The KTLA Morning News is an American morning television news program airing on KTLA (channel 5), a CW-affiliated television station in Los Angeles, California that is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting division of the Tribune Company.
The Gadsden Purchase. President Franklin Pierce sent James Gadsden to Mexico City in 1853 with several proposals for buying from Mexico land to the south of the boundaries established by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Positioned below the rattlesnake are the words DONT TREAD ON ME. The flag is named after American general and statesman Christopher Gadsden (1724â1805), who designed it in 1775 during the American Revolution. It was used by the Continental Marines as an early motto flag, along with the Moultrie Flag.