00:16 - THIS PROGRAM IS UNDERWRITTEN

00:17 - BY CCA P THE COUNTY

00:19 - COMMISSIONERS ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

00:23 - PENNSYLVANIA IS HOME TO SOME

00:25 - OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL

00:26 - COURTHOUSES IN AMERICA.

00:28 - IT'S RARE WHEN POLITICS ART AND

00:30 - LAW MEET AT THE FRONT DOOR, BUT

00:32 - IT HAPPENS IN THE KEYSTONE STATE.

00:35 - SINCE

00:36 - 1886 THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

00:38 - ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA HAS

00:40 - CARRIED THE LEGACY.

00:42 - PENNSYLVANIA'S HISTORIC COUNTY

00:44 - COURTHOUSE, US.

00:53 - HELLO AND WELCOME TO BEDFORD

00:55 - COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA WHERE

00:56 - HERITAGE AND HOSPITALITY ME

00:58 - I'M JOSH LANG CHAIRMAN OF THE

01:00 - BEDFORD COUNTY BOARD OF

01:01 - COMMISSIONERS. THANK YOU FOR

01:02 - JOINING US TODAY.

01:03 - WE CERTAINLY HAVE A GREAT STORY

01:05 - TO TELL ABOUT THE HISTORIC

01:06 - BEDFORD COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

01:08 - BUT FOR COUNTY WITH A POPULATION OF 48,480

01:12 - IS LOCATED IN THE FOOTHILLS OF

01:14 - THE PURSE TEEN SOUTHERN

01:15 - ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS WITH A 500

01:17 - MILE RADIUS OF MORE THAN 40% OF

01:19 - THE NATION'S POPULATION, LESS

01:21 - THAN 3 HOURS FROM BALTIMORE,

01:22 - WASHINGTON PITTSBURGH, AND

01:24 - PHILADELPHIA. THE COUNTY HAS AN

01:26 - EXCEPTIONAL TRANSPORTATION

01:27 - NETWORK, WHAT MORE INTERSTATE

01:29 - HIGHWAY MILES THAN ANY OTHER

01:30 - COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

01:33 - BEDFORD COUNTY LIES AT THE VERY

01:34 - HUB OF TRANSPORTATION ROUTES OF

01:36 - THE MID ATLANTIC STATES 90

01:38 - MILES FROM PITTSBURGH. 148 FROM

01:41 - BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON AND

01:43 - 200 FROM PHILADELPHIA. AT THE

01:45 - CROSSROADS OF PENNSYLVANIA

01:46 - TURNPIKE INTERSTATE 70 IN 99.

01:49 - AND US ROUTES TO 2030 IS WITHIN EASY REACH

01:53 - OF OTHER MAJOR CONCENTRATIONS

01:55 - OF INDUSTRY IN POPULATION.

01:57 - A SMALL COMMUNITY WITH A RICH

01:59 - HISTORY. SELLERS FOUND A BETTER

02:01 - BACK IN 1771 FROM

02:03 - PARTS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY IN

02:04 - ORDER TO FORT BEDFORD. THE FORT

02:07 - IN ADDITION TO THE SUPPLY

02:08 - ROUTE. FORBES TRAIL HOPE THE

02:10 - BRITISH STAMP OUT THE FRENCH PRESIDENT'S AT

02:12 - FORT DUQUESNE YEARS LATER

02:14 - TRANSPORTATION BECAME A KEY

02:15 - PART OF BEDFORD'S ECONOMY IN

02:18 - 1852. THE HONEY 10 IN BROAD TOP

02:20 - MOUNTAIN RAILROAD CAME THE BAD

02:22 - FOR BRINGING COAL FOR OVER

02:23 - A CENTURY IMMIGRANT MINORS

02:25 - TOILED DEEP UNDERGROUND IN THE

02:27 - COAL MINES FUELING AMERICA'S

02:29 - INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

02:32 - THE ORIGINAL PART OF 1829

02:34 - COURTROOM IS THE SECOND OLDEST

02:36 - STILL IN CONTINUOUS USE TODAY

02:37 - IN PENNSYLVANIA. THROUGHOUT

02:39 - THIS VIDEO YOU'LL LEARN ALL

02:40 - ABOUT OUR HISTORY OF OUR

02:42 - COURTHOUSE. I HOPE YOU ENJOY.

02:46 - ONE AIMS THOMAS, A SLING. I HAVE THE HONOR

02:49 - SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT JUDGE IT.

02:51 - OF PATRICK COUNTY COURT

02:53 - SYSTEM FORMALLY KNOWN AS THE

02:55 - 57TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT AS

02:58 - PRESIDENT JUDGE I'M RESPONSIBLE

02:59 - FOR THE ADMINISTRATORS DO THESE

03:02 - ARE THE COURT THAT INCLUDES

03:04 - MANAGING CASE FLOW. SUPERVISING

03:06 - THE STAFF AND COURT

03:07 - ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. THE

03:09 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS OFFICE

03:10 - PROBATION. NOR FOR MAGISTERIAL

03:12 - DISTRICT JUDGES.

03:14 - A LOT OF MY CALLING A JUDGE

03:15 - LIVENGOOD WE HANDLE AND MISTER

03:18 - ALL MATTERS COMING BEFORE THE

03:19 - COURT OF COMMON PLEAS IN VENTURA COUNTY.

03:22 - AND SMALL COUNTY SUCH AS BET

03:23 - FOR THE PRESIDENT JUDGESHIP IS

03:26 - GOES BY SENIORITY. WE HAVE 2

03:28 - ELECTED JUDGES IN THE COUNTY.

03:30 - I'M SENIOR ON LEE PRESIDENT

03:32 - JUDGE AS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR.

03:35 - WERE PRESENT YOUR DAY IN THE

03:37 - 1829. COURTROOM OF THE BEDFORD

03:39 - COUNTY COURTHOUSE. PRIOR TO

03:41 - 2007 IT WAS SIMPLY KNOWN AS THE

03:44 - BEDFORD COUNTY COURTROOM.

03:45 - AS IT WAS OUR ONLY COURT ROOM.

03:48 - A PUSH A PART OF THE BUILDING

03:50 - WAS COMPLETED. AND THIS WAS

03:51 - RENAMED HIS COURTROOM NUMBER ONE.

