there. anyone else? thank you for coming. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations]

>> another one was grew some, but it was an internationalist

and patient. it was called the trunk murder in 1885 and the rich englishman who came to america. they were traveling sales then. they meet on the bow. they decide to go across america and they wind up together at a nice hotel in st. louis called the southern. one of them is richer than the other and the poor guy suddenly has a lot of money sloshing around and he tells everybody that is batty when out-of-town in the hotel rooms start smelling in the chambermaid go when it winds up that his buddies in the trunk dad several days. the police try to start chasing him, but he is taking the ship from san francisco already. this becomes a big international case because you have two guys from the wind. you have st. louis. you have the manhunt to the other end of the world and the new zealand police stop and when

they come back to the trains station, half the st. louis is there to see them. interviews galore and he whined up being hanged. we used to have gallows at the police headquarters like a lot of towns do. >> we knew the moment came the first morning when waking in gorbachev that we were sitting in it although. a bubble is a room within a room. it is totally secure and it has big latches on the out side so that it can't be thought. bubbles generally are pretty big

and when we had the one for the arms control talks that could have 25 people. in reykjavík the order of the smallest ever because nothing happened in a slim and it was ever classified. so we have eight of us sitting side-by-side, right next to each other enfolding free chairs, the kind that wal-mart would be ashamed to sell. cheap as can be come all squeezed in, almost knee to knee and side to side so we are in this bubble. it schultz's telling us what he knew about the first meeting. and all of a sudden -- secretary of state. all of a sudden the latch opens up, door swings open. we look up and there's a 730 secret service agency said the president of the united states. he did what any red loaded american would do.

he said. we are a belly to belly. reagan looks at all of us in does this make a great aquaria. we should put up with water. and then we come to a crisis because we hadn't eat cedar fair and there are nine of us now. there is a staff of the white house. there was the secretary of day. there's the national security adviser and their spears control. i knew if i was going to say, i needed to do something fast. so my dad was off for the president might share. i hit the ground and i was on the floor and meanwhile, this gigantic secret service guy had latched the door once again and so we were in there and it was a great, great moment because reagan cracked a few jokes and that gorbachev is serious about doing it and we sat in what way any kind of try to tell us that approach gorbachev was taking

and we sat there for about 30 minutes. i was gently leaning against the presidential niece and we knew that it are assessment was wrong. the intelligence was wrong. the reports are wrong. this is going to be a real thing. >> here are a few programs to watch for on booktv this weekend.

>> george kyl meyer is mixed with a man come in inch near her grip not to far away from the university paid loving it. his parents were immigrants to this country. he didn't have a lot of money. his dad actually was a janitor. but he went to college, studied engineering and then got a job working for ours ea. while he was an engineering fair, he actually discovered the tech elegy that would allow liquid crystal displays, something we today.

the problem however is george discovered this 1964 and the leadership at rca would recommend it was all that interesting. and so while he tried to persuade his colleagues he wasn't successful in the u.s. lost its competitive advantage. it was the japanese who brought liquid crystal displays to the marketplace in the 1970s and 80s. you see, george is an extraordinary individual, but without an issue backing he was unable to make a long-term difference that changed human history. he stuck his credit for coming up with the invention, but most people don't even notice name. institutions matter far more than i expect it's dirtiness daddy. i thought interviewing 550 people at daddy extraordinary personalities, people of a certain persona. actually what i found this most of the power in our culture is

housed within institutions. so if you don't have that sort of insight connection in a leadership position within institutions coming of little chance of making a long-term impact on culture. these >> these >> welcome to stay with on booktv, located on the west bank of the mississippi river with a starting point for the lewis and clark expedition in 1804 in the city where the historic dred

scott trial began coming out of the gateway to the west today st. louis is home to 2.9 million people. with the help of our charter communications cable partners for the next hour we will travel the city to visit historic sites and independent look stores and learn about its history from local authors. we begin our special look at st. louis with author carol ferring shepley. >> "movers and shakers, scalawags and suffragettes: tales from bellefontaine cemetery" and i spent five years researching the people of the cemetery. they're my research was paced upon 60 years of research of two employees of the cemetery. they had 10 file drawers full of files is thick with primary sources that even though i worked on it eight, 10 hours a day, i could've, i could've never completed this without their wonderful work with the

