Thank you and welcome everyone. I am very honored to be here. I also want to recognize Fred Hamptons mother who was here tonight. [applause] and also, bill hampton freds brother and freds sister. And [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce and [indiscernible] who was also in the apartment that night in the brook truce berkshires. She is here tonight also. [applause] i want to thank northwestern and bernadine for bringing together such a prestigious and accomplished panel. I feel like now, i can sit down and hear what they have to say. I am and all of the people who are here tonight and their accomplishments. I want to thank bernadine for putting it together and for being one of the inspirations for wired with this book. It was bernadine mentioned that fred hampton spoke at Northwestern University law School Almost exactly 40 years ago to the day. The person who introduced him was a young law student by the name of [indiscernible] who is sitting in th
Part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war. , on xp kurt is one of the great emerging voices in the field. When i travel all across the country, i hear you to get more young people involved. If we need a poster child, kevin pollak is it. Hes getting married in a couple weeks. I will be a major life shift for it. He is the education director for the Mosby Heritage area and coauthor of an upcoming civil war book series about the maryland campaign. He will talk with us a bit about what he considers to be a great defense robert e lee at , antietam. My pleasure is to introduce one of the great emerging voices in the field, kevin pollak. [applause] kevin good morning, everyone. Thank you to chris for that humbling introduction and thank you all for being here at my Bachelor Party. I think we might set a Virginia State record for the largest Bachelor Party in all of history. It is about to get crazy, if you will. Talking about robert at the battle of antietam. Even before last yea
Is on cspan3 every weekend. Here is a clip from a recent program. Agent maccarthy, you are modest when i asked you about beingshot and possibly run over by the president s limousine, but you went to the hospital. Did you ever get a chance to talk president reagan about that . A little bit lighter than what we had to discuss come and if you have questions, please come up and i will call on you. I was in the hospital for about 10 days. I did not have a meeting with the president or anything like that. He was injured more seriously and was there longer, but on the last day i was in my hospital, my wife and two of my children came up to get me. My daughter brought her nursing kit to make sure everything was son jeff was my acting like a doctor, so they came to get me and i had a message before i leave to come down and see the president. It sounded like in order to me. Down. Mptly went you werent wearing one of those horrible hospital gowns . I wasnt, but he was, and mrs. Reagan was there.
Tv, from the 33rd International Churchill conference, author and former president of the british liberal party, lord watson, talks about his book churchills legacy two speeches to save the world. This is about 45 minutes. Thank you very much. Our speaker is a commander in the British Empire so he outranks me. It is a great pleasure and enormous pleasure to introduce my good friend, lord watson of richmond. My job this afternoon is to furnish his churchill credentials for you. Its an easy task in this case. Like churchill, he made his name in the media. As a tv presenter and radio reporter. Rising to become chairman of the Royal Television society. Like churchill, he has always been passionate about politics. While churchill rewrote it and changed party allen has always , remained loyal to the liberal party. He became its president in the 1980s and now serves in the house of lords. Like churchill, he has always been interested and engaged in international affairs. In europe, the commonw
Generations and minority groups. The emerging civil war blog hosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. We have a number of speakers tomorrow to speak about those specific legacies. Tonight its a night for you to ask your questions. What did the war mean . How do we still remember it . How is it still with us . Im going to toss out a couple of questions to our panel, let them answer, and then we will start taking questions from you in the audience to feed off some of the comments. Let me introduce our panelists tonight. Starting on the left of the table, chris white, a former historian with the national battlefield, a licensed battlefield guide at gettysburg. You can probably drop him on any field and he will tell you this regiment was right here and the shoe size of the colonel. [laughter] chris is also the emeritus editor of the emerging civil war book series. Please welcome chris white. To the right of him is a man that needs no introduction because ive introduced him once a