03:54 - I FIRST APPEAR IN THIS

03:56 - COURTROOM AS A SENIOR. JUST

03:59 - RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM

04:00 - COLLEGE. I WAS BORN AND RAISED

04:02 - IN BEDFORD COUNTY BUT I'VE

04:03 - NEVER BEEN ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF

04:04 - THE COURTHOUSE. UNTIL THE

04:06 - SUMMER 77, I WAS SUMMONED FOR

04:08 - JURY DUTY. HOUSE QUITE ANXIOUS

04:10 - TO BE CHOSEN, I'VE BEEN

04:12 - ACCEPTED LAST ONE CAR ALLOW FOR

04:14 - THE FALL. LET THIS BE MY LAST

04:16 - CHANCE TO SEE ONE LIKE TO BE ON

04:17 - THE JURY HEARD. I STARTED

04:19 - CENTER HERE BUT EVENTUALLY WAS

04:21 - PICKED AND I SAID ACTUALLY IN

04:22 - THAT SECOND CHAIR RIGHT THERE.

04:25 - FOR SELECTION OF A JURY IT.

04:30 - ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY

04:31 - DANIEL HAUSER LATER PRESIDENT

04:33 - JUDGE HAUSER WAS THE ASSISTANT

04:36 - DISTRICT I PRESENT

04:37 - THE CASE. I WAS FAN. ONE WAS

04:39 - OUR PRESIDENT JUDGES ON THE BENCH.

04:41 - WHAT STRUCK ME MOST ABOUT THE

04:43 - COURTROOM ASIDE FROM THE

04:44 - PORTRAITS OF THE WALL WAS THE GREAT LAKES.

04:48 - IT WOULD EASILY ACCOMMODATE I

04:50 - THOUGHT 3 JUDGES.

04:52 - I HAD NO FAMILY THAT BEEN A

04:54 - MEMBER A COURT STAFF ARE

04:56 - APPEARING QUARTER WAS A LAWYER.

04:58 - EVERYTHING I KNEW ABOUT COURT

04:59 - PROCEEDINGS. I KNEW FROM TV

05:01 - MOVIES. WE DIDN'T HAVE IT IN

05:03 - THOSE DAYS. SO I THOUGHT WHY

05:05 - WOULD YOU HAVE ROOM FOR 3

05:06 - BENCHES 3 JUDGES ON SUCH A LONG

05:08 - BENCH, WHEN YOU ONLY ONLY HAVE

05:10 - ONE JUDGE FOR ALI WRONG

05:12 - BECAUSE IT FROM A LOT OF OUR

05:14 - HISTORY 3 JUDGES PRESIDED THE

05:16 - COURT FROM 1791 TO

05:20 - 1931.

05:22 - THE COURT BENCH MORE LEAD

05:23 - COMEDY 3 JUDGES. THE PORTRAYED

05:26 - YOU SEE ALONG THE WALL OR THE

05:28 - JUDGES LEARNED IN THE LAW BY

05:30 - THE CONSTITUTION OF 17 A 91.

05:33 - MOSTLY WRITTEN BY JAMES WILSON

05:35 - WON THE FOUNDERS OF THIS

05:36 - COUNTRY. THE STATE OF

05:38 - PENNSYLVANIA COUNTIES WERE

05:39 - SIGNAGE A JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

05:42 - EACH JUDICIAL DISTRICT WAS TO

05:44 - HAVE ONE JUDGE LEARNED IN THE

05:46 - LAW THAT ITSELF WAS A CHANGE

05:48 - FOR A 100 YEARS BEFORE THAT WE

05:50 - ARGUED IN PENNSYLVANIA, WHETHER

05:52 - JUDGES SHOULD BE LAWYERS.

05:54 - THAT WAS A CONCERN THAT LAWYERS

05:56 - IF THEY HAD BEEN BECAME JUDGES

05:58 - WITH ONLY INVOLVED IN THE

06:00 - MINUTIA OF THE LAW WOULDN'T

06:02 - CARE ABOUT THE BIG ISSUES

06:03 - INVOLVED PEOPLE AND SO THEY

06:05 - WANT TO LAY PERSON TO EDUCATE

06:06 - HIM, GOOD CHARACTER. THE

06:07 - JUDGES. BUT WITH A 1791

06:09 - CONSTITUTION THAT CHANGE TO

06:11 - RESOLVE THE CONCERNS OF PEOPLE

06:13 - THAT STILL HAD THAT CAN WORRIES

06:16 - ABOUT WHETHER AN ELECTED JUDGE

06:18 - WOULD KNOW THEM OR BE FROM THERE.

06:20 - THE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE LAW

06:21 - PROVIDED THAT IN EACH COUNTY,

06:23 - I'M ON MY COUNTY JUDICIAL

06:24 - DISTRICT. 2 PERSONS OF GOOD

06:26 - CHARACTER EDUCATION WILL BE

06:28 - LIKE THAT AS ASSOCIATE JUDGES

06:30 - OVER TIME THESE BECAME KNOWN AS

06:32 - ASSOCIATE JUDGE HAS NOT LEARNED IN THE LAW.

06:35 - THEY PRESIDED WITH THE LAW

06:36 - JUDGE THEY WERE LEGAL RIGHT TO

06:38 - LAW JUDGE BUT THEY'RE DIFFERENT

06:39 - DUTIES. THE LAW JUDGE DECIDE

06:41 - ALL MATTERS A LOT AND WE SAT

06:43 - WITH THE SET WITH THE JURY THE

06:44 - ASSOCIATES WERE

06:45 - NOT PRESENT THAT ALL CASES WITH

06:48 - DID NOT INVOLVE A JURY. WE'RE

06:49 - FACTS NEED TO BE RESOLVED.

06:51 - THE 2 SESSIONS SAT ON THE BENCH

06:53 - WITH A LOT YET. A FACT THAT

06:55 - WERE MASTERS OF THE FACTS.

06:57 - THE 2 SO SHE AGREED THE FACTS

06:59 - OF THE CASE ARE CERTAIN WAY THE LAW JUDGE

07:01 - CAN OVERRULE BUT OF COURSE THE

07:03 - ASSOCIATES COULDN'T TOUCH

07:04 - QUESTIONS, A LAW THERE'S RESORT TO A LOT.

07:07 - THIS CONTINUED MISSED COUNTY UNTIL

07:09 - 1931. WHEN BETTER RESENT

07:12 - CREATED AS A SEPARATE

07:13 - INDEPENDENT JUDICIAL DISTRICT.

07:14 - THE 57TH THAT TIME WE HAD TO

07:17 - ASSOCIATE JUDGES. THE LAST 2 OR

07:19 - ANTHONY SAMUELS AND SERVICE

07:20 - PERMIT. UNIVERSITY ENOUGH.