gatekeeper and superintendent. so i am so appreciative of them. the book contains sections, which tells the history of the history of st. louis. each section contains biographies. altogether 80 biographies. i wrote biographies of people buried in l. fountain cemetery. some of my favorites are people who change the world such as one in clerk of the lewis and clark expedition to change the way we live because without the work of lewis and clark, the west would've taken much longer to settle it. they just opened the way. they made it possible. he had another very influenced in the history of the united states is superintendent of indian affairs and one who is not so well known. they called him the redhaired chief because he was a math error negotiator. he brought 419,000 acres of

indian land and to the territory united states without ever raising a month. it was all negotiations. in fact, he got along so well with the in the in the one we dedicated many of the indians came spoke. represented the tribes came in broken one of them that there were many redhaired indians along the trail. so he left a legacy that way. on his deathbed, he said if i am and hereafter will be for the treaty he made with the osage and he talked them into moving further west. he gave an $1800, a pilot and a promise the u.s. government would protect them from hostile indian and he sent them to oklahoma, which as you know if it does there, which is not a good thing. however, there is karma because they later discovered oil in the

osage urges fine now. there's also many of the great manufacturers, including the fund line is adolphus bush who came here from germany. he actually came from a wealthy family but he was 21st to 22 children. he didn't and she was going to have much of a share of his father's day. he's target darted out perkiness ahmad clerk on the river, taking down notes of what came off of the boat and realized the germans in the city had a thirst for. so we started a poor supply company. then he realized there was a lot of german and they really liked either. finished time-honored way of getting to the top. he married the doctors daughter. he married the late anheuser father eberhardt owned a soap factory. but eberhardt had taken back a brewery for a bad debt and then he took the smartest thing he ever did. he gave that brewery to a son-in-law to manage. he's reading a bit the anheuser

brewery. adolphus did such a good job at the next year he changed the name to anheuser-busch, which he well deserved. he died in his castle on the rhine gaming team for team in the whole city went into mourning. his body was shipped back to be buried in there was a parade from the brewery right up broadway to paul fountain. he was buried on the spot, but not in this mausoleum. he was buried in the anheuser muscle and. two years after his death, his bride, lilly decided the mausoleum was not grand enough for print, so she had it torn down and moved her parent outback. hello, dr. freud. what do you make of that? and how this commission and it was not completed until 1921. there's also some of my scalawags.

interestingly enough, the scalawags, the worst people have the best tubes because they are able accumulate a pile of cash. one of our tunes is known by artist or if it's one of the most beautiful tunes in america. it was designed by louis sullivan and was a draft maintenance office and write the he was the one who actually designed it and right have no smalley go. the setback of you know he really liked that, too. >> the building at south reminds me to visit cuba to have circle on the top. it almost looks moorish the ornamentation is pure cellophane. what's interesting is if you go around it, that represents the

fall. i'm a south sider holly berries. so that is what true. on the west side are spring flowers and on the north side or corn. so you had the four seasons all around it. via -itis gorget, but the inside is full of mistakes that will take your breath away they are so gorgeous. one of my very favorite is a piece of women's history. women's history is often lost, so it took a lot of digging. she was the biggest management fabulous during the little war in because they were so many troops stationed here, her business boomed. she was not a very kind and generous. she had been destitute herself when she started out not so she got into her line of this mess. she never turned anyone away.

she gave him at the clothing and food to all the widows and orphans who came her way. they lined the streets of the city she had cirrhosis of the liver which was an occupational hazard in her line of work. she wanted to be buried for her most clients were here she sat now, we don't want people like you and you could tell she was a good is this woman he koshy said maybe i'll have to beat your wives. so they change their minds. they also said she could not a monument there. were afraid they'd be all kinds of people come to her grave. one of the most important grapes here was just a system will monument for william greenleaf eliot. he founded washington university. he came to st. louis as a missionary for the unitarian church if this was a place for the needed help.

