Awards and medals and honors hes received but all of you go home and google him for a mind blowing experience. I just want to mention a few ningz that he and i discussed. After receiving his sumacum degree he joined the air force. During the training he found out that his eyes werent good enough so he was sent off to japan to be a photo intelligence officer. When he arrived to his dismay he found out he was made a Personnel Officer because his boss was lazy and didnt want to get up in the morning. When lieutenant wood arrived in the orderly room at 7 30, he had nothing to do. So he spent his time reading history books. Thankfully for all of us, for his students and for america, he completed his rotc requirement, didnt think the military had treated him well and went off to study history. He earned his m. A. And ph. D. At harvard studying under bernard bailin. History may be kept alive and made vivid and urgent by the living memory of it. Which is exactly what were trying to do here. Ba
Were a typical marriage with ups and downs like everybody else. Difficulties, lincoln still supported and loved her. Please join me in thanking our panelists for a great symposium. [applause] [indiscernible] michael in which boots seems to his exact most of his life between artistic sensitivity and delusional self inflation. It gives us both the daily texture of booths life, and the arching currents of his time not only a story about the assassin, but also about the culture from 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 buff
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