Well, good evening and welcome to the kansas city public library. I am henry fortunato, director of public affairs. I want to thank you all for participating in my ongoing Stealth Campaign to provide speaking opportunities for all of my buds from graduate school. My all the guys i went to graduate school with at the university of kansas. Tonights entrant in that category is brian allen drake. An up and coming environmental historian who studied under the incomparable donald warster and now hes a lecturer in history at the university of georgia. But before i tell you any more about brian, let me introduce the topic of his talk by adapting an opening line that another one of our fellow graduate students used every fall on the first day of the undergraduate history classes that he taught. 100 years from now, he would say, all of you will be dead. Hows that for a wakeup at 8 00 in the morning for sleepy undergraduates . 100 years from now, all of you will be dead, and unless you accomplish
Security operations in u. S. History. America president elect bushs for the popes historic visit. Pope frances arrives in the United States this afternoon. The pope will be greeted in person by the president. President obama is going to be the guy at arrivals holding a sign that says pope. A gun battle at a target store in northern california. Two officers struck trying to serve a warrant. Both are expected to survive. The Justice Department is launching a criminal investigation of volkswagon after the company admitted to cheating on e solution tests. The owner of a Peanut Company was sent to prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak. The crowded republican field just got a little smaller. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker has thrown the towel in. He says he looks forward to his new job in the picture in the dictionary next to the word duh. Incredible video. A man fighting off a hammerhead shark t. Large shark starting biting and raming his kayak. The story of one rat and one s
Pope frances arrives in the United States this afternoon. The pope will be greeted in person by the president. President obama is going to be the guy at arrivals holding a sign that says pope. A gun battle at a target store in northern california. Two officers struck trying to serve a warrant. Both are expected to survive. The Justice Department is launching a criminal investigation of volkswagon after the company admitted to cheating on e solution tests. The owner of a Peanut Company was sent to prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak. The crowded republican field just got a little smaller. Wisconsin Governor Scott walker has thrown the towel in. He says he looks forward to his new job in the picture in the dictionary next to the word duh. Incredible video. A man fighting off a hammerhead shark t. Large shark starting biting and raming his kayak. The story of one rat and one slice of pizza. This is the most new york scene ever. Dont Say Something stupid to make me look stu
Fiscal cliff compromise almost a done deal. All night we watched house leaders parade in and out of hushhush meetings up and down the halways in the capitol. Some told me they even took some time tonight to actually read this 150pageplus bill. A bill that would avert a massive tax increase on nearly every american who earns less than 4 hun thousand. After all the long fierce debate, the u. S. House scheduled a vote for tonight. I think weve made gigantic progress. I hope that we can have a by partisan agreement as we go forward. In the words of one u. S. House leader it was important to vote on this deal before the stock market open and had potentially crashed. Just before the vote, republicans on the house floor. Were taking up a bill that will not do anything to cut spending. And in interviews with us, criticized this lastminute deal saying its certain to raise americas already skyhigh national debt. This is like a credit card that were just putting more money on, and were charging i
Hardest and the saddest week of most americans lives, frankly. This is going to be our pearl harbor moment. Our 9 11 moment. Only its not going to be localized. It will be happening across the country. And i want america to understand that. The prediction comes as the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Rises to over 321,000. More than 9100 people have died so far with over 1300 reported deaths reported on saturday along. Louisianas governor said his state could run out of ventilators by the end of the week. In new orleans, the Coroners Office and mortuaries have reached their limits. And new york continues to be one of the hardest hit. Nearly half of all deaths in the country have happened in new york. This morning Governor Andrew Cuomo said hospitalizations are down but the challenge to save lives is getting harder. Were running short on supplies all across the board. Hospitals are accustomed to dealing with 60day supply, 90day supply. Were talking about two or three or four days