great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago works progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. block. they were. that meant there was a lot more out there. in addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. i did want to try to cover all areas of the state. i have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as i d like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. there could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. the different additions used to be. i do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. i did the best i could. i found some wonderful letters. i tried to have men who served
mississippi or their hometown in many instances. they were going overseas to fight for a cause. they were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. i had one letter from an individual who fought with the canadian expeditionary forces. he went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. we always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war? what my question is, what if we had not entered that war? the world would be a vastly different place. as for its relevance today i would not have know this if i d not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. all of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. conflict is still resulting today because of that. so
rocky mountain news closed, that was a sad day for everybody. there went a number of jobs in journalism that were never to be recovered and as the denver post continue to shrink, that s when things began to get real tough specially for the press club and other competing places where they use today meet, the university club or the pencil code club and others that have felt the effect but that s when things really changed here. we have a local come in that was going to take a look at some things, maybe offer some advise and he said in a way, made a very good point, because these days while i look at it much per positively than he did, this is a great museum and for people who aren t typically going to experience the essence of prize and be able to come and be around that for an event, yeah, it makes it a good museum. it s as important as it can be at any point in time if you if you truly honor the past and you want the future to be as positive as it possibly could be . for th
york city was hurtful and helpful to the union you during the civil war, and the positive and negative aspects of studying abroad. now, that s just a few of the programs you ll see on booktv this weekend. for a complete television schedule, go to booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. it s television for serious readers. and now we kick off this weekend with a panel on history of civil rights. this is from last month s mississippi book festival. [inaudible conversations] welcome, everyone. i m chris goodwin with the mississippi department of archives and history.f if you ve not already, please silence your cell phones. welcome to the civil rights history panel number two. sponsored by the mississippi humanities council. we thank them, we also thank the mississippi legislature who lets us hold this book festival in this beautiful state capitol. we could not ask for a grander setting for it. thank you to the authors, theth panelists. they are all author
a look at the economic and security issues they ll discuss in tonight s the week ahead. plus he helps solve some of the most heinous crimes of the civil rights era. we are headed to mississippi to meet journalist jerry mitchell. and it s london s version of oscar night. the british academy film awards honors hollywood s best. the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia could set up a political battle for the ages. a day after the 79-year-old was found debt of an apparent heart attack at a texas ranch, filling his shoes has become the topic of discussion on capitol hill. senior white house correspondent mike viqueira joins us live from washington, d.c. and, mike, this quickly became a hot topic for the presidential candidates. reporter: you are absolutely right, lori jane, it s only about about 24 hours since this news brock. this shocking news that took america by surprise, certainly took the white house and congress by surprise the death of justin antonin sca