Throughout 2014, cspan city tours features the history of communities throughout the country. Here is a look at one of those cities. We are standing here at historic fort sneling. Its the first foot hold in this region for United States expansion. During the early 1800s, you begin to have this idea spreading across the country of the manifest destiny to spread from sea to shining sea. Its the right to extend across north america. Of course, thats problematic because there are other people who lived here first. The American Indian nations. In this region, that was primary the dakota. Fort snelling establishes and its a foothold for expansion. Nothing was the same after it was established here. Relations between American Indians in this region and the United States government began to change. About 1650 the first europe yaps arrive in what would be minnesota. They are arriving because of the fur trade. They are interested in exchanging furs with the indians who lived north of here. They
Put those three things together tog and then eventually im going to to defer to max to talk about sign the composite. That became a significant part of the message. And chicago, salt lake and the San Francisco bay area and the composite. Jim by 1995, we got the manifesto. Rea when all those pieces came together, we went back out to the public through jim with the of message. We really, i think, got what we were looking for. Is i will go back to that composite. Its a fascinating story of the sw investigation as well. I will jump in before you address that. The composite is the iconic picture of the man in the hooded sweatshirt, the aviator sunglasses. Early on in the investigation, you do a lot of monotonous tasks. Reviewing the file, we didnt have a lot of leads. Reviewing file and trying to determine if there were things that hadnt been done in the past. I was reviewing the file with regard to utah related bombings. There was a bombing in 1987 at a Computer Company in salt lake city.
By the time the manifesto came, a lot of the information that came from knowing all the professors enabled us to go back to them and drill down and try to bring more details together about the books that were referenced in the manifesto the language and how it might relate to the history of science, which was our first clue from this guy when he wrote that letter. We spent months really trying to get to know and understanding and reading the manifesto. By the time we had someone step forward that could help us bring it together, we had kind of been on trails. We were able to go back and pull a lot of pieces together. There was debate about whether or not to publicsh the manifesto. The Washington Post did. Tell us about how i believe there was a meeting that you can maybe describe where at first you said no, dont publish it. But then changed your mind quickly. Tell us about how about that meeting. There was a meeting at the task force in San Francisco. The knee jerk reaction was, the Na
A bit about this society, which i joined many years before i got this good job. And i remain among the legions of supporters of this societys many endeavors. This society has been a key player in improving public understanding of the court and its role in the constitutional framework of our government. Regular attendees of these lectures know how engaging they have been and i appreciate something else. The societys Training Program for high school teachers. Works wellconceived and good to read. Among my favorites, eyewitness accounts in Supreme Court history. It is a collection of welltold anecdotes about people and events in the life of the court. Also, second edition of Supreme Court decisions and womens rights. A book designed for secondary school and collegeage readers. In 2012, the society updated the Supreme Court justices illustrated biographies, so now that volume includes four new entries, the chief justice, and the new justices. Last, i cannot resist speaking of a collection
Physician who was working with the u. S. Army. Posted in many different places. Two of them are the things that actually resulted in the suit. One was fort armstrong, which is in the state of illinois which was not supposed to have slavery. Up in the territory of wisconsin. Fort snelling. Rick scott was taken to these places as a slave, held in slavery there even though slavery was technically illegal in those places and then brought back to st. Louis. While he was at fort snelling, he met a woman named Harriet Robinson who was enslaved when other officer at the fort. Dr. Emerson actually purchased to and allowed the scotts marry legally. Which was a rare thing at the time. Scott returnedt to st. Louis. They had two children, both daughters. Emersontime, dr. Passed away. Was asked by the scots if they could purchase their freedom from her. It was something that was not that unusual. She refused. She was not interested in selling the scott family. They decided based on the fact they had