Compiling this topic, lecture topics for this year, she called me into her office and pitched me this idea. She ended up, when i told her and i agreed i probably did know somebody who might be interested in doing this topic, she said, when i think of outlaws, scalawags, and scoundrels, there is only one person who comes immediately to mind. I am so touched. That is exactly the type of characters every girl longs to be associated with. Before you can start looking at the outlaws that the civil war spun off, you have to take a flip back and see and understand the guerrilla warfare that was going on during the civil war to understand how that same mindset continued after the war and manifested itself in the wild west. Irregular warfare in the civil war, you have those who are somewhat associated with the organized military and calvary raiders in the borderland area, kentucky and everything, were probably the most closely associated. Rangers had partisan who acted on their own, but answere
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Tour, but only a brief clip is shown in the first few minutes of this program. Good evening and welcome, everyone. I am tom putnam, director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum, and on behalf of the executive director of the Kennedy Library foundation, the board of directors, and all of our colleagues, i think you for joining us this evening. Let me first acknowledge the generous underwriters of the forum, boston capital, the local institute, raytheon, the boston foundation, and our media partners. We considered having this Forum Last Night on the actual 50th anniversary of mrs. Kennedys tour but did not want to make any of you having to choose between sharing valentines day with loved ones or with your friends here at the Kennedy Library. We are so pleased to have so many of you with us this evening. 50 years ago, Jacqueline Kennedy introduced herself to the nation. In many ways, the public already knew her from her role as the president s wife, mother of two child
Nick so since he retired, he teaches at new mexico state university, teaches about history and Civil War History and he had a book that came out this week, the u. S. Constitution and secession. It is my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce you to dr. Dwight pitcaithley. Dr. Pitcaithley he promised he was not going to include the rockstar part. Best laid plans. Thank you for coming tonight. Thanks to nick that wonderful introduction and thanks to the grant site for hosting this event. Im going to talk about 25 or 30 minutes, and then alternative over to you, so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about, and we hope that during my time, i have been provocative enough that we can have a conversation that goes on for another 35 or 40 minutes. Robert jim moran, who many of you know, threetime loser prizewinner, wrote that the civil war is our only felt history, history lived in the national imagination, and i think that is true, whether your ancestry goes back that far on not.
In doing this topic, she said, what i think about scalawags and scoundrels, there is only one person who comes immediately to mind. I am so touched. Exactly the kind of character every girl longs to be associated with. Before you can start looking at the outlaws that the civil war spun off, you have to take a see and understand the guerrilla warfare that was going on during the civil war to understand how that same mindset continued after the war. In manifested itself in the wild west. In the civilfare war, you have those who are somewhat associated with the organized military and calvary raiders raters were the most closely associated. John mosby would fall under those were the more civilized versions of irregular warfare. Underneath that, you had guerrilla warfare and that was all across the south. When i say guerrilla warfare, i mean when i say guerrilla warfare, i mean people taking up arms for themselves and fighting. Some of them may have done it because they were in kill or be k