Footballers over stories leaked to the tabloids. Turkey has launched a ground offensive in Northern Syria, hours after its militaryjets and artillery began hitting territory held by kurdish led forces. Just days ago President Trump ordered american troops withdrawn from the border area, a decision thats been widely condemned, at home and abroad. The area under attack is controlled by the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces, who played a leading role in defeating the Extremist Group that calls itself Islamic State. They are long time American Allies, but regarded by the turks as terrorists. The turkish government says it wants to clear Kurdish Forces from a 30 kilometre safe zone along the border, to resettle up to 2 million Syrian Refugees whove been living in turkey. One Monitoring Group says 10 civilians have already been killed. The bbcs orla guerin is on the border. In syria, a new round of warfare. The town of ras al ain under heavy bombardment, one of several just inside the bor
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Titled American History, renegades and is sponsored by the Mississippi Library association. Tracy car with with the Library Commission was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival and couldnt do this without the Mississippi Librarycommission or libraries from all over the state. Thank you very much for your support. And we are in the room today, courtesy of foreman watkins, author and our gratitude to them. Our panelists are tom and then, eric j dolan and peter coupland. Purchased copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times our authors will be signing in your program. It will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room toask your questions. Now help me welcome our moderator for this panel katie blunts, director of the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Thank you chris. All right, im going to tell you about these guys and then we will
Right there, thats the motel where doctor king was staying. The one up there by my finger mark. Right and my dad in patterson went down the next day bring money for the children who had been jailed during the marches. And they went to the site and also stated that motel so. Where it had beenbombed. Martin luther king, a ie friend of the family . What they did, as a family, is we started doing jazz concerts and our first concert was also to raise money, it was in june and then we went up, at the house, at our house, yes and my brothers and i sold hotdogs and sodas and we turned in 1000 after our first gas sponsor and we had a second one after the march in washington and we had gone to the market as a family. That was our first time as a family actually participating in the Larger Movement. And it was just an amazing experience because this is what we were asking for. We would ask dad can we go with you to birmingham and he said no, ill figure this out and he figured it out by bringing u
[inaudible background conversations] [inaudible speaking] the panel is titled American History, renegades and sponsored by the Mississippi Library commission. Tracy carr, with the library commission, was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival we couldnt do this without the Mississippi Library commission or libraries from all over the state so thank you very much for your support. We are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm, our gratitude to them. Our panelists are tom craven, eric j dolman and Peter Houlihan. You can purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times are authors will be signing in your program. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes then open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room to ask your questions. Help me welcome our moderator for this panel, kitty blunt director of Mississippi Department of archives and history. [applause] thank you. Im