Public library as well as the speakers series. Thank you for attending. Any of us across the nation and the world are currently observing and commemorating the events of the century ago. Here in kansas city, the library in the National World war i museum have joined forces to organize a Community Read of to world war i classics. All quiet on the western front and the guns of august. I would suggest adding another title to your reading list. One that is a little closer to home relevant to our times, and his author is alive and with us today. Apperson is petra dewitt. She is the author of degrees of allegiance. She earned her doctorate in history from the university of missouri and teaches that Missouri University of science and technology. Hers is a timely topic. States enteredd that world conflict, what did it take to prove you were a true american . How do you protect your native language, culture, ministry when it comes under government sanctioned attack. How could members of missour
Front in world war i. Germanamericans met up some of the largest population at the time and were criticized for being german. Is nothor suggest this just because of the sedition act of local authorities were harsher judges of patriotism. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this one hour 10 minute event. Welcome. My name is eli paul and i direct the Missouri Valley special collections of the Kansas City Public Library as well as the speakers series. Thank you for attending. Todays lecture. Many of us across the nation and the world are currently observing and commemorating the events of the century ago. Here in kansas city, the library in the National World war i museum have joined forces to organize a Community Read two world war i classics all quiet on the western front and the guns of august. I would suggest adding another title to your reading list. One that is a little closer to home relevant to our times, and this author is alive and with us today. That person is petra dewitt. S
Members. Businesses in the main protest site have been boarding up store fronts. Tonight is merely the earliest we could get a decision. The grand jury has been hearing evidence for three months now. They only began deliberating today. For the latest on all of it lets go to ed in ferguson. Do we know if the grand jury is still deliberating right now . Reporter we know they are scheduled to meet. They were hearing from some of the last witnesses and the deliberations would begin. Grand jury deliberations is unlike a criminal trial. Youre not allowed to talk about the case until everything has been presented. Grand jurors can discuss the case as they go along. Thats why we have been indications that perhaps after all the testimony had been heard that it perhaps wouldnt take that long for a decision to be reached. So far we havent gotten any indication, and weve heard from lawyer of Michael Browns family that they have not gotten any indication that a decision has been reached. Are they s