TONIGHT ON LIVING ST LOUIS: WE'LL SHOW YOU THE LATEST ON RENOVATIONS TAKING PLACE AT THE ARCH MUSEUM.

HE WAS ONE OF THE LAST OF THE SO-CALLED CCC BOYS.

WE RECALL AN IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN HIS LIFE IN THE 1930S AND HOW IT HELPED THE NATION.

HEAR FROM A MAN WHO GETS FULFILLMENT FROM CRAFTING CUSTOM OILS FOR TATTOS AND BEARDS.

AND REMEMBERING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF A LOCAL CIVIL RIGHTS ICON.

THAT'S NEXT ON LIVING ST.

LOUIS.

* * ANNOUNCER: FUNDING FOR KETC LOCAL PRODUCTIONS IS PROVIDED IN PART BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE ARTHUR AND HELEN BAER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

AND THIS EMMY AWARD-WINNING PROGRAM WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT.

THANK YOU TO THE MEMBERS OF CHANNEL 9, YOU MAKE IT POSSIBLE.

ANNE-MARIE: A LOT OF THINGS HAVE BEEN DONE TO ENHANCE THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE DOWN HERE AT THE GATEWAY ARCH.

THERE'S NEW BIKING AND WALKING PATHS.

AND IT WON'T BE TOO LONG BEFORE THE LANDSCAPE DESIGN IS BLOOMING IN ALL ITS GLORY.

BUT THERE'S A LOT OF BUZZ ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING UNDERNEATH THE ARCH, AND I GOT A SNEAK PEEK.

* [BUZZ SAW] * ANNE-MARIE: SCHEDULED TO OPEN IN JULY OF THIS YEAR, THE MUSEUM AT THE GATEWAY ARCH IS TAKING ON A NEW LOOK.

OFTEN WHEN WE THINK OF A MUSEUM, ESPECIALLY ONE WITH AN HISTORICAL CONTEXT, OLD COMES TO MIND.

BUT THESE RENOVATIONS ARE BRINGING WESTWARD EXPANSION INTO THE MODERN WORLD.

WOMAN 1: SO NO LONGER ARE MUSEUMS A SHOWCASED EVENT FOR LOOKING AT EXHIBITS AND HEARING ESTEEMED SCHOLARS SHARE HISTORY FROM A SINGLE PERSPECTIVE.

NOW MUSEUMS ARE SAYING, COMING EXPLORE WITH US, WE WILL SHARE WITH YOU THE DIFFERENT PERIODS OF HISTORY, THE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF EVENTS, WE WANT YOU TO BE ACTIVELY ENGAGED, EVALUATE ALL THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE, ASK YOUR OWN QUESTIONS, AND FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED IN HISTORY AND HOW IT APPLIES TO YOUR LIFE, TO OUR LIVES, IN TODAY'S SOCIETY.

ANNE-MARIE: A SELF INTERPRETATION, EVEN, OF HISTORY?

WOMAN 1: YES, EXACTLY, GOOD PHRASE.

ANNE-MARIE: BACK IN 2015 THE TAXIDERMY AND TALKING MANNEQUINS WERE MOVED OUT, FAST-FORWARD TO 2018, NEW MUSEUM SPACE HAS BEEN EXCAVATED, HIGH-TECH EXHIBITS HAVE BEEN DESIGNED, AND THE FACADE OF THE RIVERFRONT'S OLD ROCK, HOUSE IS BEEN CONSTRUCTED USING ORIGINAL STONES.

BOB: SO I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 1991.

ANNE-MARIE: BOB MOORE IS THE GATEWAY ARCH HISTORIAN.

BOB: SOME OF THE ROCKS ARE SAVED FROM THE OLD BUILDING.

WE HAVE THE WINDOWS AND THE SHUTTERS AND OTHER COMPONENTS OF IT THAT WERE ALL REUSED IN THIS RECONSTRUCTION.

ANNE-MARIE: IT'S PRETTY AMAZING THAT SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT, OH, WE SHOULD KEEP THIS.

BOB: YEAH, I WISH THEY'D KEPT MORE.

WE CAN'T BUILD THE WHOLE BUILDING.

ANNE-MARIE: DON'T BE GREEDY.