07:23 - MISTER MEKEL JUDGE NICKEL.

07:25 - SURGE OF THE JUDGE OF ELECTIONS

07:26 - ON THE RESULTS

07:27 - IN THE 1931 ELECTION WERE IN A

07:29 - JUDGE WAS CHOSEN. THE OFFICE OF

07:32 - ASSOCIATE JUDGE IN PENNSYLVANIA

07:34 - NOT LEARN THE WALL WAS INVOLVED

07:36 - UNTIL 1968 CONSTITUTION.

07:38 - THOSE TIMES JUDGES WERE ALLOWED

07:40 - TO FINISH OUT THE TERMS BUT

07:41 - SINCE THAT TIME THERE ONLY BEEN

07:43 - LAW JUDGES. BUT THAT WAS NOT

07:44 - THE END THE THREE-JUDGE PANELS.

07:47 - FOR THE 19 60'S TO THE 1970'S.

07:50 - IN CRIMINAL CASES WHERE THE

07:52 - DEFENDANT PLED GUILTY TO

07:54 - CRIMINAL HOMICIDE. WITHOUT A

07:56 - JURY. A 3 JUDGE PANEL TO

07:58 - BE CONVENE THIS IDEA

08:00 - GREAT DEAL FOR THE FIRST DEGREE

08:01 - SECOND DEGREE 3RD DEGREE

08:03 - MANSLAUGHTER. OUR OWN PRESIDENT

08:04 - JUDGE VAN WARRANT PRESIDED OR

08:06 - WAS PANELS IN 1970

08:08 - ALONG WITH A JUDGE IN FULTON

08:10 - COUNTY AND ONE FROM SOMERSET

08:11 - COUNTY THAT WAS BEFORE MY TIME,

08:13 - BUT MY UNDERSTANDING THE

08:14 - VERDICT WAS FOR THIRD-DEGREE MURDER.

08:16 - FINALLY EVEN WHEN THE LAW CHANGED IN

08:18 - THAT REGARD. I MYSELF AS SAD AS

08:21 - A 3 JUDGE PANEL MANY TIMES

08:23 - THIS IS FOR CEREMONIAL

08:24 - OCCASIONS SWEARING-IN

08:25 - CEREMONIES FOR ELECTIONS,

08:27 - MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR MEMBERS OF THE BAR,

08:29 - ONE NEW MEMBERS ARE APPOINTED

08:30 - OR OTHER FOR OR OTHER ORNERY

08:32 - CAJUNS. THESE DAYS WHEN

08:34 - WE SET US PRESIDENT JUDGE I

08:36 - PRESIDE. JUDGE VAN WAR

08:39 - JUDGE HAUSER WE TEAR SUCH A

08:42 - SENIOR JUDGE JUDGE LIVINGOOD

08:44 - SAID TO SECOND LOT IT. MY FIRST

08:46 - ONE ON THE BENCH. JUDGE VAN

08:47 - HORNE WAS A SENIOR JUDGE

08:49 - PRESIDENT JUDGE HAUSER WAS THE

08:50 - PRESIDENT JUDGE AND I WAS A

08:53 - SECOND LAW JUDGE. SO THE NEXT

08:56 - ON A SET AS A 3 JUDGE PANEL ON

08:58 - THAT BENCH. WE THIS DECEMBER.

09:00 - WHEN WE SWEAR IN THE NEW

09:01 - ELECTED OFFICIALS INCLUDING A

09:03 - NEW ELECTED SECOND LAW JUDGE

09:06 - THAT WOULD BE MY RETIREMENT AND

09:08 - FROM EXCEPT FOR SENIOR STATUS.

09:10 - TIME AFTER THAT AS I SAID ON

09:12 - THAT BENCH. IT WILL BE IS A

09:12 - SENIOR JET. IT WILL NOT ACCEPT

09:15 - IS A SENIOR JUDGE

09:16 - ARI TARA AND TAKE A POINT THIS

09:18 - IS BRILLIANT. MAYBE I'LL BE

09:19 - CALLED FOR JURY SERVICE

09:21 - I DO I GET SELECTED BECAUSE I

09:23 - NEVER DID GET TO FIND OUT WHAT

09:24 - WAS LIKE TO SERVE ON A JURY.

09:25 - I THINK IT PICKED THAT DAY.

09:27 - NOW ONE OTHER POINT OF INTEREST

09:29 - IS THE BACK OFFICE ROOM.

09:31 - I HEAR IN THE COURTROOM THAT

09:32 - HAS ITS OWN STINK THE NAME.

09:36 - THIS IS A SMALL OFFICE SPACE. SINCE THE

09:39 - COURTHOUSE WAS CONSTRUCTED IN

09:40 - 1829 NEWS FOR MANY THINGS AT

09:42 - ONE POINT. IT WAS THE CLERK'S

09:44 - OFFICE BUT 1993. IT SERVED AS A

09:48 - OFFICE SPACE OR MEETING ROOM.

09:50 - FOR LAWYERS AND THEIR CLIENTS

09:53 - WHO ARE AWAITING TRIAL.

09:54 - IN JUNE OF 19 93 ON THE 29TH

09:57 - AS DISTRICT ATTORNEY I WAS

09:59 - PRESENTING A BURGLARY CASE

10:00 - AGAINST YOUNG MAN.

10:02 - CHARGED IN WAS IN PROCESS OF

10:04 - PRESENTING ITS CASE TO

10:05 - THE JURY. I HAD SOMEONE WITNESS

10:07 - FROM MARYLAND THAT WITNESS WAS

10:09 - DELAYED. PRESIDENT JUDGE HAUSER

10:11 - CALLED A RECESS

10:12 - AND THE YOUNG MAN AND HIS

10:13 - LAWYER, THE PUBLIC DEFENDER

10:15 - MUSK YOU'RE VERY FINE ATTORNEY

10:17 - CAME THIS BACK ROOM TO CONFIRM

10:18 - WEIGHT TO WIN THIS WAS SUMMIT.

10:21 - MR. PUGH WAS CALLED AWAY BY THE

10:23 - DEPUTY STAFF WHO WAS OUTSIDE

10:24 - THE DOOR. AND WHEN HE LEFT THE

10:26 - YOUNG MAN ROSE OPENED

10:28 - HIS WINDOW. LOWER HIMSELF TO

10:31 - THE GROUND AND TOOK OFF.

