I will give an abbreviated version of the bios we have in the programs. Tracy is a native of appomattox. He has worked for the National Park service. He has been at Petersburg National battlefield since 1997. He is the author of one of the volumes and the howard, virginia regimental history series. He is also passed president of the lynchburg civil war roundtable. And the appomattox county historical society. His talk today will be on the fall of petersburg. Please welcome Tracy Chernault. [applause] Tracy Chernault good evening. Im a big baseball guy. When he asked me to speak as the leadoff man, that was a first for me. Most of you can tell by my size, i never hit leadoff because i require somebody speeding. Being the leadoff man is something new for me. I was surprised when pat pointed out that the magazine contains his article, because you get to this article, you have to read through my article. Which i think should have been the end of the magazine. [laughter] please pick up one
Um, i think all the different stages matter. From my knowledge of children, you make one impact before they are six or ten or whatever and then when they are adolescent they seem to forget everything. And later on, you are surprised as they seem to remember some. But i think they did the best they could as parents. I think they were strong parents. Some of them turned out and some didnt. So much had to do with luck and the era. [ applause ] thank you so much for coming. Wednesday night, booktv features books about exploring america. First is astoria and then all america and then citizen explorer the namesake of colorados pikes peapeak on the next washington journal, a conversation on prison reform. General mills announced they were reversing plans to make consumers to forfeit their right to suing the company. Later as part of the spotlight on magazine series, brian miller talks about his article on trends in the gambling industry. And an update on the Supreme Court and take your calls.
Trusting that everyone will realize, particularly because of the letters she wrote home to her sisters, that they were enbroiled in this and they were. When abigail wrote a letter it was known it was actually written for the whole neighborhood. And mary would get the pleasure of having everyone important in the neighborhood come over and she would read allowed abigails letter. And then there were chapters when mary is trying find a minister for the first church of quincy and she is the most important person. And even john adams think she is the most important person in quincy. And one day, abigail catches him opening a letter that mary has written to him. And she is furious. She said how can you open a letter and he said it isnt just any letter it is from mary and there is no one that knows more than mary that i am interested in. And then there is a lot on elizabeth. She is the sister who endures the most. She is the prettiest and i say the most beautiful. There is a wonderful picture
Reenforced concrete tunnel. It would percent him to get from one wing to the other. It was accessible from the house above. This is what it looks like to stand inside of it. That concrete is two feet thick. Before i move on here, i want to make one point very clear. The bomb shelter was obsolete almost from the time it was built. As soon as the soviets tested a Hydrogen Bomb in 1953 moving from the kiloton to the megaton range, the idea of a president shelters in place became completely to postrows. The bombs too powerful. The other thing is truman never had intention of using his shelter, and he said so. He had told one of security men, and im quoting here, go ahead with all this planning and arrangements, but one thing, if a situation ever develops, i dont intend to leave the white house. Im going to be right here. As it turns out, in my book, i relate this story, there, indeed, was a false alarm, and truman stayed upstairs and did not go to the shelter. He believed if americans didn
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