Historians. Lets give him a big hand. [ applause ] id also like to recognize and thank three extraordinary Trustees Board chair, pam shafler and rick reese and susan danalo with us tonight. Give them a big hand as well. [ applause ] and we also want to thank our Chairmans Council and Frederick Douglas Council Members who are with us tonight for all their great work and support. One more hand. Thank you. So the program tonight will last an hour and include a question and answer session and q and a is conducted via note cards. You should have received a note card and pencil. If not the staff are walking up and down the aisle and have cards and pencils to hand out. Let them know and later on in the program we will be answering collecting the cards and answering your questions. We are thrilled to welcome Randall Kennedy back to the New York Historical society. Hes the Michael R Klein professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts and criminal law and regulation of Ra
How Political Parties have used the memory of lincoln. Let me introduce our next speaker. Michael kauffman is one of the leading historians of the lincoln assassination. He is author of american brutus John Wilkes Booth and lincoln conspiracies, which was named by the New York Times and the Washington Post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004. There are copies of the paperback version on the Registration Table that you can purchase after our program is concluded. His other works include in the footsteps of an assassin and a modern edition of memoirs of a lincoln conspirator. His bus tours of the John Wilkes Booth escape route have been popular for many years. He has lectured throughout the country, appeared on Many Television documentaries. Civil war historian william c. Davis, jack davis, once wrote no one has studied booth longer or in more depth than michael w. Kauffman, a wellknown voice of reason in the field of assassination studies. Today, Michael Kauffman will talk to us
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Cost is going to federal government taxes and fees that are imposed upon the consumer. They should turn the witchhunt back around on them. Would they rather an industry that has half empty seats or half empty planes that loses millions of dollars, or would they rather an industry that instead has full planes and is turning a profit that is able to then reinvest money into the economy that provides good middleclass jobs . Because thats what the airlines are doing right now. And the only reason these are so high are because of the federal government taxes that are imposed upon, you know the airlines here and they have to absorb that cost somehow. John is this really going to make the flying experience any better . Is it going to improve our lives any more . No and i dont understand why theyre doing this. Its hard to fathom how wrong the government is in this. Senator blumenthal, who lied about his military record has also come out and said air fares are skyhigh. Hes completely wrong on t
Cost is going to federal government taxes and fees that are imposed upon the consumer. They should turn the witchhunt back around on them. Would they rather an industry that has half empty seats or half empty planes that loses millions of dollars, or would they rather an industry that instead has full planes and is turning a profit that is able to then reinvest money into the economy that provides good middleclass jobs . Because thats what the airlines are doing right now. And the only reason these are so high are because of the federal government taxes that are imposed upon, you know the airlines here and they have to absorb that cost somehow. John is this really going to make the flying experience any better . Is it going to improve our lives any more . No and i dont understand why theyre doing this. Its hard to fathom how wrong the government is in this. Senator blumenthal, who lied about his military record has also come out and said air fares are skyhigh. Hes completely wrong on t