10:33 - WE'RE RECAPTURING TO A MONTH

10:35 - LATER AFTER SOME VERY FINE WORK

10:36 - BY THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE

10:37 - POLICE AND THE 30 MILE HIGH

10:39 - SPEED CHASE. THE SHENANDOAH

10:41 - VALLEY. ONLY IN OCTOBER OF THAT

10:44 - SAME YEAR HE WAS SENT IN BY

10:46 - JUDGE HAUSER WE ACTUALLY FINISHED

10:48 - THAT RAO IN HIS ABSENCE IS

10:50 - CALLED TRIAL ABSTENTION BECAUSE

10:52 - HE HAD FLED THE COURTROOM.

10:54 - SO HE WAS SENTENCED IN OCTOBER OF THAT YEAR

10:57 - TO 4 AND A HALF TO 10 YEARS FOR

10:59 - BURGLARY AND ESCAPE. BUT FROM

11:01 - THE TIME IN 93 IN JUNE WHEN

11:03 - HE LEFT COURTHOUSE STAFF AND

11:05 - PERSONNEL OF ALWAYS REFERRED TO

11:06 - THIS IS THE JUMPER OH I CALLED

11:08 - THE HISTORICAL STORIES IS NOT

11:09 - QUITE CORRECT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T

11:11 - JUMP THE LOWER HIMSELF, BUT IS

11:13 - THE DOMINATE THE JUMP REMEMBER SENSE.

11:19 - THIS IS COURTROOM NUMBER 2 IN

11:21 - THE NEW EDITION OF THE BEDFORD

11:25 - IT WAS CONSTRUCTED FINISHED IN

11:27 - 2007. WE HANDLE HERE ALL FAMILY

11:30 - LAW MATTERS. A

11:31 - DIVORCE CUSTODY. YOU KNOW THE

11:33 - ONE WITH THE INDEPENDENT SEE

11:35 - THIS IS A CORE WHY NORMALLY PER

11:36 - SIDE. MY SO SHE JUDGE LOOKING

11:38 - GOOD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

11:39 - CRIMINAL AND CIVIL TRIAL

11:40 - DIVISION. HIS COURTROOM IS

11:42 - NORMALLY COURTROOM. ONE WORD

11:43 - EARLIER. HANG ON THE

11:45 - WALL HERE OR PORTRAY TO WERE

11:47 - COMPLETED. BACK IN 2000

11:50 - FOR THE ORIGINAL COURTROOM, ONE

11:51 - THAT WAS UP THE COURTROOM TO WHICH IS UP

11:53 - THE ALLEY. THESE WERE DONE BY A

11:56 - BASEMENT COMPETITION FROM ALL

11:58 - THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE

11:59 - COUNTY. THEY WERE CHOSEN BY

12:02 - THEIR TEACHERS. TO SMITH TO THE

12:04 - ARTS COUNCIL, THE BEST ONES

12:06 - WERE PICKED BY THE

12:06 - ARTS COUNCIL. THE BEDFORD

12:08 - COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION PAID FOR THE FRAMING

12:10 - AND THEIR FAMILY OR ANY

12:12 - PICTURES WHICH WOULD DEEM TO BE

12:14 - APPROPRIATE TO HANG HERE.

12:15 - IN FAMILY COURT ROOM OVER THE YEARS

12:19 - WANTED TO THOSE ARE SOME NOW

12:20 - GROWN UP AND ACTUALLY OF HAD

12:22 - BUSINESS HERE IN THE FAMILY

12:23 - COURT. HERE'S A REMINDER

12:24 - NATIONWIDE TO SAY. OUR

12:27 - BENCH HERE. AGAIN BACK THE

12:29 - TOPPING THE OTHER COURTROOM.

12:30 - EVEN THOUGH IT WAS BUILT IN

12:32 - 2007. YOU CAN SEE WE MADE A

12:33 - LARGE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE 3

12:35 - JUDGES. SO WE KNOW REDUCE OR

12:37 - REMOVE A CEREMONIAL OCCASION

12:38 - OVER HERE. BUT WE REALLY COULD.

12:41 - AS I THIS IS THE COURTROOM I

12:44 - NORMALLY OPERATE IN I'LL BE

12:45 - HOLDING COURT HERE UNTIL

12:46 - DECEMBER. THIS YEAR 2019 WHEN I

12:50 - TAKE RETIREMENT.

12:55 - HI MY NAME IS TRAVIS

12:56 - SOMETHING GOOD ON THE JUDGE OF

12:57 - THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS HERE

12:58 - IN BEDFORD COUNTY WHICH IS THE

12:59 - 57TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. I LIKE

13:02 - TO WELCOME YOU HERE TO NUMBER

13:03 - ONE, WHICH IS CURRENTLY ARE

13:05 - CIVIL AND CRIMINAL TRIAL A

13:07 - COURT AND WHICH WE HOLD ALL THE

13:09 - TRIALS HERE.

13:10 - COURTROOM TO IS LOCATED DOWN

13:11 - THE HALLWAY THAT HE DEALS WITH ALL THE

13:13 - FAMILY COURT. THIS COURTROOM IS

13:15 - VERY HISTORICAL IT'S ONE OF THE

13:17 - OLDEST COURTROOM STILL CURRENTLY IN USE IN

13:19 - PENNSYLVANIA AND ONE OF THE

13:20 - STRIKING FEATURES HERE IN THE

13:22 - COURTROOM ARE ALL THE PORTRAITS

13:24 - THAT LINE THE COURTROOM TO PLAN

13:27 - A LOT OF OTHER COURTHOUSES

13:30 - COURTROOM ONLY HAS

13:31 - ONE PICTURE AND IT OF THE

13:32 - CURRENT SITTING JUDGE OR

13:33 - PERHAPS ONE OF THE THE AH A

13:36 - PRIOR JUDGES IN THIS CORE MORE

13:37 - BLESSED TO HAVE ALL THE JUDGES

13:39 - HAVE SAT HERE IN THIS DISH OR

13:40 - DISTRICT AND ONE OF THE JUDGES

13:42 - I THINK IS VERY STRIKING IS

13:44 - JUDGE JEREMIAH BLACK.

13:45 - HE IS A OVER HERE TO MY OVER MY

13:48 - SHOULDER HERE.