BOB: WELL, I HAVE TO BE GREEDY, I'M A HISTORIAN AND WE WANT EVERYTHING TO BE PERFECT.

ANNE-MARIE: THE ROCK HOUSE WAS BUILT 1818 AND IS ST.

LOUIS'S OLDEST ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE, OUR OLDEST BUILDING, WAS TAKEN DOWN IN 1959.

WOMAN 1: IT WAS DISASSEMBLED AS THAT PROPERTY AS NEEDED FOR THE RAILROAD, AND LOVINGLY STORED IN PIECES IN THE BASEMENT OF THE COURTHOUSE, ALL THESE YEARS WITH THE HOPE THAT SOMEDAY IT MIGHT BE RECONSTRUCTED.

AND HERE IT IS TODAY, FULLY RECONSTRUCTED TO DEMONSTRATE THE RIVERSIDE OF THE FA�ADE.

ANNE-MARIE: THE PREVIOUS MUSEUM ATTEMPTED TO TELL THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF WESTWARD EXPANSION, BUT IT LEFT OUT THE HISTORY OF ST.

LOUIS AND THE CONTRIBUTION THE CITY MADE TO IT.

THAT OMISSION HAS BEEN CORRECTED.

* BOB: WHAT WE'VE TRIED TO DO THIS EXHIBIT IS TELL THE STORY OF AMERICAN WESTWARD EXPANSION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SITE WHERE THE ARCH SITS TODAY BECAUSE THIS WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO WESTWARD EXPANSION.

YOU KNOW, THIS WAS WHERE THE CITY OF ST.

LOUIS STARTED, THE OLD FRENCH COMMUNITY WAS HERE, LEWIS AND CLARK LIVED HERE IN THE ADMINISTERED THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY.

THIS WAS WHERE THE COVERED WAGON PIONEERS OUTFITTED FOR THEIR TREK WESTWARD.

ANNE-MARIE: MOORE DESIGNED A MODEL OF ST.

LOUIS RIVERFRONT IN ITS HEYDAY IN THE STOREFRONT USING ORIGINAL CAST IRON COLUMNS HAS BEEN ERECTED.

BOB: WE'RE RECONSTRUCTING A BUILDING FRONT AND GIVING PEOPLE AN IDEA OF WHAT IT WOULD'VE BEEN LIKE TO WALK DOWN THE STREET IN ST.

LOUIS AT A PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME.

ANNE-MARIE: YOU THINK THAT PEOPLE, WHEN THEY SEE THIS AND THEY SEE HOW THIS WAS THAT IT MIGHT MAKE THEM A LITTLE SAD THAT WE'RE NOT AS BUSTLING AND ROBUST A CITY AS WE ONCE WERE?

BOB: WELL, IT MAY, I THINK WE'RE BUSTLING AND ROBUST IN A DIFFERENT WAY.

IT'S JUST THINGS HAVE SHIFTED WHERE THINGS ARE BUSTLING AND WHAT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CITY IS HAS JUST CHANGED OVER TIME.

[HAMMERING] ANNE-MARIE: THIS EXHIBIT WILL ALSO SHOWCASE THE FRENCH THAT LIVED HERE IN THE EARLY COLONIAL DAYS.

THEY'RE BUILDING AN ENTIRE HOUSE INSIDE THIS SPACE, BRINGING ATTENTION TO THE UNIQUE FRENCH BUILDING STYLE USING VERTICAL LOG CONSTRUCTION AND NORMAN TRUSSES.

STEPHEN: THIS IS A FRENCH COLONIAL CREOLE STYLE CABIN.

ANNE-MARIE: STEPHEN JENKINS WORKS FOR THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRAINING CENTER AND IS AN EXHIBIT SPECIALIST WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE.

STEPHEN: WE BASE THIS OFF A BUILDING IN ST.

GENEVIEVE.

THAT'S ONE OF ONLY THREE LEFT IN EXISTENCE.

ANNE-MARIE: WOW.

STEPHEN: THAT'S WHAT WERE TRYING TO INTERPRET WITH THIS STRUCTURE.

* ANNE-MARIE: MUSEUM CURATORS HAVE EVALUATED HISTORY WITH A WIDE VIEW CRITICAL ANALYSIS BY CONSULTING WITH TRIBAL NEIGHBORS, DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS, AND DIVERSE CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS.

