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1950s. So when mr. s went out for runs mr. East went out for lunch, got in the door, someone was pounding on the drivers side window, and mr. East looked, and there was a very scary looking individual saying are you p. D. East, the the troublemaking newspaper man . [laughter] and with more courage than he felt, mr. East said, yes, i am. The man said, if you get out of this car, ill beat your brains out. [laughter] mr. East, said if you want me to get out of this car, youve got to give me a lot more incentive than that. [laughter] the roorld the the regard i have for the Virginia Historical society where i spent many, many weeks working on this book for nelson, for graham, thats all the incentive i needed to come. And again, i thank you for the invitation. The booth book grew actually from a class i taught on great crimes. And in that class we would take a different crime every week, the lindbergh kidnapping, haymarket riot th ....
He also talks about the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission, which was organized to investigate the assassination. Its a little over two hours. Ralph lovely thank you all for coming. It is never easy to get here. The metro is not working well today. Second i would like to thank the Smithsonian Associates program. They do such a remarkable job. If you cant find Something Interesting in that catalog you are dead. There are so many fascinating programs in art and history and science. Just on a nice job of putting the programs together. It is always a delight to be here. I am appreciative that cspan3 is filming this. I was able to watch as they had the first segment. The lincoln talk is this past saturday. It is now archived so if ....
He also talks about the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission, which was organized to investigate the assassination. Its a little over two hours. Ralph lovely thank you all for coming. It is never easy to get here. The metro is not working well today. Second i would like to thank the Smithsonian Associates program. They do such a remarkable job. If you cant find Something Interesting in that catalog you are dead. There are so many fascinating programs in art and history and science. Just on a nice job of putting the programs together. It is always a delight to be here. I am appreciative that cspan3 is filming this. I was able to watch as they had the first segment. The lincoln talk is this past saturday. It is now archived so if ....
Tories, who didnt support the revolution sided with the british, were killed or driven off their lands, and on and on through american hoyt, as each immigrant group was kind of pulled into the country for labor, the chinese to build the railroads, the eastern europeans for the steel industry. Northern europeans for farming. And we knew all along there was great deal of hatred, prejudice that they werent like us, until they were us. And all of the people in this room come from those people. So, it is happening again and again, and i ten to write books a second question how was it . How would you like living in a horse stable in santa anita for months and then being transferred into tar paper shacks without plumbing, without heat without cooking facilities. In the most warren parts of america where the ten Relocation Centers were places no one ever lived before or ever would again. Tulie lake in california, is a lava bed. Manzan ....
That big. Im going to negotiate a very dangerous set of rapids this morning. The professor at Georgia Southwestern State University who is married u in fact torks one of my employees, dr. Glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. It becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. I hesitate to use the acronym p. O. W. In a civil war context. Its a 20th century term. And i wliek to talk about. So it tends to slow me down a lot. Fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. And, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. Andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. Its a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively, the prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place ....