a copy of the original tradition of rembrandt. here you see the two paintings together which makes a subtle variations evident. the angle of the head and more controlled and refined manner of the brush work and copy on the left suggest that these paintings are probably not by the same hand. we now have scientific evidence which further suggest that the morris picture is a studio copy perhaps by the talented artist gart who is rembrandt s first people. you may remember he allegiance of honor in the summer of 2011. the reason why they think it s other than rembrandt because of the discovery of infrared that there is a sketchy black charcoal beneath the painted layers. under drawing is not characteristic of rembrandt s work. i m not saying it definitely isn t by rembrandt, or it is by rembrandt. this am biguity is scientist have given us more information about what is going on behind-the-scenes but we don t know for sure that rembrandt didn t paint the picture. as i said it was unlikely and unusual for rembrandt to do any drawings under compositions but as was pointed out to me, it also could have been rembrandt s way of saying i can do this, and i can make a portrait that looks like this. so at this time we simply don t know. this exceptional portrait from 1632 literally illuminates this amsterdam leading portraits only having established the year before. realm rembrandt s with striking 3-dimensional and this particular style was well suited for the requirement of his prosperous clientele. this portrait is in exceptional condition and one rembrandt employed through his constant work. paint passages in this composition vary from paso to diligent. you may wish to visit at the allegiance of honor where he s currently on view in gallery 14. for our portrait was painted when the artist was only 26. this portrait of an elderly man was completed in 1627. where as the quality of some artist work declines noticeable towards the end of their lives. rembrandt s late composition is characterize by pictorial eloquence. throughout his career he refined his brush work lend ing his numerous work. here we see the dynamic and right original approach to the dutch masters and one of the favored personality. a praise from 1631 on the left and susanna from 1636 on the right. here his technique, the emotional power of his compositions, and the dramatic plays of light and shadow takes center stage. these are but a few key elements that describe rembrandt exceptional command of paint and canvas. promise you i will tell you more about troenie. it s from 1635 also by rembrandt, a different category. these were not intended as likeness as people. they are called troenis. they were intended studies of certain facial expressions or figure types. sometimes artist used their own faces as rembrandt was particularly fond of doing. their rich detail develops a character within a single frame and contributing to this popularity of genre. the most famous troenie is the girl with the pearl earring which i will discuss next and now painting you have all been waiting for, please don t get up and leave after i talk about her. the enigmatic girl with the pearl earring. the girl who is idealized and brightly lit phase is unknown. her exotic attire lends the picture an aura of tranquility. like leonardo davinci monalisa as the most famous painting in the world. while the girl s face is modeled with invisible brush strokes, her clothing are much more expressively painted. small subtle reflexes of life ven compass the compositions and her eyes and lower lips and her famous pearls. her ultra marine pigment, la paz lapis lazuli in a wet mixed with paint. broad thick brush work where her jacket is more rendered. a paint which applied over a dark background has darkened considerably with age. at the time the painting was stable but it s appearance was far from ideal. the tinted varnish yellowed with age and created an uneven effect. these products of previous restorations were removed without damageing the original paint and the thin layer of varnish was added. retouching was executed. today the masterly reflections of light are once again revealed. the final gallery of exhibition is devoted to genre paintings that seem to be taken from everyday life. their subject matter ranges broadly from rustic folk, to elegant men and women in sumptuous interiors. it s interesting to point out that this painting hangs next to the girl with the pearl earring. these were viewed as realistic depiction. now many genre contain deeper meanings with virtuous and chased lives. sometimes the moralizing message are conveyed explicitly. as the oyster eater circa 1658 and the girl 1662 on the right. both compositions are lighthearted warnings about the danger of love and seduction. paintings such as live scenes of households. the painting. twitter the young is a satirical and emily pointed out the translate from this music here and a literal transition which might have a reference to the bagpipe here and also what i will talk about? just a moment. never one to miss an opportunity for a devilish inside joke. here health and safety he is as a father teaching his young child to smoke. that takes on a different meaning. not every detail of a genre painting contains a different meaning. many probably intended colorful scenes from 1673 cheerful assortment of amusement. 1660 which we see here was mainly concerned with using sublime techniques to show these in a setting in a most pleasing way possible. this violin player from 1626 had very little to do with everyday life. the dutch paintings still have on us today. the fine arts museum of san francisco are delighted to exhibit these treasures which opens to the public today january 26 in golden gate park. thank you very much. are we taking questions individually or are we waiting until the very end? it looks like there are some questions. so unless someone tells me not to answer, i will start doing so. there is one in the cap. so the question is about whether or not the first turnie that i showed did rembrandt use his own facial features? quite possibly. that s been discussed in some literature that could be rembrandt using his own features. one thing to remember about troenie, they are not supposed to be of anyone person. their figure types. that s important to remember about the girl with the pearl earring. many have seen the film the girl with the pearl earning from a novel. it s a fiction. in that book and in the movie, the idea is a he was inspired by his maid to paint this picture and she s actually the model who possess for the girl with the pearl earrings. people would say, i m here to see the portrait where do i find it. they said we don t have it. what are they talking about and they took this literally and this was the maid. not true. it s one of those romantic stories, but just make the mystery more interesting but not a specific portrait of a person. there is a question on the aisle here? the question about whether the girl with the pearl earring was commissioned and the answer is we don t know. it did come out of rembrandt studio and another layer to the mystery in the story is we didn t know where she was for about 200 years. she resurfaces at an auction where the historian realizes this was a pretty good picture and decided they wouldn t bid against each other. it sold for 2 guilders and which is basically a dollar. the painting was yellow with age but still in pretty good condition. where was she for 200 years. okay. i will cheat and i will go backwards but i will keep moving across the auditorium. in our excision the smallest picture is the picture of an oyster eater. the girl eating oysters. it across from the picture. it s also by yan stain as the old twitter of the young. that picture of the 17th century weren t exclusive small but they tend to be smaller than typical pictures of the time and that had to do with their intended setting. many were intended for small places, much more intimate scale. now we are in the middle of the auditorium. that is a great question and i can remember two. i have got four out of the 5. the church interior, the catholic church that was not in japan and the self portrait of the artist and i have been trying to remember the 5th one but i can t. sorry about that. [inaudible] yes. i actually googled that the other day and one of my colleagues maybe can say why the names are spelled differently. i know that van roy who actually create d his own name. i think it was after a building. it was kind of a fabricated nome do plume if you will. but i don t know why they are spelled differently. jaca was the nephew. i don t know the answer. my colleagues are shaking their heads so that makes me feel better. the obscure a, it been a very popular question about all the lectures that i have given about this exhibition. the camera, is two different kind of ways of understanding the world around you using lenses so to translate what you are seeing onto a page that you are drawing from or on the a canvas that you are painting. we don t know for sure and this is coming verdict sher since it was shadow and optical effects, it almost goes without saying he was an aware of camera obscure abut whether or not he auto it, i m not sure. the book, which is called secret not knowledge, in this book he postulates that many of the obscure a bare compositions. it s an interesting question but want to be really careful about how i talk about it because we don t know for sure that he used a camera obscure a there is some interesting research that s been discussed recently that can kind of fill them with a technical gap which is whether or not he used a model. if you look at the composition of the girl with the pearl earring and study the spatial layout and the light effects, it s plausible that he was using an actual model and he wasn t just basing the model off his own imagination but we don t know for sure if he did use the camera obscure a. long answer. any other questions? one in the front. the question is about vermier s paintings. this is the only in the exhibition. at the moment, i don t know if it s an arrived at the getty yet. there are no vermier s paintings in