The John Batchelor Show John Batchelor

GOOD EVENING: The show begins in NY City Hall, where the mayor weathers several investigations. To California beaches in the 1960s to remember The Beach Boys. To Asheville, to Fort Lauderdale, to NYC, to Orlando, to confer with small business associations. To Los Angeles, home of Robert F. Kennedy the candidate, to Lancaster County, PA, and EV watching. To SpaceX as a magical work environment--hurry, hurry. To 1874 New Orleans and tragedy. To Milan, Italy, to Rome and Giorgia Meloni.

Genoa

#IRAN: The Mullahs and the campus antisemitism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-allege-bidens-iran-envoy-kept-classified-material-on-personal-email-cellphone-that-were-hacked/ar-BB1m2KCa

1924 Persia

#IRAN: The mystery of Robert Malley. Benham ben Taleblu, FDD
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-allege-bidens-iran-envoy-kept-classified-material-on-personal-email-cellphone-that-were-hacked/ar-BB1m2KCa

1925 Iran/Persia

#ITALY: PM Georgia Meloni gets high marks prior to the G7. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation.

https://www.courthousenews.com/with-european-elections-far-right-italian-pm-meloni-could-become-kingmaker-in-brussels/


1940 Genoa

#CA: The Kennedys and California. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
https://www.hoover.org/research/will-rfk-jr-hold-sway-california

1963 JFK

4/4: Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War by  Robert Cwiklik  (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Sheridans-Secret-Mission-South-After/dp/0062950649/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
In late 1874, nearly ten years after the Civil War, former slaves, or freedmen, found themselves under siege in the South by violent paramilitary groups like the White League, intent on erasing their newly won voting rights and other postwar gains and consigning them to a condition little better than slavery. President Ulysses S. Grant, vowing to enforce, “with rigor,” laws protecting the rights of former slaves, asked General Philip H. Sheridan to visit New Orleans and other Southern trouble spots to investigate the freedmen’s plight, all while pretending to be on vacation. Sheridan’s Secret Mission recounts the feisty Union war hero’s Southern sojourn amid tragic episodes of racial terror that ultimately fueled the overthrow of Reconstruction-era protections for black rights.

Sheridan made a splash on his arrival in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, accompanied by family and friends and proclaiming they were sightseers bound for Cuba. But a few days later, through trickery and force, Democrats seized control of the nearby state House of Representatives, apparently assisted by White League operatives, although the state’s majority black electorate had arguably put Republicans, the party of Lincoln and the freeing of the slaves, in control of the legislature.

Federal soldiers stationed nearby ushered several Democrats out of the House chamber, and Sheridan publicly denounced the “spirit of defiance to all lawful authority” in Louisiana. He threatened to round up White League leaders to face trial before military tribunals. In years past, Northerners might have rallied to support the Union hero. But the public was weary of war issues. Many Northern newspapers condemned Sheridan’s actions and deplored the appearance of federal bayonets in a sovereign state legislature. Some called for Grant’s impeachment.

The controversial clash in the Louisiana legislature lies at the heart of this revelatory new narrative history. Sheridan’s Secret Mission illuminates the bitter career of racial oppression in the United States and resonates powerfully with our contemporary “post-racial” condition.

1879 New Orleans