I have a public plan, and as one whose heart has ached for the past eight years over the agony of vietnam, i will halt the senseless bombing of indochina on inaugural day. [applause] greta it was 1972, 2 30 in the morning when George Mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. A few months later, he would lose badly to president Richard Nixon. The contenders. The candidacy and legacy of George Mcgovern. We are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. Joining us from there is president ial author scott farris. Acceptance speech in miami. Why . Scott thank you, greta. Of the structure of the Mcgovern Campaign. Against the establishment. Senator mcgovern, he was very, very strong on the issue of vietnam. One of the things that has drawn me to writing about senator mcgovern as one of the most who ran for the presidency who was not successful, he went after the vietnam issue. He spoke about that war in ways no president ial candidate had ever spoken about war before. It was la
Do appearances with you to have these conversations again this is not anything we would have imagined toward the end of last year but we are adaptable and we will take some calls that many of you are watching could not have gotten here tonight but you can join us virtually. You should treat this as if you are in the bookstore. You buy books. Please do that it would be great if they were debbies books you dont just buy one but you buy a lot. I imagine that you need no introduction but what is great if you look at her body of work to see very the two strong teams of social justice and defining america and who gets to define america shes done this in picture books and she did it in the intersection of the trilogy and got so much acclaim for that now she has done it again with kent state. It is a Remarkable Book one of the best things i worked on as an editor in 25 years. It is a masterpiece and the book that defies categorization and is with the sixties trilogy traditionally they like to
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Constraining my remarks to that period of time and well be asking the question of what is it like to be arrested during these times in history . An arrest is a simple thing, right . It seems like a simple thing. There are few necessary elements to making something an arrest. The person making the arrest has to be a representative of the state. They must accuse a person of knitting an offense against the community. They must move them from the place within to a place without the community, after making their arrest. So it seems like a fairly simple process. Yet, were absolutely fascinated with the scene of the arrest. And this suggests that there is something more to the arrest that we want to understand. Headlines about arrests always have grabbed attention. These are just several of the headlines that a came through from the 20th century, headlines about arrests. There are thousands and thousands of headlines about arrests. We are all familiar with them from our daily newspapers and j