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we will begin this weekend with alice baumgartner she recalls lives of slaves escape the south from mexico. would like to welcome everyone to this webinar. we are tremendously gratified by your interest. in joining us we have hundreds of you out there today which is very, very exciting. we are here to engage in a conversation with my usc friend and colleague alice baumgartner and distinguished american historian from texas a&m university. this is all being made possible by the publication of alice s book, south to freedom, runaway slaves to the civil war. an exciting project of the intersection of a number of fields. the history of mexico, the sectional crisis of civil war, the history of slavery. it is a remarkable accomplishment, i want to congratulate alice on the publication of the book. and i want to think the professor for joining us as well. our plan is to have professor baumgartner offers some opening remarks and imagery on the making of this work through tale ....
thank you for going to show us around memphis today. producer,rd winner you have been a lifelong resident of memphis. yes. i been here all my life and i grew up, i had a crazy childhood growing up with the temptations of the house and the duty , just yound al green know all these cool people. we will go by the stax museum into the civil rights cesium and the lorraine hotel in just some cool memphis places. should we go? we re going into the downtown now. townis is a cool part of this just been under development for the past 10 years. blacks is predominantly and any of maybe 60% african-american. know, i think the race relations today are way cooler than they used to be an memphis have a lot of nightclubs and restaurants where you see black-and-white and all races, all classes. we are driving on to beale street right now, beale street is known as the main through way for memphis. beale street, nicole at the home of the blues because this bobby blue king and bla ....
circumstances of the assassination of president john f. kennedy. to dealy plaza to re-create that fatal motorcade ride. believing rifle tests conducted by the warren commission were less than adequate, we conducted a test. we found new evidence and film that the killer had more time to get the shots off. and we concluded that beyond reasonable doubt, oswald was at least one of the killers. but was there more than one? interviewedght we eyewitnesses that said all the shots came from the school book depository. we tested, more exhaustively than did the warren commission, the controversial single bullet theory. we found that one bullet could indeed have wondered the president and governor connolly. dr. breakhe autopsy saye years of silence to that he has re-examines the president s body and so has no doubts that all shots came from behind. there was no second gunman. but even as the only gunman, was oswald, as the warren commission reports, a lone gunman? we found that a p ....
We, the undersigned members of the Department of History [at the University of Southern California], unequivocally condemn the university administration … ....