On the printers row with fast in chicago the final panel of the day is a conversation about the Kennedy Administration and relationship between the president , Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther king junior. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the 33rd annual printers row lit fest. I want to give a special thank you to all of the sponsors. The program will be broadcast live on cspan book tv. If theres time at the end with the offers we ask that you use the microphone provided and speak into it so the viewers at home can hear you. Before we begin todays program we ask that you silence your phones and turn off your cameras. Please welcome the interviewer, jane daly. Im from the university of Chicago Department of history. Im not going to be talking so much today which is just as well because we have two fabulous authors to talk about their incredible books. Let me tell you a little bit about them and then they will talk to you. The first author today is john bohrer, reporter, writer, T
If theres time at the end of the q a with the authors, we ask is the microphone provided and please speak into it so that viewers at home can hear you. Before we begin todays program ph announced in sinister phone and turn off all flash cameras. Please welcome her interviewer, chained daily. [applause] thank you. High coming changes from the university of chicago. He can tell by my voice im not going to be talking so much today which is just as love because we have two fabulous authors to talk about their incredible books. Let me tell you about them and then they will talk to you. Our first author todays train to come reporter, writer and its producer at morning show. I want to say hes the producer, but apparently there are others as well. Re his writing is published across politico and the new republic in new york magazine. His book here, the revolution of Robert Kennedy from power to protest after jfk is his first book published by bloomsbury. Our second author to date is transcended
In front of this many people if i hold on to it. Reporter within seconds, the Good Samaritans advance on the thief boxing poses are struck and christa makes one more admitted risky move. This was another thing i probably shouldnt have done but sense every pride. I kind of got in the guys attackers face where they were and there they told me to back off. Reporter standoff ends quickly and would be thief takes off for the record heres what he looks like. Take a good long look. Police say fighting back against an tack kerr can be a dicey mo move. We would tell people that your life or your physical safety is not worth any possession but tame its a personal decision. You have to decide for yourself. A. How valuable your valuables are. We dont know what was in that purse. Just the normal phone, wallet, keys, but, you know,. Its yours. Its mine. Reporter in all the hubbub she never really got the chance to thank the strangers who stood up for her. I dont know what would have happened if they
Battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. We talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederac
Battle was shiloh, april 6 and 7, 1862. We talked about how grant thought the war was going to be over, one more battle and this thing will end and then after shiloh grant learns the war is going to last a lot longer and nothing short of absolute conquest of the south will end it. Today well talk about a Campaign Going on at the exact same moment over in the eastern theatre or virginia in this case. We will talk about the peninsula and the seven Days Campaign today. It starts in late march, early april, 1862 and is going to go until july of 1862. And it was the campaign that could have ended the war in the summer of 1862. The Union Strategy this time was if you can knock the confederate capitol out of the war, richmond, only 90 miles from washington, d. C. , if the Union General George Mcclellan can capture the confederate capital at richmond by the summer of 1862 the confederacy may throw in the towel. We cant know for sure. It is speculation. It could very well be that the confederac