Matts parents, tim and debbie because cello, who are tim and debbie costello, and his wife. Sophia and theodore are at home. Wonderful kids. I would like to also welcome are welcome the members of our board of directors who are with us tonight. We have ann stock. [applause] and bob mcgee. [applause] and two are en route, Anita Mcbride and gail west. Both will be with us tonight. Steve strong is the national cochair of our white house, National Council on white house history. He and his wife andrea are here with us tonight. This is one of our most important groups here at the White House Historical association. Their support, their encouragement, their inspiration , their wisdom really puts the wind in the sales of so much of what we do. We are grateful to have you with us here tonight, steve. The program tonight, dr. Matt castillo costello is going to share with us about his brandnew book hot off the presses. This is the first time we are making it available. We are very proud of proud
We are mostly working remotely. Our Museum Closed in march, but we began thinking about the pandemic in january. We are a division of medical historians and we tend to follow the news pretty carefully, especially news about Public Health. So we actually reached out and began speaking with the Public Health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we have definitely thought about difficulties inherent in making a vaccine and we were pretty sure this pandemic would last a fair amount of time and we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. They were keeping things week by week in the museum. Before mid march, what were your job duties and what has changed in the last couple months . I overse
Health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. So it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. At what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter . As historians, we have definitely thought about difficulties inherent in making a vaccine and we were pretty sure this pandemic would last a fair amount of time and we would need to remain at home for some months while a vaccine was being created. They were keeping things week by week in the museum. Before mid march, what were your job duties and what has changed in the last couple months . I oversee a division of historians of medicine and historians of science. When the pandemic was beginning, we were actually very deep into the planning part of it and began to think about changing our exhibits. We thought it would be important to include covid19. That meant that we needed to thinking about c
Maybe from tvs and movies if nothing else. Florida i watched this show called texas john slaughter. Song was texas john slaughter do what they outta, because if they didnt they would die. The lone ranger may be the most cinematic ntb radio rangers that started in 1933. Out of wxyz in detroit. The script was originally called man hunter. But then they changed it to lone ranger. We would still be talking about it today. In rangers have been hundreds of movies. There have been hundreds of books written about them, hundreds of magazine and newspaper stories. The image was built. I will go into that a little more. First i want to get a brief history of the rangers. Why the talk about Texas Rangers have residence and a place in a conversation were having now nationally about Police Brutality and approaches to history and all this taking down of the confederate monuments. The rangers have a place in that too. Will try to toggle to vintage photos. This is the first time i have done this. F i m
Written, you will find a number of them are on historical figures but also the recent one on the gutenberg bible. We appreciate that and being a partner with us at the White House Historical association. Thank you. Margaret thank you. It was a joy to join you. Next on the presidency, we hear about the Kennedy Administrations work on womens rights from alan price, director of the jfk library and museum in boston. He explains that womens rights were parts of the kennedy platform and how that transferred into the equal pay act of 1963. The National Archives Foundation Hosted this discussion and provided the video. Alan one of the joys of my position is there is a heritage to president ial libraries and all of the prior directors of the jfk president ial library and museum have been mentors to me, as i have taken on the role. We have announced to the Community Just a couple of days ago the passing of the very first director of the jfk library. He was a member of the Kennedy Administration.