he said if i cause i shall remain until i lay my ashes in the valley of the mississippi. that's a poetic way to put ms for shattering the fact that his grand son was t.s. eliot whose type my grandfather had a powerful image on his guns in grant funds. his words were like those of moses. he brought the lockdown we could not defy it. said the cities on the east coast but st. louis was formed for nothing else but to make money. we didn't even have a church until 11 years after the founding of the city. it was further for trade and he fell she was offering up an alternative, which he did indeed through good works, through charity, through education. he's primarily known to us as an educator. he was so progressive and he believed that women should be

educated to the same degree as men. they should be educated as far as they were capable. so in addition to washington university, he founded a girls school, a girls secondary school so that they would be able to go to university. and his friends made mary institute. right next to him if you grave of william dhawan who is the first american medical researcher. he is such a wonderful story. he was trained as a doctor but in those days you are practically sweeping the floors of the doctor's offices. only two medical schools in the united states. he was an army that your in fort mackinac, an island in michigan territory near the canadian border. two days before his first child was born, right before his wife went into labor, a half french, half native american trapper was shot at point blank range in the

stomach and i thought for sure he would die. in the description he goes into all the details. like a portion of his one despicably turkeys eggless hanging out of the hole. so all he could do basically was keep it clean. in those days when medicine was, treatment was applying leeches. he never thought he was there by, but he did miraculously enough. but when he healed, there was a hole from his stomach to the surface, to the atmosphere and this is known as a 50. for nine years he took a piece of token threat, it touched a piece of food lowered food into the trapper's stomach through the whole and then pulled it out and wrote down his observations on what is happening. he published his book in 1834: observations the next year and

on the gastric juices in the physiology of digestion and it revolutionized medicine. it is instantly translated to french, german, italian and was passed all over the world. the cemetery was founded in 1849 and was part of the world in the terry movement. it was the most progressive cemeteries in the day. before that people had been buried in church or. but they wanted a better way of memorializing their dad. they wanted to remove them from the city and set them apart to honor them. they became the first public parks. 314 acres. there's now an 87 people buried there. it's a beautiful limestone cliffs overlooking the mississippi river and the fact they're even in the amount they are from the civilization so for thousands of years people have realized this beautiful site is the place to honor dad.

>> left bank works as an independently owned bookstore. we're a full line books are located in the central west end neighborhood of st. louis, miss earley. the story was started on july july 11, 1969 by a group of graduates could that washing the universe d. ..

the political focus of the store, but it was not just about politics and history. it was, we have always been about the larger cultural times. so we carried a full line of children's books, and we are always looking for books representing minorities. that is an issue that has come back into the news recently, but -- recently, the complete lack of color in children's books, but it has been important to us. children's books were a part of our mix and told everyone story. the store also does a lot of author of sense. we do over 300 per year. many of them are in store. they may be attractive to only 15 or 20 people at that time, but we also do a huge, off-site

events that can draw as many as 1000-2000 people. we have hosted in-store president jimmy carter twice, hillary clinton and other, you know, various important dignitaries. we worked with president jimmy carter twice for two different books. the most recent one was, we can have peace in the holy land. he is an extraordinary man. i sense -- i am so impressed with his sense of mission and social responsibility. he did not give a talk, you know. he came an autographed books. we did that in the store. it was a big long line of folks who came through and met him and got their books aren't. he manages to sign 1,000 books per hour legibly knx looked up and speak to people at the same time. it is amazing.

running an independent bookstore has never been easy. in left bank when it started there was completely under capitalization from the get go. we have gone through a few different ownerships. i have been with the store for 40 years, and my partner, my husband, pierre ten. all of the time we have been in business it has been a struggle. for us, not having big capital to begin with, makes it, you know, requires a we're clever about what we do talking about how we have the 0-budget event. this is what you get because that is what we had to do. however, and the larger context of bookstores we are in a hot style environment these days. soap of -- so for quite a while now the major way that independent bookstores a been fighting amazon is around the sales tax collection issue. we live in our community and abide by the sales tax laws are

city and state. amazon ships to people in our community and does not collect sales tax. so what happens, of course, as we all know, the budgets of these states and municipalities are in terrible shape. here is something that you legitimately could have. it is out there, not being collected, hundreds of millions of dollars. so they cut back medicaid. the cut services, the cut education budget. they don't collect tax. the other aspect of what they do that is not as obvious to the public is the way that they bully publishers to give them just outrageous terms which are not offered to the of the bookstores. that is questionably a violation of at least the robertson patent act. it is not just that we aren't

giving transco a look at this point they are trying to of strengthened publishers so much. what happens is the price overall goes up for books because it has to to cover these extraordinary demands that amazon is getting away with. >> one of the things started doing about five years ago, we incorporated a not-for-profit. we did this for two reasons. one was the author invents are important and not necessarily sustainable. we cannot always break even and rarely break even. that is what we do in the store. so we want to keep doing those. that gave us a vehicle to potentially raise money to do it

