And i am professor of english and the graduate dean at jackson state university. And welcome to our panel entitled World War Two from the air. The sponsor for this panel is the university of southern mississippi dell center for the study of war and society, with representatives for our sponsor. Please stand at this time. Lets thank our sponsors. Moderator for this session is Marshal Ramsey marshal a nationally recognized editorial cartoonist, shares his cartoons and travels the state as a mississippi. Todays editor at large, he is also host of a weekly statewide Radio Program and a Television Program on mississippi public broadcasting. And marshall is the author of several books. He is a two time pulitzer finalist and was named a top 100 employee of gannett. Marshall, take it away. Thanks. Yeah. A couple of housekeeping notes. If you do not turn off your phone, i will draw a cartoon about you. And it it will not be ready just to let you know that. And also, two of them, tom clement, wa
The viewers wont be able to hear your question unless you go to the microphone and ask it. There. So all comments and questions take it to the podium. Jeff lynne has chronicled the Southwestern United States in such american undesirable roles as bonnie and clyde. Charles manson and jim jones. Lives in fort worth, texas, and is a member of the texas literary hall of fame for such bestselling books as go down together the last gunfight, manson the road, the jonestown town and waco. Today, hell tell us about his new book, war on the border, via pershing, the Texas Rangers and an american invasion. Brian castner is a former explosive Ordnance Disposal officer who received a bronze star for his service in the iraq war. He and his family live in buffalo, new york, and hes the author of the books the long walk and all the ways we kill and die and the coeditor of the 2017 anthology, the road ahead. His journalism and essays have appeared in esquire wire, vice, the new york times, the washingto
Oh, i think were about out of time. I just want to say thank you to both kevin and james. Lets give them a hand im chris. Good luck with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Our session is titled uniquely American History. And in one way or another, these three books touch on nearly every state in the union, as well as our neighbors to the north and the south. Well hear from each of our authors about the stories that they tell in your books. And then ill ask a few questions before opening it up for questions and comments from you all. Please remember. That since we are on cspan and the viewers wont be able to hear your question unless you go to the microphone and ask it. There. So all comments and questions take it to the podium. Jeff lynne has chronicled the Southwestern United States in such american undesirable roles as bonnie and clyde. Charles manson and jim jones. Lives in fort worth, texas, and is a member of the texas literary hall of fame for such bestselling bo
Good evening. The mayors of new york and boston say they are preparing for the worst. New york has ordered streets closed to traffic starting tonight while boston will get all the snow they can handle. And on parts of the Atlantic Coast this will feel just like a winter hurricane. Blizzard warnings, not winter storm warnings but blizzard warnings, are posted in seven states. Five different states have declared states of emergency. And parts of the entire region could be paralyzed for days. We have the entire region covered here tonight. We want to begin with nbcs Anne Thompson in new york where the evening rush really took place this morning as everyone went home. Anne, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. It certainly did. The city that never sleeps is shutting down. New york is getting hit by this storm in waves. Come take a look at manhattans iconic fifth avenue. It is relatively empty as the city prepares for what could be a long and dangerous night. With alarming speeds the
Sending a shoutout to u. S. Service members involve in an airstrike on a syrian airbase. Mr. Trump is spending the weekend at his maralago resort in palm beach, where his administration is denying rumors of an impending west wing shakeup. Heres margaret brennan. I think we have made tremendous progress in our relationship with china. Reporter President Trumps china summit was not the only highstakes diploamalcy at maralago. On the sidelines, chief of staff Reince Priebus brokered a detente between the administrations two warring factions, varies steve bannon and trump soninlaw jared kushner. The populist bannon is the architect of the America First policy and has advocated breaking up americas alliances and institutions. We have a team thats just grinding it through on what President Trump promised the american people. That world view competes for influence with kushner. As mr. Trumps most trusted adviser, kushner was invited to join his intimate dinner with chinas president. Wife ivan