Media, 20th century performances on radio, records, film, and television recently published by mcfarland. Among his many accomplishments is a grammy award which he received for a double cd and bro book titled lost sounds. 1890 to 1919. Tim will then be joined in a conversation by fellow historian bill dugget. Our program will conclude with tim and bill taking questions from you, our live audience. Now, please turn off the sounds of your phones, and join me in welcoming historian and author tim brooks. [ applause ] well, thank you. Later on as he mentioned, there will be time for questions. And i hope we have some good ones coming up at the end of this conversation and presentation. But i would like to start with a question for you, the audience. How many people have seen a minstrel show . A live minstrel show. Anybody . Interesting. How many have seen one on film prap . Remember, im talking about a whole minstrel show, not a clip from somewhere, but a full show. Anybody . Okay. If i ha
Porch president ial campaign. With harding they kept harding at home, and everybody would come and visit harding, which would create a day of newspaper reportage as we would stay home and be folksy in ohio. The singer al joelson came from 50 broadway stories and paraded down main street and started singing songs in hardings praise. Thats the first time we have celebrities in the modern age who are very interested in advocating for a candidate. Its really with the advent of television in the 1950s that celebrity kole politics becomes a national episode. Eisenhower was an interesting case. Eisenhower was somebody who was noted . Politics. Was not interested in politics and wasnt interested in celebrity. Had been a military man his entire life and in fact he refused to run for president in 1952 but allowed his name to be entered and nominated so he spent most of the 1952 primary campaign overseas in paris where he was cream Supreme Commander of nato. He has the president ial candidate who
At 11 00, victorian beauty in northeastern pennsylvania, drone watch 3 giving you beautiful shots of jim thorpe as cbs3 summerfest heads to the mountains. Tonight, were taking a tour of an historic opera house and dancing the night away with the one and only beach boys. We are exploring the poconos right here on cbs3 and summerfest. Good evening im Ukee Washington. Live in jim thorpe pennsylvania, gateway to the poconos. Now, the shore is great summer destination, of course, it is. But the mountains are magnificent. Theres no doubt about that. Tonight we explore the charm of this town and so much more, each friday we like to give you a history lesson, lets continue our summerfest tradition and do it now. Through the years, this area has been called the switzerland of america as the slopes of poconos mountains lead down to the hifb town of jim thorpe. The town was once moan as maunch chunk, but in 1953, the name changed to jim thorpe. Thorpe was a native american olympian and athlete wh
Right here on cbs3 and summerfest. Good evening im Ukee Washington. Live in jim thorpe pennsylvania, gateway to the poconos. Now, the shore is great summer destination, of course, it is. But the mountains are magnificent. Theres no doubt about that. Tonight we explore the charm of this town and so much more, each friday we like to give you a history lesson, lets continue our summerfest tradition and do it now. Through the years, this area has been called the switzerland of america as the slopes of poconos mountains lead down to the hifb town of jim thorpe. The town was once moan as maunch chunk, but in 1953, the name changed to jim thorpe. Thorpe was a native american olympian and athlete who won in the 1912 stockholm olympic games. He also played Major League Baseball and was an accomplished ball room dancer. After his death, thorpes third wife moved his body to maunch chunk because his home state of oklahoma wouldnt give a monument. In turn, the town changed its name to jim thorpe. A
Look, mom, no hands. The consequences could be dire including a new hostility into iran and a possible military action in venezuela. Nothing a neocon like john bolton likes better than a president who doesnt read. In a new interview with cbs, the president expressed lack of faith in them, especially when it comes to their judgment about iran. Reporter so youre going to trust the intelligence that you see . I am going to trust the intelligence that im putting there, but i will say this, my intelligence people, if they said in fact that iran is a wonderful kindergarten, i disagree with them 100 . When my intelligence people tell me how wonderful iran is, if you dont mind, im going to just go by my own counsel. He went on to indicate u. S. Troops should remain in iraq if only to keep an eye on iran. Being in iraq was a mistake, okay. Being in iraq. It was a big mistake to go, one of the greatest mistakes going into the middle east that our country has ever made. Reporter but you want to k