Which his infamy sprang. Inre were several reviews that vein. My favorite goes like this, as clear,tossed book makes booth was a celebrity in his own right. And the profilethe drama of the deed. These other reviews, compelling portraits, go to confirm what the insightful blurb on the books dusted jacket stated. Mainly, based on meticulous and exhaustive research, written in vivid prose, spiced with wry book is ary alfords Tour De Force by a masterful historian. It exceeds the High Expectations by civil war buffs, linktone ncolnians if you would, please accept this check. [applause] terry thank you michael, thank you for that award. On the Johnny Carson show, he had an unusual guest. A man who got a call wednesday from the nobel prize committee. They warned him that he is one that years nobel prize. I believe it was in chemistry. The man was a carpet layer. So he on that. They called back and said this is no joke. This is the nobel prize committee, you have one this prize, it turns out
When they got off the bus they were the mercy of this crowd who then proceeded to attack them even further. The deal that had been worked out with local Law Enforcement and the segregationists was evident 15 minutes they would have 15 minutes before Law Enforcement intervened. After about a 15 minute point a local Law Enforcement officer pulled his weapon and fired a shot. That is what stopped the attack. In the meantime the trailways bus arrived an hour later. They dont know until they arrived that the Greyhound Bus was already attacked. The interesting thing about the trailways bus, unlike the Greyhound Bus, several segregationists had gotten on the bus in atlanta. They were riding from atlanta. They had not only harassed the atlanta, the bus from but they had also beaten several of the freedom riders while on the bus. The trailways bus was able to continue on into birmingham for yet another mob formed and was waiting for that bus to arrive. While this was going on there were a group
In it he focuses on events that took place am to the almost to the day almost ten years ago in new orleans. It was only days after Hurricane Katrina had wreaked havoc on the city and its residents, many of whom had lost their possessions, houses, loved ones and hopings. Police also were confronted about their own fears. These two realities collided on september 4, 2005, on the danziger bring and evolved into a decadelong narrative that still has yet to be fully resolved. And its a narrative that has become all too depressingly familiar across our country, from ferguson to Staten Island to baltimore and beyond, the shootings of unarmed black citizens by Police Officers whose actions and attitudes seem to represent a wholly different system of blue on black justice. I wish i could say, ronnie, that your book was neither so timely, nor so urgent, but alas, here we are in 2015 with those shots echoing more loudly than ever. So thank you for continuing to shed light on this really important
With all of the news dominating the headlines about isis we hardly hear anything more about the crisis on our own borders and yet that crisis continues and we need to hear more about that so coming next is the Lieutenant Governor of texas who will be addressing this issue among others. During his time in office he worked hard to make texas the National Leader in job creation and the best place in america to do business. Lets take all look at the monitors for a little bit more about our next speaker. Remember last summer when many of you rode buses, you drove your cars to austin because we had a group of people who literally took over the Senate Chambers and kept our senate from doing business. So we decided we would all show up so we could save some lives. The visionary for hb 2, pro lifers and women and children 0 him a debt of gratitude that simply is difficult to explain to people. I want to tell you why i asked him to come. This will be right here. This little baby right here came
Next encore booknotes. Jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book the writers desk a collection of authors and photos photos. Cspan jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called the writers desk. Whats it all about . Guest its a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course its not all the writers. My favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. Somewhere theres a desk in the picture. Literally or figuratively. Cspan why did you pick this for the covert . Guest i suppose because its one of my favorite photographs. I think its pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. Its a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where she would write. Its like her writ