WOMAN 1: I AM MOST EXCITED ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS PLACE IS GOING TO BECOME A THRIVING, TEACHING, AND LEARNING COMMUNITY.

WE WANT THIS NOT TO BE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE JUST COME AND BROWSE THROUGH AND READ WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN, WE WANT THIS TO BE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE ATTRIBUTE TO THE CURRENT STORY IN THE CURRENT ANALYSIS AND PARTICIPATE IN SOME WAY TO SHARE THE PERSPECTIVE TO TODAY'S GENERATION AS WELL AS GENERATIONS OF THE FUTURE.

* JIM: THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE AROUND WHO CAN GIVE A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE SUBJECT OF OUR NEXT STORY ABOUT THE CCC.

THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS YOUTH JOBS PROGRAM OF THE 1930S.

YOU CAN SEE THE WORK THEY DID HERE AT BABLER STATE PARK AT PERES MARQUETTE AND AT PARKS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

AND IN FACT, WE DECIDED TO RETELL THIS STORY BECAUSE THE MAN WHO TOLD US HIS STORY OF THE CCC AND OF THAT GENERATION IS ALSO NOW GONE.

HARRY DALLAS PASSED AWAY ON CHRISTMAS EVE AT THE AGE OF 96.

WE FIRST INTERVIEWED HIM SOME 20 YEARS AGO AT THE CCC MUSEUM AT JEFFERSON BARRACKS AND WE MET UP WITH HIM AGAIN YEARS LATER WHEN THAT MUSEUM WAS CLOSING DOWN.

IT WASN'T SO MUCH THE EXHIBITS AND RECORDS HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT.

IT WAS THE PRESERVATION OF THE STORY ITSELF.

SO IN TRIBUTE TO HIM, AND TO HIS GENERATION, WE TELL THE STORY AGAIN.

[FILM REEL] JIM: IT WAS MASSIVE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM IN A CRITICAL TIME IN THIS NATION'S HISTORY AND IN THESE YOUNG MEN'S LIVES.

AND FOR YEARS YOU COULD FIND THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS STORY TOLD IN THIS MUSEUM IN AN OLD OFFICERS' QUARTERS BUILDING AT JEFFERSON BARRACKS.

SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN IN THIS BUILDING?

HARRY: WE'VE BEEN SINCE 1985.

JIM: AND WHY NOW, WHY IS IT COMING TO AN END?

HARRY: WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF MONEY TO MAINTAIN IT.

JIM: THIS YEAR, DIRECTOR HARRY DALLAS WAS PUTTING HIMSELF OUT OF A JOB, SHUTTING THE CCC MUSEUM DOWN, PACKING IT UP AND SHIPPING IT OFF.

HARRY: WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF MONEY.

JIM: AND I GUESS YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF MEMBERS, TOO.

THAT'S THE REALITY.

HARRY: RUNNING OUT OF MEMBERS IS WHY WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF MONEY.

JIM: IT WAS, REALLY, INEVITABLE.

THE MUSEUM HAS BEEN FUNDED BY MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CCC ALUMNI.

AT AGE 87, HARRY DALLAS IS ONE OF THE YOUNG GUYS.

HARRY: THE AVERAGE FOR A CCC BOY WOULD BE ABOUT 90.

JIM: YEAH, THEY STILL REFER TO THEMSELVES AS CCC BOYS, AND THERE WERE THREE MILLION OF THEM.

* JIM: IN 1933 AS PART OF THE NEW DEAL PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT CREATED THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS, A WAY TO PUT UNEMPLOYED YOUNG MEN TO WORK DURING THE DEPRESSION.

AND IT KEPT GOING UNTIL YOUNG MEN WERE NEEDED FOR A DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT JOB, FIGHTING WORLD WAR II.

CITY KIDS, RURAL KIDS, BLACK KIDS, WHITE KIDS, THEY SIGNED UP FOR SIX MONTHS IN THE CCC AND THEY COULD STAY AS LONG AS TWO YEARS.

THE PAY WAS $30 A MONTH AND MOST OF IT WAS SENT HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES.

