This topic were what do people say to you, is it a little bit weird to be discussing and i said yes i guess it is but i find it fascinating and i think that its a significant assassination certainly affected not only American History that World History and i give a few examples in my introduction about the fact that after all its face it, world war i began because of an assassination and of course we had the fall of the Roman Republic because of an assassination and we have our country itself divided when Abraham Lincoln was of course murdered in 1865 and we are still reverberating from the events around john f. Kennedy in 1963 but its a lot more than looking at Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Assassination has been a common theme in history but also in American History and i devoted a chapter to each president who faced a direct assassination attempt both those who were assassinated into those who were wounded and were also president ial candidates which i havent seen anybody els
Www. The progressive professor. Com. I will come ron nibikov ron fineman. [applause] think you and i pursue your deduction today want to begin by thanking certain people. I want to thank stephanie for inviting me to speak here on my book. I want to thank cspan for agreeing to indeed take this event and put it on booktv in a few weeks. I want to also thank my sons David Fineman and paul fineman for aris being there for me. We are definitely very close family pretty want to also thank one of my colleagues and former students david who took me for courses at Broward College in Florida Atlantic university. Azaleas say he majored in fineman and minored in history. He took me eight times. I guess he likes me and enough teachers that Broward Kelly Jenny up to me with a power point im to use because im not that technically savvy and also with the index and the chart in my book so i want to thank david glover for that. I also want to thank steven engel who is one of the people on the blurb for
For the people who followed him. But four years on he dusted off the madison draft and asked hamilton to take a look and make suggestions which i think instantly, and im sure no one here will take any offense, gives George Washington the greatest speech writing team ever. That is until the Trump Administration which i gather will have a bigger, classier, speech writing team. So president s from the beginning have sought help occasionally. But it wasnt until the rise of Mass Communication that the speech writer became part of the president ial orbit. The first president who is credited with having a fulltime speech writer was warren harding. Its no surprise that harding was also the first radio president. As mass media has involved going from radio to television to social media, so has the way the president ial speeches are prepared, so is the way they are received, so is the role of president ial speech writers. So im very excite that we have been able to pull together a terrific panel
Lincoln assassination as my topic. I was fascinated by it. The following year the kennedy assassination took place and kept everyones interest and has continued and ive been interested in it and i have done interviews, you know, as far as various groups and lectures and two years ago Roman Littlefield loaned to me an email we see and do lectures on the subject and he said would you loo ick to write a book . Here i am semiretired, a lot less work to do and more time thinking why not . I said okay. They sought me out and i was pleased to say yes. Brian you start with Andrew Jackson. What is that story . Professor feinman Andrew Jackson is the first president we know of that has any problems with assassination threats. There were three such cases. There was the case of a young man who punched him in the nose in 1833, which is pretty minor but a first example of assault. Then we have the father of later lincoln assassination John Wilkes Booth who writes a threatening letter to jackson in 1
Prof. Feinman he is the first president we know what that had any problems with assassination threats. There were three cases. There was the case of a young man who punched him in the nose in 1833. It is our first example. Then we have booth, the father of the lincoln assassin, who writes a threatening letter to jackson in 1835. His handwriting has been authenticated. This is three years before john looks booth is born. John wilkes booth is born. It makes you wonder if it is genetic. Brian there were a lot of duels back in those days. Andrew jackson have been involved. Do you have any idea . How many . Six times. He was a meteor figure, a person who made people furious. He had a contentious time in office. That is what may be caused in his second term that we would have the situation of people threatening his life. In this case, it was only on paper. Then there is Richard Lawrence who actually came to the capital after a funeral. Jackson was there. Actually went ahead and had two pisto