This topic were what do people say to you, is it a little bit weird to be discussing and i said yes i guess it is but i find it fascinating and i think that its a significant assassination certainly affected not only American History that World History and i give a few examples in my introduction about the fact that after all its face it, world war i began because of an assassination and of course we had the fall of the Roman Republic because of an assassination and we have our country itself divided when Abraham Lincoln was of course murdered in 1865 and we are still reverberating from the events around john f. Kennedy in 1963 but its a lot more than looking at Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Assassination has been a common theme in history but also in American History and i devoted a chapter to each president who faced a direct assassination attempt both those who were assassinated into those who were wounded and were also president ial candidates which i havent seen anybody els
Western and can the new deal. He currently writes for a blog, www. Progressiveprofessor. Com. I welcome ron feinman. [applause] thank you very much. I really appreciate your introduction. I want to begin by thanking certain people. I want to thank stephanie and the center for inviting me to speak here on my book. I want to thank cspan for agreeing to indeed tape this event and put it on booktv in few weeks. I want to also thank my son, David Feinman and paul feinman for always being there for me. Were definitely a very close family. I want to also thank one of my colleagues and former students, david glowberg, who took coreses at both Broward College and Florida Atlantic university. He majored in feinman and mine norred in history. He took me eight times and now team e teaches also Broward College and helped me with the power point im going to use because im not that technically savvy, and also with the index and the charts in my book. So i want to different anily thank david for that