Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to start todays final luncheon of the season. My name is william. I would like to welcome you on behalf of my colleagues and the rest of the u. S. Capital Historical Society. Our speaker today is barbara wolanin. At this point, people usually by sayingthe guests the person needs no introduction. And i will be introducing her, but truly, no one deserves that kind of honor more than barbara. She has been a good friend or everyone who cares about the everyone who cares about the u. S. Capital. Capitol. Her background is from harvard lend harvard and the university of wisconsin madison, all these wonderful academic institutions. For the last 30 years, she has been good friends to anyone who needs to know almost anything about the u. S. Capitol and its art. I would like to introduce barbara wolanin. [applause] ms. Wolanin thank you, chuck. Part of my job has been liaison with the capitol Historical Society, and one of the things im really proud of is t
Buffalo, new york. On book tv will visit the mark twain room at the buffalo and here he county public library. The centerpiece our pages of the original handwritten manuscripts of adventures of huckleberry finn. Then occurrence the grain, about the history of its first ward. The irish settled here because they were desperate. They came across the atlantic and the famine and years after and still were not great. It would take maybe one relatives of find out about these plentiful jobs along the waterfront. Working in the Grain Elevators or in the mills. Work we go back to ireland that you want to come to buffalo. You would have steady employment. Neighborhoodthis called the first ward. It has to say because when buffalo was first created in 1832 as a city it was divided into five political wards. This area along the waterfront along the river has always been the first four. On American History tv. On september 6, 1901, president William Mckinley was assassinated in buffalo. Tour the Buff
Lincoln assassination as my topic. I was fascinated by it. The following year the kennedy assassination took place and kept everyones interest and has continued and ive been interested in it and i have done interviews, you know, as far as various groups and lectures and two years ago Roman Littlefield loaned to me an email we see and do lectures on the subject and he said would you loo ick to write a book . Here i am semiretired, a lot less work to do and more time thinking why not . I said okay. They sought me out and i was pleased to say yes. Brian you start with Andrew Jackson. What is that story . Professor feinman Andrew Jackson is the first president we know of that has any problems with assassination threats. There were three such cases. There was the case of a young man who punched him in the nose in 1833, which is pretty minor but a first example of assault. Then we have the father of later lincoln assassination John Wilkes Booth who writes a threatening letter to jackson in 1
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