Seelig. [applause] hello everybody well, everybody sit down, i am so happy to be here the commissioner, bud seelig. I now realize we met a quarter of a century ago. I came to milwaukee and bud had read no ordinary time about franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and he wanted to meet with me to it talk about history. I wanted to meet him to talk about baseball. So always theres been that push and pull, whats happening in baseball . Whats happening in the country . We had this great relationship. Weve been the hall of fame game together b went to japan together for the opening day. The opening day of the red sox it was a crazy trip to japan. And all this time bud would tell me these amazing stories. And so i was so glad when he decided to write this book which is a collection of the best stories because he is a great storyteller. So i am so happy to be able to ask him questions that will illuminate. We will get to thats on everybodys mind which is the Houston Astros disaster, in terms of what
damages. in a related story, classified documents just turned up on ebay. carroll appeared on good morning america to talk about the plans for the money. i want to give the money to something donald trump hates. congratulations, eric. aw, that s sad. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 30th. that is a big day for me. i have a 28-year-old now. my daughter s birthday. happy birthday. i have a 28-year-old, wow. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. former white house director of communications to president obama, jennifer palmeri. she and claire mccaskill are hosts of how to win 2024. joe, just sit down. there he is. good to see you. you doing all right? good to see you. happy to be here. i m so glad you could be here. thank you. i want you to know, you re the most valued member of this team. i appreciate that. willie geist, so good to see you. thank you for being here. it s my hon
America about the waverley Train Derailment and and im sorry about a Train Derailment in waverly, tennessee dr. Ali is a cardiology and former president of the vanderbilt history of medicine society. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt Universitys college arts and science with a bachelors degree in molecular biology and and then she attended Vanderbilt School of medicine and she still lives near waverly, tennessee. So in turn the floor over to her, dr. Ellie, thank you. My reading is from the introduction to the book but the end after the taylor is of metal and machine have had their turn. We always eventually find that what it down to is the people involved the people who lived the people died, the people who endured with uncommon bravery, who cleaned the mess and who were to deal with the aftermath and all that entailed. This book, a true story told to me directly from the mouths of these very people, the ones who were there and lived it firsthand, who emerged from the wrec
Turn away thy Terrence Roberts was the best student in a group of nine, and perhaps for that reason he was to become one of the main targets of the segregationists. His father was a navy veteran and a dietitian. His mother was a caterist. The large Roberts Family were sevenday adventists and very religious. Terrences father attended meetings all summer discussing integration, but remained ambivalent about his sons attending central until the governors actions made it a matter of principle. When newsmen asked terrence if the naacp had pressured to him attend central, the idealistic 15yearold responded, quote, nobody urged me to go. The school board asked if i wanted to go. I thought if i got in, some of the other children would be able able to go and have more opportunities. On september 25th, 2007, Terry Roberts, the other eight members of the little rock nine, and the world, will return to little rock to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of little rock Central High
Blacks had no rights and were considered property. 3 5 a person. Ot even a full human being if you have an institution like that that flourishes for hundreds of years, even when the laws change, it is still embedded in peoples minds and psyches. It is important to set the tone for what happened in the later years. A very important supreme courts we focus on is the 1896 plessy versus ferguson which established the separate but equal doctrine, putting a legal stamp on jim crow laws and black codes that flourished throughout the united states. A long timehere for creating a long list, everything from transportation systems, restaurants, hotels, whenorhoods, hospitals during segregation the hospitals were segregated and their been cases where a black person needing emergency assistance, even if the white hospital was closer, they cannot make it over to the Black Hospital in time. The colored hospital ended up dying. Even cemeteries were segregated. Everything was segregated. This was the l