13:49 - JUDGE BLACK HAS A VERY STRIKING

13:51 - PORTRAIT. AS YOU A SEAT, A

13:54 - LOT OF THE OTHER JUDGES DON'T

13:56 - LOOK RIGHT AT THE VIEWER AND

13:59 - THEIR PORTRAIT WHICH WAS

14:00 - TYPICALLY THE THE THE CASE BACK

14:02 - WHENEVER THESE PUT WHENEVER

14:03 - THEY HAVE THEIR PORTRAITS

14:04 - TAKEN. JUDGE BLACK HAS A

14:07 - IMPORTANT HISTORICAL

14:08 - IMPORTANCE, NOT ONLY IN THIS

14:09 - COUNTY NOT ONLY IN THE STATE.

14:12 - BUT NATIONALLY.

14:13 - HE'S OF A VERY IMPRESSIVE IN

14:16 - THAT HE CAME UP IN A RURAL PART

14:18 - OF THE STATE HERE AND A ROSE THE IN THE

14:23 - COUNTY GOVERNMENT STATE

14:24 - GOVERNMENT AND THE EVENTUALLY

14:25 - THE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

14:27 - HE HAD NO FORMAL EDUCATION.

14:29 - AND DESPITE THAT THROUGH

14:31 - POLITICAL SAVVY HIS INTELLIGENCE AND SKILL.

14:34 - HE ROSE TO SERVE ACTUALLY IN A

14:36 - PRESIDENTIAL CABINET AND CAME

14:38 - WITHIN A HAIR'S BREATH OF

14:39 - SITTING ON THE UNITED STATES

14:41 - SUPREME COURT. JUDGE BLACK WAS BORN IN

14:43 - 1810 IN SOMERSET COUNTY YOU MAY

14:46 - WONDER WELL WHY IS THAT JUDGE

14:47 - SITTING AND A COURT IN BEDFORD

14:49 - COUNTY. THAT'S BECAUSE BACK

14:51 - WHEN JUDGE WAS BORN AND A WAS

14:54 - ADMITTED TO THE BAR, OUR

14:55 - JUDICIAL DISTRICT WAS THE 16TH

14:57 - JUDICIAL DISTRICT WHICH

14:59 - ENCOMPASS A PORTIONS OF SOMERSET BEDFORD

15:02 - FOLD IN IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY SO

15:05 - I WAS A MUCH LARGER DISTRICT

15:06 - BACK THEN. UNDER A LOCAL

15:09 - ATTORNEY AND SOMERSET

15:11 - AND AGAIN TO NO FORMAL WAS

15:14 - ACTUALLY ADMITTED TO THE BAR AT

15:17 - AT THE AGE OF 20 AND THEN WAS APPOINTED AS

15:20 - THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL IN

15:21 - SOMERSET COUNTY FOR MANY WAS TO

15:24 - A IN THE 16TH JUDICIAL

15:27 - DISTRICT. HE THAT WAS AT THE AGE

15:29 - OF 32 SERVED HERE FOR ABOUT

15:32 - 9 YEARS. AFTER HE SERVED HERE

15:35 - FOR 9 YEARS HE WAS THEN ELECTED

15:37 - TO THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT AND 1851.

15:41 - NOW THE INTERESTING PART ABOUT

15:43 - THAT DATE IS YOU ACTUALLY BEEN ONE OF THE

15:46 - FIRST JUDGES EVER ELECTED IN

15:48 - PENNSYLVANIA BECAUSE THE

15:49 - PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTION WAS

15:50 - CHANGED IN 1852 REQUIRE THAT

15:53 - ALL JUDGES BE ELECTED.

15:55 - SO NOT ONLY WOULD HE HAVE BEEN

15:56 - ONE OF THE FIRST JUDGE IS

15:57 - ELECTED IN PENNSYLVANIA.

15:59 - BUT CERTAINLY ONE OF THE FIRST

16:00 - JUDGES EVER ELECTED TO THE

16:02 - PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT.

16:03 - HE SERVED OUT ON THE

16:05 - PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT FOR

16:06 - A NUMBER OF YEARS

16:08 - SERVING AS THE CHIEF JUSTICE ON

16:10 - THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT FOR 3 YEARS.

