We look back at the opening of the Brant Spence Bridge and the Kentucky Connection to an American president, and it isn't Abraham Lincoln.

Our Toby Gibbs has that and more.

And this look back at this week in Kentucky history.

You've probably never heard of Governor George W Johnson of Kentucky.

Kentucky did not secede from the union during the Civil War, but Confederate sympathizers set up a pro Confederate government in Kentucky.

And on November 20th, 1861, Johnson became the first of two Confederate at Kentucky Governors.

Happy birthday to early radio pioneer and inventor Nathan B Stubblefield.

Born in Murray on November 22nd, 1860.

Among other things, Stubblefield invented a battery operated wireless telephone.

America's 12th president, Zachary Taylor, was born November 24th, 1784, in Virginia, but his family moved to the Louisville area a year later, and Kentucky was his official residence throughout his Army years.

When he died in office in 1850, he was interred in Louisville.

Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963.

And the announcement of the president's death came from Max Kilduff, JFK's deputy press secretary, who would later move to Baby ville, Kentucky, and become a well-known newspaper editor.

Astronaut and UK alum Story Musgrave blasted off on the Space Shuttle Discovery on November 22nd, 1989.

The branch Bench Bridge connecting Northern Kentucky to Cincinnati opening November 25th, 1963.

It was named after a longtime northern Kentucky congressman.

And that's a look back at this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.