Hes currently writing a study of the textile strike of 1926. Is considered a period pioneered many of the labor protests that were to become born in the 1930s. The coworker strike was using the union to provide social and Relief Services to striking workers. This describes the tremendously violent means police used. We ask that you please join us for a light reception after the event. Lets welcome professor jacob zumoff prof. Zumoff thank you very much. I am very happy to be here, especially since quite a bit of my research is based on material here, including the town of pelham, new jersey. What i kind of want to do is talk a little about the strike talkf, and then i want to look at the question of why a strike is important and why it is worth looking at. As has been said in the inch of introduction, a lot of scholarly perception of the 1920s, the roaring 1920s, looks at it as a period of antilabor with tremendous attacks on the working class and the Labor Movement. And a relatively c
What is the story behind this . The story is that Wrigley Field turned 100 years old in 2014. A few years ago i saw this coming. I am a writer who often writes not to say what he thinks but to find out what he thinks. I had no idea what i was going to say. I said, there has got to be a story here. It is an interesting place with an interesting subject, baseball. Also it is in a very interesting city. Radio happened there for baseball and all kinds of things happened. It turns out there was a story. I thought it was a baseball book and it is, but i got all the history out of it. I want to ask you about some of the history. First thing you did was define who the people are that all the streets are named around Wrigley Field. How long did it take you to find all those . Not long. There is a street atlas to chicago full of information like that. Addison and clark. Addison was named after the fellow associated with discovering addisons disease, the major affliction of john kennedy. Sheffiel
George f. Will, a nice little place on the north side. What is the story behind this . The story is that Wrigley Field turned 100 years old in 2014. A few years ago i saw this coming. I am a writer who often writes not to say what he thinks but to find out what he thinks. I had no idea what i was going to say. I said, there has got to be a story here. It is an interesting place with an interesting subject, baseball. Also it is in a very interesting city. Radio happened there for baseball and all kinds of things happened. It turns out there was a story. I thought it was a baseball book and it is, but i got all the history out of it. I want to ask you about some of the history. First thing you did was define who the people are that all the streets are named around Wrigley Field. How long did it take you to find all those . Not long. There is a street atlas to chicago full of information like that. Addison and clark. Addison was named after the fellow associated with discovering addisons
I thought it was a baseball book and it is, but i got all the history out of it. I want to ask you about some of the history. First thing you did was define who the people are that all the streets are named around Wrigley Field. How long did it take you to find all those . Not long. There is a street atlas to chicago full of information like that. Addison and clark. Addison was named after the fellow associated with discovering addisons disease, the major affliction of john kennedy. Sheffield, a gogetter, you say. But many who made the Northwest Territories prosper. Waveland. Because the waves used to, far into chicago before they build the embankment along the lakefront. When you are up in the press box at Wrigley Field, you see the sales topping on the lake. It is about 11 blocks. Why do you care about Wrigley Field . The cubs played their, but also because it is very old. A 100yearold structure in this country is older than the lincoln memorial, the jefferson memorial, the Supreme C
Ill remember november 22nd as long as i live. There has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. They are combing the floors of the Texas Book Depository building to find assassin. Did you shoot the president . Im just a patsy. Oswald has been fired at point blank range, fired into his stomach. Police are working on the assumption that oswalds murder was to shut him up. Elements of the Central Intelligence agency killed john kennedy. A story that has been suppressed. Witnesses have been killed. We have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. In dallas, preparations were already underway for Extraordinary Police protection when the president should arrive. Do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival . Because of what has happened here previously we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. I dont really i dont anticipate any violence. Here comes air force number one, the president s plane now touching down. There is mrs. Kennedy,