Project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Whittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific historian, with more projects on the back burners than ive ever seen on the stove before. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of johns work are his published work are many and varied with something of a focus Abraham Lincoln with the legal and constitution, as well and hes coauthor of a book entitled Civic Education and the work of citizenship and because he has news they wrote our little monitor, the greatest invention of this civil war. I asked him to put it on a topic, and it draws from oth
She was able to get out, walked to the side and i had a broken ankle but didnt know it, for a few days. Another car came up, a man got out of the car and went to the person lying on the ground, my friend judy said that is the persons father on the ground, no, i said it couldnt be, that is mister bassett. When we got taken to the hospital we were in a room with a cloth draped separating us, judy and i were, we had very minor injuries, no one was there with us. I could hear mrs. Douglas crying on the other side of the curtain. And then when i got home that was just a huge tragedy and a life lesson that is a very hard lesson to learn that i learned early, things that happened to you, you cause things to happen if you could take it back you would but there is never anything you can ever do about it and it is just a fact and you have to accept it with whatever grace you can accept it with. Host you hadnt talked about it. Guest i had. In the 2000 race when it came out in the newspapers i was
The feds were firing so much tear gas that a federal Aviation Administration official said that clouds of it were getting picked up on the radar over portland heres what i would describe as a tear gas tornado approaching from the west so we have a 75 percent chance of burning face and eyes a low to no visibility and theres also a 95 percent chance begin raining rubber bullets after 9 pm especially medics and journalists remember to pack an umbrella and a helmet and bring your mom. And who could forget them shooting the press and protesters in the face with their less lethal bullets well i guess thats why they shot people in the head so they would forget some might call this is disaster black lives matter protests were dying down in early july when the feds arrived in portland and breathed new life into the protests you know most people like to disappear in a puff of smoke but somehow in portland a cloud of tear gas only makes more protesters appear tear gas makes them stronger but also
Fingerprints on such artistry of crowd control and state repression. Why it was none other than the department of Homeland Security the only federal agency more opaque and less accountable then the u. S. Military they go Department Still in its teens was created in 2002 to fight terrorism and all threats from abroad like you know my wrist says but the t. H. S. Has always been more concerned with monitoring peaceful activists at home than focusing on serious threats you can see that clearly in an internal memo published this week Homeland Security worries coburn 1000 masks are breaking facial recognition is definitely a show of their priories but to be fair i wouldnt expect any teen year old with a cold to carry kleenex if this Shirt Sleeves everyone got so mad that these g. I. John does were ignoring civilians rights and treating peaceful protests like a counterinsurgency operation that they pissed not some peoples mothers off but a whole wall of moms came out to protests. The moms als
Spains Prime Minister weighs in on the financial scandal involving former King Juan Carlos sousa now fled the country. And Zimbabwes President defends the recent crackdown on protests against his gun. And installed. His half the top spot in the n. B. A. s western conference for the 1st time in a decade bron james the number one see there with the. President donald trump the leader of the country hardest hit by the corona virus pandemic is making a big and what some according divisive push to get kids back into the classroom thats despite warnings from top disease experts of potential health risks its angered teachers in cities like new york where theyve been protesting against the plan. And you can see why the u. S. Has 4700000 cases more than 155000 deaths and theres still little indication that things are improving democratic president ial hopeful joe biden has been tweeting urging trump to do his job before even more people lose a loved one at all this as millions of unemployed amer