16:14 - FROM THEN HIS POLITICAL LIFE

16:16 - AND HIS IN NATIONAL POLITICS

16:19 - KYRA CUTS HE WAS A LONGTIME

16:21 - FRIEND AND COMPANION AND ADVISOR TO

16:24 - JAMES BUCHANAN WHO HAD JUST

16:26 - BEEN WAS ELECTED THAT AS

16:29 - PRESIDENT UNITED STATES IN

16:31 - 1857. A JUDGE BLACK WAS NOMINATED

16:35 - AS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE

16:37 - UNITED STATES AND SERVED IN

16:39 - THAT CAPACITY FOR ABOUT 3

16:40 - YEARS. NOW AT THAT TIME A SECESSION

16:43 - HAD BEGUN BLEEDING HAD BEGUN

16:47 - THE DEBATE ON WHETHER OR NOT

16:50 - THE. WESTFORD EXPANDING STATES

16:53 - SHOULD BE FREE OR SLAVE-HOLDING

16:54 - STATES WAS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE

16:56 - AND JUDGE BLACK WAS AT THE

16:57 - FOREFRONT OF A LOT OF THESE

16:59 - ISSUES. HE HAD TO CONTEND WITH

17:01 - WHETHER OR NOT HE HAD A

17:02 - WOODEN FORCE. THE FUGITIVE

17:06 - FEDERAL LAWS, PROHIBITING ARE

17:08 - ALLOWING THAT. SO HE HAD HE WAS

17:11 - AT THE FOREFRONT OF A LOT OF

17:12 - IMPORTANT POLICY DECISION

17:14 - MAKINGS IN THE BUCHANAN

17:15 - ADMINISTRATION. IN DUE TO THE

17:19 - CURRENT US SECRETARY OF STATE

17:21 - RESIGNING UNDER THE BUCHANAN

17:23 - ADMINISTRATION. JUDGE BLACK WAS

17:25 - ACTUALLY MAN NOMINATED TO THE

17:26 - UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF

17:28 - STATE WHERE HE SERVED FROM 1860 DAY

17:30 - TEEN 61. THEY HAD A KEY

17:32 - HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE INFORMING

17:35 - THE BUCHANAN ADMINISTRATION POLICY

17:37 - REGARDING SECESSION AND

17:39 - REGARDING THE EMERGING

17:41 - SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY IN 1860

17:44 - WANT TO BE CAN THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY

17:46 - OF STATE. HE WOULD HAVE THEM

17:48 - BEEN REALLY THE FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE

17:51 - TO EVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH A

17:53 - FOREIGN BODY WITHIN HIS OWN

17:56 - ACTUAL BORDERS THAT WAS REALLY

17:57 - AH THE THE FIRST TIME THAT EVER

17:59 - OCCURRED. FOR US SECRETARY OF

18:01 - STATE AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IN

18:03 - 18 60 IN DECEMBER OF

18:05 - 1860. THE SOUTH CAROLINIAN

18:07 - GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED TO

18:08 - SECEDE FROM THE UNION

18:10 - AND NOW JUDGE BLACK NOT ONLY

18:11 - HAD TO DEAL WITH A FOREIGN

18:13 - DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS, BUT HE HAD

18:14 - TO DEAL WITH WANT WITHIN

18:16 - EMERGING FOREIGN BODY WITHIN

18:18 - HIS NATIONAL BORDERS

18:20 - WHICH OBVIOUSLY PRESENTS A LOT

18:23 - AND POOR DECISION-MAKING IN AND

18:25 - PROBLEMS THAT NO OTHER DIPLOMAT

18:27 - REALLY HAD TO DEAL WITH.

18:29 - JUDGE BLACK WAS VERY FORMATIVE

18:30 - IN THE BUCHANAN

18:31 - ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION ON SECESSION

18:36 - THE BUCHANAN ADMINISTRATION WAS

18:37 - OFT-CRITICIZED ON THEIR POLICY

18:39 - MAKING DECISION.

18:40 - BUT JUDGE LOT JUDGE BLACK WAS

18:42 - VERY FORMATIVE AND THAT POLICY

18:44 - MAKING DECISION

18:45 - THAT BEING THAT JUDGE BLACK IT

18:47 - WAS HIS LEGAL OPINION THAT

18:48 - SOUTHERN STATES HAD NO RIGHT TO

18:50 - SECEDE UNDER THE UNITED STATES

18:52 - CONSTITUTION. BUT IN THE SAME

18:54 - RESPECT THE FOR THE FEDERAL

18:55 - GOVERNMENT HAD NO LEGAL

18:57 - AUTHORITY TO COMPEL THEM TO

18:59 - REMAIN IN THE FEDERAL

19:00 - GOVERNMENT WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY

19:02 - WAS A VERY CONTROVERSIAL

19:04 - OPINION AT THAT TIME.

19:06 - JUDGE BLACK ALSO WAS

19:07 - VERY INSTRUMENTAL AND ACTUALLY

19:10 - BRINGING ABOUT THE ONSET OF THE

19:12 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AS THE

19:14 - UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE.

19:17 - HE URGED FOREIGN DIPLOMATS, NOT

19:19 - TO RECOGNIZE THE CONFEDERACY AS

19:22 - THE STATE'S BEGINS THE SEED

19:23 - WHICH OFTEN OBVIOUSLY

19:25 - ROSE TENSIONS BETWEEN THE NORTH

19:27 - NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STATES.

19:29 - IN ADDITION TO THAT A JUDGE

19:31 - BLACK WAS THE SITTING UNITED

19:33 - STATES SECRETARY OF STATE

19:35 - WHENEVER THE SOUTH CAROLINIAN

19:36 - GOVERNMENT DEMANDED THE STATE

19:38 - TAKEOVER A FORT SUMTER

19:41 - JUDGE BLACK WAS THE ONE PENNED

19:43 - THE LETTER DOWN TO THE SOUTH

19:44 - CAROLINIAN GOVERNMENT. THE 9 THE FORT AND

19:48 - THE 94 TO THE STATE'S SOUTH

19:50 - CURRENTLY IN GOVERNMENT KEEPING

19:52 - IT INTO FEDERAL HANDS.

19:54 - IN ADDITION TO THAT A JUDGE IT

19:56 - WAS JUDGE BLACKS DECISION

19:59 - SUPPORT THE FORT THROUGH

20:00 - REINFORCEMENTS AND KEEPING IN

20:02 - FEDERAL HANDS WHICH ONLY THEN

20:04 - LED AND A FEW MONTHS, THE FIRST

20:07 - SHOT OF THE CIVIL WAR AT FORT

20:10 - SUMTER IN SOUTH CAROLINA AFTER

20:12 - HIS TIME AT THE AS THE UNITED

20:13 - STATES SECRETARY OF STATE.

20:15 - IN THE WANING MONTHS OF THE

20:17 - JAMES BUCHANAN PRESIDENCY.

20:20 - JUDGE BLACK WAS ACTUALLY

20:21 - NOMINATED BY PRESIDENT BUCHANAN

20:23 - TO AN OPEN SEAT ON THE UNITED

20:24 - STATES SUPREME COURT

20:26 - THAT THE SEAT WAS VACANT FOR

20:28 - ABOUT 8 MONTHS PRIOR TO JUDGE

20:29 - BLACKS NOMINATION. HE WAS

20:31 - NOMINATED WITH JUST A FEW

20:33 - MONTHS LEFT IN THE OF THE JAMES

20:35 - BUCHANAN. PRESIDENCY AND A

20:38 - NOMINATION PROCESS

20:41 - WOULD HAVE PROBABLY BEEN SMOOTH

20:42 - SAILING FOR JUDGE BLACK

20:44 - ACTUALLY TURNED VERY SOUR.

20:46 - THAT'S BECAUSE WHEN HE WAS

20:47 - NOMINATED. A JUDGE BLACK WAS A

20:49 - VERY STAUNCH DEMOCRAT WHEN HE

20:52 - WAS NOMINATED JUST PRIOR TO THE

20:54 - LINCOLN ADMINISTRATION COMING

20:56 - IN AND THAT FEBRUARY REPUBLICAN SUPPORT FOR

20:59 - JUDGE BLACK HAD HAD WANE VERY

21:02 - STRONGLY BECAUSE THE INCOMING

21:03 - REPUBLICANS VERY MUCH WANTED

21:05 - THEIR OWN MAN IN LINCOLN

21:06 - TO MAKE THE NOMINATION FOR THE

21:08 - SUPREME COURT'S ALL OF THIS OF

21:09 - THE SUPPORT FOR HIM ON THE REPUBLICAN

21:11 - SIDE LEFT. AND IN ADDITION TO

21:13 - THAT AS YOU CAN IMAGINE THE

21:14 - DEMOCRATS SUPPORT FOR

21:16 - JUDGE BLACK WAYNE BECAUSE ALL

21:18 - THOSE STATES WERE LEAVING BUT

21:19 - THAT AT THAT POINT SOUTH

21:20 - CAROLINA HAD SECEDED AND THE

21:22 - STRONG URGE FOR SECESSION IN

21:24 - THE SOUTH HAD TAKEN ALL OF THIS

21:26 - SUPPORT FROM JUDGE BLACK ON THE

21:28 - DEMOCRATIC SIDE IN FACT THE

21:30 - CONFIRMATION PROCESS FOR JUDGE

21:32 - BLACK WAS ONE OF THE FEW THAT

21:34 - ENDED IN A NON CONFIRMATION.

