To crack down on crime. We in the tenderloin want children to be able to walk, bike, play, thrive and grow in a safe environment. Concerned Community Members called out city leaders at a town hall safety meeting in San Franciscos tenderloin thursday. The Saint Anthony Foundation Hosted the event and invited the police chief, the sheriff and district attorney, to take questions from the public and explain efforts to crack down on a variety of issues plaguing the area, including the fentanyl crisis and organized crime. You have got to get a handle on this problem, not only a drug abuse, but homelessness. You go to wall greens, everythings locked up. While the situation has deteriorated. Nils banki, ceo of the Saint Anthony foundation, said conditions in the tenderloin are the worst. They have ever been. He said they have seen a rise in violence, open drug use and just last month there was a daytime shooting half a block away. We had some people on our staff assaulted volunteers dont want
gettysburg. he describes the action on east cavalry field and argues against the theory that confederate general jb stewart had orders to get around the union flank. instead, he suggests he was supposed to protect the confederate flank. this is an hour-long event. have six lectures today, or six talks. eric wittenberg s out-of-the-box with the 8:30 slot. he is such know him, a good friend of the heritage area. he is an attorney working in the business development and litigation arenas. born in the philadelphia suburbs, he was raised in southeastern pennsylvania. as many of us did, he made his first trip to gettysburg in the third grade and has been hooked on the history of the american civil war ever since. he went to college in carlisle pennsylvania and has two degrees from the university of pittsburgh. and a a masters degree doctorate from the university of pittsburgh school of law. he is also an award-winning civil war historian. his specialty is calvary operations with an
a good friend of the heritage area. he is an attorney working in the business development and litigation arenas. born in the philadelphia suburbs, he was raised in southeastern pennsylvania. as many of us did, he made his first trip to gettysburg in the third grade and has been hooked on the history of the american civil war ever since. he is an alumnus of dickinson college in pennsylvania and has two degrees from the university of pittsburgh. he has a masters degree and a doctorate from the university of pittsburgh school of law. he is also an award-winning civil war historian. his specialty is calvary operations with an emphasis on the army of potomac s calvary court. he is the author of 19 published books. i can t imagine what he does as a lawyer. 19 published books. he is the author of a book about john buford at gettysburg, which won the round tables 2014 book 5 book award. he is also the author of a book about protecting the flank at gettysburg. his first book, gettysb
anything else? i would like to say a word about the ambassador of new delhi. john kenneth galbraith, because he is a huge part of this book. john kenneth galbraith was a tall man, 6-foot six, born in ontario canada, a graduate of the ontario school about a culture. he then moved to the united states and became an economist, wrote several books in the 1940s and 50s about economics and became one of the stars at harvard university. if not the star of harvard university. but he also became an advisor to kennedy. he kept a diary while he was ambassador to new delhi and later published diary. for the historian of of course there s gold because it isn t a memoir. a memoir is within the later and you put him how brilliant you were on the weather you were or not. the diary you right at the time but at least we still know you said that on the 19th of november, 1960 or otherwise the diary is a fascinating piece of very own political politically unknown dialog. he writes his impre
rock stars, like guys, historians, women, we ve all heard of, we ve seen them on tv, we ve read their books. everybody knows who they are. we talked about them in hush tones and it has been my privilege to be friends with one of those rock stars because truly eric wit bigger is a name that is known by eric wittenberg. he s known not only for his expertise in the union calvary, many o his knowledge on controversial topics where he is constantly challenging people to reconsider what they think they know. he s never one to take a position because it s popular but he takes because it is well considered, well researched and it is well thought out. and so he s sometimes not so afraid to challenge conventional thinking on things. and it s that sense of going for the truth that has always made me admire his work. tarting out when i first got into the civil war as someone reading books and just thought this guy is fantastic. he s got 17 books you can read. but as our friendship has