IN THE LATE 1930S, A TEENAGER LIKE HARRY DALLAS COULDN'T FIND WORK IN RURAL SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, SO HE JOINED THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS AND HIS FAMILY WAS GLAD TO HAVE THE MONEY AND ONE LESS MOUTH TO FEED.

HE WAS ASSIGNED TO A CCC CAMP IN GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.

HARRY: I MYSELF DID NOT REALIZE HOW MANY CAMPS THERE WERE AND HOW MUCH WAS GOING ON BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW.

JIM: YOU KNEW YOUR CAMP.

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID.

HARRY: I KNEW MY CAMP.

I KNEW WE HAS SOME OTHER CAMPS AROUND THE AREA WHO WE PLAYED BALL AGAINST AND THAT KIND OF STUFF.

AS FAR AS THE AMOUNT OF CAMPS AND WHAT WAS GOING ON AT THAT TIME, I DIDN'T KNOW.

JIM: BY 1936, THERE WERE MORE THAN 2,000 CCC CAMPS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES.

THE GALESBURG CAMP CONCENTRATED ON SOIL EROSION PROJECTS AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY CCC BOYS WERE PLANTING TREES.

HARRY: WE PLANTED 3.5 BILLION TREES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES IN THAT 9.5 YEAR PERIOD OF THE CCC.

JIM: AND THEY CREATED PARKS, BUILT LODGES AND SHELTERS, CLEARED ROADS.

BABLER STATE PARK WAS A CCC PROJECT AND THE SITE OF A REUNION IN 1998.

MAN 1: I WORKED ON THE STABLES, THE NATURE CENTER.

JIM: THIS WAS A GET TOGETHER OF GUYS WHO WORKED ALL OVER THE PLACE AND THEY HAD STORIES ABOUT WHAT THEY DID AND WHERE THEY DID IT.

AFTER ALL, REUNIONS ARE ALL ABOUT TELLING STORIES.

AND IT WAS EASY SO MANY YEARS LATER TO LOOK BACK FONDLY ON THOSE DAYS.

* JIM: PARTS OF THE OLD CCC FILMS DO MAKE IT LOOK A LOT LIKE SUMMER CAMP BUT THERE WERE WINTERS AS WELL.

LIFE WAS NOT COMFORTABLE, THE WORK WAS TOUGH AND THERE WERE THOSE WHO HATED LIVING IN CAMPS.

MANY WERE FAR FROM HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME.

THERE WERE THOSE WHO WANTED TO BE HERE BUT MANY OTHERS WERE HERE SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAD NOTHING ELSE.

BEING IN THE CC BACK THEN REALLY WASN'T ANYTHING TO BRAG ABOUT.

MAN 2: YOU HAD TO ADMIT THAT YOU WERE POOR AND THERE WAS NO GREAT HONOR IN ADMITTING THAT YOU WERE SO-CALLED POOR FOLKS IN THOSE DAYS.

EVEN THOUGH PROBABLY IT WAS A COMMON THING.

AND I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE I WASN'T ALL THAT POOR, MY FAMILY JUST DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY.

JIM: IT WAS UNLIKE ANYTHING MOST OF THEM HAD EVER EXPERIENCED AND IT CHANGED MANY LIVES IN THESE FORMATIVE YEARS.

MANY OF THESE CCC BOYS STILL BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF NATIONAL SERVICE TO COUNTRY AND TO THE INDIVIDUAL.

AND FOR SOME, IT REALLY DID SET THEM OFF ON A STRAIGHTER AND NARROWER PATH.

CONNALLY: THE CCC'S WAS THE SAVING GRACE IN MY LIFE.

I WAS A KID IN BOSTON.

I COULD DRIVE AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A WONDERFUL THING TO DRIVE SOMEBODY ELSE'S CAR AROUND NOT HAVING MY OWN.

AND THE PRECINCT SERGEANT TOLD ME, CONNALLY, YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO JAIL AND THAT'LL BE THE END OF YOU.

YOU'LL BE A BUM THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

SO BETWEEN HIM AND MY UNCLES, I ENDED UP IN THE CCC AND I NEVER LOOKED BACK.

JIM: IN THE TEN YEARS SINCE THIS REUNION THE GET TOGETHERS HAVE GOTTEN LESS FREQUENT.