california. there will also be a vermier in amsterdam at the getty museum in los angeles. i think it opens around february 14th. there will be two in california which is exciting. we only know about 34-36 vermier paintings in the world it s a small number. there is a little group at the metropolitan museum and also some regional museums in holland. the morris house has 3, girl with the pearl earring and the view of they are scattered afford around but there is only a few around. i should probably wrap up. so the question is about the morris house and it s collection and there is some really interesting commentary in the catalog. it a lovely book and i would encourage to you look at that and there is a nice history about the the collection. like i said, it was really the bulk of it was formed by the stockholders. it not the collection of the royal family which is why they tend to use the morris house but the formal name is morris house. i think where the paintings were stolen by napoleon and there is interesting history of pictures moving back and forth but the paintings were form by the stockholders and they have acquire them and two of the most recent acquisitions were the in the seen and rembrandt portrait of an old man acquired in 1999. there were a lot of donors that contributed to that. thank you for your time, if there are any more questions maybe we can stretch our legs hello. welcome to culturewire. we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. let s look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. [inaudible] the flower of industry. it is like a compass. there s an arrow pointing north. within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. let s talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there s a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. what is this bird here? that is the california quail. coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. there it is. there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. what are your hopes for it? that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching culturewire. hi. i am cory with san francisco and we re doing stay safe and we re going to talk about what shelter in place or safe enough to stay in your home means. we re here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco and joined by
department in the fine arts museum of san francisco for an allowing me to speak today. valuable artwork rene, director of public programs and last on this list but certainly not least gregory stock who is a programming wizard. i m so grateful for their individual and collective support. i would also like to thank the production manager who is behind-the-scenes somewhere. he s waving. our production manager consistently provide patient and reliable technical support which is beyond value when lecturing to large audiences like those of you gathered today. without further a do, i m honored to share with you today paintings that comprise the exhibition here at the museum. girl with a pearl earring, from january 26-june 2nd the museum will be the first venue in the american tour of paintings from the royal picture gallery which is located in haik. how many have individual painting in the normal home? a good number of you. this unique museum is often called the jouleewelry box. it has the world s most prestigious paintings from the morris house which toured in 1982, it visited chicago, new york and los angeles. this has been several years in the making . there were approximately 48 paintings in tokyo and both of those about dutch an paintings. 30 paintings in this exhibition were in japan and 5 paintings that came to us specifically in san francisco. two of them fresh out of the conservation lab so they are being revealed in their full glory to our visitors in san francisco. an expansion in the mars house which is currently under way makes this opportunity possible. the girl with the pearl earring here in san francisco feet atures 35 paintings characteristic during the dutch golden age. after the exhibition closes in san francisco it will travel to the museum in atlanta and it will go to a collection in new york. perhaps the most famous of the works that has traveled to the united states is a celebrated masterpiece girl with the pearl earring. it is this painting. we set our scene in holland during the dutch golden age this span of the 17th century where trade, industry and science were among the world. the one small port of amsterdam were one of the commercial centers in the entire world. this concentration of capital enriched bankers and merchants but also created the society in europe. the arch of the dutch golden age. 17th century travelers visiting holland remarked on the number of artist. typically western european artist on the monarch and the nobility as well as the very wealthie catholic church. an open market to a wide clientele that arranged from variety of merchants. it displays a modern domestic rather than extravagant or royal setting which it was carried. emily who is the director of the morris house. the expansion which i will talk about in an a little bit will give it more space. for the collection there is a limited pictures they can acquire but too large for the building. so where do the paintings come from? how can they be there. this is an exceptional and remarkable museum. this splendid 17th century city palace was constructed between 1633-1634 next to the dutch government. i was told the prime ministers office was still there. it was named for the building s first occupant. the countel elevated to prince and appoint commander and chief in the states army in 1668. the dutch they purchased an outstanding example of this architecture in 1820 to have the royal cabinet of painting and curiosity. this collection rich history is the stockholders in 1822. it s official name, royal picture gallery morris house. today the morris house collection focuses on the best 17th century paintings from the northern and southern netherlands, the works of world renounced artist, all of which are in this exhibition. it also exhibits work of superb examples of this age. the collection makes the morris house a rare and precious place. truly the gem of dutch mucous. it s similar to our allegiance of honor in san francisco, they too like we have 850 paintings in their permanent collection and display about 250 at any time which is a recollect legs of any of our buildings which i like to think of the jew el in the city of san francisco. the historic 17th century palace has limited his ability to expand. so works from his permanent collection have moved to a common and incompetent competent missionary program. the vacant build across the street from the morris home is a building with an underground link. when the project is complete, the museum will be twice as large, modern and up to date visitor facilities will include new space for educational program. auditorium, a shop and cafe, and new exhibition galleries. the elegant design for this substantial expansion will be calibrated for the atmosphere of the morris house. this due to reopen in mid 2014. we were told they are definitely on schedule to reopen in 2014. if you plan to make the trip now, you can probably book your tickets safely, although don t hold me accountable for that. we have a special opportunity to enjoy a superb collection from the morris house here in san francisco. so my lecture is organized to correspond with the section headings for each gallery. the sequence in which i will discuss the paintings correspond with the layout. the first gallery exhibition is devoted to landscape paintings. dutch landscape and it s characteristic atmospheric conditions provided countless artist with rich subject matter. it s sprawling fields and ubiquitious canals with beautiful natural surroundings. the low lying horizons and cloidz at clouds that dominated the paintings. many dutch landscapes also feature the regions beautiful and prosperous cities which were sources of great pride in the 17th century artist painted close-ups. here we see his painting of the circus party 1690 which features the morris house. this looks quite similar to what you would see today although when he painted the picture, you wouldn t have this view, there were a row of buildings here, so this is a little bit of artistic license and interesting to think about because this is way the site looks today but wouldn t have looked like that in 1690 when he paint this picture. this is the gate that is still here today. this is the catholic church by manuel. this is the only type of it s exhibition. although it is an interior scene, the 17th century dutch painting which is the artist attention to the effect of life. here the artist subject is the atmosphere and play of light in an imagined catholic church. diffused light through the church. bathing interest rain shower interior with the glow and architectural space. here we see view of harlem with bleaching ground 1675. he was the leading painter of this golder age. view of harlem with bleaching ground not until the bash zone schools he painted on easels to look what was going to be translated. it s something to look at artist typically from going back to the studios and painting. another example master full approach to the landscape genre is evidenced here in landscape 1660-1670. he has captured the forest with ice, frost and snow covered ground. the virtually monochromatic scene. it s interesting to point out that 17th dutch paintings is related to the usual climactic conditions at the time. from 1850 all of western europe experienced an ice age. he painted 25 winter landscapes during the most severe period of relative cool summers and cold winters. most of europe is experience is a cold winter so she s dragging her suit case behind her to make sure she got here for the open exhibition. there are actually 2 famous dutch painters ruisdael whose paintings we just looked at. he s also represented in our exhibition of this gallery. health and safety here is his view of his painting from 1648 which is in our own collection. if we compare the two paintings, we see similarity in the cloud t low