in perpetuating, according to the federal government, mistreatment and murder. at that camp. and he was one of the first individuals in the modern era to be tried for war crimes. and henry wirz trial in the fall of 1865 actually set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials. most notably the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the american or the allied prosecutors who were preparing for those prosecutions in nuremberg thrir studied the wirz trial and particularly his defense. so that they could prepare for what they anticipated the nazi defense would be. and actually called it the wirz defense. which was basically, you know, i was only following orders. that s the typical defense. and they use henry wirz trial to help prepare for that in 1945. so this is a really important moment. not only in american legal history but also in world legal history. and we re going to be thinking about the prirsen at andersonville itself and what led conditions th
we are going to try to get out rather than:30 4:45. i m going to speak in a .runcated version of my talk both of us are going to be talking about andersonville and the trial of henry wirz. during the civil war, this set of photographs was published. as you can see, all of them are soldiers who have just come back from prisoners of war camps. looking really like nothing americans had ever seen, and in fact, looking like people that americans or the world with mostly not see again until the end of world war ii when people came out of places like buchenwald and auschwitz. these were truly frightening pictures. after the war, we began to get other pictures. york,s a soldier from new a recently discovered photograph by a graduate student at george mason university. candace gray found this for me. this is a man whose feet became infected, and his feet were literally cut off by scissors. later, they had to use bone saws to saw the bones off. along with this picture of calvin bates o
civil war symposium, hosted by the u.s. capitol historical society. your nest speaker is me your next speaker is me. having just introduced myself, i will not do it again. i will just say that because of the vagaries of the world of the u.s. senate, we are going to try to get out of here at 4:30 rather than 4:45. i m going to speak in a truncated version of my talk. so that michael can have the four the full allotted time he has been promised. both of us are going to be talking about andersonville and the trial of henry wirz. during the civil war, this set of photographs was published. as you can see, all of them are soldiers who have just come back from prisoners of war camps. looking really like nothing americans had ever seen, and in fact, looking like people that americans or the world with mostly not see again until the end of world war ii when people came out of places like buchenwald and auschwitz. these were truly frightening pictures. after the war, we began to
turkish government avenue a coal mine explosion. we will take a look at why the countries prime minister still enjoys widespread support. veterans affairs secretary, told a senate committee that he is mad as hell. he faced tough questions from lawmakers. and vows to fix the problems. he also said he would not resign. libby casey joins us now, good to see you, look, after weeks of questioning and grows concerns over veterans care, the secretary really faces critics today. the secretary certainly faced a critical crowd, from senators to the heads of veterans organization. now he himself is a vet. he retired as a general, he served in the army and was wounded in combat in vietnam, so he does know what it is like from inside the system. but it is his time at the helm of the v.a. that is being held into question. pledges to fix problems. any adverse incident like this, makes me mad as hell. ky use stronger language here, mr. chairman, but in deference to the committee i won t. p
fight a judiciary committee subpoena for the testimony of his former white house counsel don mcgahn. this as the white house stopped another former official from testifying before congress. ram p hampering information on how jared kushner got a security clearance, against the advice of career professionals. trump s treasury secretary mnuchin is delaying the irs from complying with a law, with a law, that requires him to turn over the president s tax returns. missing a second deadline from the ways and means committee. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, april 24th. along with willie geist and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. national affairs analyst for nbc and msnbc and the co-host and exec fif putive producer of th circus, john heilemann. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, and msnbc political analyst, elise jordan. and co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vande h j jim vandehei. mika has the morning off. it