THERE ARE FEWER CCC ALUMNI AROUND THESE DAYS AND MOST JUST DON'T GET AROUND LIKE THEY USED TO.

BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO STAY IN TOUCH THROUGH THEIR ST.

LOUIS-BASED ORGANIZATION.

[LAUGHTER] JIM: FEEL A LITTLE SAD ABOUT ALL OF THIS.

HARRY: OH VERY SAD.

IT'S A TURNING POINT.

I'VE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FOR 25 YEARS.

WHEN PEOPLE READ THAT THE CCC MUSEUM WAS CLOSING DOWN THEY STARTED SHOWING UP.

AND I GUESS EVERYBODY SAID, WOW, DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE HERE.

HARRY: DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE HERE, MEANT TO COME IN MANY TIMES, BUT DROVE BY IT, BUT NEVER CAME IN.

JIM: SOME OF WHAT HAS BEEN STORED AN EXHIBITED WILL AT THE JEFFERSON BARRACKS MUSEUM HAS BEEN SENT TO THE SMITHSONIAN.

OTHER STUFF IS GOING TO EDINBURGH, VIRGINIA, THE SITE OF THE FIRST CCC CAMP.

A LOT OF PHOTOGRAPHS WILL STAY WITH THE ST.

LOUIS COUNTY PARKS DISTRICT.

THE MUSEUM NEVER REALLY GOT MUCH WALK-IN TRAFFIC BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE DID COME HERE BY APPOINTMENT AND THEY HEADED UPSTAIRS.

HARRY: THIS WAS A RESEARCH CENTER.

THAT WAS OUR PRIMARY GOAL HERE.

THE MUSEUM WAS A SIDELINE.

THE RESEARCH WAS THE PRIMARY GOAL.

THAT WAS WHAT WE WERE HERE FOR.

JIM: PEOPLE LOOKING UP THEIR OWN RECORDS.

PEOPLE LOOKING UP THEIR PARENTS RECORDS.

HARRY: THEIR UNCLE, THEIR COUSIN, THEIR BROTHER, THEIR GRANDPARENTS.

JIM: THE ARCHIVES WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE JUST NOT HERE ANYMORE.

THEY'LL BE AT THE SMITHSONIAN OR WITH THE VIRGINIA CCC ORGANIZATION WHICH IS ALSO TAKING OVER THIS GROUP'S SHRINKING MEMBERSHIP LIST.

ACROSS THE HALL, DONNA BROOME WAS WRAPPING UP HER JOB, PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON THE CCC NEWSPAPER.

DONNA: THIS IS THE LAST ISSUE, AND WHAT WE'RE COVERING PRESENTLY IS THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

JIM: ONCE THERE WAS A STAFF OF TWELVE HERE.

ON ITS LAST DAYS, IT WAS DOWN TO THREE.

IN 1990, 12,000 CCC BOYS BELONGED TO THIS ORGANIZATION.

AT THE END, MEMBERSHIP WAS UNDER 3,000.

IT'S NOT JUST THE END OF THE ORGANIZATION, THE CLOSING OF THE MUSEUM, AND THE SHIPPING OFF OF THE ARCHIVES.

IT'S REALLY ABOUT THE STORY OF THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS THAT WAS HERE.

THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE PRESERVING.

AND HARRY DALLAS KNOWS THERE WERE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO CAME THROUGH HERE, LOOKED AT THE PICTURE OF FDR AND SAID, WHO'S THAT?

YOU JUST HOPE THAT IN 25 OR 50 OR A 100 YEARS PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THIS WAS.

HARRY: WE HOPE SO.

THAT WAS OUR AIM BY ORGANIZING THIS GROUP BACK IN THE 1970S.

* JIM: THE LEGACY WILL BE WITH THIS COUNTRY A LONG TIME, THE PARKS, PICNIC SHELTERS, DAMS, RETAINING WALLS AND OF COURSE ALL OF THOSE TREES.

THEY DID THAT, BUILT A PART OF AMERICA, AND THIS STATUE AND OTHERS LIKE IT WILL STILL BE OUT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND IT MAY PROMPT SOMEBODY IN THE FUTURE TO DO A BIT OF DIGGING TO COME UP WITH THE STORY OF THE CCC BOYS.

