[inaudible] [applause] president of the society and im delighted to welcome you to the Barbara Olson memorial lecture. This memorial lecture started as many of you know shortly after 9 11. This lecture started as many of you know shortly after 9 11, can you hear better mark ted olsons inaugural lecture remind you of what it means to be an american and how ourlegal tradition is a criticalpart of our identity as americans. That reminder is perhaps even more crucial today. Both ted was here today and barbara understood this connection. We want the lecture series to remind lawyers of it so they foster legal principles advanced individual liberty, personal responsibility and the rule of law and other lecturers have included justice scalia, Vice President cheney, ray randolph, edith jones, doug ginsberg, dennis jenkins, jeff sutton and justice neil gorsuch. Don mcgann, peter seals, john allison senators tom cotten and ben sasse. That brings us to todays lecture. It is my privilege to introdu
History centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us to chronologically at least the younger partner if you will, the Clements Center has been the leading center for southwest studies for at least a generation. We still in our toddler phase look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out quite nicely. Im thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular, our talk tonight has of course such a dallas flair to it. One might say its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963 how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with what happened here, how much dallas is coming to terms with it and in fact i want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends, Nick Longford here from the 6th floor museum which i said this in front of her before, to my mind the single best Public History M
This 90minute event. Good evening, everyone. Welcome back to the hilltop. Welcome back to smu, to dallas hall. And also, a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our klemmant center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here can come together and its really wonderful for us, chronologically at least, the younger partner, you will, the klemmant center, has been the leading center for southwest studies for at least a generation, so we are still in our toddler phase, look up to them, and they also baby sit us, so it works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history, especially since this one in particular, our talk tonight, has of course such a dallas flare to it. One might even say its fundamentally a dallas story. Of course, we all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how mu
Is a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our Clement Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us, the younger partner, the Clement Center has been the leading center for southwest studies at least a generation. So we as still in our toddler phase, look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular our talk tonight has of course a dallas flair to it, its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963 how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with what happened here, how much dallas is coming to terms with it and i want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends who is from the sixth floor museum
Welcome back to the hilltop, welcome back to smu to dallas hall and also a fun program that is a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our Clement Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us, the younger partner, the Clement Center has been the leading center for southwest studies at least a generation. So we as still in our toddler phase, look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular our talk tonight has of course a dallas flair to it, its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963 how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with what happened here, how much dallas is coming to terms with it and i wan