horizon line and the small scale in the figure of the boat and the small scale of the natural world and the beautiful reflection on the water. these two paintings demonstrate the very best paintings. another pioneer of this genre is january van joeg an from 1653 and this is thunderstorm from 1541 at the collection of the fine arts museum. this painting and van rios painting i showed you are in our other building in linkin park. here we see the two paintings side by side. the thunderstorm shows figure overcome by a powerful tempest where a van voin manipulates master full creations. in both compositions, the low lines emphasize the cloud which over power the skies. height ening the thunderstorms and the waves to white cap peaks. yet the distant horizon which suggest the two paintings can be a before and after pair. which they are not, but i m taking a bit of art historical period there. two superb examples wooded landscapes and cattle in the meadow in 1662. other artist went further in search of subject matter. some went to italy where the renaissance as well as the radiant southern landscape provided fruitful sources of inspiration. the mediterranean art that emanates from italian landscape circa 2045. the next version is the distinct to dutch still life paintings in the 17th century. these were painted with a light ed candle from 1627. compositions also became looser and sophisticated. and rachel s vase of flowers from the 1500s. the were in the conservation lab that were not included in the exhibition in japan and seeing for the first time here in san francisco. both of the house of lights are resemblance of the fine arts museum flowers in a silver vase by luna, which is on view. here we see all 3 flora still lights together. similarities between the 3 paintings include the watches, as well as the creepy crawlingie critters the significant number of floral still life s from this period spread the wide life. blossoms from multiple studies in different seasons. merchants and explorers brought plants from their travels including the tulip. tulip was first brought from can turkey. prompting people to spend large sums cultivating new species. today tulip is the next export. many still life paintings also contain morals references and creepy flowers and insects, time pieces and skulls. and which is seen here in the venice still life by peter from 1630. we also see very similar details between the still life with peter clay which was painted in 1629. the open pocket watches are references to the transient of life since they remind us of the passing of life. since they record perishable and paint as long as the canvas remains intact. the sublime light filters through the light and reflection on the inside of the glass as well as the optical effects of the objects that shine through the glass. while these still life paintings are filled with a variety of details, there are some still life s in the exhibition which are much more spare. such as adrian, from 1704. although much of this artist details are shrouded in history. notice how the branch and the beautifully rendered leaves catch the light on the right hand corner. it gives this piece a magical feeling as if these apricots are beyond just mere fruit. there are 67 paintings recognized by court s hand. an exhibition entirely devoted to the artist. there are about half of the known works in this exhibition and the director of the morris house remarked that she thought for herself that maybe this exhibition won t be popular because all of his tend to be the same, you have a stone slab and fruit and it was definitely popular and shows the demand of this artist skill and his paintings or so beautiful even though they are spare and he s so mysterious. an artist does not need to be a highlight of an exhibition. a competition, my favorite painting in the exhibition. this is particularly exciting since it is considered an icon of dutch 17th century paintings. created in 1654 this competition is 1 of 12 paintings which survived. he studied in rembrandt studio long with his brother. it s represent in his own collection this painting was off view and now has returned to our conservation studio. tragically, painter of the gold finch died in his early 30s. his studio was a gun powder magazine. an explosion occurred and it completely destroyed carl s studio. numerous works were lost. although his existing paintings are view, his impact on other artist cannot be overlooked. his quality for his compositions, and paired to hoek who are known for they are effects, elusionism and quite atmosphere and fluid control of paint. one interesting detail about the the condition of the painting is if you look very closely on the surface you might see that there are scattered very small dense and this painting is dated the same year as the gunpowder explosion. it s a story we can t prove but kind of a romantic story that this painting was once in a studio and perhaps they are caused by some debris during the explosion. it a story we can t prove but something to speculate about. the next section of the exhibition is devoted to portraits to figural paintings which we call chornie. i will talk about it later in my talk. the extensive production of paintings in the dutch golden age of the economic prosperity and enjoyed by the dutch republic. from all walks of life, these from their realism, diversity and exceptional quality. the examples that are on sflu view in this gallery demonstrate a wealthy information about their subject through their dress and environments. like many photographs taken today 17th century portraits were taken from weddings. from 1625 him and his wife are exceptional examples of large scale marriage portraits. other typical occasions for commissioning
rembrandt s work and you can see the two side by side. from this period, who was most famous for his self portraits. at the time, the paintings, is a copy of the original tradition of rembrandt. here you see the two paintings together which makes a subtle variations evident. the angle of the head and more controlled and refined manner of the brush work and copy on the left suggest that these paintings are probably not by the same hand. we now have scientific evidence which further suggest that the morris picture is a studio copy perhaps by the talented artist gart who is rembrandt s first people. you may remember he allegiance of honor in the summer of 2011. the reason why they think it s other than rembrandt because of the discovery of infrared that there is a sketchy black charcoal beneath the painted layers. under drawing is not characteristic of rembrandt s work. i m not saying it definitely isn t by rembrandt, or it is by rembrandt. this am biguity is scientist have given us more information about what is going on behind-the-scenes but we don t know for sure that rembrandt didn t paint the picture. as i said it was unlikely and unusual for rembrandt to do any drawings under compositions but as was pointed out to me, it also could have been rembrandt s way of saying i can do this, and i can make a portrait that looks like this. so at this time we simply don t know. this exceptional portrait from 1632 literally illuminates this amsterdam leading portraits only having established the year before. realm rembrandt s with striking 3-dimensional and this particular style was well suited for the requirement of his prosperous clientele. this portrait is in exceptional condition and one rembrandt employed through his constant work. paint passages in this composition vary from paso to diligent. you may wish to visit at the allegiance of honor where he s currently on view in gallery 14. for our portrait was painted when the artist was only 26. this portrait of an elderly man was completed in 1627. where as the quality of some artist work declines noticeable towards the end of their lives. rembrandt s late composition is characterize by pictorial eloquence. throughout his career he refined his brush work lend ing his numerous work. here we see the dynamic and right original approach to the dutch masters and one of the favored personality. a praise from 1631 on the left and susanna from 1636 on the right. here his technique, the emotional power of his compositions, and the dramatic plays of light and shadow takes center stage. these are but a few key elements that describe rembrandt exceptional command of paint and canvas. promise you i will tell you more about troenie. it s from 1635 also by rembrandt, a different category. these were not intended as likeness as people. they are called troenis. they were intended studies of certain facial expressions or figure types. sometimes artist used their own faces as rembrandt was particularly fond of doing. their rich detail develops a character within a single frame and contributing to this popularity of genre. the most famous troenie is the girl with the pearl earring which i will discuss next and now painting you have all been waiting for, please don t get up and leave after i talk about her. the enigmatic girl with the pearl earring. the girl who is idealized and brightly lit phase is unknown. her exotic attire lends the picture an aura of tranquility. like leonardo davinci monalisa as the most famous painting in the world. while the girl s face is modeled with invisible brush strokes, her clothing are much more expressively painted. small subtle reflexes of life ven compass the compositions and her eyes and lower lips and her famous pearls. her ultra marine pigment, la paz lapis lazuli in a wet mixed with paint. broad thick brush work where her jacket is more rendered. a paint which applied over a dark background has darkened considerably with age. at the time the painting was stable but it s appearance was far from ideal. the tinted varnish yellowed with age and created an uneven effect. these products of previous restorations were removed without damageing the original paint and the thin layer of varnish was added. retouching was executed. today the masterly reflections of light are once again revealed. the final gallery of exhibition is devoted to genre paintings that seem to be taken from everyday life. their subject matter ranges broadly from rustic folk, to elegant men and women in sumptuous interiors. it s interesting to point out that this painting hangs next to the girl with the pearl earring. these were viewed as realistic depiction. now many genre contain deeper meanings with virtuous and chased lives. sometimes the moralizing message are conveyed explicitly. as the oyster eater circa 1658 and the girl 1662 on the right. both compositions are lighthearted warnings about the danger of love and seduction. paintings such as live scenes of households. the painting. twitter the young is a satirical and emily pointed out the translate from this music here and a literal transition which might have a reference to the bagpipe here and also what i will talk about? just a moment. never one to miss an opportunity for a devilish inside joke. here health and safety he is as a father teaching his young child to smoke. that takes on a different meaning. not every detail of a genre painting contains a different meaning. many probably intended colorful scenes from 1673 cheerful assortment of amusement. 