cultural events built around authors and offset some of the costs involved and keep doing it. with the biggest thing is our program called river city readers, a program to get books in the hands of st. louis public school children. st. louis city is like many cities. the public-school system is grossly under resource, serves a very impoverished population, kids to come to school with a huge reading deficits. they have not had books in their homes, no tradition of reading for pleasure, start school at a distinct disadvantage from low class kids and, you know, play catch-up. just give us money. we sponsor a classroom at that time. every other month that classroom , those kids will get a book that we select. we put our name plate in front

with their name in it so that it is clear it is your book. we set up authors to come to the classroom as often as we can. there are meeting the author. it is having a great effect. they are learning that we can do something that they can enjoy a. getting confidence, showing a desire to up lead. teachers are thrilled. we think that program started great as a grass-roots program. the foundation is the way that we were able to do that. it took the name in the spirit of all of the cultural and political stuff that was going on in paris in the late 60's.

as we said, started in 1969. they were inspired by that. they run through paris. great bookstores and stories on the west bank. that is why they took the name. then 1980, on the 11th anniversary, we inherited a tiny kitten. we named him captain nemo because he was actually in a pond. and he passed away. a second generation catch you came to us again, also a black cat. we named her jamaica, and she was with us until about nine years ago. and now it a third one what does

and does not happen now everything stops because, you know, children well as well. so he is very popular. his best seller staff pick is how to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you nini harris it is an actual book that outsells anyone else. now, you first come in and counteract over what i hope people see you have not been in here before. it is an amazing display of books that they did not even know existed which happens a

lot. lately people talk about booksellers, independent bookstores carry in the collection. as a fancy word that is true. you will see a lot of just the usual stuff and interact with booksellers to actually read those books and are excited about them and can steer you to something that you have not known about before. >> book tv took a trip to st. st. louis was very to explore the literary city. we met with one author who on cover several firsthand accounts of the civil war for her book on most unsettled state. >> this book began was i was it -- when i was in college. i took a trip to visit a classmate in the deep south.

i took the greyhound bus, and at that point it stopped in every little town. it would go around the town square. and it first went east, and every little town square had a statue of a union soldier. and then i dozed off, and when we were stopping in another little town i realize that the town square and a confederate soldier. and from then on every town had the confederate soldiers statute in the center of town. and it was so well defined. peoples of the agencies, history was so perfectly clear. i thought, how different is this from st. louis where the city, which was so instrumental to the prosecution of the civil war for miticide -- from either side,

this city was disputed territory and truly was a city where rig was neighbor against neighbor with vehemently opposing philosophies and beliefs. i wanted to look at what it was like to live in a city like this when there was such hostility between people and yet somehow they persisted in being neighbors. how do you survive that kind of environment? and i chose to pursue it by letting people of that time talk with themselves. let them speak through letters, journals, speeches. let them tell us what it felt like in this city. well, st. louis was almost 100 years those were among war broke out. and it was truly a gateway.

every military expedition, every expedition for exploration, commercial and enterprise and the west funnel through st. louis riverfront. it could almost be considered a foreign city and that the majority of the people or foreign-born. there were 60,000 people born in germany, 39,000 born in ireland, about 2,002 were born in bohemia. communities of polish people, swiss dairy farmers, and each of these groups brought different feelings about the union and about slavery. there was a remarkable free black population in san louis at this time. >> one of the things that amazed me the most was the level of patriotism that was demonstrated

in american-born citizens and by foreign-born citizens. i knew him as an engineer, a great engineer. and win the civil war was looming here came a spokesman for the union cause in st. louis st. louis was being held in every political entity, and in the second war and of farmers market the forces supporting the union showed up. who got up to speak but james who we know later on from building the enclave and then the great thieves bridge got up and spoke to that crowd and said when i cast my eyes over this large and intelligence massive countrymen and see among them so

many of our adopted citizens rallying to the standard of republic and when i reflect that among those who are now plotting their countries' ruin there is not one of foreign birth and role within their ranks. ultimately motion of gratitude and change. gratitude for their devotion to the flight of a country and shame to think that to none but americans native-born americans belong with this honor of humility -- humiliating that emblem of our nation's glory. unable to administer who's protecting say they first and

held the secretary liberty. the immediate effects of the war were very scary here. there were a lot of secessionists. sarah hell. her husband, he would soon join the union ranks. she described their depression and that said in her journal, hearing the news that war had begun. then she wrote in her journal about an incident that occurred the day after. sending a small bust of home cooking by him there was quite a distance to walk.

