Of terrorism in San Francisco history. His classes about 50 minutes. Professor johnson good morning and thanks for coming. I appreciate you all being here on a drizzly day at providence college. I wanted to share a moment of American History that, for me, is one of the most important moments of the late 20th century. It happens to be a subject of my new book and i have been living and breathing in this period and in this moment. I think it is very significant for 1916, and for the nation, as i will try to make clear. What i will do today is start by setting up the context of San Francisco in 1916. And then i will spend time in three parts, talking about why its significant, and why it is important to American History. Let me begin by framing the story about this 1916 moment. Many of you have probably seen this character before. Mark twain, a famous playwrights. He had many quips during his life and one of them was the coldest winter i had ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. This
Of terrorism in San Francisco history. His classes about 50 minutes. Professor johnson good morning and thanks for coming. I appreciate you all being here on a drizzly day at providence college. I wanted to share a moment of American History that, for me, is one of the most important moments of the late 20th century. It happens to be a subject of my new book and i have been living and breathing in this period and in this moment. I think it is very significant for 1916, and for the nation, as i will try to make clear. What i will do today is start by setting up the context of San Francisco in 1916. And then i will spend time in three parts, talking about why its significant, and why it is important to American History. Let me begin by framing the story about this 1916 moment. Many of you have probably seen this character before. Mark twain, a famous playwrights. He had many quips during his life and one of them was the coldest winter i had ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. This
, the largest group, followed by camels, war dogs, elephants occasionally, depending on the terrain and oxen and bull. If you can think of any kind , it was probably at least in the war, whether it was a pet or mascot or working animal. What were pigeons used for . Chelsea pigeons would be used for Carrier Pigeons and homing pigeons to convey messages across the lines. Host messages attached to them . Chelsea yes. One of the more famous ones that the American Military used in world war i, its name was charity. It is credited with saving the in 1918. Alion andas shot numerous times basically died as soon as it landed back at headquarters. Host is that pidgeon memorialized in any way . Ownsea it has its memorial, and it has been stuffed in a museum. Host you mentioned elephants. Obviously these are large animals for moving things. What sort of things with a have moved during wartime . Chelsea they could move largescale, mostly lumber and maybe wagons. They werent used to extensively were
Professor johnson good morning and thanks for coming. I appreciate you all being here on a drizzly day at providence college. Today i wanted to share a moment of American History that, for me, is one of the most important moments of the late 20th century. Early 20th century. It happens to be a subject of my new book and i have been living and breathing in this period and in this moment. I think it is very significant for 1916, and for the nation, as i will try to make clear. What i will do today is start by setting up the context of San Francisco in 1916. And then i will spend time in three parts, talking about why its significant, and why it is important to American History. Let me begin by framing the story about this 1916 moment. Many of you have probably seen this character before. Mark twain, a famous playwright. He had many quips during his life and one of them was the coldest winter i had ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. This was one of his jokes. If you had ever been t
Whats their strategies tonight . What are you hearing . Well they recognize that this is arguably and donald trump actually says this, well show you him talking about it. The most important night of the entire campaign. And kellyanne described it as a comeback opportunity recognizing hes slipped and as a consequence, trump has a number of different strategy and tactic options, and the question is does he come and play scorched earth or does he try to rise above it and act as he has attempted to over the course of the last year and a half to be quote more president ial. The scorched earth side of all of this has something to do with some of the guests that are coming tonight. Among the invited guests that the Trump Campaign are bringing is mr. Las vegas, the famous wayne newton, but there are also two others. There is the mother of one of the fallen at the benghazi incident in libya and there is the president s half brother, malik obama of kenya and the u. S. Will also be in the audienc