1660 which we see here was mainly concerned with using sublime techniques to show these in a setting in a most pleasing way possible. this violin player from 1626 had very little to do with everyday life. the dutch paintings still have on us today. the fine arts museum of san francisco are delighted to exhibit these treasures which opens to the public today january 26 in golden gate park. thank you very much. are we taking questions individually or are we waiting until the very end? it looks like there are some questions. so unless someone tells me not to answer, i will start doing so. there is one in the cap. so the question is about whether or not the first turnie that i showed did rembrandt use his own facial features? quite possibly. that s been discussed in some literature that could be rembrandt using his own features. one thing to remember about troenie, they are not supposed to be of anyone person. their figure types. that s important to remember about the girl with the pearl earring. many have seen the film the girl with the pearl earning from a novel. it s a fiction. in that book and in the movie, the idea is a he was inspired by his maid to paint this picture and she s actually the model who possess for the girl with the pearl earrings. people would say, i m here to see the portrait where do i find it. they said we don t have it. what are they talking about and they took this literally and this was the maid. not true. it s one of those romantic stories, but just make the mystery more interesting but not a specific portrait of a person. there is a question on the aisle here? the question about whether the girl with the pearl earring was commissioned and the answer is we don t know. it did come out of rembrandt studio and another layer to the mystery in the story is we didn t know where she was for about 200 years. she resurfaces at an auction where the historian realizes this was a pretty good picture and decided they wouldn t bid against each other. it sold for 2 guilders and which is basically a dollar. the painting was yellow with age but still in pretty good condition. where was she for 200 years. okay. i will cheat and i will go backwards but i will keep moving across the auditorium. in our excision the smallest picture is the picture of an oyster eater. the girl eating oysters. it across from the picture. it s also by yan stain as the old twitter of the young. that picture of the 17th century weren t exclusive small but they tend to be smaller than typical pictures of the time and that had to do with their intended setting. many were intended for small places, much more intimate scale. now we are in the middle of the auditorium. that is a great question and i can remember two. i have got four out of the 5. the church interior, the catholic church that was not in japan and the self portrait of the artist and i have been trying to remember the 5th one but i can t. sorry about that. [inaudible] yes. i actually googled that the other day and one of my colleagues maybe can say why the names are spelled differently. i know that van roy who actually create d his own name. i think it was after a building. it was kind of a fabricated nome do plume if you will. but i don t know why they are spelled differently. jaca was the nephew. i don t know the answer. my colleagues are shaking their heads so that makes me feel better. the obscure a, it been a very popular question about all the lectures that i have given about this exhibition. the camera, is two different kind of ways of understanding the world around you using lenses so to translate what you are seeing onto a page that you are drawing from or on the a canvas that you are painting. we don t know for sure and this is coming verdict sher since it was shadow and optical effects, it almost goes without saying he was an aware of camera obscure abut whether or not he auto it, i m not sure. the book, which is called secret not knowledge, in this book he postulates that many of the obscure a bare compositions. it s an interesting question but want to be really careful about how i talk about it because we don t know for sure that he used a camera obscure a there is some interesting research that s been discussed recently that can kind of fill them with a technical gap which is whether or not he used a model. if you look at the composition of the girl with the pearl earring and study the spatial layout and the light effects, it s plausible that he was using an actual model and he wasn t just basing the model off his own imagination but we don t know for sure if he did use the camera obscure a. long answer. any other questions? one in the front. the question is about vermier s paintings. this is the only in the exhibition. at the moment, i don t know if it s an arrived at the getty yet. there are no vermier s paintings in california. there will also be a vermier in amsterdam at the getty museum in los angeles. i think it opens around february 14th. there will be two in california which is exciting. we only know about 34-36 vermier paintings in the world it s a small number. there is a little group at the metropolitan museum and also some regional museums in holland. the morris house has 3, girl with the pearl earring and the view of they are scattered afford around but there is only a few around. i should probably wrap up. so the question is about the morris house and it s collection and there is some really interesting commentary in the catalog. it a lovely book and i would encourage to you look at that and there is a nice history about the the collection. like i said, it was really the bulk of it was formed by the stockholders. it not the collection of the royal family which is why they tend to use the morris house but the formal name is morris house. i think where the paintings were stolen by napoleon and there is interesting history of pictures moving back and forth but the paintings were form by the stockholders and they have acquire them and two of the most recent acquisitions were the in the seen and rembrandt portrait of an old man acquired in 1999. there were a lot of donors that contributed to that. thank you for your time, if there are any more questions maybe we can stretch our legs come and experience lafayette park and enjoy the people, picnic and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take an afternoon stroll with your loved one hand in hand. located at got and sacramento street in the middle of pacific heights on top of the city s steep rolling hills, lafayette park offers a great place, peaceful beauty. comfortably spaced tables and benches, a playground, rest rooms and tips at the end of the park. plenty of flat areas for football, frisbee, and picnic. lafayette is very much a couples park. this wonderful hilltop park is the place you can share with someone you cherish. lafayette park is located along the round at the one end campus and also easy the public wants to access particular information about your house or neighborhood we point them to gis. gis is a combination of maps and data. not a graphic you see on a screen. you get the traffic for the streets the number of crimes for a police district in a period of time. if the idea of combining the different layerce of information and stacking them on top of each other to present to the public. other types of gis are web based mapping systems. like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor s application. you can go to the assessor s website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francisco. you can search by address and find incidents of crime in san francisco in the last 90 days. we have [inaudible] which allows you to click on a map and get nchldz like your supervisor or who your supervisor is. the nearest public facility. and through the sf applications we support from the mayor s office of neighborhood services. you can drill down in the neighborhood and get where the newest hospital or police or fire station. we are positive about gis not only people access it in the office but from home because we use the internet. what we used to do was carry the large maps and it took a long time to find the information. it saves the city time and money. you are not taking up the time
