Center in 2001. This Brooklyn Historical Society Program is about an hour. Welcome, everybody. It is so great to see the room full like this. Im marcia eli, Vice President of programs at the Brooklyn Historical society. And we are really, really excited about tonights program. I just wanted to say very quickly that if you are not familiar with Brooklyn Historical society, it was founded, we were founded 151 years ago. And it was the middle of the civil war. And a group of prominent brooklynites realize they were witnessing history. And decided to take it upon themselves to found this organization in order to steward that history. And this building actually was built as the Historical Society and opened in 1881. When it opened, like we have here tonight, it was a place of civic dialogue. In fact, back then this very room had an auditorium and thought leaders came here and spoke. Right here where we were standing, president Woodrow Wilson spoke. Dr. Arthur conan doyle spoke. Senator Henr
In the waco area for very long. They were itinerant farm laborers, but it was not only Jesse Washington himself, 17 and mentally challenged, who was plowing the fields and working for them, but it was also his parents who lived in a little shack on their property with some other children. I think there was a younger brother, a teenager, and they were all doing some kind of work. She was found at the door to the seed barn with her head bashed in. It looked like she had been hit over the head really hard several times, and her clothes were somewhat disheveled, also. Of course, they called the investigating officers immediately, and they looked around and noticed Jesse Washington had been nearby all afternoon plowing a field, while the kids and mr. Fryer were off farther away from the house. And so they grabbed him. And one example that might demonstrate the fact that he was mentally challenged is that he was upset at first when he was arrested. But then he just went to sleep in the back
Minding my own business and teaching a course here in georgetown. Its good to see my students here in the front row. I think that the president asked me to do this with other complex projects and most recently when we did the recovery act in the first two years of the administration. He said to try to coordinate. We have every single federal Agency Working on some element of fighting ebola here at home or overseas. For me, i have been able to climb the learning curve and sylvia burr well at hhs. My objective is to make sure they are workinging to and we are reallocating resources and getting decisions quickly from the president and making the difficult spoiss that need to be made. The thing that has been surprising me, but humbling to me is the vast array of people who are acting to fight this disease every single day. We are sitting here today and my favorite spots on planet earth and there hundreds of volunteer workers in Community Care centers and liberia and sierra leone who take v
Prepared what he was going to say. After i listened i said christopher i dont need to say anything but just say what you just told me and it will be the greatest tribute that you could ever give to your father. Brothers and sisters i want you to stand on your feet and receive Marion Christopher barry who, in turn after he speaks will introduce the honorable minister. Good morning. Good morning. First off, i want to give honor to god. He is the planner and doer of all things. Through his plan there is no imperfections and no faults and no mistakes. I want to thank the community. I want to thank everybody that has been praying for our family everybody that has lifted us up in prayer. I can truly feel the prayers and it has helped me through this hard time. It has empowered me. I feel the embracement. These past few days have been a wonderful tribute. Everything has been appropriate. Everything has been fitting. I want to thank personally my step mother. Without her her vision none of thi
So we specialize in only north korea. We do it daytoday, which is in the slow summer days of august can be very, very difficult. You know, we are really struggling sometimes to find leads for stories to do something original and its those times when personally it does get to you and you just wish this could be a bit more of a normal country and access and get in and interview various people and find leads for content. Thats something that troubles me a lot. And its something in the long term if we cant resolve well, i think, drive good journalists away from the subject because they will just find to it be such a challenge to continue working on. The other thing which has been alluded to is we have an issue, a difficulty with reports from north korea that its quite unique to international relations. So we often hire south korean nationals, be they interns or staffers in seoul and we actually have a problem with quite a high turn over rate with these people because oftentimes they will a