his name is henry louis wallace. >> henry wallace was born and raised in barnwell, south carolina, amarried and then divorced. >> the news of his arrest shocked his hometown. >> i still have a hard time believing now that -- that it was -- >> me too. >> -- our henry. >> former classmates and the high school yearbook seem to portray a completely different image than that of a cold-blooded killer. >> henry was a great person, very nice guy. >> he was a good guy. he was fun. he had the biggest smile, the biggest personality. always happy. >> you know, he was the first male cheerleader we ever had. i would've never guessed in a million years that henry had any kind of issues where he would do what he's done, never in a million years. >> he would be the person who's responsible for more deaths in mecklenburg -- charlotte, mecklenburg than any other person that we came in contact with. >> i think the community was truly stunned. those kinds of cases didn't happen here. charlotte wasn't the kind of place where we would have a serial killer. >> after henry confessed to all of the murders tha

in also, there isn't much of a left in america in 1950, but the people who are on the left when henry wallace, former president who'd won as a progressive candidate in 1948, he's willing to support harry truman because truman's gone to the united nations. and the final point like to make as well, which is connected with your question carl which is why do other countries support the united states. in 1950 my own country has a labor government. many people on the labor backbenches aren't comfortable following america's lead and comfortable with the cold war logic. but they are old fashioned left collective security advocates who had been supporters of the league of nations in the 1930. so even the british government, which has all sorts problems, both domestic and imperial in 1950, is willing to commit troops to korea by the end of the summer and follow america's lead. so there is a successful coalition takes place in this early war, as america would see against north korea. that starts to evaporate when the war becomes war against the volunteers of the people's republic of china. you know, if

we could have of course henry wallace instead harry truman. ben stein was in our audience here. i got joseph to regan and then i have several more people. but after joseph, you know, will you to respond? he's right here in the white shirt. so you to a theme that's come up in your remarks and in your answers to some of the questions and i'm wondering whether you considered organizing the findings in your book around this tragedy as you described in the sense that it does the record show that there were all these moments during the cold war that there was hope that they could escape from it, that they hoped for detente, thought that they could rule the world together, but they could never actually make work. and then the end it seems to me that often they just couldn't help it for all of these different reasons, so that there the situation where they couldn't think their way out of the problem or they couldn't control events, they came. so sometimes it was, you know, the specificity of a particular that was especially challenging like berlin, sometimes it was accidents like u-2 ri