i first met ruth payne invited a russian immigrant, marina oswald to live with her while her husband looked for a job. lee harvey oswald. basically he was saying he didn t like the u.s., and they went to the soviet union thinking it would be better, but tfrtn t better. ruth thinks oswald was the lone assassin. it s not that i had known the assassin, but that we lost a really wonderful president. and all the things that he might have been able to do. my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. he gave people hope, optimism. a presidential historian s latest book called camelot court. it s a shining moment in history. the idea that he was something special. november 22, 1963, the day give begins with an excited welcome for president kennedy outside his ft. worth texas hotel. outside dallas, oswald is going to work with a rifle. i think it never occurred to michael that there might be a gun. it is 8:45 central time. in less than four hours, president kennedy will be dead. back inside the hotel, jacqueline kennedy makes a grand entrance. i m getting that same sensation. john kennedy was highly intelligent, witty, and charming man. after breakfast, the kennedys fly to dallas, a stop some of his advisors thought was unfriendly territory. they landed at love field at 11:37 a.m., for the next leg of their two-day trip. the election is two months away. secret service agent clint hill is assigned to protect mrs. kennedy. the crowds were enormous outside the city of dallas. traveling with the president are vice president john connelly and his wife nellie. he headed into the crowd to shake hands. they shake hands, because the whole idea of being there in texas was to demonstrate his popularity, and his appeal. 11:50 a.m. t motorcade leaves love field for lunch at the trade mart. as the clock ticks away on kennedy s life, people like abraham zapruda film his last minutes. the crowd was very exuberant, very friendly. some people are on balconies and on rooftops. toward the end of the parade, we had to i remember seeing the motorcade turn right on houston street. bill and gail newman are the closest eyewitnesses, they re on the grassy noll. i turned around to the president. and i said, mr. president, you can t say that dallas doesn t love you. just as we were approaching the book depository. oswald has a clear shot from hiss sniper s perch on the sixth floor, but he doesn t take it. we made the last turn on to elm. we saw the car turning towards us. i was standing there in the grassy area. we had gone, i suspect, 150, 200 feet when i heard what i thought was a rifle shot. i heard this explosion noise over my right shoulder. i immediately started to scan towards that noise. i saw president kennedy grabbing his throat. so i jumped and ran toward the presidential car. i was turning to look over my shoulder. i was hit. i was knocked over. james tague is standing in the median of the triple underpass. a fragment puts a woungd on his face. tague s testimony is first ignored by the government, suggesting one of oswald s three shots missed the car. i heard mrs. kennedy say, they have shot my husband. as we got closer, i could see that something was wrong. i could see governor connelly stretched out in the car, and president kennedy was looking into the crowd with a puzzled look on his face. as i approached the presidential vehicle, i was almost there. and i heard another shot. the eruption of blood and brain matter and bone fragments came over the car and over me. i then managed to get up on the back of the car, and the driver hit the gas and the car surged floor. and i slipped. and i took a short step and continued to get back up on the car. mrs. kennedy was trying to retrieve some of the material that came on the back of the car. i grabbed her and put her in the back seat. unfortunately, i wasn t able to get there. his eyes were fixed, there was a hole in the upper right rear of the skull. i screamed at the driver to get us to a hospital. we thought the shots had come from over our heads, behind us, from the grassy noll. they like some others were never interviewed by the fbi. their statements to the media and police did not support the conclusion of the lone gunman. the fatal head shot came from the left rear. federal investigator felt the in my research at the archives, i was one of the few private citizens to be given access to the magic bullet, the president s clothing, and the bullet fragments. orr wrote a detailed analysis on his own time. he spoke skooufly the fbi tested some of the fibers and found tiny pieces of human skin still on it. could this break through in a mod everyone crime lab finally confirm or dismiss the lone assassin conclusion? if le lee harvey oswald wasn t the lone assassin, who else had the skill to murder the president in a moving, open limousine and get away with it. the first thing robert kennedy did when he heard that his brother was killed, was call the house and secure his files. they don t want johnson or hoover getting those files. jfk did not trust linden johnson, hated him. they had been taught that by their father, always protects the president. mark lane was one of the first to question the government s findings that oswald was the lone assassin. blaming oswald and having osz walled killed. no trial. more than 40 years ago, lane published his book rush to judgment. i was contacted by the central intelligence agency. 50 years later, a clear majority of americans don t believe the warren commission s lone gunman conclusion. linden johnson early warren to hear it. when earl warren was brought into linden johnson s office, he broke into tears because he knew the burden that had been put on his shoulders. we have got to take this out of the arena where they re testifying that krusz che and castro did this. world war 3 might break out because the trail might point toward cuba and ultimately russia. the commission was supposed to investigate the assassination. the warren commission in the end, just flat ass lied to us. garry cornwell was deputy chief council on assassinations. he reopened kennedy s case in 1967 to see if there was a conspiracy. that memo that he wrote to bill moyers who were president johnson s white house assistant, they wanted a blue ribbon panel of highly respected people to convince the american public that lee harvey oswald was the sole asass seven. 50 years later, ypeople still have doubts about the investigation. because it wasn t a clear investigation, and i have some unanswered questions, but there s no doubt that oswald killed him. he was such a crazy guy that he could have confederates that were helping him in some way. did the fbi, did they drop the ball in their tagging of oswald? the fbi was watching oz waltd, but they never really took him seriously as a threat. the fbi came out and left his card and visited and came out a second time as well. i gave the card to oswald when he came out on the weekend. my feeling was, sure the fbi is going to want to know where he is. he s been in the soviet yu unio he s been back. the cold war was in full tilt. after oswald was killed, hosti said he destroyed the letter. but that wwasn t known until 20 later. most people heard three shots, three empty shells were found in the sniper s nest in the depository. garry mack, the sixth floor museum cure rate for. even though some people heard more. i believe when james tague had indicated that he had possibly been the victim of a bullet or a bullet fragment. the warren commission had a bit of a problem. they no longer had three shots that hit three targets in the limousine. the commission s revised conclusion was the single bullet theory, one bullet that wound. all of the things that should be done in a homicide case, were never done by the warren commission. if it was a conspiracy, they would do whatever the minimal investigation they thought was required to drop it. 15 years after the warren commission, the hsca concluded the assassination was probably the result of a conspiracy, partially based on controversial acoustics testing that proposed a second shooter was behind the grassy noll. but if oswald did not act alone, who was he working with? who else wanted president kennedy dead? the russians had motive. the right wingers in the south had motive. the kennedy administration was trying to undermine fidel castro s cuban dictator ship. it is clear the forces of come in addition are not to be underestimated in cuba or anywhere in the world. he confronted a person, behind the fence and the man had secret service credentials, let s remember, the cia created all the credentials. garry cornwell offers a different conclusion. mafia come police si. we can t discount the possibility that individual members did not have a role in the assassination. is there new evidence linking organized crime to the assassination? and later, why one man insists the as we re surrounded by these stunning imageses of jacqueline kennedy here at the museum. we re also reminded that strip club owner jack ruby claimed that he killed oswald so the first lady would not have to sit through a lengthy trial. was oswald s murder just a loan act. did you kill the president? nobody has said that to me yet. just two days after the assassination of john f. kennedy. accused killer lee harvey woz walled i attempted to turn oswald behind me, but i was too close to him. we ll never know what oswald was going to say. was he just a lone nut case? a trial might have answered questions of conspiracy, but with oswald dead, investigators focused on ruby. how was he able to get that close to the most wanted man in the world. because all the cops in dallas liked him because he gave them free stuff including hookers. the actions by ruby in shootishoot ing oswald were not spontaneous in that he probably had assistance. he examined ruby s activities and unusual access to police headquarters. i certainly believe that officer dean who was in charge of security let jack ruby into the basement. pat trick dean s involvement has remained a question. he had failed a polygraph at the time of the investigation. investigation i m not sure was turned over to the fbi. but ruby s time with law enforcement went beyond dallas. j. edgar hoover said back in 69 that they had had regular contact with jack ruby. david kaiser is a historian and author of the road to dallas. he couldn t make the payoff. he was looking for help wherever he could get it. jack ruby made calls to individuals associated with organized crime. the report about ruby s sister, ruby got a phone call right at this time and went in the other room and threw up. maybe he got a phone call that said, ruby, we need you to do something for us. but mark lane insists the cia had the means and the motive to kill kennedy. the cia decided better him than us and killed him. following the disastrous attempt to topple castro in the bay of pigs invasion, the president was furious with the cia. this was a struggle of cuban patriots. castro s troops outnumbered the cia-backed operation. the president felt humiliated