This is. Well, good afternoon, everybody. Im glad to see that were all alive. Well, you all have survived. Now, seven weeks of american history, death, dying in us history. Weve reached week seven. Im Stephen Berry your host for all things morbid today. Not any grimmer than any other day in this class. Were to be talking about the history of investigation, the evolution of, the system of Death Investigation, United States, which really matures and comes of age and about the dawn of the 20th century. So it is a 19th century story of how Death Investigation becomes forensic and ultimately becomes the csi series. Now, we all have a pretty lurid, i think, of Death Investigation thats by local news, right . This graic is everywhere. I found a million of these. All right. Its always same with a police tape and chalk outlines and so we have a very lurid sense of Death Investigation from the if it bleeds, it leads school of journalism in the United States. But im going to take the evolution of
i thank you all for coming today. we are all here, obviously, because of rigid ship. the long hot summer and early fall of 1692. as a history professor, i am inetimes reticent to indulge anniversary history because i like my students to think that every single day is historic. to take as feel right moment, take it day and really think about what happened. that is what we are doing today. that is with the city of salem is going to be doing all summer long. before i introduce our distinguished guest who will , i want to symposium say thanks before i forget to thank everybody. while we are wrapping up this day am going to think all of the presenters contributions. right now i want to thank my little committee because we have been working on this for a year. and that would include the two women downstairs who are not going to hear my thanks. also from the salem award foundation we have shelby, who has a brief announcement to make about our special feature. [indiscernible] and w
19th, 20th century. how this becomes forensic science and ultimately becomes the csi series. now we all the pretty lurid sense of death investigations provided by local news. this graphic is everywhere, i found a million of these. always the same with the police tape and the chalk outlines. we have a very lurid sense of death investigation, if it bleeds, it leads 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. coroners and medical examiners participate from the very beginning. they are there on the scene. they pronounce a cause of death. that sets the entire investigation in motion, and then they are there with the death investigation throughout the process until the
because of pigmentation and his skin color. yes? unlike basketball and baseball, football was integrated much earlier. the nfl is desegregated right after world war ii. it all happens within a five-year period. way in this back? were there other historians, who said that race didn t play a factor? in the bird and magic story? yes. sure, there are always historians and commentators i can think of a few people, media commentators if they were sitting in this lecture would say i am making a mountain out of a molehill. that this has nothing to do with race. what explains the popularity of the holmes fight? holmes, an unpopular fighter, against an unknown challenger, other than race? i am staking my historian credentials on the argument that racial anxiety is almost everything in the situation. but our magic and bird just good because they are black and white? no, they are fabulous. two of the top ten basketball players in history. but that propels the league into th
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