Century. An event that embodied justice over tyranny. I chose a letter that i hope and bodies those qualities. Number, germany, june 1st, 1946. Grace, my dearest, it is now about 9 pm. I am here with you. I prefer to pass my time with you, rather than reading or doing anything. You are so much on my mind at all times. I had a nice letter from judge wide thanking me for betray sent to him. He said he showed it to judge jennings, who showed interest but made no comment. White said this is the greatest trial in history, and while it seems long to me now, in a few years, i would look back on it with great satisfaction. By the way, be sure to read Walter Lippmans article in the ladies home journal for june. It is really a good thing, i think, and it gives you some idea of how important this proceeding is. There is a great satisfaction of doing ones job, particularly a job like this. It really is of great importance everyone. And as he says, sunday will be recognized as a great landmark in t
Mainstream media. Books in indy reads books in indianapolis hosted the event. Good evening and welcome to indy reads books. For those that are not familiar, we are a nonprofit independent bookstore and a direct source of revenue for the Nonprofit Organization indy reads. Our mission is to improve the literacy and english Language Proficiency of adults in central indiana. We sell used and new books for all ages, special orders for customers, and host multiple events per week. We are largely volunteerrun and our inventory is largely made up of book donations. If you would like to support us, consider making a purchase tonight, a donation or volunteering time as a bookstore volunteer or literacy tutor. Tonight we have the pleasure of hosting dr. Andrew stoner, who will be discussing his latest book the journalist of castro , street, the life of randy shilts. Dr. Stoner is an indiana native and a associate professor of Communication Studies at California State University sacramento. His bo
Our inventory is primarily made up of donations. If you would like to support us, please consider making a purchase tonight, a donation, or volunteering your time. Tonight, we have the pleasure of hosting dr. Andrew stoner, who will be discussing his latest book, the journalist of castro street, the life of randy shil ts. Dr. Stoner is an associate professor of Communications Studies at sacramento. His books include notorious 92, indianas most heinous murders, among other titles. Tonight, his book can be purchased at the front register and proceeds will benefit indy reads books as well as the author. Please welcome me join me in welcoming dr. Stoner to the stage. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to be back in indianapolis among familiar faces to talk about a subject ive spent nine or 10 years working on. Im going to talk about randy shilts tonight. It was my doctoral dissertation and through the help of some editors and a lot of hard work, we have got into a readable fashion for
Mr. Nichols thanks very much, andrew. It to begin with thanks dont even know if they are in the room but they have been amazing for the work behind the scenes. I have been getting a lot of plaudits for my work. They are doing the work. He is probably in the back room interviewing someone for us. I want to set the state the stage with woodrow wilson. There are some places where maybe this is a little sketchy and we can think about this without me finetuning my own argument. So, on january 8, 1918, woodrow to thewalks purposefully center of the capitol to address a joint session of congress. Much of his cabinet had not been consulted about what was to become the most important foreignpolicy speech of his career. It is among the most important foreignpolicy pronouncement is in u. S. History, nicknamed the 14 points, his enumeration of 14 points he deemed essential to creating a lasting peace. We are all fairly aware of this. Once lofty, idealistic, strategically vague, along with the expe
Sits in with a lecture for the Nations College professors. Up next, Richard Reeves talks about the internment experiences of japaneseamericans living on the west coast and how the press expressed hysteria over possible acts of sabotage. Experiences of japaneseamericans very widely depending on where they lived during a time of open racism. This is about an hour. Part of what were going to talk about today is the tendency for the press to all follow the same story line, which weve seen a lot of right now with two story lines that are taking up most of the news space these days. Ebola, every papers saying the same, every paper, every television, the internet is all following that story according to a pretty well known narrative because its also been fictionalized in film. And then, what then knocks off ebola and people dying in africa. Bill cosby, so that all everybodys writing the same kind of story about bill cosby every day but with different names. And so, today, i want to talk about