and promised to, quote, splinter the cia into 1,000 pieces. he already had plans to set up a new intelligence agency where robert kennedy was going to head this new vacancy. what robert kennedy didn t know when he first came into office, was that they had been recruited by the cia, but also marcello to assassinate fidel castro. they had enterprises, gambling, horseracing, they wanted to get back into the business of making money in cuba. two months before kennedy s murder, odds walled applied for a cuban visa at the cuban embassy in new york city. oswald was try there were numerous such plots, they were ongoing in 1963. some were organized by the cia, some by the mob, exactly who was behind this one, i don t know. but the mob grew angrier with the attorney general s all out war against organized crime. did you say that sob, i ll break his back. if they could kill john kennedy, linden johnson would become president. they hated each other bitterly and that would be the end of robert kennedy. cornwell tracked mob indictments during the hsca. this enormously effective organized crime program that bobby kennediy eheaded at the department of justice disintegrated after john f. kennedy was assassinated. he was in the united states illegally. he was not a citizen. our investigation led us to a special sting operation in 1985. fbi files recombed through at the national archives reveal informant jack van landingham shared a cell with ruby. he told us about jack ruby, marcello had met him in dallas, texas. he was talking about his favorite subject, the kennedys and being deported. hi flew into a rage, cussing the kennedys, he said yeah, i had that little sob killed and i would do it again. marcello of course denied it and that indicated to me that there was an informal report to that effect. the fbi has the classified recordings and then landingham says the tapes also have marcello naming oswald as his hired gun. you got to explain ruby and oswald. both of them had years associations with mafia figures, and ruby knew the head of the mafia in dallas. oswald had grown up in new orleans. his uncle, dutch moraff. that s the reason the mafia case is probably the stronger of any of them. next, how a 3-d animation along with the welcome back to our program. 50 years of questions, the jfk assassination, i m bill hemmer. the year was 1963 and the air of the modern crime lab we see on csi, it was still decades away. but new computer technology can describe how a rifle bullet like this became a single bullet conclusion back then. there was some question as to whether president kennedy was struck by one or two bullets. this is the gun that fired the shot. it s a bolt action rifle. lou keg, a forensic firearms expert believes oswald acted alone and supports the warren commission single bullet theory. oswald put a bullet through kennedy that went on to hit connelly. it did exactly what it s supposed to do, it got two with one shot. it s microwave radiation, it follows a bullet right through the object and through the other side. the wound ballistic labs had never fired it. they shot animals, they shot meat, they shot gelitan. investigator allen specter, he created the controversial single bullet theory. which is admittedly an extraordinary path of a bullet. president kennedy was hit in the back of the neck and slashed his trachea, exited through his tie. the bullet entered the governor s right armpit. it exited from his chest, leaving a four-inch hole under his right nipple, went through his wrist, and lodged in his thigh. sometimes truth is stranger than ficti fiction. but in 50 years, our ability to enhance visual images has gotten better. with a new digitized version of the zapruda film really indicates that there are questions about the single bullet theory. governor connelly believes he was hit by a single second shot and not a bullet attributed to the single butt let theory. the president slumped simultaneously. as i turned, i was hit. if you look at the trajectory, there was no way that bullet would have struck governor connelly behind the right armpit. dr. sero wect has been challenging that theory for years. i think it s important to be as realistic as we can. we ll use a different car than the limb zone in question, or not even the same model. because kennedy s car was unavailable. the secret service car was used. but both rows of seats were a different height. the stand in for the president, was measured ten inches higher when measured off the street. the commission tried to make allowances for the different dimensions and the single bullet theory was born. we compared john orr s analysis to our own animation, based on the enhanced version of the zapruda film. this is the second shot at z 236. and we have used the actual zapruda frame, it exactly matches the positions of the bodies. this is not a restructuring photograph in order to make sinmake they moved connelly over to his left. to get the right armpit lined up. that bullet indeed would have continued on, missing john connelly and could well have been the bullet that went on to strike the windshield in the car. given that oswald in his window in the sixth floor, was at all times to the right rear of the limb zone, is there any way that oswald could have fired this single head shot? with the president s head in the position, there s no way that that head shot could have been fired by oswald. the animate for actually set up the positions of the bodies, and it led to this spot in the county records building annex and if you were going to fire the shot to mimic oswald s angle as close as possible from the different buildings, this would be the logical place. the warren commission determined only three shots were fired. orr disagrees. this shot was fired about three-quarters of a second a after the fatal head shot. if i m to believe you, this has to be incredible coordination. not indiacredible these are hard military bullets. you can see the lead corps, that s where the lead fragments come from. it s an expanding soft point bullet. the jacket peels back as soon as it enters tissue or a skull. the snowflaking pattern seen in the president s brain and the x rays of the skull raises a serious question, because military ammunition should not beginni begin to ddisintegrate in that fashion. whether it s softed nosed or hard bone, the bullets will strike the skull and be left behind. military bullets are unique in several respects. it s got to be a bullet that stays instability. now let s shooth the same bullet weight, 160 grain bullet. but it s a soft point, it s an expanding bullet. the same kind of target, and you ll see something very different. everything was recorded on the doppler, it shows the moment president kennedy s body left dallas, the investigation would be riddled with doubts and suspicion. mistakes were made during his autopsy. and many tried to keep jfk s health history a family secret. these two reasons helped fuel many conspiracy theories. president kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at park land hospital. there s so many things about this case that just cry out, what in the world was going on here? the government decided to keep things secret. doctors michael baud and seral wect agree that the president s office was botched. if the autopsy had been done by a board certified pathologist, there would be no doubt where the bullet holes were. protocols were broken, starting with the body itself. they had improperly moved the body to bethesda. we didn t want mrs. kennedy sitting there for a long period of time. hands on guns, a lot of profanity, actual physical threats. it became somewhat heated and they forced their way out. to call in two people who had never done a gunshot wound case, this is unbelievable. dr. hume should not have been chosen to do the autopsy. dr. hume s never identified the exact locations of the wounds. by the time the autopsy is finished, lots of mistakes had been made. there was a naval photographer who was trained to take autopsy photos. and then exposing the film and chases him out of the autopsy room. they had somebody else from the secret service who had never taken photos of a dead body and didn t take the right photos. a lot of problems in terms of how the documentation of the autopsy was conducted. bobby kennedy wanted to protect that president kennedy had addison s disease. the adrenal glands are not mentioned in the autopsy report. he was taking all sorts of med skins, steroids and painkillers. bobby kennedy told his brother jack, who knows what s in this stuff. and kennedy said, i don t care if there s horse piss in this, it makes me feel better. adding to the secrecy, the warren commission with held gruesome autopsy photographs from evidence. come conspiracy theoryists think the photos were tampered with. john orr believes he noticed something the forensics panel dismissed. a disk that he says proves that kennedy s head shot was not from oswald s rifle. the rifle that oswald was firing does not have a 6.4 millimeter disk. that was just part of the bullet fragment. dr. baud still maintains there was only one gunman, while dr. wect believes there were more. there was a different kind of bullet that has a circular disk at its base which can then become detached upon impact with the skull. the presence of the circular disk rules out any doubt this orr found another piece of evidence that points to a second shooter, a bone fracture in the president s back. dr. wect who had never considered a bone fracture agrees. you can see a clear defect there at the level of the first thoracic vertebrae. orr says after the bullet hit kennedy s back it hit bone and traveled upwards. the warren commission the panel s measurements were wrong. instead he used the hsca s dimensions, which placed the wound about four inches lower. the only thing that s going to cause it to be defect tiff would be something firm and here that means bone. i decemberisagree with that, not thick enough to cause any kind of bone anrnold purdi as i look a those facts that the bodies lined up, that speed and the angle and the impact of a bullet, i came to conclude, much to my shock the single bullet