Good morning. Good to have been here. I am a the cochair of the American Writers Museum of it is my pleasure to welcome you and get started. The American Writers Museum is a long overdue book. Art is about capturing duty in the way we captured the beautyberry emotions and feelings where we came from and who we are in the American Writers Museum will provide that opportunity for people all across the nation. It is amazing we have not had this before but we do now. [applause] so to have a rich literary tradition we plan to see that continue to grow not only to honor the past authors but also engaged courage authors and more importantly encourage future authors to bring their skills to this event. So those friends that our important to help us to encourage us from the very beginning a School Teacher who taught history as an avid reader and somebody who has been important to us and to encourage us to get started. , say a few words. [applause] good morning. I am glad to be here today at the
Good morning and welcome to the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers rowlett fest. I would like to start by giving a special thank you to all of our sponsors. Todays program is broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. We have a few minutes for questions at the end of the presentation. The audience will have to line up at the microphone to the right and let you know when the time comes. Before we begin todays program silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes. With that i would like to introduce our moderator, Television Documentary host, producer and news anchor bill kurtis. [applause] lets get right into it. I should have a moment of explanation. Stacy keech will not be with us today. On opening night, i had a 1man show. He had a heart attack on stage. It was one of those strange things. He didnt know where he was in the play and for 50 minutes being oldschool, a hemingway kind of character, he plowed through. His good friends came in and ended the show and was diagnosed with
Welcome to montgomery, alabama, on American History tv. It is considered one of americas most historic cities for its role on the civil war and Civil Rights Movement. Today, it has a population of 205000 and is alabamas secondlargest city. With the help of our Cable Partners, over the next 90 thetes, hear the story of montgomery bus boycott and its impact on the city. Each day that the buses ran empty, the bus company lost about 3000 per day. About 1955. Ng three thousand dollars was the average yearly salary of most people in the area. It speaks to the amount of of the busestate because remember the bus fare was only . 10. Quite later, we will learn about an alabama governor who made a bid for the presidency. When people ask him what the takeaway from the 1958 campaign is, he says, i try to talk about progressive improvement and good and goodgood roads schools, known would listen. When i started to talk about segregation, everyone started to listen to me. But first, learn about court
Condolences to the community for the recent loss of a great lady and great scholar, ann, and id like to acknowledge, henry was a stall ward defender of American National sovereignty. I hope that he would have been pleased in presenting this award to me as pleased as i am in receiving it. Im going to proceed as follows. First, ill talk about what i call philadelphia sovereignty. Second, im going to examine the ideas of the Global Governance project which challenges philadelphia sovereignty, and third, move from ideas to action, and talk about the activities of the globalists, and then, fourth, examine the significance of the conflict between Constitutional Government and global govern nans. Now, sovereignty is define by most scholars and others as going back to 16 48, and thats true to an extent, but when i was working on the book and thinking of writing, coming up with concepts, i realized americans dont think of themselves as west americans think of sovereignty in the sense that we, t
Thousands are too frightens to go back to their homes. The toy company with profits and we look at the rising fortunes of lego. I love this song. But first lets go to ukraine and the growing signs there that the semi autonomus ukraine says Russian Military forces blocked the airport in crimea. Armed men have taken control of the International Airport in the capitol and they are wearing unmarked uniforms, no insinnias and the airport is functioning normally and its in the hands of armed men and took control of the building on thursday and they are standing their ground. In kiev, ukraine temporary parliament asked the council to call a session and is summoning security chiefs over the crisis. As for the president , Viktor Yanukovych he says he is still president and in charge but speculation is increasing about his whereabouts and has been for days and looks like he is in the southern russian city near the border of ukraine and he says he will hold a News Conference there in the next few