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For Immediate
Release
9/14/06
CONTACT:
PA
Senate Republican Communications
(717) 787-6725
Acclaimed Historian & Best-Selling Author Michael
Beschloss to Be Keynote Speaker at State Capitol Rededication Ceremony
HARRISBURG -- Award-winning
historian and best-selling author Michael Beschloss will be the keynote
speaker for the State Capitol Rededication Ceremony in Harrisburg on Wednesday,
October 4 at noon.
Newsweek has called Beschloss "the nation's leading Presidential
historian." His book The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the
Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 was a New York Times
best-seller and the top history book in America in 2002. He was
appointed NBC News Presidential Historian, the first person with that
title at NBC, and makes regular appearances on "Meet the Press,"
"Today," "Imus in the Morning" and PBS's "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
A
Harvard graduate and former historian at the Smithsonian Institution,
Oxford University, and the Annenberg Foundation, Beschloss won a 2005
Emmy Award for his work as host of the Discovery Channel series
"Decisions That Shook the World." He is a trustee of the White House
Historical Association, the National Archives Foundation, and the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation (Monticello).
The
Rededication Ceremony will be the culmination of a five-day Centennial
Days celebration at the Capitol. State officials and other dignitaries
will be in attendance. A reenactor depicting President Theodore
Roosevelt will be on hand. Roosevelt famously declared upon the
Capitol's dedication in 1906, "It's the handsomest building I ever saw."
Other
scheduled events include:
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Pennsylvania's Treasures Parade in downtown Harrisburg with
former Philadelphia Eagle and broadcaster Vince Papale as
Grand Marshal (11 a.m., Sat., Sept. 30);
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Kids Expo and Treasure Hunt at the Capitol (noon to 3
p.m., Sun., Oct. 1);
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Ecumenical Church Service of Rededication at Grace United
Methodist Church, 216 State Street (3:30 p.m., Sun., Oct. 1);
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Pennsylvania Politics Symposium in the House Chamber (7 p.m.,
Mon., Oct. 2);
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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the newly constructed Rare
Collections Library housed in the State Library of Pennsylvania (10
a.m., Tue., Oct. 3);
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Centennial Gala at the state Capitol (6 to 9 p.m., Wed.,
Oct. 4).
For
up-to-date information on the Centennial Days celebration or details
about visiting the Capitol, go to
www.pacapitol.com.
The
events are sponsored by the bipartisan Pennsylvania Capitol Centennial
Commission, chaired by Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll, Senate
President Pro Tempore Robert C. Jubelirer and Speaker of the House of
Representatives John M. Perzel.
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