william randolph hearst was able to get the first news report out of galveston by a woman, a female reporter who disguised herself as a worker and was able to document the horrors that have been in galveston and get their stories out by hitching a ride and getting the story out. the only way you had was by both. just a pulitzer higher to 78 road woman by the name of claire parker. you might recognize her as the founder of the red cross and he put in the bill paid for a massive train loaded with supplies, personnel, and got her down to galveston eventually transferring a rate in and moving into galveston to render aid to the survivors. not to be in a beautiful summer day, the third death games basically. what was interesting about galveston was a fairly diverse society. bites, blacks, hispanics, obviously black people were segregated in one area but had access to much of the town. after everything was decimated, partial law was put in place. the powers that be to load dead bodies onto barges on the plan was to take those bodies out and dump them for burial at sea. the only problem is bodies f

william randolph hearst was able to get the first news reports out of galveston via a female reporter when the free black who disguised herself as a worker, as a man and was able to document the horror that had happened in galveston and get those stories out via telegraph by hitching a ride to houston and getting the story out. the roads were washed out in the room roads were washed out. the only way and was by boat to joseph pulitzer not to be outdone higher hired a 78-year-old woman by the name of clara. you might recognize her as the founder of the red cross, and he paid for a massive train loaded with supplies, relief supplies, personnel, clothing, medicine and got her down to galveston eventually transferring everything to barges and moving into galveston to render aid to the survivors. not to be on a beautiful sunny day to be too macabre but there were death gangs basically and to backup a bit what was interesting about galveston it was a fairly diverse society, whites, blacks, hispanics, jewish. obviously black people were segregated in one area but had access to much of the to

of legendary william randolph hearst. >> patricia hurst is 19.her fiance were in her apartment last night when a woman and two armed men burst in, dragged patricia downstairs, threw her into the trunk of a car and drove off. >> justice department officials suspect the kidnapping may be part of a nationwide campaign of terrorism. >> it had been three days of false alarms until news came this this berkeley radio station had received what looks to be the first real message from the kidnappers. >> the overwhelming irony of the patty hearst kidnapping is that the most marginal of groups manages to pull off what is, after watergate, the biggest media spectacle of the decade. >> the kidnappers are members of a terrorist group that calls themselves the symbionese liberation army. >> it calls on them to unite into a fighting force. with the demands of the sla, death to the fascist insect that preys on the life of the people. >> we love you, patty, and we're all praying for you. i know those people. they have good ideals. they're just going about them the

that that set of the spanish-american war, you give the endorsement a wonderful book how william randolph hearst and teddy roosevelt sent america into the war if they wanted to or not. i read the book and they could not stop thinking about the invasion of iraq and other instances where there is intelligence are some people want to take as pretext at the time is it is not mind that look the battleship for the spanish but now it is thought the problem was they put the ammunition to close to the boilers to read that is what the navy determined maybe 70 years later. >> a little too late to undo the war. and that is enclosing the barn door. >> but some people seem to know it because then thomas's book to talk about and have girl who took his battleship to create more separation between the munitions he thought maybe that was the cause? >> rabil just point out with a lot of different battles this says a chronological sequence and the war of we're talking about is one of the most obscure to many americans although it seems all of the of wars are faded into a black hole of american history. in this span

of people who did defy the convention of the day where race was concern, and one was william randolph hearst, the man known for yellow journalism, his paper was the only paper in new york city that called it a disgusting outrage. so -- but these people were in the minority. >> host: to come back, we won't beat up on "times" too much today. but there is an arc worth noting, but just to echo what pamela just describes, "the new york times," somewhat on the defensive, editorializes just a few days later in the midst of the initial outrage, and the quote here from the editorial is: pygmies are very low in the human scale and the suggestion that benga should be in a school instead of a cage ignores the high probability that school would be a place of torture to him. the idea that men are all much alike, except as they have had or lacked opportunity to for getting an education is now far out of date. let's just pause on that for a moment. >> guest: stick with that. >> host: because we live in the midst where, for several years now, we have had ongoing critiques of the war on drugs and mass incarce

with time on his hands joe would phone the second wife of william randolph hearst a sometime war correspondent she kept an apartment at the exclusive london hotel and piaster to pass a message to his father i'm about to go into my act if i don't come back tell my dad despite our differences and love him very much. like so many others and it is moving and touching it also perplexing despite our differences. what did he mean? it sounds like a statement of the son who had fallen out but nothing of that kind happened before he joined the navy he would toe the isolationist and there is no argument over that and while the father wanted to secure him an appointment he did not protest when he became a naval aviation cadet although he recognized the dangers joe sr. put his wings on the uniform did that express resentment? or the feeling never put into words the ex embassador relentless public defeat in what seemed heroism and sacrifice and democracy that forced him into risking his life? at 1500 the and in rare at the first mission of that special aviation unit would gather to serve as their briefing s

never a good idea to fight the media, and as randolph hearst said, don't go at someone with endless ink or record ratings. >> how much, carl, did they actually debate the issues? >> there were a couple of really substantive exchanges and heated, too. both of them featured new jersey governor kit chris christie. he battleed with rand paul over the patriot act. then he mixed it up big-time with mike huckabee. christie would essentially reform social security by raising the eligibility age and means testing. mike huckabee says that's theft. watch. >> he's not lying. just wrong. i'm the only guy on the stage who put out a detailed 12-point plan on entitlement reform. >> nobody in this country is on social security because they made the decision when they were starting, who at 14 they wanted to trust some of their money with the government. >> whole bunch of candidates today are in georgia for the big red state conference which starts tonight and in new hampshire today, jeb bush stopped off at a lobster house in new hampshire and he is campaigning there, and frankly was asked a number of tim

endorsement from evan thomas who wrote just a wonderful book called "the war lovers" about how william randolph hearst and teddy roosevelt pretty much sent america into that war whether they wanted to or not -- >> and many did not. >> yes. well, right. and i read that book, and when i read that book, i couldn't stop thinking about the invasion of iraq. and i couldn't stop thinking about other instances where there have been, there's been intelligence that's been wrong, or there have been some people who wanted to take things as pretext. the interesting thing about the battleship maine was at the time they said it had been a mine that had blown up the battleship, and it was probably spanish. and it's pretty much thought now that the problem was that they put their ammunition too close to their boiler, right? >> that's what the navy determined after many, probably 70 years later. >> right. 70 years later. a little too late to undo the war. >> right. [laughter] >> and -- >> the horse closing the barn door after the horse is out, i believe. >> what's interesting is that some people at the time seemed to k