THAT WAS THE STORY WE DID TEN YEARS AGO, THE CLOSING OF THE CCC MUSEUM AND THE SHRINKING LIST OF SURVIVING CCC ALUMNI.

AND OF COURSE TEN YEARS LATER IT'S A MUCH SMALLER LIST.

HARRY DALLAS, WHO JUST PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 96, WAS ONE OF THE LAST OF THE CCC BOYS, AND ONE WHO CARED DEEPLY THAT THE STORY WOULD BE KEPT ALIVE WHEN HE AND THE OTHERS WERE GONE.

AS FOR THE STATUE, IT'S GONE FROM JEFFERSON BARRACKS.

IT'S IN STORAGE AND THE STATE HAS PLANS AT SOME POINT TO RELOCATE IT TO A CCC PARK SOMEWHERE IN MISSOURI.

* RUTH: NEXT WE HAVE , A NEW INSTALLMENT IN THE SPOTLIGHT SERIES PRODUCED BY OUR FRIENDS AT ONCE FILMS.

WE MEET JEREMY ALLEN STANTON: HE'S A CRAFTSMAN WHO INFUSES THE FINEST OILS WITH SPICES, HERBS AND OTHER NATURAL INGREDIENTS, THEN AGES THE OILS IN WHISKEY OR WINE BARRELS FOR SIX MONTHS.

THE FINISHED PRODUCTS ARE APPLIED TO HAIR, BEARDS AND TATTOS.

* * * JEREMY: THERE'RE STORIES IN THESE BARRELS BEFORE I GET THEM.

DISTILLERS WERE PUTTING WHISKEY IN THEM AND THEY WERE MADE BY HAND BY PEOPLE JUST DOWN THE ROAD FROM US IN MISSOURI.

SO WHEN I'M DOING THIS, I'M LITERALLY THINKING OF WHO ELSE HAS HAD THIS, WHAT ELSE HAS BEEN DONE WITH THIS.

* JEREMY: IT CAN BE CONSUMING, ALMOST LIKE A BREWER, LIKE A DISTILLER.

THEY'RE ALWAYS TESTING IT, THEY'RE ALWAYS CHECKING IT, THEY'RE MAKING SURE IT'S SPOT ON, IT'S EXACTLY HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.

YOU KNOW, WE USE A LOT OF WHOLE INGREDIENTS, A LOT OF VANILLA BEANS, A LOT OF PIPE TOBACCO.

* JEREMY: IT'S ALL LOOK AND FEEL AND SMELL, THAT'S ALL IT IS.

THERE'S NOT A WAY FOR ANYBODY TO EVER SAY, YEP, IT'S PERFECT NOW, UNLESS YOU'RE THE PERSON MAKING IT.

* [SCRAPING NOISE] JEREMY: LOOKING BACK ON MY CHILDHOOD AND MY HISTORY I SORT OF REALIZING THAT IF I WOULDN'T HAVE GONE THROUGH THOSE RIGORS BACK THEN THAT I WOULDN'T HAVE THIS MINDSET OR THIS ATTENTION TO DETAIL, OR THIS DRIVE TO ALWAYS SORT OF WANT IT TO BE A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

I THINK WHENEVER I FIRST STARTED IT WAS TOTALLY OUT OF NECESSITY.

THAT EXTERNAL CHAOS THAT YOU WOULD SEE IF YOU WALKED INTO MY WORK SPACE AND I HAD THINGS EVERYWHERE, THAT'S REALLY SORT OF A REFLECTION OF UP HERE.

BUT I'VE NEVER HAD AN OUTLET THAT ALLOWED ME TO REALLY FOCUS IT.

THE CLOSEST THING WAS MY MILITARY SERVICE.

THINGS REALLY MATTERED WHEN YOU DID THEM, AND ONE WRONG MOVE AND YOU'RE NOT GOING HOME.

NOTHING OPENED MY EYES TO THAT MORE - I WAS 19 YEARS OLD, AND I WAS IN SAUDI ARABIA.

I HAD JUST LEFT MY BARRACKS AND MY ROOMMATE AND MY GOOD FRIEND, ALONG WITH 18 OTHER AIRMEN, THEY LOST THEIR LIVES THAT NIGHT.

