Morris Illinois Blizzard of 2011
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2015 Constitution Day Debate - Morris Library
The SIU Debate Team debates the 5th Amendment as it pertains to the practices of civil asset forfeiture and indefinite detention by law enforcement officials.
Host: Todd Graham
Affirmative Debater: Bobby Swetz
Negative Debater: Arielle Stephenson
Dawg Pound: Ben Reid, Zach Schneider
Pushing the Limits: Freedom and the First Amendment part 1 of 3
Morris Library, U.S. Constitution Day Celebration
Southern Illinois University
Debaters: Mike Selk, Ben Campbell
Debate Team Coach: Todd Graham
Video production: Gregory Wend and Kyle Formella
Newt Gingrich & Steven J. Israel: 2016 National Book Festival
Newt Gingrich presents Duplicity and Steven J. Israel presents The Global War on Morris in a discussion about their careers as writers with political backgrounds at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Newt Gingrich is a former U.S. Speaker of the House and the best-selling author of more than 25 books. Currently, he is a contributor to Fox News, a senior advisor for Dentons law firm and a senior scientist at Gallup. Gingrich's nonfiction books include Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate, A Nation Like No Other: Why American Exceptionalism Matters, Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny and Lessons Learned the Hard Way. His fiction books include Gettysburg, Grant Comes East and Pearl Harbor. Gingrich's most recent novel, Duplicity , is a thriller which blends Washington, D.C. political intrigue and international terrorism. He lives with his wife, Callista, in Virginia.
Speaker Biography: Steven J. Israel is the United States Representative for the third congressional district of New York. He has served in the United States Congress since 2001, is a member of the Democratic Party and was head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee until November 2014. Israel is also an author and has published Charge! History's Greatest Military Speeches. In his new political satire novel, The Global War on Morris , pharmaceutical salesman Morris Feldstein charges a non-business expense to his company credit card and a top-secret government surveillance program supercomputer known as NICK starts stringing together pieces of Morris' life to make him the government's public enemy number one. Israel lives in New York.
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James McGrath Morris: 2010 National Book Festival
Author James McGrath Morris presents at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: James McGrath Morris spent five years working on his latest work, Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power (HarperCollins). His previous book, The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism, was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year for 2004 and was optioned as a film and released as an audio book. Morris is also the author of Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars, which told the story of the extraordinary inmates in American prisons who published their own newspapers. Aside from books, his writing has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, The New York Observer, The Progressive, Civilization and The Wilson Quarterly. He is also the editor of the monthly Biographer's Craft and one of the founding members of the Biographers International Organization. Morris lives in New Mexico.
President Clinton's Remarks at Robert Morris College (1996)
This is video footage of President William Jefferson Clinton delivering remarks at Robert Morris College. This footage is official public record produced by the White House Television (WHTV) crew, provided by the Clinton Presidential Library.
Date: September 25, 1996
Location: Robert Morris College. Corapolis, Pennsylvania
Access Restriction(s): unrestricted
Use Restrictions(s): unrestricted
Camera: White House Television (WHTV) / Main
Local Identifiers: MT06053, MT06054
This material is public domain, as it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person's official duties. Any usage must receive the credit Courtesy; William J. Clinton Presidential Library, and no exclusive rights or permissions are granted for usage.
An Absorbing Biography of an Extraordinarily Gifted Literary Man and Raconteur (2006)
William Weaks Willie Morris (November 29, 1934 – August 2, 1999), was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his family later moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, which he immortalized in his works of prose. About the book:
Morris' trademark was his lyrical prose style and reflections on the American South, particularly the Mississippi Delta. In 1967 he became the youngest editor of Harper's Magazine. He wrote several works of fiction and non-fiction, including his seminal book North Toward Home, as well as My Dog Skip.
Since 2007, Reba White Williams and Dave H. Williams have sponsored the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. The award is given to a novel set in one of the original eleven Confederate States of America that reflects the spirit of Morris’s work, and stands out for the quality of its prose, its originality, its sense of place and period, and the appeal of its characters.
An independent panel of judges votes on the award from books submitted for consideration. Recipients of the award to date:
2007: The King of Colored Town by Darryl Wimberley 2008: City of Refuge by Tom Piazza 2009: Secret Keepers by Mindy Friddle 2010: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin 2011: If Jack’s In Love by Stephen Wetta 2012: A Short Time to Stay Here by Terry Roberts 2013: Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer 2014: Long Man by Amy Greene.