here which was possible. single bullet theory people say that the bullet was yawing or tumbling. i examined governor connelly s back and it was struck sideways. but the doctor who actually treated connelly at park land is a strong indication that the governor was struck by a completely different bullet from kennedy s. he said it was not indicative of a tumbling or yawing. if they reexamine governor connelly s clothes, what would you be able to prove? the punchout holes in the shirt and the coat leading into that back industry wound, they re all completely consistent, typical of a pristine bullet. photos and x rays proved to orr the governor s wrist injury was actually from a third shot through the head, not from the magic bullet. when i saw the picture from the zapruda film, i drew a line from the governor s strong confirmation to orr, the wrist wound was caused by a tumbling missile. it s a perfect shot almost dead center to the back of the head, far beyond oswald s capability. it came from a different shooter from a different building. it exited above the year and o u. for 50 years, there had been persistent questions about this case. what happened in the missing frames of the zapruda film. in the late 1990s suddenly, that testing stopped. i saw his head practically open up, all blood and everything. i think that pretty well expresses the entire feelings of the whole world. this is a very strange sensation being up here with a camera, identical to what zapruda used. then when kennedy s limousine appeared, he followed the car staying in the center lane and then shot started being fired. and how he was able to keep filming, i don t know. kodak developed his .8 millimeter film. he sold the original to life magazine for $150,000. it s the only complete film of the assassination known to exist. four frames were damaged to the point that they could not be reinserted into the film. where you see president kennedy s head literally explode, that takes about four frames also. so clearly, a lot can happen in those missing frames. the warren commission thought kennedy was first shot between frames 210 and 225. you can see kennedy who was wounded and connelly reacting. but not necessarily at the same point in time. rarely seen by researchers, we located a secret service copy of the film and 35 millimeter enlargementses of the missing frames. the four missing frames have been extremely hard to come by over the years. these missing frames allow us to see what experts refer to as the jiggle effect. it s when zaprud erker flinched the sound of the gunshots. these are flames that are a split second after that. the missing frames indicate a strong jiggle effect at 209. orr believes it helps confirm the first shot by oswald at 204. the first shot was aiming at the president s head. he missed it by more than a foot down low. five bullet fragments were recovered from inside the limb zone. the fragment that was found on the front seat of the limousine, went through the president s back, exited above his neck and hit the chrome strip above the windshield. he spotted some trace evidence still attached to it and wrote his own gunshot analysis. the justice department originally recommended that i be basically detached from my regular job with the anti-trust division to work with the fbi in setting up this test and helping them carry it out. if orr s analysis proved correct, it would destroy the single bullet theory and scientifically prove a two-money began theory. the national archives turned to a unique expert to test orr s discovery. there were fragments of material on the bullet that killed president kennedy. dr. michael i was called in on this case because these fragments had become dried out and mummified. they were all maybe two or three millimeters in the greatest dimension. and i felt that it would be worth while to rehydrate them for microscopic examination. and zimmerman found something remarkable. this is skin and muscle tissue. it could be from literally anywhere in the body. while technology still can t determine the part of the body the skin came from, sophisticated dna tests can match it to the blood in kennedy s clothing. could that tissue have come from the scalp of the president? i didn t find any hair. could it have come from the wrist of the governor? there s never anything wrong with investigating things. again, and a positive result can lead you someplace else. there are things that some of the top dna testing laboratories are doing today that were not available 20 and 15 years a ago. so you re talking about key evidence that absolutely should be re-evaluated at this time. dna, remember, has no temporal death testing. we showed the fbi memo by the u it it suggested a bat think of tests including fiber analysis. all these other tests, i don t think they were actually ordered by the fbi, at least not from my reading of the report. we asked the fbi for a comment about the test and they responded, it would not be appropriate for the fbi to revisit the results of forensic tests conducted on the material already included in the narrow release. i expected all that material to be tested, to be scientifically analyzed to determine if they could isolate what those white cotton fibers were, what the other apparent miscellaneous fibers were, what the little black speck was and they weren t, according to their own report. our investigation also found this bullet worksheet omitted from the hsca s final report in 1979. it again refers to the same fibrous material on the same fragment and recommended further analysis. in 2013, the level of testing we have now is so further advanced that we have ever had, would you be opposed to further testing? no i would not be opposed to further testing at all. it would be interesting to see what the findings are, not just the skin, but also the muscle tissue on the slide. those fragments of tissue can yield dna. they found small black particles that they suggested was ammunition residue, but they made no effort to confirm that. why not complete that testing? i agree with what you say, a lot can be learned. i don t think anything that s going to be learned is going to satisfy all the different conspiracy theorists. congress passed the jfk act in 1992 so americans could have access to some 5 million government pages. it also requires all asass nation records to go public by the year 2018, unless they jeopardy national security. from the museum in washington, d.c., thanks for 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[laughter] first up, a story that is rocking theworld of meat. the united kingdom s meat industry is in disarray after horse meat was discovered in products intended for humans. food giant nestle suspending some of its deliveries after traces of horse dna were found in the meat. stores in britain, france and sweden now yanking beef products off the shelves over a horse meat scare. burger king admits some of its patties in england and ireland were tainted with horse meat. stephen: someone in europe is trying to slip you their tainted meat, and for once it s not silvio burlesconi. [laughter] he has been known to yank his meat off the shelves: 4r5 h- [laughter] now, everyone in europe is worried that they may be biting down on horse, instead of their usual delicacy of pickled sheep brain. [laughter] it s a complex story, so let me back up and explain how this horse scandal went down. [speaking like a racetrack announcer] and they re off first, horse meat was discovered in a british supermarket, but britain rounded the bend and laid the blame on the irish supplier who said they got it from poland. poland denies it. aaaannnd here s france, coming up strong with their own horse meat scandal, selling meat to england and sweden, but france falls behind and lays the blame on cyprus. cyprus now in the lead with the blame, but what s this? what s this? out of nowhere on the last leg, cyprus says they got their meat from a dutch company, who said they got it from who s that? who s that? it s romania! romania takes the blame!!! [laughter] [cheers and applause] but the romanians did not act alone. i ve got a horrible feeling we re looking at a major international criminal conspiracy. claims that organized crime gangs are behind the contamination are threatening to errode consumer confidence. stephen: organized crime! [laughter] i m not surprised the mob is involved. i mean, if you re gonna leave a horse head in a bed, why waste all that good body meat? [laughter] frankly, i don t understand why everyone is so upset over eating horse? we don t feel guilty when we happily consume the rest of noah s ark? [laughter] is it because they re our friends in movies and tv shows? well, i love bacon, so i just hope spielberg never makes war pig. [laughter] there s nothing wrong with eating horse burgers. fast food should be made of fast animals. oh man, i could really go for a double-cheetah melt [laughter] nation, next up on not america, football is getting a lot of heat about traumatic brain injuries. i don t see what the big deal is. i played as a kid and i m purply spatula. [laughter] but that hasn t stopped president obama from piling on, telling the new republic, if i had a son, i d have to think long and hard before i let him play football. oh, really, sir? well football doesn t want your imagery son because he throws like an imagery girl. [ laughter ] sadly, the spectre of childhood brain damage threatens the future of football. so clearly, we have to immediately address this crisis by talking about something else. this is the sport report. [cheers and applause] [humming] [laughter] folks, i m no fan but soccer is europe s most popular sport, right behind competitive three-ways. [laughter] incredible ball handling. [laughter] but now there s a dark cloud on soccer s horizon. hundreds of international soccer matches may have been fixed. we re talking world cup qualifiers, european championships qualifiers. these tournaments don t come any bigger and more prestigious than this. we re talking about 680 suspicious games involving 425 match officials, club officials, players, known criminals from some 15 countries around the world. i mean this