Marked forever in the heart of washington, d. C. By this assassination. Hello, everyone. Good, we can hear everyone nicelily. Welcome to busboys and poets. My name is olivia. Im the book Events Coordinator here and im very excited to invite Alan Mcpherson for his book, ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Its an event i was not aware of, honestly, and very excited to read about it in this book and excited for alan to speak about it. Here at busboys we like to have conversations that others arent having and i feel like this is one of nose so im excited for him to speak about it. Im going to give you a little kind of overview. If you have a cell phone, please take photos but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you probably can see. Thats a little distracting. We will have the fwoobooks for. We have them for sale currently and if you would like to, i really implore you to look through it and have alan sign it. Hell be signing afterwards as well. We have a wonderful server, aisha
Granting women this right to vote, hold property, and elected office. 1869, our wyoming Territorial Legislature dictated this, and it was signed by governor campbell, granting women this act. So remarkable that we have a copy of this. They have it at the capitol, but we have this copy that is so extraordinary. You can see the writing that said what was happening in the west. Decemberf this act, 10th, 1869, giving women full rights alongside men, we had the first woman voter in the world, we had the first woman bailiff, martha boys adkinson, the first woman on a jury, and we had all of wyomings women able to be in the legislature. Hobart morris who was the first woman justice of the peace. We had the first woman governor in the world. All of these were the cattle keep fallout cattle cave oflout from the dissent 1869. We have a few more mentions of our women who were important, and here we have a great thing where her friends were so worried. She is in the west caught in the suffrage act
A u. S. Citizen, was also killed. Bomb, and all of this happened at sheridan on embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. The car with him were two ronni in the car with him were two ips, ronnifrom moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the the drivers seat in the chevelle Orlando Letelier was driving. The order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at augusto by a custo a pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity that Orlando Letelier, a former ambassador to the United States from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know n
Commercial freighter from when it was built in 1911 to the 1980s. It became a museum when the city of toledo purchased it in 1987. Her main purpose was to deliver iron ore from Lake Superior down to lake erie to places like ohio where it was unloaded and put in Railroad Cars and taken to pittsburgh for a company to support its business. At its time, it was the largest carrier. It could carry more bulk material than any other from 1911 to 1927. Which was a very long time when every year a new boat came out that was a little bit longer. Because this boat was built so wide, it could carry more cargo for 16 years than any other boat constructed between that time. We are now in the pilothouse. Often called the wheelhouse. It is where commands decisions were made to operate a commercial vessel. A captain, a first mate would be in here. As well as some other Junior Officers who would assist the captain with navigation, steering, communication with respect to how fast they wanted the boat to g
At the same time, Ronni Moffitt , a u. S. Citizen, was killed. On embassy happened road and washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. He was driving his car to work. E lived in that direction he came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. Runnincar with him were and her moffitt husband michael. They turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a great sit in. Were tworeat sedan cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the driver the drivers seat in the chevelle Orlando Letelier was driving. The order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political ,ctivity that Orlando Letelier a former ambassador to the United States from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know now that it was the dictator who ordered the secret police to assassinate hi