In 1980, Morris returned to his native state to be writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi where he encouraged a new generation of Mississippi writers including John Grisham, who acknowledged auditing Morris's writing classes. One of Morris' books, Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood was made into a TV movie for Public Television by Disney and PBS Wonderworks and later re-titled The River Pirates in 1988 not far from where Morris lived. It starred Richard Farnsworth, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dixie Wade, Ryan Francis, Caryn West and Richard E. Council. In 2000, My Dog Skip, another of Morris' books and an unofficial prequel to the earlier film, was made into a major motion picture starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson and Kevin Bacon. (Morris had previously written for Reader's Digest a profile of his dog 'Pete,' whom he had adopted while living in Bridgehampton, New York. When Morris left Bridgehampton, he took Pete, who had formerly belonged to the owner of a local service station and whom Willie referred to as 'the Mayor of Bridgehampton,' back to Mississippi with him. Later, after Pete's death, Morris requested and received permission from the Episcopal church for a burial of Pete within the same cemetery where Morris himself would later be buried.) Morris died of a heart attack just before the movie debuted, after seeing an advance screening of the film and praising it.
Willie Morris is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Yazoo City, close to the grave of the fictitious Witch of Yazoo, a character from one of Morris' books, Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood. In life he counted among his friends a wide circle, including Yazoo City childhood friends, well-known writers like Winston Groom (Forrest Gump'), William Styron (Sophie's Choice), John Knowles (A Separate Peace), James Dickey (Deliverance) and Irwin Shaw (Rich Man, Poor Man), as well as students in his writing classes in Oxford. He was known as an unerring mimic with a warm sense of humor and a sense of the absurd.
Morris helped two Mississippi residents by giving them a second chance at sight by being an eye donor.
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Satellite Feed From Capitol to Chicago
Senator via Satellite feed from Capitol to Carol Mosely-Braun fundraiser in Chicago : Paul Simon, Chuck Robb, Jocelyn Burdick, Paul Wellstone, Alan Cranston, George Mitchell, Howard Metzenbaum, Jim Exon, Carl Levin, Bill Bradely, Jay Rockefeller, and Tom Harkin
October 6, 1992
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Illinois During the Civil War, 1861-1865: Illinois, Native Americans and the Civil War
This video concerning the topic of Illinois, Native Americans and the Civil War, comes from the Illinois During the Civil War, 1861-1865 website ( which is a creation of Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digital Initiatives Unit: The Illinois During the Civil War site presents primary source material illuminating society and politics in wartime Illinois. Although no battles took place in Illinois, the state's residents still shaped the Civil War's course and felt its effects. The site includes letters, diaries, and reminiscences of union soldiers, as well as other materials from the home front.
Please see the following page for the full text featured in this video:
Senate Floor Statement
Senate Floor Statement - Government Sponsored Enterprise Reporting Amendment
Senator Paul Simon
May 6, 1993
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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How the Media Covered the JFK Assassination: Reports on the Events in Dallas, Texas (2003)
The assassination evoked stunned reactions worldwide. Before the President's death was announced, the first hour after the shooting was a time of great confusion. More on the assassination:
Taking place during the Cold War, it was at first unclear whether the shooting might be part of a larger attack upon the U.S., and whether Vice-President Lyndon Johnson, who had been riding two cars behind in the motorcade, was safe.
The news shocked the nation. People wept openly and gathered in department stores to watch the television coverage, while others prayed. Traffic in some areas came to a halt as the news spread from car to car.[165] Schools across the U.S. dismissed their students early.[166] Anger against Texas and Texans was reported from some individuals. Various Cleveland Browns fans, for example, carried signs at the next Sunday's home game against the Dallas Cowboys decrying the city of Dallas as having killed the President.[167][168]
The event left a lasting impression on many Americans. As with the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor before it and the September 11, 2001 attacks after it, asking Where were you when you heard about President Kennedy's assassination would become a common topic of discussion.