hastening across this. attacked him. sprinted away from the two men in pursuit. finally firing on him to work three times. he thought he was hit. they did not follow. that was the first phase of the war in st. louis. and then the economy was shut down.

the union shut down to protect the union cost the weston dept. of the union army based in st. louis. his wife was the native st. louis got after this and with all my happy memories of st. louis think how hard it was to go back there to the feeling that madison 61 in the beginning of the war. everything was changed. there was no life on the river. many steamboats were laid up. the cruise gone. swaying idly with the current. as we drove through the deserted streets we thought only closed

shutters to warehouses and business. they echoed loud and harsh as one when drives down silent street. she later tells about kindness that she experienced in spite of a hostile environment. so the old kind feeling cramped out. boss of good wine. without means the with the allies to say there were from the sick and the hospital. of all wars and approach the

sole or. i came away in november gray. st. louis is economy changed. became the staging area for the western theater of the war. it became a giant hospital. he wrote about slavery. then he wrote about the hospital bill. after the battle of shiloh, sent up the st. louis by boat loads. carried on stretchers. bankers artisans, these ghastly

buildings. the flower of the northwestern states had been named, a crippled, shot to pieces. horror stricken. with the depth of the motion we have not yet felt pledged to the defense of our government, lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. live on what is now the southern edge of downtown. she was a specialist. she owned to slaves she was able to a keeper's place because the emancipation proclamation does not apply to the misery because missouri was not in rebellion against the united states. it said she had played her neighbor.

and just down the street from them was the barracks for use in soldiers in this one block african-americans fighting in the union army and african-americans living in slavery. and the atmosphere after the victory one are too dark houses. all-around appear. everything passed off quietly. the only out. gyre were soldiers going in. hoisting of flag to my amazement

there were not eliminated. the joy expressed in this city immediately turns to morning. there is one minister at second presbyterian church in downtown st. louis. try to help the people digest what had happened with that assassination. yet looking at his character in the transforming night of death which so strange returns the blemishes in the shadows and brings out more perfectly the beauties of life pictures. it is difficult to see. the most stormy and a van full

time of his life, he stood faithfully and conscientiously at his post. not only endorsed by the people in his reelection but vindicated by success. like moses of gold he had led the people through the wilderness of drop and already saw with black eyes. the people in this city had a horrendous time digesting what happened to their sons and brothers and husbands. there was tremendous anxiety immobile what is, perhaps, the most amazing thing, some how these people who express such vehemently opposed ideas and put

their lives at risk to pursue those ideas somehow can together and know what was a fabulous school system, park system, a booming economy. it is an inspiration to us all today. >> up next from st. louis we take a look at the personal papers of william greenlea eliot . >> university archivist year. we are a medium-size independent universities. we have 14,000 students, undergraduate and graduate, seven schools including arts and sciences, art and architecture, business, engineering, law, medicine, and social work and public health. he will take filled main library. but among other libraries on

campus are two additional campuses. a great resource for the faculty and students here. literally millions of books and electronic books and journals accessed on a daily basis. washington university has the third largest collection of books previously owned. over 300 unique collection is the document the history of the university as well as st. louis. the collections we have include faculty papers, photographs of campus to campus applications, a student group material no one begin use the personal papers, co-founder of the university and a rich material we would like to see today. to start out with we have in the collection photographs of his house and his office.

