From the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the eve of the discussion about the need for a more stringent fugitive slave law, the attempted escape from washington was just one of a series of dramatic escapes that, including henry, sprung from this ci
Blackett, andrew jackson, professor of history emeritus at, vanderbilt university, discussing fugitive slaves and the coming of the civil war at the end of presentation. The speaker will take questions from the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the
Blackett, andrew jackson, professor of history emeritus at, vanderbilt university, discussing fugitive slaves and the coming of the civil war at the end of presentation. The speaker will take questions from the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the
Blackett, andrew jackson, professor of history emeritus at, vanderbilt university, discussing fugitive slaves and the coming of the civil war at the end of presentation. The speaker will take questions from the floor. We have two roving microphones. If you have a question or indeed a comment, please raise your hand and the microphone will find you. So further ado, please welcome me. Help. Welcome dr. Blackett to the podium. Dr. Richard blackett. Thank you. Okay. Good to see so many people gathered in the morning on a saturday morning, of all things. Uh, makes reminds me of my. 9 00 class as an undergraduate when people were forced to be. Huh. Okay. I wish to use to fuze fugitive slave incidences as to our discussion today. The first involve the failed attempt to escape on the pearl from washington, d. C. In april 1848. The second the successful freeing of Daniel Webster otherwise known as daniel danger. Freed from philadelphia in april, 1859. They provide a useful symmetry. The on the
jr. with the stories you haven t heard, the police officer who questioned hinckley speaks out in his first nationally televised interview. i just didn t think that he realized the magnitude of what he had done. andrea canning: from behind the hospital walls. he turned to her and said, will you marry me? andrea canning: secrets from his diaries uncovered by dateline. his obsession with actress jodie foster. the letters were assumed to have been love type letters. andrea canning: and the most controversial question of all. is hinckley really fit to be free? he s a potentially dangerous character. he s proven that. hello and welcome to dateline. he shot a president and shook the country. since that day more than 40 years ago, gunman john hinckley jr. has remained an enigma. now we are about to reveal an extraordinary trove of his most private thoughts and feelings and provide a firsthand look at his contentious second act as a free man. here s special contributor troy robert