The plane serving as Air Force One is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, where tours of the aircraft are offered including the rear of the aircraft where President Kennedy's casket was placed and the location where Mrs. Kennedy stood in her blood stained pink dress while Vice-President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president. The 1961 Lincoln Continental limousine is at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.[172]
Equipment from the trauma room at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where President Kennedy was pronounced dead, including a gurney, was purchased by the federal government from the hospital in 1973 and stored by the National Archives at an underground facility in Lenexa, Kansas. The First Lady's pink suit, the autopsy report, the X-rays, President Kennedy's jacket, shirt and tie are stored in the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland, and access is controlled by a representative of the Kennedy family. The rifle used by Oswald, his diary, revolver, bullet fragments, and the windshield of Kennedy's limousine are also stored by the Archives.[172] The Lincoln Catafalque, which President Kennedy's coffin rested on while he lay in state in the Capitol, is on display at the United States Capitol Visitor Center.[173]
The three-acre park within Dealey Plaza, the buildings facing it, the overpass, and a portion of the adjacent railyard -- including the railroad switching tower -- were designated part of the Dealey Plaza Historic District by the National Park Service on October 12, 1993. Much of the area is accessible to visitors, including the park and grassy knoll. Though still an active city street, the approximate spot where the presidential limousine was located at the time of the shooting is marked with an X on the street.[174] The Texas School Book Depository now draws over 325,000 visitors each year to the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza operated by the Dallas County Historical Foundation. There is a re-creation of the sniper's nest on the sixth floor of the building.[175]
At the Historic Auto Attractions museum in Roscoe, Illinois, are permanently displayed items related to the assassination such as the catalogue Oswald used to order the rifle, a hat and jacket that belonged to Jack Ruby and the shoes he wore when he shot Oswald, and a window from the Texas School Book Depository. The Texas State Archives have the clothes Governor Connally wore on November 22, 1963.
Some items were intentionally destroyed by the U.S. government at the direction of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, such as the casket used to transport President Kennedy's body aboard Air Force One from Dallas to Washington, which was dropped by the Air Force into the sea as its public display would be extremely offensive and contrary to public policy.[176] Other items such as the hat worn by Jack Ruby the day he shot Lee Harvey Oswald and the toe tag on Oswald's corpse are in the hands of private collectors and have sold for tens of thousands of dollars at auctions.[172]
Jack Ruby's gun, owned by his brother Earl Ruby, was sold by the Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions in New York City on December 26, 1991, for $220,000.
Senate Floor Balanced Budget Amendment Part 2
Senate Floor Balanced Budget Amendment Part 2
March 1, 1994
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Senate Floor Statement: School To Work
Senator Paul Simon Senate Floor Statement - School To Work
February 7, 1994
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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PALS Delivery Snapshot
Snapshot of the Prairie Area Library System's delivery services, with just a few of our member libraries reporting what they received. PALS is one of 9 regional library systems in Illinois.
Also see Manteno High School's video clip about PALS delivery:
Oral History Interview with Clark Waterfall, WWII Veteran
Waterfall served with the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army in the Medical Detachment, Military Gov't, 3rd Army. He served at bases in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. He served with the Civil German Veterinary Corps in Frankfort Germany, Munich Germany and in Bavaria during World War II. He served from 1944 to 1945.
Looking Backward: 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy (MPL Book Trailer #405)
Mooresville Public Library (Mooresville, Indiana) presents a book trailer featuring the Utopian novel, Looking Backward: 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy.
Ghosts of Highway 20 - COMPLETE SERIES
Episodes 1-5 of the Ghosts of Highway 20 series as one long video.
For the individual episodes, see this playlist:
Read the series at The Oregonian/OregonLive: oregonlive.com/ghostsofhighway20
Beginning in the late 1970s, a sinister presence cast a shadow over an isolated part of central Oregon. It lurked in the background, ignored or unnoticed. Women, often vulnerable or marginalized, were disappearing.
These are the stories of the ghosts of Highway 20.
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The Oriental Institute turns 100: #oi100
#oi100: The #UChicago Oriental Institute turns 100 years old in 2019.
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The Oriental Institute (OI) was founded at the University of Chicago in 1919 by James Henry Breasted with a radical idea. He insisted that who we are—how we live as humans together—began not in Greece or Rome, but rather in the complex civilizations that emerged in an area of the ancient Middle East that he vividly named “The Fertile Crescent.” Breasted was appointed as faculty in 1894 by William R. Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago, and received financial support and encouragement from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for the founding of the OI. The OI is one of the world’s leading centers for the study of ancient Middle Eastern civilizations, combining innovation in theory, methodology, and significant empirical discovery with the highest standards of rigorous scholarship. The OI Museum was opened to the public in 1931 and houses the largest collection of artifacts from the ancient Middle East in the United States, including more than 350,000 artifacts with roughly 5,000 on display. The majority of the collections come from the OI's expeditions in the Middle East during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. For more information visit oi100.uchicago.edu.
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Faith in Action DC: Tod Ewing, Washington DC Bahá'í Community
An interview with Tod Ewing, member of the local administrative body of the Bahá'ís of Washington DC on the spiritual dimensions of racial reconciliation.