2616 washington avenue where he was most of his life. came in 34. in action with st. louis and washington university were intertwined and the impact carries through to today. served as washington since the from 1870's to 1887 and on the board of trustees for a number of years. he had founded the commission, it really suffered during the civil war, education, the public square, higher education, and alden working for women's rights , an advocate and worked for prison reform.

this is one of the $10 that we have, and is page presents a day in the life of eliot. work at a broad that needs to be done before nine to 10:00 a.m. 1030. mission house under my care again. 1030 to 130 cemetery commission office and hospital work in general. 2:00 to 6:00, parochial care and hospital work. seven to 8:00 p.m., metaphysics to his son. eight to 11:00 p.m., letters and other writings. preparations. the other aspect we would like to talk about, something is directly related to the university. this item is from the inauguration of the university from 1857.

even though the university was founded in 1853, the inauguration happened in 1857. this is the inauguration pro gram and includes an trek to remarks by elliot. the president of the board at that time. and structural starts with the degree of pleasure that i cannot adequately accept without instructions. welcome to take part in the inaugural exercises of washington university. that is just the beginning. another item from the university is a draft of his commencement speech in 1862 which was actually the first graduating

class. handwritten drafts. commencement of 1962 talking about truth and human reasoning and explores the work of various people over time. 1862, if he does not at all he did mention the war, his fight for the union and other things, but out of this address, he can see various adults. on the back pages less the class members that graduated that year thomas elliott was one of his sons. we will move on and look at who the women in education, not only

higher education but the education grand. a series of lectures about church services and were later published in this book. this is called luxury to your mom and. he gave a lecture and was published in 1954. so a look at the table of contents and the is talking about home, duties, education, and qualities in women's missions we read a chapter on education. my subjects tonight to mob we have spoken of a different relations and the influence she on avoiding lee exergues as society becomes more resigned than the question becomes more important on how the education

shall be conducted. we go down to explore. later there republished the book especially to the beginning. it is now called home life. a great impact and are able to improve it later. bill will look at our work on the civil war. this is a box of correspondence. one of the letters was to her son tom. we're talking about general matters. the nothing will straighten up here. he had a lot of correspondence. this is just one of letters that

relate to this war. also gave sermons related to the civil war, and one of them we have a copy of your called the higher law and doctrine. 1861. goes through and talks about how he feels like the union is right and we should preserve and all costs. because of the civil war and the conditions of the soldiers and their health care that they receive he works to help fund the western commission. it spells out -- the letter that he wrote asking the main commission to start this individual unit in the west so

that there were no resources and the soldiers would have better care of. it goes on for several pages. and then there are also copies of the item that made this happen. it did go to an area involved with that commission. another thing was related to slavery. he taught that there should be free. so you have a bond of indemnity worry purchased a slave for $600. this is april 15th signed by elliot. be it known to him, it may concern that under the above transfer some become my property i do hereby declare her free

from bondage and desire my executives to affect the freedom by paying to whoever it may concern with my state. that was just one example. back to one of his, may 22nd 1860. spend a great part of the day giving agreement. captor for six weeks, paid $950, center home to our father and mother who will graduate. what a blessing slavery as. also had a slave working for him he did not know he was bound to another slave on a.

eventually he was set free. we have the book here. it published in 1885. you will see this is a statue built as a memorial to president lincoln. if you notice some of the artist used his pictures to create this image of the slave. gone to the artist of this monument and had another base and air. a picture of it also.

so this is a great collection we have in the archives. american history, african-american history. and as british. >> as part of book tv visit to st. louis with the help of our low bulk -- local cable partner we talked with tim o'neil, author of "mobs, mayhem and murder: tales from the st. louis police beat". >> 2008 was not a very good time for the nation or journalism. the paper was looking for things to do and we were publishing books. somebody here but the bright idea to do a book about big crimes over the years. san louis is 250 years old this year. they asked me to do it.

and i did this for the newspaper. it is not like i bravely took a sabbatical and eight ramen noodles hoping the someone would love my book. i did this for the newspaper. it was my assignment. for eight or nine months i did the research, wrote the stories. other people in the photo department and i found the photos. i am proud of my riding and love my words. what really makes this book of the nearly 200 photographs. newspaper photo files are as good as you will get in terms of a local record. the first dispatch files here are good until about the late 1920's. each one of the articles is newspaper feature-length. each article has whatever photographer we would find to go

with it. and then at the end of the book have got about 26 pages of an essay-type chronology. one of the pieces i did was about the origin of the old folks on. a lot of people remember that old song. he comes bursting into the apartment one night. if she says he has a night and she has a 32 and uses it. somebody in all st. louis thought up the song. we have the frankie and johnny song which has been brought back by numerous groups of the last 110 years. that started here. another one was gruesome but it

was an international sensation. the trunk murder. they decide said it go across america and one of together. one was richer than the l.a. suddenly a lot of money flashing around and tells everyone that is but he went out of town. the hotel room start smelling. the chambermaids go when. the police tried to start chasing him, but he is taking the lead ship from san francisco this becomes a big, international case. two guys from england, st. louis, the man had. and the new zealand police stop

