Singer bing crosby grew up in this home and lived in spokane and till 1925 when he left for hollywood to pursue a singing career. Will tell us about his work with military members during two and his impact on American Culture military members during world war ii and his impact on American Culture. Bing crosby was wellbalanced. He did not seek fame. It totally surprised him. Calminge of the influences on American History, he was the voice people listen to a 1930 on the radio when things were so hard. That was bing crosbys role in , a nextdoorory neighbor, commonsense approach to life. He modeled that. That goes back to his life in this neighborhood. Bing crosby was born in tacoma, washington, on the west side of the state. At the age of three, his family moved to spokane. His dad took a new position at a brewery in spokane. They rented a house a couple blocks from where we are now. At the age of 11, bing crosbys father and a couple of uncles built this house. He lived here from the age
Institute. Our first speaker this afternoon, to kick off our conference, is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at the university of miami, in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his phd in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to discussing the 16th resident of the United States. He is also the author of a number of books. His first two books were on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the dreyfus affair. And unlike most of us, he can only write between 18611865, martin is able to go into other fields and be successful in doing so. Martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize. He received that prize for writing the gettysburg address. Writing the gettysburg address is a superb book. It takes readers on lincolns journey to gettysburg. I dont want to get going too much of martins talk, but i will simply say this, that it reveals how lincolns intellectual
And one more comment id like to make is that my son, who is a white male, was pulled over tonights ago by the police because he had a low beam out. So i think things have really changed in the past 50 years. My main question is how can you say you cant make it today based on something that happened to your family 150 years ago . Id like to hear an answer to that. So i mean for starters, this idea of 150 years ago, its true slavery ended 150 years ago. But the discrimination thats baked into our system continues even today. I tell the story all the time about my father, not somebody i read about in a book somewhere, not some ancient relative. My father was born in 1933 in mississippi. Goes off to fight in the korean war. Comes home to a mississippi where he cant sit at a lunch counter, where he is not allowed to vote, where he does not get to participate in the gi bills that are offered to people coming back from war to go to college where he cant get the home loans that are offered as
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A charging with rebellion also on the program. Police in germany detain a nineteen year old syrian suspected of gathering parts for a powerful bomb the countrys interior minister says they arrested prevented a serious terrorist attack but what was the intended target. And celebrating a defining moment in the european History Today marks five hundred years since Martin Luther inspired the protestant reformation will look at his legacy. Im still got a welcome to the program days after the clearing independence in catalonia the regions deposed leader has resurfaced in brussels belgium is Prime Minister says kala supposed to mow was not invited and will be treated like any other you said he said addressing a press Conference Mr said that he was not. Its impossible to seek asylum but to bring the cattle on independence issue to what he called the heart of the European Union spanish prosecutors have already announced charges against him and other ousted members of the cattle and Regional Gov