Lebeau a moment ago on the airlines and he is back with breaking news regarding american. Take a look at shares of american, the airline is announcing starting on july 1st, starting next wednesday, it will fill its planes completely remember until now it has capped its load factor or the percentage of seats that it would fill on a plane, it would cap it at 70 . Thats going to end as of next wednesday, also adding about 1,000 flights to its schedule in july so this is american saying weve got more people flying, weve got more demand and its time for us to fill these planes all the way. They stress people are still going to be required to wear masks, they will still be pushing the fact that theyre sanitizing planes in between every flight, but the time has come for them to sell every seat, fill every seat and no longer guarantee its capped at a 70 load factor. Guys, this is a day with a lot of airline news between this, the unions asking for another bayout and the airline ceos meeting wi
Edwina good morning. Can you hear me all right . Clear as a bell, i hope. It is lovely to be here for another conference. Each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. Here,e kevin, kevin ruane who has written this very, very good book, churchill and the bomb. Bestf my grandfathers quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. The farther backward we can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Most of us, that history is passed. Done and dusted, over with, just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over. But then it wasnt. I remember farther back when people were scared of the abomb, and then worse, of the hbomb. And now today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. Is professor of modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University in United Kingdom. He has written quite a few books, one on vietnam, and one is coming out very s
Land. She also talks about her research on the Point Reyes National seashore which used to be a Ranch Community before designated a National Park in 1960s. Her class is about an hour and ten minutes. So today, were going to be talking ant landscapes and preservation and sort of how we change the places your intention is not only understand the history of these protected spaces, but to make the process of preservation more visible. To make it more easier to understand the history of parks and how they have changed over time and sort of more importantly, why they have changed over time. Most of us when we think about preservation, we think about something saying the same. Yet perreservation changes thin. In the context of space here in the u. S. , theres this p presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect a landscape. We even see the miniseries by ken burns from a ways back on National Parks. It was called americas best idea, which is taken from a quote from wallace stign
From 2014, our visit to the National Archives to learn about the assassination records and to see some of the iconic artifacts, such as Lee Harvey Oswalds rifle, the socalled magic bullet, and the original. 8 millimeter film taken by abraham zapruder. Our guide is martha murphy. The president john f. Kennedy records collection was created because of the president john f. Kennedy assassination records collection act of 1992. So a short history. Since the time of the assassination, theres been numerous official investigations, starting with the Warren Commission and then some congressional investigations, Church Committee looked into it, the House Select Committee on assassinations. And then in the early 90s. There was a movie that came out by oliver stone. And at the end of the movie, he made a point of saying that all of the records had not been open and available. Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, my name is oliver stone. And i assure you, it is with pleasure and some pride t
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