him. two officers actually went to get him. took them ten weeks for the round trip. they come back to the train station. half of st. louis is there is see this guy. interviews galore. he winds up being on. we used to have gallows that the police headquarters, like a lot of towns. another one, during world war one there was a lot of hysteria about the germans. we used to have berlin avenue. the wilson administration's was pretty blunt about demanding loyalty. say lewis has a big german population. the german last name was the most common for this area. there was a poor guy who was a coal-miner over on the east side

and he was from germany. he was a good guy. he tried to join the u.s. navy, but a couple of the guys at the mine decided that they have found as spies for the kaiser. it just gets worse. this mob goes after him. the policeman grabbed some as quarrels and to city jail, but the mob just gets worse and worse. they dragged him out of jail and a margin to the west end of town in illinois, about 9 miles from downtown. they hang him. they lend some. eleven guys wind up being charged. the defense tries to turn it entirely into a matter of, these were just patriots trying to do the best that they could.

so that is one of the ugly spots my personal favorite is the case of a woman named nellie months. party girl. dr. kelly who lived in one of the very fancy private tracks here. and so dr. kelly gets kidnapped. a reporter from here, the post-dispatch is writing about it. for whatever reason the bad guys give up dr. kelly to john rogers, the reporter.

he takes kelly to his apartment and gives the exclusive before he is allowed to take a bath and go home and see his family, but those are the good old days and nothing comes of this for several years until this guy who runs a pool hall pier joined a starts saying i know the solution to the dr. kelly case. the story is trickier. she has a boyfriend who is another doctor. she tells the boy friend, i'm pregnant. well, she was not a starts this ruse about being pregnant. she wears these. shortly before she is supposed to go on trial there is an announcement this she has given birth. okay. people can have babies. babies come when they will.

that is how things are. they managed to get the trial moved to central missouri or family has a lot of ties. this is a huge thing. everyone in the counties and surrounding are going to the trial. everyone wants to know about the baby, but she does not show up with the baby. she winds up being acquitted. mainly because her lawyers played big city verses world. they appeal to the jury about these fancy boys and girls from the city concocting this thing. she gets acquitted, but the baby thing falls apart pretty quickly because they young, teenage lady who had given birth and had given up per baby starts figuring out, that is what happened to my son.

and actually goes to court and tells the judge, that is my baby and so low whole baby adoption thing falls apart. her husband, you know, his name is on a phony birth certificate. she winds of getting convicted for fraud. then she does her time. her husband divorces are. she goes to live quietly in kansas city until 91. i go back and read these articles. 2014. everyone knows about the trouble of newspapers, but in the 20's and 30's and 50's and 89 the , you know, newspapers or the source of the information. it is a survey. bad things that happened in

st. louis over the years. >> how did it start in the early 90's when i was working at the st. louis post-dispatch writing an obituary of a great trumpet player from east st. louis, the smallest city across the river. and stories of the race riot, through the years since he was a child. he talked about how horrible it was to learn that white people had massacred black people in this small city in illinois and. he taught that it would affect him for the rest of his life. in fact, the fact of the right in his home town might well have

affected his attitude toward white people and tell that they jeff he died. my gosh. i was born in 1926. he was-9 years old. for something like that to have been so prevalent and persistent in the stories he heard as a child seems to me powerful as an indication. i asked around. black people in general who grew up here, knew about the riot, but their parents had not discussed it and their grandparents, they did not know about it at all and yet it was the deadliest race riot in american history until the rodney king riots in los angeles. i discovered that congressional hearings have been held six months after the riot.

people who participated, businessmen, a variety of people have been interviewed by these committees. they had told the story of the riot. a great headstart. i've tried interviewing people. this would have been and will lay, latter years of the 20th-century in the very beginning of the 21st century. people in their 90's. i discovered that their memories or not as good as i thought they might be. but particularly the age, but the distance from the events. people tend to embellish as time goes on. i decided to go with the written record, and much of it was published.

