[inaudible conversations] book tv is on facebook, author information and talk directly during live programs. Facebook. Com booktv. Youre watching book tv on cspan2. Coming up next executive director of Law Enforcement museum, failed kidnapping back in 1983. Our topic for today is the year of fear. Machine gun kelly. Hes an awardwinning journalists and Television Documentary producer. He was part of editing team that launched u. S. Today in 1982 and held a variety positions at the paper including Senior Correspondent and covered political and social issues. He served as supervising producer, usa today on tv. The museum and served as executive director. Former chairman of the George Foster peabody. His journalism honors include awards from the National Association of newspaper and won award. Please welcome joe urshal to the national what archives. Thank you, doug, im disappointed that there was no wine and when i whisky for this. Had i known, i would have brought my own. I appreciate you
That spiral symbol represents bellyache which was one of the symptoms, early symptoms of smallpox. We know that they traded and rated with the mandan, but no account of such an outbreak exists among the mandan people. So where else can we look . The telltale evidence may well lie buried in ghost towns like double ditch. Remember, by 1600 or so the mandan at double ditch had ensconced themselves behind the 2nd fortification rate , the outermost ring that we can still see today. Now, at some point the villagers contracted again, taking shelter behind the innermost ditch and palisade the cause may well have been a smallpox epidemic of 1734 to 35. Double ditch in 1500 had contained a hundred and 60 homes, 2,000 people. By the mid1700sby the mid 17 hundreds there were just 32 homes and no more than 400 people. Hunkered down inside the smallest is that you see here. And then it happened again. 1781 smallpox made its way to the upper Missouri River from spanish settlements to the south. The p
Cspan where did you cspan what do you do for a living . Guest i write about conflict zones. Cspan why did you go to gaza . Guest i was in palestine for a literary festival. I didnt plan to go there at all. But i met an amazing journalist who walked me through the bureaucratic process in which a journalist can go. I had the opportunity to go and went. Cspan where were you in gaza . Guest i was staying in gaza city. Cspan what did you see . Guest i wrote about a subdivisi subdivision that was decimated. It was like nothing i had ever seen before except in syria. In syria it is done by Bombing Campaign but here it was followed up by a ground invasion. The whole neighborhood was gone. You saw People Living in ruined houses surrounded by the smashed rubble of their former lives. You saw a lot of poverty and People Living in an open air prison. On the screen now is one of your pieces of work from gaza. What are we looking at . Guest that is the ruins of a hospital that was a rehabilitation f
Schematic good evening i am julie haner. I am frank somerville. Suing firefighters moved fast the complex includes professional offices and condos located south of jaclyns where and it is literally right next door to our studios. Paul chambers is at the scene to show us what happened. Firefighters putting out hotspots and this place was flooded with firefighters. The portobello Office Building was inspected by tonights fire. We can pan over a little bit. Things could have been a lot worse. Around 7 15 pm plans relating into the sky. Markets in the office of space here. I thought it was on the other side of the complex. Its no big deal. I was watching tv and not paying attention. This is little high, camera on the roof. You can see smoke pouring from the building. Firefighters contained six units. This did not stop him between floors. It ran up the length of the building into the attic space. Some worry about their workspace while people working nextdoor new that any moment. The fire co
Campaign 2014 has one outstanding race yet to be decided. Louisiana senate. Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu is up against republican bill cassidy. Thats live at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on our companion network, cspan2. Congress is in recess for the thanksgiving holiday. When they return, lawmakers will work on extending government funding past december 11th when the current spending deal runs out. In the house, members will consider how to proceed on immigration after the president s executive action. In the in the senate, votes are scheduled on nominees beards to argentina and hungary. And work on a spending deal to continue funding the government. Live coverage when Congress Returns monday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern, the house on cspan and the senate on cspan2. This thanksgiving week, cspan is featuring interviews from retiring members of congress. Watch thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. I was elected in 1980, came in in 81. If you look at my newsletters from 81 to 84, theres no mention of hu