I'VE NEVER LOST THE GUILT AND SOME PEOPLE CALL IT SURVIVOR'S GUILT.

I NEVER FELT LIKE - I NEVER KNEW WHY I WAS STILL ALIVE.

I ASKED MYSELF EVERY DAY AND EVERY NIGHT.

NEVER SLEPT A NIGHT FROM JUNE 25, 1996 UNTIL ABOUT A YEAR AGO, NEVER SLEPT THE NIGHT THROUGH, TORMENTED ME.

STILL DOES.

* JEREMY: SO, WHEN YOU SEE MY TODAY AND I'M TALKING TO SOMEBODY AND THEY SAY, MAN, THAT GUY'S GOT A LOT OF PASSION, I DON'T HAVE ANY PASSION, I'M VERY THANKFUL.

AND I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO BE WHERE I AM.

A LOT OF PRIDE KNOWING THAT ANOTHER HUMAN WANTS ME TO DO SOMETHING TO HELP THEM FEEL BETTER.

JUST TO SEE THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR MAKING SOMEBODY ELSE HAPPY.

MAN, IF THAT DOESN'T CREATE A FIRE IN YOU TO WANT TO KEEP CREATING AND KEEP ONE-UPPING YOURSELF, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL DOES.

I'D DO IT ALL DAY, MAN.

* RUTH: I'M RUTH EZELL AT THE MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM.

THIS IS WHERE THE PUBLIC CAME TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE LATE CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER AND ATTORNEY FRANKIE MUSE FREEMAN.

MOURNERS FILED BY FREEMAN'S CLOSED CASKET LYING IN STATE IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM ON JANUARY 19, 2018.

BLACK AND WHITE, YOUNG AND OLD, THE DIVERSITY OF THOSE WHO CAME SPOKE TO FREEMAN'S IMPACT ON HER COMMUNITY AND HER COUNTRY.

ST.

LOUIS CITY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND FORMER CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE JIMMIE EDWARDS.

JIMMIE: AND I RECALL A CASE THAT SHE TRIED IN THE CITY OF ST.

LOUIS, AND IT DEALT WITH PUBLIC HOUSING.

AND IT WAS A CASE WHERE SHE BELIEVED THAT IN PUBLIC HOUSING THERE WAS NO REASON TO DISCRIMINATE.

AND SHE WAS ABLE TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO THE POOR.

AND IT MAKES ME SMILE WHENEVER I THINK ABOUT THE ENERGY THAT SHE HAD, AND JUST THE KNOWLEDGE, THE PUR WISDOM THAT SHE OFFERED ALL OF US AS YOUNG LAWYERS AND YOUNG JUDGES, NOW OLD JUDGES AND OLD LAWYERS.

PHENOMENAL, WHAT A GREAT CELEBRATION IT IS FOR FRANKIE.

RUTH: MARIE FRANKIE MUSE WAS BORN IN DANVILLE, VIRGINIA, MORE THAN 100 YEARS AGO.

THE PRODUCT OF A COLLEGE-EDUCATED FAMILY, SHE GRADUATED FROM HOWARD UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL IN 1947.

TWO YEARS LATER, PRIOR TO THE BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION RULING THAT DECLARED SEPARATE SCHOOLS FOR BLACK AND WHITE STUDENTS UNCONSTITUTIONAL, FREEMAN WAS LEGAL COUNSEL ON THE TEAM THAT FILED SUIT AGAINST THE ST.

LOUIS BOARD OF EDUCATION.

HISTORIAN JOHN WRIGHT EXPLAINED THE CASE IN A 2016 INTERVIEW.

JOHN: THEY WERE OFFERING AERONAUTICAL COURSES AT HADLEY TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AND NOT AT WASHINGTON TECH.

HADLEY TECH WAS A FACTORY SHAPED BUILDING DESIGNED TO GET KIDS INTO INDUSTRIAL POSITIONS.

HADLEY WAS AN ALL-WHITE SCHOOL.

WASHINGTON TECH WAS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS.

IT WAS A CONVERTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

AND WASHINGTON TECH WAS DESIGNED TO DO ALSO, BUT LACKED THE FACILITIES TO REALLY MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

SO SHE FILED SUIT TO GET THE STUDENTS ADMITTED TO HADLEY TECH BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T GET INTO WASHINGTON, THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT AT WASHINGTON TECH.