is absolutely massive. stephen: i m shocked. [laughter] who would have thought there was anything fake about soccer? it s always been a game of such integrity. [laughter] now, this game-fixing started out subtly, but authorities began to suspect something was wrong when instead of red and yellow cards, referees began holding platinum cards. and this is not an isolated scandal. russian mobsters have targeted every level of the game. the world cup all the way down to semipro games in the soccer wilderness. so, the next time you drop off katie at her match against the mckinley titans, watch out for a guy with a russian accent and a briefcase full of orange slices. [laughter] the match fixing even went on in the crown jewel of european soccer, the u-ayfa champions if that s how you say it. [ laughter ] the u-ayfa champions league. in a game against liverpool, a hungarian team s goalkeeper was, paid to ensure that there were more than two goals scored in the match. but liverpool won by the score of one to zero. which goes to show, no one man can be more corrupt than soccer is boring. [laughter] and the fixers [cheers and applause] and the fixers also paid off referees, often in subtle ways. like when all seven goals in two matches came from penalty kicks awarded by referees, or a latvian game where after a player missed a penalty kick, the referee ordered that it be retaken. this time from inside the goal. [laughter] so will corruption destroy soccer? here to move the discussion forward without using his hands, please welcome former u.s. national team member and espn soccer analyst, alexei lalas. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] good to see you again. [cheers and applause] all right alexi, good to have you back, this is this it for socker is? is it a killing blow to the world s most favorite sport? absolutely not. stephen: why not it s corrupt you can t trust a single game. it s a sham. it s theater. it might as well be wrestling at this point. it s in the a sham. it s huge and very important. stephen: so is wrestling. it s important it be dealt with. when these things come out. fixing has been around for a long time but we re talking in europe, central america and we re talking about a massive amount of people. stephen: what about the united states do we have evidence of fixing in the united states? we have some evidence but i m here to tell you that the u.s. major league soccer is clean and maybe in that sense there s an opportunity there. stephen: how would somebody fix a game? how? i guarantee i ve played in a fixed game. there s a difference between ming in it and fixing a game. you don t need a lot to do it. it s not always the referee. it s players, players on the field and you have to have a fixer, a guy with relationship with players, an e-player, a guy who is bitter, not making a lot of money. a referee or meres making a couple how to and say hey, you can make $50,000 it s difficult to pass up. stephen: who is policing? fifa? they can do only so much. they need the help of the police in the countries. this is all always we talk about asia and singapore which very important. stephen: one guy in singapore. gotta get him. stephen: he s fixing games all over the world. there s an international arrest warrant for him next summer is the world cup and god forbid we re looking at the world cup next summer saying ah. once you are tainted it s difficult. when we talk about major league soccer in the united states, they are vigilant about. this they want to make sure it doesn t creep to the u.s. stephen: can you trust anything about a game where players are routinely slapping each other in the face with other people s hands. don t be a boob, steve. stephen: what do you mean don t be a boob. it happens all the time. oh, ow! no one going to call that? listen, i don t hate you because you have that view of soccer i pity you because you don t understand the beautiful game it s nuance. it s subjective. it takes superior intellect to understand the beauty of game even the theatrics we see out there. if you don t understand it s okay. i am not able to convince you [audience reacts [. stephen: it s fine. maybe some guy will understand the joy. you will never understand it. stephen:ly never rise to the level of appreciating 0-0 the excitement. thank you for joining me. always a pleasure. stephen: espn soccer analyst stephen: welcome back, every. anyone in the tv business knows best way to create a hit show is not to the create one. instead, import a hit from overseas. nbc s the office came from britain s the office, and homeland came from the israeli show hatufim. and chris matthews s hardball was adapted from the irish children s program the very angry potato. [laughter] well, i ve got my eye on a wildly popular program from norway called national firewood night which consisted mostly of people in parkas chatting and chopping in the woods and then eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace. [laughter] it destroyed the other top norwegian shows like so you think you can watch paint dry? [laughter] and the amazing glaish race. [laughter] and get this almost twenty percent of the population tuned in. twenty percent! the last time that many americans watched a hunk of wood, he was playing opposite sandra bullock. [ laughter ] of course, in just 12 hours, you are never going to capture the true depth and nuance of chopping, drying and stacking wood which is why many norwegians prefer the best selling book the show is based on, solid wood, all about the chopping, drying and stacking wood and the soul of wood burning. it s available on kindle and as kind ling. of course, i ve known the appeal of tv fire for ages. one of the longest running characters on this show has been my fireplace flamy t. fire. i used to have a real fire in there but i got shut down by big brother fire marshal just because hit no chimney and the carbon monoxide was killing my audience. [laughter] but there s one thing i don t get, folks. part of the reason why the show is successful ises but it s given older norwegian men permission to reveal their deepest thoughts while seemingly discussing firewood. i just don t understand that. [ laughter ] i mean, there s no deep feelings when you are talking wood. it s just wood. you know, you cut it up and stack it and burn it. personally i split into quarters because that s how my dad taught me. stack it loosely enough that a squirrel can get through but tight enough that the cat cannot follow. try telling that to your son he has no time for it. he doesn t want to talk about wood because he converted to gas. so you just stack firewood by yourself and never see your son and then there you are with all this wood and [laughter] and yet no warmth. [ laughter ] it burns. and it burns. and then it s gone. [ laughter ] ashes in the wind. [ laughter ] [laughter] [laughter] i miss you. [laughter] i miss you when i m with you. [ laughter ] and into the fire you go. [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] anyway seems like a good show. we ll be r stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight has a new book about how to fix the health care system it costs $29.95 and a $10 copay. please welcome david goldhill. [cheers and applause] mr. goldhill, thanks so much. okay. so the name of your book is catastrophic care how american health care killed my father and how we can fix it. now, are you a doctor? no. stephen: you are not a doctor. you are, in fact, the president and c.e.o. the the game show network. that s correct. stephen: why is the president and c.e.o. of the gameshow network trying to fix our health care. aren t sick people home from work your core audience? [laughter] well, i hadn t thought before. stephen: you should think about that. you are shooting yourself in the foot right now. [laughter] can i go on anyway. it s a good point. stephen: sure. my interest actually came from my father s death from a hospital acquired fengs which is an all-too common experience but broadly i approach it as a business person with 300 employees for whom health scare an important issue. a prnt, a patient myself. when i see is a system broken in so many ways but that i think all of those problems have one cause that i think it has in common which is we re not the customer of the health care system. stephen: what? i m the guy going there saying give me the drugs i m sick. that s right. stephen: or i might be sick. give me the drugs now. [laughter] that s right. i think there s 310 million americans with a story about health care that involves anything as simple as lost test results, uncoordinated care, terrible service all the way to the type of harm my father and others suffer. what they have in common say system that doesn t serve us in the way anything else in life does yet arguably it s the most important industry there is. it serves medicare and medicaid. stephen: who do you want between me and my provider, a government panel, a death panel? no, what i would like to see is a greater role for patients as consumers. so what i d like to see us recognize is that health care is no longer just about emergencies, getting hit by a bus but in fact integrated into our life in a lot of ways. stephen: it is. i have insurance. soon we ll have obama care. you know about that, right? i do. stephen: soon we ll have mandated insurance you have to buy into it. we ll be covered. what is is your beef? we re overinsured. stephen: over insured? what could you mean? i want to good in at a moment s notice for anything. absolutely and you should be able to. stephen: thank you. we have insurance in a lot of things in our society. if your house burns down we expect homeowners to cover us. we don t expect it to cover us if our furniture goes out the style or pay utility bills. stephen: who is the furniture in health care? the furniture in health care is the fact that a lot of health care cases are routine we expect to pay. we know we ll pay. it s not just a matter houses burning down. we have a lot of health care issues, costs beyond the urgent ones. they are a bigger part of what health care has. it s great if they covered the furniture policy but