Usa today on tv. Leading a team of historians and journalists the museum of news events and history from pennsylvania avenue washington d. C. And as the executive director from 2011 the former chairman of the Foster Peabody award will to serve as a member of the Advisory Board the journalism honors from the National Association of newspaper columnist in winning the award that they wrote a and coproduced lets welcome jow urschel to the national archives. [applause] one there is no line of for whiskey is in this event. Had i known i would have brought my own. Thank you for coming out today i appreciate you stopping by. I will refrain myself from turning on for too long. We have 45 minutes time. About 30 minutes into this you can flag me of a like to explain how i got into this story and into the book coming here in 1982 for the launch of usa today. And very excited to be in washington. Taking in the tourist sites and this is 1982 day just converted the card catalog system that patrons co
Wrongly accused. Proceeding with criminal justice as they would in any other circumstance. Fortunately come i think thats changing. Libertarians are winning that argument for sure. What do they think . National review is an intellectually diverse place Kevin Williamson and myself still more libertarian. Moreover conservative. And in this book i hope to present both arguments. I am not rude to anyone in the book. It is totally respectful. In a sense, it is a national idea. In that regard, theyre should be something in it for everyone. Charles cw cook is the author. This is book tv on cspan2. This is book tv on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Here is a look at our primetime lineup. Our topic for the day is the year of fear, Machine Gun Kelly, and the manhunt that change the nation. Executive director of the National Law Enforcement museum in washington dc. He is an awardwinning journalist with 25 Years Experience in the news business, part of the editing team that conceived and l
[inaudible conversations] book tv is on facebook, author information and talk directly during live programs. Facebook. Com booktv. Youre watching book tv on cspan2. Coming up next executive director of Law Enforcement museum, failed kidnapping back in 1983. Our topic for today is the year of fear. Machine gun kelly. Hes an awardwinning journalists and Television Documentary producer. He was part of editing team that launched u. S. Today in 1982 and held a variety positions at the paper including Senior Correspondent and covered political and social issues. He served as supervising producer, usa today on tv. The museum and served as executive director. Former chairman of the George Foster peabody. His journalism honors include awards from the National Association of newspaper and won award. Please welcome joe urshal to the national what archives. Thank you, doug, im disappointed that there was no wine and when i whisky for this. Had i known, i would have brought my own. I appreciate you
That spiral symbol represents bellyache which was one of the symptoms, early symptoms of smallpox. We know that they traded and rated with the mandan, but no account of such an outbreak exists among the mandan people. So where else can we look . The telltale evidence may well lie buried in ghost towns like double ditch. Remember, by 1600 or so the mandan at double ditch had ensconced themselves behind the 2nd fortification rate , the outermost ring that we can still see today. Now, at some point the villagers contracted again, taking shelter behind the innermost ditch and palisade the cause may well have been a smallpox epidemic of 1734 to 35. Double ditch in 1500 had contained a hundred and 60 homes, 2,000 people. By the mid1700sby the mid 17 hundreds there were just 32 homes and no more than 400 people. Hunkered down inside the smallest is that you see here. And then it happened again. 1781 smallpox made its way to the upper Missouri River from spanish settlements to the south. The p