Michael holt will. At the professor university. He was educated at princeton and phd at Johns Hopkins university. For time off at Cambridge University yale, stanford, and other institutions, cold has other institutions, cold has, been at the University Since 1970 or. Hes written deeply about political history. For many years, his writing focus was on the years before the civil war. The political crisis of the 19 1950s,ese of the which he wrote about, has been used for political courses. , was the runner up for the lincoln prize and is notten described as just because of the 1296 pages. More recently, he has written about the construction the reconstruction following the war. Is by one vote the disputed president ial election of 1876 tells the story of americas closest president ial election, which perhaps coincidentally, had the highest percentage of eligible voters participating during any election, 81. 5 . Please welcome michael holt. [applause] michael thank you. It was tthe 1850s t
Contest of 2000. And its no coincidence, in fact, that three years after the 2000 lection, two new books about the election of 1876 appeared ith the 2000 contest clearly in mind. One was by a bitter democrat. Its title says it all. Braud of the century, rother ford b hey. The republicans had stolen elections before. The other interesting thing, lee, was former chief which was sort of subtle defeet or subtle degeese in. He went into deciding whether to settle the election of 1876. There were certainly parallels, sometimes eerie. In 1876, as in pho two. As in 2000, electoral votes were in dispute, including the electoral roets of florida but also the electoral votes of South Carolina and louisiana that were being disputed. In act, all three of those states ent contesting sets of electoral votes to washington to be counted. Now, theres emocratic electors and republican electors. In 2000, here were people who counted rutherford b. Hays as an. I was originally approached by editors of a new
We have reached week seven. I am stephen berry, your host for all things morbid. Nothing different from anything else, we are talking about the history of Death Investigation, the evolution of the system of Death Investigation in the United States, which really matures and comes to age in the dawn of the 20th century. How this becomes Forensic Science and ultimately becomes the csi series. Now we all have a pretty lurid sense of Death Investigations provided by local news, wright . Right . This graphic is everywhere, i found a million of these. Always the same with the police tape and the child talk chalk outlines. We have a very lurid sense of Death Investigation, if it bleeds, it leaves journalism in the United States. I want to take the evolution of this system very seriously and talk about how it developed over time. Starting with the historical importance. The most obvious area in which Death Investigation is critically important is to the criminal justice system, and this is the
We are talking about the history of Death Investigation, the evolution of the system of Death Investigation in the United States, which really matures and comes to age in the dawn of the 20th century. It is a 19th century story of how Death Investigation becomes Forensic Science and ultimately becomes the csi series. Now we all have a pretty lurid sense of Death Investigations provided by local news, right . This graphic is everywhere, i found a million of these. Always the same with the police tape and the chalk outlines. So we have a very lurid sense of Death Investigation. , it leadsf it bleeds school of journalism in the United States. I want to take the evolution of this system very seriously and talk about how it developed over time. Starting with the historical importance. And the most obvious area in which Death Investigation is critically important is to the criminal justice system, and this is the most familiar aspect of Death Investigation in the United States. Coroners and
The unanimous vote from the House Ethics Committee comes after they initially ordered harold to pay back in september of last year when he said no, one of them notified him of the meeting, the Ethics Committee then agreed to allow harold to present his case. The special prosecutor, on the case, said his guilty plea of six Campaign Violations two years ago was ultimately the key factor in this decision. On october 22, 2014 mr. Harold pled guilty to these offenses. They constituted personal misconduct. Therefore, the use of his Campaign Funds for the purpose of paying his lawyers would be disallowed. I am disappointed. I do not agree with the decision the committee made. But i do very much appreciate the committees finally given us an opportunity to come up and stand estate our side public, our side of the story. Harold will not be able to appeal the House Ethics Committees decision. It will go into the state general fund. His 50 state decision america tour with his stop in South Carolin