he covered it for the naacp. marcus garvey, a great black separationist leader had written about the right. every paper in the country for a week or so. 1970 is not that long ago. the fact that whites were mastering blacks in the streets of the middle sized american city is terrific. in the early years of world war one america had just entered world war one. the factories across america and europe up, and there were many jobs available. blacks from the south at the same time that john ford disappearing, and so blacks were moving north in large numbers to industrial cities. east st. louis was an industrial city. the inevitable clashes between blacks and whites took place

over jobs. and it evolved into a riot that took place in july of that year, 1917. the night of july 1st, a black model teefor drove through a black neighborhood the people shooting out of the windows. an hour later a black model teefor drove through a black neighborhood with people shooting out of the windows. no one is killed, but the third time blacks assembled with guns and shot back. two police detectives were killed. that triggered the riots. chaos broke out the next morning it started out, has riots often do, with fist fights in the streets and so forth, but it quickly escalated. one of the reasons was that

there was a central mobs of men who had probably been in bars drinking all night, which you could do in east st. louis in those days. the soon there were terrible atrocities. black men were hung from telephone poles and downtown streets. one man's scalp was ripped loose a mother and her baby were shot trying to escape from a burning building. much of the downtown area was burned down. as i believe i said, 48 people were killed, 39 of them black. at least three of the white people were killed accidentally. and it was finally the national guard came in and restored peace, but by that time much of the city was just devastated. the mayor did not want a record

of this and did not want east st. louis to be known as a place of this terrible riot and he instructed the police to confiscate cameras and destroy a film. so very few photographs actually emerge, and some of those that did as far as i was able to determine were thrown away when one of the newspapers cleaned out its records library in the '20s. so the imagery comes mainly from drawings. as suppose the thing that i learned, most strongly stuck with me, the fact that the civil rights movement did not begin in the 1950's with the decision in the topeka school system case that it began the day after

slavery ended and persists until this day and that in world war one, do not think that i was aware .. i know most people i talked to were not aware, educated people, that america, they erupted in race riots across the country in 1917, 1918, 1919. it was known as the red summer of 1919. the chicago race riot was the worst of many. that made it different, the first and probably the deadliest of 2000 riots that took place in world war one. the first one that was probably the deadliest. that set the pattern for those who followed. whites would attack blacks and accused them of taking their

jobs. industrials were in part guilty a large pool of workers to draw from. i think it was the first, and it set the pattern, and it was followed by what i consider to be the first major civil rights demonstration. there was a march two weeks after the riot, mid july of 1917. aid to 10,000 people marched down from marlon, the medal of new york to protest the east st. st. louis.

i think i want to a take a look. i just think that we need to be conscious of -- very conscious and not forget that there's was a racial history that grew out of slavery. a deadly legacy of slavery, and we still to coastal see this around this. ..

my experience in working with the ira presidential inauguration. and that price, it david a reporter in des moines and he's really brought a lot of focus today is an involvement in the iowa caucus. then, this is the first year we've been able to celebrate placement of doc or warren or log statue at the capitol

building. dr. wore logged and it happened that there is a book sitting on my tivo. what he did is decided he wanted to do some thing about the insight down to mexico -- disease-resistant, rest resistance and through his work, mexico couldn't raise enough food to feed themselves in a matter of 13 years in the reverse the two are mixed but a surplus of food they were raising. there's also another book really

written by acid or can quit in a heap had been put together on dr. norman for a norman for a lack of my mind the privilege to know. it is an illustrated story about the life of norman were like who is credited with saving the lives of the billion people with histories or job food and after his success in mexico, he went to asia, places like pakistan and india in different countries in africa and begin to develop and improve production of wheat, rice and other products. in a matter of 30 years the work of norman forelock more than doubled to grain production in the world and because of that the people that were stated from starvation is over a billion people. replace 100 years to the day from his birth and happen to replace 10 feet for the author of the book ambassador can quit

wasting it with congressman latham when we presented the congressional gold medal to dr. bore a lot and i was standing about 10 feet from ambassador quinn and congressman latham and as i am talking to him, i got the idea we should places -- you care. i don't know what dr. warlock thought at the time but as they set away from the meeting we went to work to see what does it take to approve a statute and get placed in the united states capitol. as i walked away from the circle of inspiration for this great, great man, this great ireland am i learned on the morning replace a statute that congressman latham and ambassador quinn were having a discussion about pleasing the statue there. so whether is providence, whether it's happenstance, whether it's serendipity, we've got the same signal in the same place where you stand within 10 feet of where his ashes is today. i want t