Two white, one negro. Beaten and shot to death. Among those indicted with a for this triple slaying were six men identified as members of the ku klux klan. None has been brought to trial. In this automobile, a reserve lieutenant was cut by a shotgun blast while writing through georgia. Riding through georgia. Arrested for the crime were four knights of the ku klux klan. Two of them were tried and acquitted. In a few short months 13 alleged , members of the ku klux klan said to be involved in these killings. When such an order of this takes over the police power, you all are completely at their mercy. And their atrocities and their violence can be visited on anybody that disagrees with them in any given situation. Narrator what started as a joke 100 years ago when a group of men donned bedsheets for a romp has over the years attracted to it persons charged with acts of harassment, intimidation, and violence throughout the south. Even though the nation has been outraged for many years, t
Sensitivities in mind, hoover officialhe take a semi tour latin america after the election. Coolidge agreed. Earlyovember 19 1928 to january 1929, hoover not only stayed out of washington. Better still, he stayed out of the country. Fulfilling an29, ambition that had touched his soul for a decade or longer, Herbert Hoover became president of the United States. He had done so without ever elective public office. For an hour and a half, he and Calvin Coolidge stood, sat and walked sidebyside without saying a word to each other. In his inaugural address, hoover paid tribute to his right predecessor. Is when the ceremony was over, they said goodbye, and the expresident went home to new england. Announcer 2 you can watch this and other American History programs on our website where the video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Buffalo Bills death at the buffalo and the Buffalo Bills Center Hosted a symposium. Western historian paul hutton delive
Press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. Then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [laughter] so stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynote speaker. Paul Andrew Hutton is an american cultural historian. He is an awardwinning author. He is a documentary writer and television personality. Hi him him him him him he serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico. As we all know, he is published quite widely in both scholarly academic venues and popular magazines. And he has reached a very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recognized far and wide. He is a sixtime winner of the western writers of america spur award and a sixtime winner of the western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and western Heritage Museum for his work in both print and film. It was his book jeremy mentioned the other
The west posted something. Western historian paul hutton delivered the keynote address. He described how william cody became a symbol of the frontier and influenced american perception of western culture. This is just over an hour. Welcome, everyone, to the final event of what has been a terrific three days. You know, when you start to plan these things, and you think we will have this person and that person and do all this stuff. There was this moment when we started to put the program on paper and said we have 36 different speakers on this thing. It exceeded our expectations certainly. So thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. Thanks very much. [applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit a new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. The
Mingus coloradus and his interactions with u. S. Troops. His talk is about an hour and is sponsored by the kansas city public library. My name is eli paul. It is my honor to introduce our speaker, paul andrew hutton. In keeping with his profession as a university professor, we are going to have a pop quiz. One question, pass fail. Here is the question. What do jeff chandler, charles bronson, rock hudson, and the incredibly blueeyed Burt Lancaster all have in common . [indiscernible] i think i hear the answer, and the answer is all these men played Apache Indian leaders in the movies. Jeff chandler played cochise, rock hudson played the son of cochise. Bronson was a shadow chatto. For extra credit, answer this. What made those roles so attractive to these actors . Could it be the epic nature of their struggle . Keep those questions in mind. Also keep those names in mind. Maybe not the faces. The people may reappear as paul hutton tells us about our war with the apache tribes, americas l