they made us a family. not only did she raise these children and have quite an accomplished corporate career, dinner 50, she would do it. but, in the wee hours of a winter night. i found them at the base of the stairs. kathleen peterson, dead. was this a fall, or was this murder? a mystery we covered for more than a decade comes to a shattering and. it did not look like a fall. michael peterson, under suspicion, then, a bombshell revelation about another woman from his past. this was on the floor, and there was a puddle of blood under the staircase. appear today the same, way to minnesota shaded with one of the? odds yes, what are the odds? a trial, one expert this is the scene. would make a slam dunk case for peterson s guilt. the tourist or captivated by his testimony. but were his dramatic experience legit? it is designed to get a result, does not scientifical. michael peterson on the quest that might finally lead to the truth.
good morning. it won multiple prices. the doctor came to the college back in 2011, where she deliveredd a lecture. she is also a noted teacher and lecturer at ucla and w has received numerous awards. when she does a lecture on baseball, at the end of the class, she brings a bag of peanuts, and tosses them out to her students. she has a mean right arm. we have ordered boxes of heart attack hard tack. she will be speaking on grant and the meeting of appomattox. [applause] dr. waugh: thank you, peter for the hilarious introduction. i m not a right-hander. if i threw hard tack at you, it would be painful. well, good morning. it is delightful to be here. i have not been at the conference for a long time at the civil war institute. i m happy to be back. i love gettysburg. i have been here many many times . when i say good morning i mean good morning because it is about 5:30 in the morning for me coming from los angeles. i think that will get through this. i do want to say that w
peanuts, and tosses them out to her students. she has a mean right arm. we have ordered boxes of heart attack hard tack. she will be speaking on grant and the meeting of appomattox. [applause] dr. waugh: thank you, peter for the hilarious introduction. i m not a right-hander. if i threw hard tack at you, it would be painful. well, good morning. it is delightful to be here. i have not been at the conference for a long time at the civil war institute. i m happy to be back. i love gettysburg. i have been here many many times . when i say good morning i mean good morning because it is about 5:30 in the morning for me coming from los angeles. i think that will get through this. i do want to say that while i published the book on grant, i have not finished with him yet. i became fascinated by the surrenders that he conducted during the war and really look at surrenders as a way to understand the nature of this war as i have done in my title, and what it meant for reconstruction a
school history teacher and i will try and probably feebley fail to do him justice in describing this beautiful room you ve chosen for your 25th lecture. you have chosen a remarkably historic room. but first, i have to thank the offices of the senate cure rater and historian who prepare histories of our art and rooms. without them this introduction simply wouldn t be possible. so to begin. in the early 1900s the house and the senate decided they had outgrown their space. they commissioned two architects from new york. to build them a house and senate office buildings. those have now become the cannon house office building and the russell senate office building. interestingly, if you know they re sort of mirror images from above. but those two individuals were educated in paris and a part of that education brought this beautiful art that you see around this room. they took great care to design this room. in fact, they spent over a year finding this black vained marble that came
rights exhibit which you would have passed on your way in tonight, marks an episode when president abraham lincoln directly independent interseeded for american jews. the document is general grant s to ber 1862 general order expel jews from the department of tennessee. grant blamed jews for smuggling and demanded their immediate removal. jewish citizens of paducah, kentucky, appealed to lincoln, expressing their outrage and lincoln counter manneded grant s order. history cannot be written without the primary sources that tell us august. incident rik lir auth incidentically what authentically what happened at a particular time. grant s order to expel jews and lincoln s later order testify to a moment in history that many in the wider public are not aware of, yet it cannot be forgotten, because the records exist to tell us so. by brathing together and publishing the documents in his volume, dr. zola has given access to a large number of primary source documents that prese