Booksusan cole from folio and we are thrilled to have one of our local authors here tonight. Bill yenne is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books as well as novels. He has written numerous books on military history and recently released a book called, hit the target, which we have over here. Related to the eighth air force. Tonight, we are honored to have bill to discuss his latest book with us, operation long jump. Bill yenne. [applause] thanks to paula, who is not here, and john, who is. Thanks to all of you for coming out. Sitting down and listening to my story. Stories are almost as fun to write about as they are to read. That is not true. They are more fun to write about. [laughter] bill an assassination anspiracy story, seem to have special residence and people get excited and interested in that stuff. I am here to talk about what i am maintaining is the largest assassination conspiracy in history. Churchill, roosevelt, stalin, in ,ne room, with three bullets and the co
Ms. Fraser very busy for the last two days, and we have had a wonderful crowd turn out each time. We sold out of the book. Its been really satisfying to it has been really satisfying, and to have cspan here taping this to show on television is the icing on the cake. It is such a wonderful feeling to know something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. My job tonight [applause] peoplentroduce the two on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at book editor at the st. Louis postdispatch. She granted waited from the university it graduated from the university of columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She worked as a copy editor for the st. Louis globe democrat in the mid1980s, and after three years in the newsroom of the hartford post in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with their features department for 30 years. She has signed and edits edited book
Next a visit to Smithsonian National portrait gallery. In the second of a two part program, American History tv is given a guide id tour mark the centennial of the 19th amendment. Miss lemay examines the tactics under the leadership of alice paul. Hi. Im the curator of votes for women. Its on view at the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Im standing in front of what we call your title treatment. Its a large blow up of a german born actress. She was acting as columbia, a figure which represents the United States during the conclusion of the 1913 parade in washington, d. C. And thats just one event of the long Suffrage Movement that this exhibit highlights. We have 124 objects that goes into the long history beginning in 1832 and bringing it right up to 1920, but the then also declaring the 19 th amendment which it didnt do which was enfranchise all women including women of color and i took it up to the Voting Rights act of 1965. If youll come with me, well go and
Ace . That should have sounded there is a question mark at the end of it in case it didnt. We are thrilled to have you here on site and thrilled to have you all join us either online or via tv, because we know that these conversations are essential to not only understanding history but understanding our present. Which this speaker absolutely is going to be addressing all of those things. Dr. Akin is an associate professor at tulane university, where he specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and republican of turkey. His book, when the war came home examines the Ottoman Empires catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyzes the impact of the war on the civilian population and was named the 2018 choice award for outstanding academic title. Thes the coeditor of Ottoman Empire middle east 19 18 onlinee 1914 International Encyclopedia of the First World War. A you have not use that as resource yet, you really need to take a look at it. Encyclopedia is spectacular with global co
Im Chilton Varner and serve as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I am pleased to welcome you to the third of four lectures that comprise ourselves or men lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Begin the evenings program, i am commanded, not asked, im commanded to ask you to turn off your cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonya sotomayor. She has been and norma slid generous in giving up her time to the society when we call upon her to help us, and i want to thank her for taking time off during a very busy time in the life of the court. Sonya sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york, june 25, 1954. She earned a ba in 1976 from princeton. She earned a jd from yale law school, where she served as an editor of the yale la