Monuments. If youre not interested in that, you are in the wrong room. I will give you that warning at the beginning. Representative connellys office for arranging the room, and the people of the 11th district of virginia for electing representative connelly , since he has been the one generous enough to this. I want to thank amanda. , the assistant director of the National History center for doing all of the work. The National History Center Offers these briefings because everything has a history and when some of those everythings are within the realm of public policy, it is our obligation as historians to provide the Historical Context essential to inform debate and decision making. That obligation forms the soul advocacy position in these the sole advocacy position in these briefings. We are not here to convince anybody on legislation. We are here because change requires understanding the change that have brought us to the structure in the first place. We have discussed in these mee
Is a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our Clement Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us, the younger partner, the Clement Center has been the leading center for southwest studies at least a generation. So we as still in our toddler phase, look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular our talk tonight has of course a dallas flair to it, its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963 how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with what happened here, how much dallas is coming to terms with it and i want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends who is from the sixth floor museum
Welcome back to the hilltop, welcome back to smu to dallas hall and also a fun program that is a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our Clement Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us, the younger partner, the Clement Center has been the leading center for southwest studies at least a generation. So we as still in our toddler phase, look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular our talk tonight has of course a dallas flair to it, its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963 how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with what happened here, how much dallas is coming to terms with it and i wan
State . I want to bring with deborah fayer outside trump tower. Good evening, deborah. Reporter hey, there, don. This is fifth avenue without the president elect here. Hes in new jersey as you mentioned. Security is incredibly tight. I counted 50 officers and thats just in a twoblock radius. Security is exceptionally tight. Youve got a fivelane avenue down to three lanes because of concrete barriers and metal fences, so really the u. S. Secret service and the nypd are doing the best they can to secure this incredibly busy location, some people are calling this white house north but unlike the real white house, which is in washington, d. C. , this one is a lot more difficult to protect. I realized that this is a whole different life for me now. For a man used to go where he wants when he wants, the president elects impromptu visit drew noticeable attention, as his motorcade left his residence. Trump to youer is a luxury high rise in the heart of midtown, but for a secret service agent,
it s such a different time. one of the things i traced is the way in which it s film always stays the same. the film never changes but everything around it changes. so now, you now it s not only what we see, the content is much more graphic, and the speed. the american people didn t see it as a film. to be uploaded instantly. and the and the fact that it s everywhere any time all the time. it s just a completely different different situation. yeah. we re going to talk about one of those moments uploaded right away coming up after the break but i want to tell everyone the book is called 26 seconds by alexander zapruder. it s a great read. i can t wait to read it. it s getting great reviews. thank you for having me. we ll be right back.