21:36 - FOR HIM ONE OF THE FEW IN OUR

21:37 - NATION'S HISTORY. AND ONE OF

21:39 - THE FEW IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY

21:41 - IS ACTUALLY MADE JUST PRIOR TO AN INCOMING

21:43 - PRESIDENT'S COMING IN ALL THOSE

21:45 - THINGS ADDED UP TO A A

21:47 - NEGATIVE CONFIRMATION PROCESS

21:49 - ON JUDGE BLACK

21:50 - AND HE ACTUALLY LOST THE VOTE

21:52 - ONLY BY COUNT OF 26 TO 25 WHICH

21:54 - IS PROBABLY INDICATIVE OF WHAT

21:56 - A STRONG KENNEDY WOULD HAVE

21:57 - BEEN BUT GIVEN ALL THOSE

21:58 - POLITICAL BACKGROUNDS THAT WERE

22:00 - GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES ON

22:02 - HIM. HE ON LEE WAS NOT

22:04 - CONFIRMED. BUT IT IS VERY

22:05 - IMPRESSIVE TO KNOW THIS MAN

22:09 - THAT HAD GROWN UP IN A ROW AREA

22:10 - WITH NO FORMAL EDUCATION HAD

22:12 - YOU SEEN HIMSELF RISE UP THROUGH THE RANKS.

22:15 - NATIONALLY AND IT'S SUCH AN

22:17 - IMPORTANT TIME IN OUR IN OUR

22:18 - NATIONAL HISTORY. I HAD MADE SO

22:20 - MANY IMPORTANT DECISION MAKING

22:22 - AND POLICY DECISION-MAKING THAT AFFECTED

22:25 - THIS NATION THAT SAT IN THIS

22:28 - IT'S AN IT'S AN IMPRESSIVE FEAT.

22:31 - JUDGE RELATIONSHIP WITH

22:33 - JAMES MCCANN ALSO HAS HEAVY

22:35 - TIES TO THE BEDFORD SPRINGS

22:37 - PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN USED

22:40 - THE BEDFORD SPRINGS ESSENTIALLY

22:41 - IS A WHITE HOUSE SUMMER HOME. AND THAT

22:44 - REALLY DREW PEOPLE INTO THE

22:46 - AREA TO THE TO USE THE BEDFORD

22:48 - SPRINGS. SO JUDGE BLACK HAS A

22:50 - VERY STRONG TIES THE AREA AND

22:52 - THAT WAY AS WELL.

22:54 - AS I SAID EARLIER JUDGE

22:55 - BLACK SUPPORTERS VERY

22:57 - DISTINCTIVE FROM OTHER

22:58 - PHOTOGRAPHS AND PICTURES FROM

22:59 - THAT THERE MOST OF THE PEOPLE

23:01 - IN THE PORTRAITS DO

23:02 - NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE VIEWER

23:04 - JUDGE BLACKS IS VERY DIFFERENT AT THAT

23:05 - HE ACTUALLY LOOKS AT THE

23:07 - VIEWER, NOT ONLY THAT HE HAS A

23:08 - VERY DISTINCTIVE

23:09 - AND INQUISITIVE ASTAIRE THAT

23:11 - THAT SEEMS TO GO RIGHT THROUGH

23:12 - YOU AND I THINK IT'S VERY

23:13 - APPROPRIATE. HIS PORTRAIT HANGS

23:15 - RIGHT ABOVE OUR

23:16 - WITNESS STAND AS CITED KIND OF

23:19 - TELLING THE WITNESS STEPPING ON

23:20 - TO THE WITNESS STAND YOU BETTER

23:21 - TELL THE TRUTH.

23:24 - MY NAME IS LARRY SMITH, I'M A HISTORIAN

23:27 - WITH THE BEDFORD COUNTY

23:27 - HISTORICAL SOCIETY YEAR THAT

23:29 - FOR PENNSYLVANIA. UNDERSTANDING

23:32 - CURRENTLY IN THE FOYER OF THE

23:35 - ORIGINAL ENTRANCE FOR THE 1829 CORE HILLS.

23:39 - THERE WERE 3 COURTHOUSES IN

23:41 - BEDFORD COUNTY AFTER IT FORMED IN

23:44 - 1771. THE FIRST ONE WAS

23:46 - A STRUCTURE PROBABLY ONLY A 15

23:50 - BY 20 FEET FOR S

23:52 - SINGLE FLOOR. IT WOULD HAVE ANY

23:55 - OF THE COURTROOM AND THAT NO

23:57 - OTHER OFFICES. THE JAIL WAS

24:00 - A SEPARATE BUILDING, ANOTHER

24:02 - LOT BUILDING STOOD BESIDE IT. THERE WERE NO

24:06 - WINDOWS NO DOORS IN THAT

24:08 - BUILDING. THERE WAS A TRAP DOOR IN THE ROOF

24:11 - AND SO THEY PUT A LETTER IN

24:13 - THAT THE CRIMINAL DOWN AND TAKE

24:15 - A LEAD AROUND WAS A TRAP DOOR.

24:19 - THAT PARTICULAR COURTHOUSE WITH

24:22 - THE NEWS FROM 7071 TO 1774

24:25 - HE STOOD ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF

24:28 - THE SQUARES AND WHILE IT WAS IN

24:31 - YEARS THEY STARTED TO BUILD A

24:33 - BETTER STAND QUARTER HILLS ON THE

24:36 - NORTHWEST CORNER IT WAS COMPLETED IN 1774.

24:43 - IT WAS USED UNTIL

24:44 - 1828 29. WHENEVER THIS BRICK

24:47 - COURTHOUSE WAS THEN BUILT AND

24:50 - THEY STARTED TO MOVE THEIR OFFICES IN

24:52 - 1828. WHO ARE HOUSE ITSELF IS

24:55 - THE SECOND ALL OF THIS IN A

24:56 - CONTINUAL USE IN PENNSYLVANIA.

24:59 - PERRY COUNTY IS THE ONLY A

25:01 - OLDER ONE. THEY STARTED THERE'S

25:03 - AN 1820 SERVE AND JUST ONE YEAR

25:06 - BEFORE THIS WAS BUILT.

