business will not go about as usual. >> it's a complicated issue. i think it's going to be really hard for the town in the short-term. >> it's the kind of project people fear a bit because we're coming out of a tough recession and businesses are just starting to get back on their feet. we've heard in other towns reconstruction projects of this nature h

. >> when smithsonian magazine named great barrington, massachusetts, the best small town in america, the retailers on main street knew they played a major role in giving their town the top spot on the list. >> when people come to the berkshires, there are hardily chain stores at all. we've managed to hold them off by having a unique and original environment here. >> we have a really great, eclectic group of businesses. a little bit of something for everyone. >> we have a great community in the locals and out of towners appreciate the downtown. >> and that well-loved and unique downtown, like many main streets around the country, is about to get a facelift. after many years of heated debate, next year will mark the start of a massive reconstruction project. with plans to rip up the roadway and sidewalks and replace the curb, park benches and trees, no doubt business will not go about as usual. >> it's a complicated issue. i think it's going to be really hard for the town in the short term. >> it's the kind of project that people fear a little bit because we're just coming out of a tou

remembered in the bay area, jfk university will unveil this bust of the president, a replica of one at the smithsonian the school is the only one in the country named after president kennedy. >> well, coky roberts say it's possible conspiracy theorys surrounding the assassination will never be put to rest. her father was house majority leader during the kennedy years and served on the warren commission that investigated the death. >> i went home for thanksgiving after the assassination z i remember the phone ringing and in the den in the house where i still live. waits president johnson calling to talk about the establishment of a commission i remember my father saying words we need a blue-ribbon commission to investigate the assassination of so the american people will know everything that happened and will not question it for years still to come. of course, that has not happened to put it mildly. >> thank you, coky. tonight abc7 news i team looks into the theory held by an investigator that the the asassin did not act alone. >> we have a fantastic follow up on the power of social media to do g a san

the smithsonian. they didn't take it? they didn't take it? >> to listen to matt bennett he >> to listen to matt bennett he said he calls them up and said said he calls them up and said all you have to say it's from all you have to say it's from the bennett collection. the bennett collection. never got a call back. never got a call back. i suspect with some of the i suspect with some of the publicity, a call might be made. publicity, a call might be made. there's another important prop there's another important prop in someone else's prop. in someone else's prop. the helmet. the helmet. >> it was brought back in the >> it was brought back in the duke plane to the headquarters duke plane to the headquarters of their campaign. of their campaign. it was given to the vice it was given to the vice chairman of the campaign. chairman of the campaign. according to three sources it according to three sources it sits within john's possession. sits within john's possession. >> apologise to matt bennett for >> apologise to matt bennett for calling him mic

they were when we the last time this happened the smithsonian agreement one nine hundred seventy one and some subsequent meetings china was ms around of course but it was not a big factor in the international monetary system this time they will be a player so what does that mean so look at the future of the international monetary system and thing. about what some of the alternatives would be the current dollar system now jim we have to go to break but you've got to stick around for us because coming up how realistic is a return to the gold standard jim rickards is going to stick around to talk about why such a shift in monetary or jane isn't so farfetched also with the greek islands at bargain basement prices is now the time to invest i mean who doesn't want a greek island owing to your own fears about homeric landscape it may be more of a headache and it's actually worth though rachel prisoners and i discussed this very matter and today's big deal and as we had to break here's a quick look at some of today's those numbers of the bill i'm back. and. i would read that as questions to

they were when we the last time this happened the smithsonian agreement one nine hundred seventy one and some subsequent meetings china was miserables of course but it was not a big factor in the international monetary system this time they will be a players what does that mean so look at the future of the international monetary system and thing. about what some of the alternatives would be to the current dollar system now i jim we have to go to break but you've got to stick around for us because coming up how realistic is a return to the gold standard jim rickards is going to stick around to talk about why such a shift in monetary or gene isn't so farfetched also with the greek islands at bargain basement prices is now the time to invest i mean who doesn't want a greek island owing to your own fears about homeric landscape it may be more of a headache and it's actually worth though rachel prisoners and i discussed this very matter in today's big deal and as we head to break here's a quick look at some of today's closing numbers at the bell on back. well. it's technology innovations

