Been canceled due to the coronavirus. Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson, los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. We know the effect it is having on book fairs and large gatherings, but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses . Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of bookstores based in coral gables, florida, called books books. Has coronavirus affected your business . Guest yes, peter, unfortunately it has. We have been holding on as long as we could, but it looks like starting tomorrow were going to be closing down all six stores that we have in the miami area and trying to move our sales online, and encourage people to buy at our website. And this is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. And like normally happens, independent bookstores are very representative of whats happening with Small Business. So there are many, many thousands upon thousands of Small Business people w
To the holocaust through exhibits, performances and lectures. In the next room youll find the exhibit stitching history from the holocaust developed by our colleagues at the Jewish Museum of milwaukee. It tells the story of the family who escaped from nazioccupied prague via an impassioned plea. The request failed. The stranauds perished but the design survived and today has been brought to life as testimony to some of what america lost when we decided that these desperate souls were unwanted. As we will hear this evening, the case of the strenads was no case unique and it wasnt just the haters compliceit in the murder of the innocent. Mr. Dobbs talk is part of the shapiro lecture series made possible by the generous bequest of gloria l. Shapiro. I want to thank our two Program Partners tonight. The United States Holocaust Memorial museum. Here to introduce mr. Dobbs is a Holocaust Museums midatlantic regional director, andre avril. Please welcome. Thank you, marvin. My name is andres
Facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. This is booktv on cspan2 television for serious readers. Heres our prime time lineup. In anticipation of next weeks release of harper lees second book, so get a watchman, booktv presents several programs about the pulitzer prizewinning authors life and writing career. Next Mary Mcdonagh murphy looks at the impact of harper lees to kill a mockingbird. Then at 7 30, maria mills reports on the 18 months she lived next door to harper lee in monroeville, alabama. And at 9 p. M. Eastern on after words, charles shields author of mockingbird a portrait of harper lee, discusses the events leading up to the publication of her new novel go set a watchman. That all happens next on cspan2s booktv. And now heres Mary Mcdonagh murphy, author of Scout Atticus and boo. Good morning everyone. And welcome to the auditorium speaker series. My name is m. Claire knowles and i serve as a member of the American Library Association Executive board. But i also have a day job
The meeting, each speaker has up to 3 minutes, i do have one speaker card. Mr. Jim hasz. You may recall several waoex agency after the planning staff made a report to you on the Civic Center Public Realm plan, i made comments regarding the response to the rec and Park Commission for the plaza and other matters relate tog the public realm. I now want the share with you the comment with had list rfr of civic center to give you depth on those issues, in my transmittal letter to the may yo, there are two points you will find in the history, one tha, the Panama International exhibition is largely responsible for the reyeasting of the civic center in city hall, the businessman behind the ppie had no competence in the existing mayor and wanted their own person as mayor, so they ran james wolf who was successful and was elected, he then used the resources of the ppie company to get the planning started for the civic center and talked them into giving a Million Dollars to build the auditorium.
Museum andtional spy Smithsonian Associates cohosted this 90 minute event. We are delighted to have our own historian. Dr. Vince houghton. He is the historian and curator of the museum. He holds a phd in military history from the university of maryland, where his Research Centered on u. S. Scientific and technological intelligence in the Second World War and the cold war. It makes them ideally suited to deliver todays talk. He also got his masters degree focusing on the relationship. Etween the u. S. And russia you may get some questions focusing on our current difficulties with russia. On thetalked extensively history of u. S. Intelligence, diplomatic history, the cold war. He is a u. S. Army veteran, serving in the balkans where he assisted in civilian and military intelligence activities. We are delighted to have you as our speaker. Please help me welcome vince houghton. [applause] thank you, peter. Thank you for coming here today. Any chance to talk about the atomic spies, Nuclear