2009 by the bbcs katty kay, who was guest host on the the diane rehm show. This is about 50 minutes. Katty thanks for joining us, i am katty kay of the bbc sitting in for diane rehm. On april the ninth 1865 general robert ely surrendered robert ely surrendered robert e. Lee and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. It evokes what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had people and horses s
Shoes visiting station w you uom in michigan public libraries. On april the ninth, 1865, general robert e. Lee surrendered and the sultana sank in the Mississippi River. It remains the worst maritime disaster in American History. Alan huffman tells us overlooked story. Thank you so much for joining us. We will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our email address. Rshow wmu. Org. Lets start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. Describe it to the audience. Alan the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. Obviously it is that it was painting but it does obviously it is a stylized voteing but it does the evoke what was going on. The river was full of people. There were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. After it exploded and caught higher, you had
With cigna is going to go through. When you look at stocks more a record onceee again for the dow and s p 500 as we see stocks rally on the strength of earnings news weve gotten today. Been the bigs leader of the day, largely because of microsoft and other earnings we have watched. Have been watching the s p 500 in this ongoing rebound in the wake of the u. K. Vote to leave the European League the European Union. Here you have stocks how they have done since following the vote. As we know, it has hit records frequently in the last week or so. Look at the groups on the move technology the best performing group. We see some rotation out of the defensive and into the more cyclical groups. On theft shares rising wake of the companys Earnings Reports that came in better than estimated. Its cloudbased business did well and cisco is trading at its highest in nine a half years. Facebook trading at a record. Sharesings winners surging 15 . Uniform maker of after earnings Beat Estimates and tupp
Coming your way. But lets kick things off with the aforementioned Michelle Carusocabrera live in cleveland. Michelle. Hey, tyler. Another newsy day. Weve had news break in just the last half hour that the trump employee who helped write Melania Trumps speech, well, that person has accepted responsibility for the similarities to Michelle Obamas 2008 speech John Harwoods going to join us with all the details. Big night, senator ted cruz, onetime president ial hopeful expected to speak. Whats he going to say after trump called him lying ted in the primary . And then of course the headliner is indiana governor mike pence who has the spot of v. P. On the ticket as senator marco rubio, its going to be a big, big night. Lets get details on speechgate. John harwood is on the floor. John. Michelle, its very interesting. This is an expla thags that the Trump Campaign could have offered yesterday but chose not to. Instead the Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort came out and said, no, there were no ph
May vote to tighten this thing within this hour. Well let you know the second it happens. This action comes just one day after billionaire republican president ial candidate donald trump said he would ban all muslims from having this country. It has touched off quite the firestorm on all sides of the aisle. In fact, comments are dripping and jumping in every second. Ill bring those to you. Trump also calling members of congress messy and confused, blaming them for the current situation. So we are going to ask one of them about that. Congressman barry latter milk, republican and a member of the House Homeland Security committee. Wait million you hear what he has to say. Visas not the only tool in terrorists kit, when Edward Snowden exposed the Government Surveillance Program in 2013, did he give americas enemies a way to hatch their devious plans . Were going to talk about that, its an important question thats really something we immediate to discuss. Retired general Keith Alexander is