AND THE COURTS SAID YOU EITHER HAD TO ADMIT THEM, OR BUILD A SIMILAR PROGRAM LIKE HADLEY TECH.

AND RATHER THAN DO THAT, THE BOARD CLOSED THE PROGRAM DOWN.

THEN THE 50'S SHE FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, WHERE AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE ON A LONG WAIT LIST, WHITE SECTIONS HAD MANY OPENINGS, SO THAT LAWSUIT WAS ONE AND THEY DID CHANGE THE HOUSING PATTERNS AND PUBLIC HOUSING.

FRANKIE: IT WAS DURING THAT TIME WHEN I WAS AT HAMILTON THAT I SAID THAT I WANTED TO BE A LAWYER.

RUTH: FRANKIE FREEMAN REFLECTED ON HER CHOSEN PROFESSION DURING A 2003 INTERVIEW ON THE NINE NETWORK PROGRAM "IN THE LOOP".

FRANKIE: WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE LAW, WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE LEGAL PROFESSION IS THAT IT JUST DEFINES THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND THE RIGHTS.

AND I THINK WE ALL HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO DO WHAT WE CAN.

THERE'S A GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY, THERE'S AN INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY.

AND I THINK WE CAN'T GIVE UP ON IT.

RUTH: FREEMAN'S LIST OF RESPONSIBILITIES WAS EXTENSIVE.

IN 1964, PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON NOMINATED HER TO THE U.S.

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS WHERE SHE SERVED FOR 16 YEARS.

DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER, FREEMAN WAS APPOINTED INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR THE COMMUNITY SERVICES ADMINISTRATION: AN ANTI-POVERTY AGENCY.

WHEN FREEMAN MET WITH THEN-FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH, IT WAS IN HER CAPACITY AS A NATIONAL OFFICIAL OF THE GIRL SCOUTS.

IN 2015, PRESIDENT BARAK OBAMA APPOINTED FREEMAN TO SERVE ON THE COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS.

HER ST.

LOUIS RESUME INCLUDED THE ST.

LOUIS HOUSING AUTHORITY: WHERE SHE WAS ASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL; AND FREEMAN CONTINUED TO PRACTICE LAW INTO HER 90S.

SHE WAS A ROLE MODEL TO GENERATIONS WHO FOLLOWED HER: INCLUDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS.

JAMES: 1981 I CAME BACK TO ST.

LOUIS, WENT TO WORK FOR GOVERNOR BOND, THE PERSON THEY CALLED WAS FRANKIE.

AND SHE ROLLED ME OUT OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

WHEN I TOOK THE URBAN LEAGUE OVER IN '85, I CALLED FRANKIE IMMEDIATELY, I SAID, I NEED YOU.

THAT WAS BECAUSE I WANTED THE URBAN LEAGUE TO BE MORE ADVOCACY, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND EVERYTHING I DID, WHEN I WENT TO JAIL IN '99 WITH THE HIGHWAY SHUT DOWN, THE MILLION MAN MARCH, THE PROTEST ON SOUTH AFRICA, THE PROTEST IN BELLVILLE ABOUT HIRING A MINORITY EMPLOYEE.

FRANKIE ADVISED ME ON EVERYTHING.

SHE TOLD ME HOW TO PICK MY FIGHTS, AND THEN DO IT IN A CIVIL WAY.

RUTH: IN KEINER PLAZA, YOU'LL FIND A STATUE OF FREEMAN UNVEILED IN NOVEMBER OF 2017.

THE STATUE WAS PRESENTED BY THE NAACP: WHICH SIX YEARS EARLIER, BESTOWED UPON FREEMAN THE CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION'S HIGHEST HONOR: THE SPINGAIRN MEDAL.

BUT FOR FRANKIE FREEMAN, AWARDS AND RECOGNITION WERE NEVER THINGS SHE PURSUED: IT WAS THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE THAT ULTIMATELY DEFINED HER LIFE.

* * ANNOUNCER: FUNDING FOR LIVING ST.

LOUIS IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MARY RANKIN JORDAN AND ETTIE A JORDAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

AND THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THE MEMBERS OF KETC.