The Lincoln Forum hosted this one hour 15 minutes talk. Good evening and welcome. It is my pleasure to introduce our friend, my friend, William C Jack davis as our keynote speaker this evening. Jack is an author of over 50 books. Richard mcmurray gives as well as he gets. Mutual the surface is affection that is fairly well hidden. [laughter] he is a loyal member of our Lincoln Forum and a loyal friend and we are glad to have him. The dispute over the use of the confederate battle flag that still simmers, if not rages. Lengthy and telling essay for the july 11 wall where heurnal discussed the controversy over the use of the confederate battle flag as a symbol which must not be understood misunderstood or whitewashed. Davis believes americans cannot afford to forget the confederacy as it teaches lessons about americans themselves, how they react crisis in the matters beyond just slavery and theifice that constitute bedrock of our national being p. The important lesson from this is jack d
Some spooky costumes for one couple last night. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 daybreak. Sean yes, that wedding happened just down the road. We are going to talk about that great story. Thanks for waking up with us. I m sean mcdonald. It is a very cold start to our day. We are in the middle of a couple of beautiful fall days. Kevin yes, we are in the middle of it before the clouds race in. Evening and tomorrow night, it is clear skies with temperatures s. 20 s to lower 30 s elsewhere. If you high clouds to our south. A few high clouds to our south. Rainfall starts to push in after the lunch hour tomorrow. Warmer than yesterday. The lower half of the 50 much more in just a bit. S take a look at your morning ride. Wzid s deb davidson. Good tuesday morning. Kevin. Traffic is moving well through hampshire. We are not seeing any delays on the plymouth area through tilton, concord, the hooksett tolls. Even from manchester all the way down to salem. 293 is moving wel
Tom 11 00 and Hudson Police are searching for a pair of purse snatchers who stole from an 89yearold woman this afternoon at a local walmart. Good evening, New Hampshire i m , tom griffith. Adam sexton joins us live from hudson tonight to explain what police say stands out about this criminal duo. Adam police tell us that the male suspect has probably done Something Like this before. To the point he is getting overconfident. They say when he walked into the walmart this afternoon, he took off his hat and looked up at the Security Camera as if to say catch me if you can. Hudson police say these two suspects targeted an 89yearold woman at walmart monday afternoon. One got the woman s attention while the other rifled through her purse. She was distracted by a male subject to help pick out some merchandise. While she was distracted a female counterpart reached into her shopping cart and grabbed her wallet out of her purse and made off with an undisclosed amount of money, and also some cards
Party for Vice President was geraldine ferraro, 1984, the Democratic Party. If youre noticing a trend here, youre right. Because it was also Democratic Party in 1928 that made the first nomination of a catholic for president in this country. And that was new york governor al smith. Among the many Glass Ceilings that the Democratic Party has broken in president ial and Vice President ial politics, he was the first major catholic to be a major president ial nominee. And he got shellacked. Hubert hoover beat him in 40 states. That was at a time when we only had 48 states. Poor al smith. But he is still remembered and honored among new york catholics, most notably with this dinner they hold every year which is an Election Year turns out to always be lousy with politicians. This is al smiths greatgrandson introducing one of the candidates. Lets go to it. I was thinking about the republican nominee, donald j. Tru trump. There are actually some rumors going around that he wasnt going to show
This is al smiths greatgrandson introducing one of the candidates. Lets go to it. I was thinking about the republican nominee, donald j. Trump. There are actually some rumors going around that he wasnt going to show up tonight. He could say he wanted to keep us in suspense. We considered having a donald trump cutout on the dais, but if we wanted someone still lifeless, we could ask charlie rose to speak again. It is stark that donald is here tonight. Thats right, for the first time, a Catholic Church is not the largest tax exempt land owner here tonight. We are honored to have donald and melania here tonight. The Al Smith Dinner is a new york institution. Donald, the kid from queens, with a big heart and a big mouth is without question a new york institution. Donald, the microphone is yours, and its working. Thank you, al, wow, that was good. This is a hell of a dipper. Dinner. I want to thank your eminence. This is really great to be with you again. We love it. Governor cuomo. Great s