kennedy identical to the one at the smithsonian. david wallace was at the ceremony 50 years ago. he was waiting to catch a glimpse of the presidential motorcade. and what he saw was much more. >> i saw the president after he was shot. i was about eight feet away. it was horrible. i seen the president so vie vashus, full of life at the airport, then to, seat first person i ever saw was killed with a bullet wound. it was crushing. >> wallace and his friends followed the motorcade all the way to the hospital. he grabbed a rose left in the car and he still has that flower to this day. >>> the pink suit first lady kennedy wore that day will be hidden until 2103. it has not been cleaned and no one has seen it except for national archive workers. it was sent to the archives by the kennedy family on condition it would not go on display until the 22 nd century. >> still ahead, fed up commuters and nothing to do with a bart strike. a glitch that stranded drivers for hours. >> legislation preventing toy gun tragedies. >> michael finney still taking your questions and will answer them here l

michael bennett, keeps the suit, dukakis, and tried to give it to the smithsonian. they didn't take it? >> to listen to matt bennett he said he calls them up and said all you have to say it's from the bennett collection. never got a call back. i suspect with some of the publicity, a call might be made. there's another important prop in someone else's prop. the helmet. >> it was brought back in the duke plane to the headquarters of their campaign. it was given to the vice chairman of the campaign. according to three sources it sits within john's possession. >> apologise to matt bennett for calling him michael. a further question - in today's 24 hour news cycle. you mentioned twitter and facebook. things will get out there. do you think this would have cycled through quickly and it would have gone away? >> all the noise and current campaign dissipates 12-24 hours after it happens. >> the dukakis event probably wouldn't have happened. it was the only image that went viral. these days everything is viral so everything becomes a blur. what happens on tuesday is forgotten

they were when we the last time this happened the smithsonian agreement one nine hundred seventy one and some subsequent meetings china was miserables of course but it was not a big factor in the international monetary system this time they will be a player so what does that mean so look at the future of the international monetary system and thing. about what some of the alternatives would be to the current dollar system now jim we have to go to break but you got to stick around for us because coming up how realistic is a return to the gold standard jim rickards is going to stick around to talk about why such as shipped in monetary or gene isn't so farfetched also with the greek islands at bargain basement prices is now the time to invest i mean who doesn't want a greek island owing to your own fears about homeric landscape it may be more of a headache and it's actually worth though rachel prisoners and i discussed this very matter in today's big deal and as we head to break here's a quick look at some of today's those in numbers of the bill on the back. of the. it was a. very hard t

you can vote on the smithsonian's website. >>> all clear tonight, not just here in maryland but across the region. you'll have a dry morning commute out there. nextchance for rain coming through the day on thursday. more onthat in a second. first,finishing on a cloudy note. wehad a few breaks of blue sky. temperatures did run above average here at the boy's latin school. 53 right now at bwi, wind is calm, pressure high at 30.50 almost. humiditybeginning to creep up as well. it's an interesting set up for most of the month of november. we think we're in a near normal pattern where we won't see a lot in the way of cold blasts, at least not for the next two weeks ago. tomorrow, one of those days where we'll be in the average zone, probably a few degrees above. orr all,definitely -- overall, definitely a milder trend setting up. temperaturesstatewide, 37 in the mountains. most spots still hovering in the 50s. that representing a 15 to 20 degree warm up in spots, not just earlier today, but tonight. 16 above where we were last night in baltimore at the top of the 11:00 news. humiditycreepin

they were when we the last time the south and the smithsonian agreement one nine hundred seventy one and some subsequent meetings china was miserables of course but it was not a big factor in the international monetary system this time they will be a player so what does that mean so look at the future of the international monetary system and think. what some of the alternatives would be the current dollar system now rajan we have to go to break but you got to stick around for us because coming up how realistic is a return to the gold standard jim rickards is going to stick around to talk about why such a shift in monetary or gin isn't so farfetched also with the greek islands at bargain basement prices is now the time to invest i mean who doesn't want a greek island going in your own piece of homeric landscape it may be more of a headache and it's actually worth though rachel for as is and i discussed this very matter in today's big deal and as we head to break here's a quick look at some of today's closing numbers of the bill i'm back. we're not psyched to an active camp at guantana