Was published in an award for won the best book on wild west history. Book, heking on the began to research pinker 10s National Detective agency ons National Detective agency. This led to the discovery of Timothy Webster. Timothy webster is the subject of the new book a spy for the union the life and execution of Timothy Webster. Without further ado, i will welcome corey recko. [applause] enqueue everyone. I would like to thank everyone here at the museum for setting this up. And allowing me to speak here. A spy for the union the life and execution of. Mothy webster i would like to read the introduction to you which gives you an overview of his life. Man,new York City Police 1853, he was assigned to work the Crystal Palace exhibition. It became known as the first worlds fair. ,e was introduced to pinkerton a scottish immigrant who had started his own Detective Agency. In the 1850s, the Detective Agency laid the foundation for what would become the most important Detective Agency ever.
By chief Justice Warren burger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. It does that in many ways through lectures like these, through the publication three times a year of the journal of Supreme Court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the building. I would like to specially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predecessor and the Curators Office of obtaining of all 19 of the prior courts which have now been obtained. The officers of the court here, i would like to thank the society for the all the efforts they give to all of us. We are joined by three distinguished scholars for discussion of the civil war and its impact on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The moderator of the program will be professor brad snyder. Is an assistant professor of law at the university of Wisconsin Law school. Padis the author of well slave. He is currently at work on the society of truth and other progressives tha
I would like to specially thank the society for its efforts to assist my predecessor and the Curators Office of obtaining the portraits of all 19 of the prior courts which have now been obtained. On behalf of all the officers of the court here, i would like to thank the society for the all the efforts they give to all of us. We are joined by three distinguished scholars for discussion of the civil war and its impact on Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The moderator of the program will be professor brad snyder. He is an assistant professor of law at the university of Wisconsin Law school. He is the author of wellpaid slave. He is currently at work on the society of truth and other progressives that lived in the Dupont Circle rowhouse and formed a political salon in the 1910s. He has written extensive articles about justice holmes. Tonights analysts are James Mcpherson and g. Edward white. James mcpherson is the George Henry Davis Professor Emeritus of United States history at princeton un
Through this entrance, every knew agent so i officer takes their oath of office here in this lobby in front of 107 of our fallen officers commemorated on the wall of honor, they have walked across the agency, sealed out morning to take their place in the lobby and the father of Central Intelligence is watching over their shoulder as they begin their career for the Central Intelligence agency in our nation. Were standing close to a sculpture of wild bill donovan, the father of Central Intelligence, donovan was tapped by president roosevelt in 1942 to head the office of Strategic Services. Established by president roosevelt to coordinate information intelligence with the war growing overseas. The single star behind us commemorates the loss of 116 ossers who the cia seal is something everyone sees as they come into the office, some people dont want to cross it, some want to walk around it. But you have seen movies filmed here in the lobby. It was designed by the crew that designed the tom
Recently neither man could have known the importance of the meeting at the time. In the 1850s, Pinkertons National Detective Agency would lay the foundation for what would become the most famous Detective Agency. Pinkertops agency focused on criminal matters and was often employed by government agencies. In putting together what would be a talented team of detectives, Timothy Webster who was recommend to pinkerton by a member of the new York City Police force was one of these men. Though he did not join the pinkerton Detective Agency, he may have decided to accept the offer after continuing harassment webster moved his family to illinois and went on to become one of the agencys best detectives. Though quiets and reserved personally, when on a case, webster used an outgoing personally to get information he needed. The skilled detective worked on such interesting cases as tracking the forger uncovering a plot to destroy the rock Island Bridge and investigating grave robberies in chicago.