25:09 - STONE COURTHOUSE, A MENTION ABOUT FIRST IT

25:15 - 2 BASICALLY 2 AND A HALF THE

25:18 - THEY HAD IN THAT ROOM IN IT.

25:21 - THE FIRST FLOOR WAS

25:22 - THE JAIL. THERE WAS LIVING

25:25 - QUARTERS FOR THE JAIL OR IN

25:27 - HIS FAMILY. AND COOLER ROOM

25:30 - OCCUPY THE ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR OF

25:32 - THE BUILDING. THE COURTROOM WAS

25:35 - ACCESS FROM THE L SIDE, THERE

25:37 - IS 2 STEPS LEADING UP TO IT

25:39 - THERE IS I MEAN DOOR BUT FROM

25:44 - FROM THE SECOND

25:44 - FLOOR COURTROOM. YOU CAN ACCESS

25:47 - A SMALL ATTIC ROOM

25:48 - ON IT. AND IT WAS USED FOR THE

25:52 - GRAND JURY WHEN THEY CONVENED.

25:55 - THAT COOLER STOOD UNTIL

25:57 - 1842.

25:59 - IT WAS USED BY CHURCH GROUPS

26:01 - TO THIS SCHOOL IS A STAB LEAST

26:04 - IN THAT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.

26:06 - SO THE COMMUNITY USE

26:08 - THE BUILDING FROM 1828,

26:11 - WHENEVER THIS COURTHOUSE WAS

26:13 - PARTIALLY STARTED OR COMPLETED

26:16 - AND UNTIL

26:18 - 1842 BY THE TIME IT IN NEED OF

26:21 - MUCH REPAIR. SO HE WAS EVENTUALLY THEN JUST

26:25 - TORN DOWN THIS BRICK COURTHOUSE

26:28 - THE WORRY NOW THAT HAS BEEN IN

26:30 - USE SINCE 1829 WITH INSTRUCTED

26:33 - BY SOLOMON FILLER

26:35 - HE WAS A LOCAL ARCHITECT AND HIS

26:39 - SPECIALTY WAS GREEK REVIVAL,

26:42 - FEDERAL AND GEORGIAN

26:44 - STRUCTURES. SO AS YOU LOOK

26:46 - THROUGH THE TOWN OF BEDFORD,

26:48 - YOU'LL SEE MANY STRUCTURES THAT

26:50 - COME FROM THOSE 3.

26:52 - STYLES

26:53 - THE COURTHOUSE ITSELF IS GREEK

26:55 - REVIVAL, AND IT'S ONE OF THE

26:57 - BETTER EXAMPLES OF GREEK REVIVAL

26:59 - IN PENNSYLVANIA. IT HAS A ALL

27:02 - THE PARTICULARS THAT THE GREEK

27:05 - REVIVAL EMBODY THERE ARE LARGE

27:08 - PILLARS OF FRONT PLANK IN

27:10 - THE DOORWAY AND THE DOORWAY HAS

27:12 - A SKYLIGHT OVER TIME AS A FORM OF

27:16 - TRANSOM LIGHT. IT DOES NOT HAVE

27:19 - THE SIDELINES THAT A GREEK

27:21 - REVIVAL NORMALLY WOULD HAVE HAD

27:24 - WE FEEL THAT MAYBE THE DOORS

27:25 - THAT ARE ON THERE NOW REPLACED

27:27 - THE ORIGINAL WHICH MIGHT HAVE

27:29 - HAD THE STANDARD BECAUSE

27:30 - EVERYTHING ELSE WAS A PURE

27:33 - GREED REVIVALS TELL. THIS ROOM

27:35 - THAT I'M IN NOW BE IN

27:37 - THE FOYER HAS TO CERTAINLY

27:39 - STAIRWAYS TWEEN STAIRWAYS THAT

27:42 - LEAD UP TO THE SECOND FLOOR.

27:46 - THEY JOIN TOGETHER AT

27:48 - THE TOP TO FORM SORT OF A RANT

27:51 - THAT THE NEXT TO THE COURTROOM.

27:53 - THERE ARE NO

27:54 - SUPPORTING COLUMNS TO THAT RAIN

27:59 - THAT THE SECOND

27:59 - FLOOR LEVEL WHICH IS SORT OF

28:02 - ASTOUNDING IN THAT IS A SORT OF

28:04 - A KID TO LEAVE OR TYPES CORRECTION.

28:07 - SO IN THE LATE 1990'S THEY START THINKING

28:11 - ABOUT OR MAKING A SOME SORT OF

28:14 - ADDITION TO THE COURTHOUSE.

28:17 - BUT NOT NECESSARILY TO TEAR DOWN ONE OF

28:21 - THE IDEAS WAS TO TEAR DOWN THIS

28:24 - 1829 STRUCTURE.

28:25 - BUT THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DO

28:26 - NOT WANT TO TEAR DOWN THEY WANT

28:28 - TO KEEP IT IN SOME WAY IN

28:30 - ACTUALLY KEEPING NEWS AS THE COURTROOM.

28:33 - SO AROUND 2006 CONSTRUCTION

28:36 - STARTED TO ON A STRUCTURE

28:39 - TO COMMIT THE LION HOUSE AND THIS

28:42 - 1829 COURTHOUSE. AND IT WAS

28:45 - COMPLETED IN THE YEAR 2007 THERE

28:47 - ARE MANY DEPARTMENTS NOW HAVE QUITE A

28:50 - NUMBER SPACE FOR BAIT THERE OFF

28:54 - A SERIES AND THEIR STORAGE AREAS.

28:57 - THE NEW STRUCTURE THAT FINISHED IN 2007.

29:01 - DID NOT CONFLICT WITH THE STYLE

29:04 - OF THIS ORIGINAL

29:05 - 1829 STRUCTURE. AND SO

29:08 - THE NEW BUILDING COMPLEMENTS AS

29:12 - COMPARED TO COMPETING WITH THIS 18 TIME

29:15 - 29 STRUCTURE, WHICH IS ONE OF

29:17 - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COURTHOUSES

29:18 - IN PENNSYLVANIA.

29:20 - THANK YOU FOR VISITING WITH

29:22 - US TODAY TO LEARN ALL ABOUT THE

29:23 - HISTORY OF THE BEDFORD COUNTY

29:25 - COURTHOUSE. I HOPE YOU ENJOY

29:27 - YOUR VISIT AND WE WELCOME YOU BACK ANYTIME.