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Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia...

Andrew, tell us about your book, which focuses really on two days in the kennedy presidency. June 10th and june 11th, 1963. Why did you decide to write a book focused on only two days of the kennedy presidency and why did you pick those two days to focus on . Well, thank you, colleen, and its a great honor to be here with you and the White House Historical association, particularly meaningful to me because as was just said, it was founded by Jackie Kennedy and in the white house 60 years ago. I had been looking for a way into the Kennedy Administration for some time. Part of this may be hard t...

[ laughter ] but, you know, at the end of the day, you have to what is it . Theres the word hope. You hope. What was his name . Leonard cohen, the writer, leonard had something about a crack in the a crack in the sunlight or a crack in the whatever. And he said, theres something about that thats the reason we have cracks. So we can let the light through. And somewhere in people like lincoln and douglass they could let the light. Get your perfect offering, theres a crack in everything, thats how the light gets thats how the light gets in. What a perfect way to end this session. I just want to s...

Its way wednesday starts. I would just be accumulating debt weighing signed a lease for an apartment at stone fire berkeley before the pandemic in november of last year away is a rising senior at u c berkeley, hes supposed to move in his new apartment on august first, but when the campus announced its closure in the spring he notified Property Management identify them all the way back in april of this year that i wanted to terminate but since then there hasnt been any successful negotiations going says his Lease Agreement says he is responsible for 6 months rent to terminate the lease, im just...

Their proposal for more on that proposal we want to turn now to kron fours Justine Waldman who has the latest for us now from the newsroom justine will cain today white house chief of staff mark meadows and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin met to put the final touches on that 1 trillion dollars relief bill Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is expected to bring it forward monday afternoon. Both newton and meadow say they want a less ambitious plan that includes stopgap measures like Unemployment Insurance and education funding. But Senate Republicans are poised to pose more way of doing di...