You see . Evening, ladies and gentlemen, with a book. Welcome to fords theatre. We honestly, i am blown away. The response. I am so thrilled to see all of your lovely faces in the house tonight. Thank you so much for being here. My name is erika scott and im the artistic programing manager here at theater. And im alex wood. Im the Education Programs manager at fords theater. And we are to present written spoke. Yes, written then spoken now African American letters to lincoln. So for the two of us up here, typically you dont get two people to come talk to the house before a program happens. But this is a special this is the first of its kind. We have never done an elevated im calling it an elevated book to where we have our historians and actors to be part of the play. But at fords theatre like to think of ourselves as left and right side of one brain. We have the history aspect and arts aspect, and thats what and i represent and that is what you all are getting tonight. So its a very,
On and in a new way. I saw this morning the Biden Administration is looking at the uc mj revisit a Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment can be prosecuted in military the language as it presently exists isnt strong enough, to your point. Do we have time for questions . Very good. Thank you for being flexible with us and thank you for this conversation is much appreciated and looking forward to the next speaker here. Thank you. [applause] we sought answers to the question where actions let us since the executive order and how we have come together to commemorate it signing. Last Nights Program was simply spectacular. This speech is included our president , fabulous dinner, all the excellent conversation, a few months ago when i committed to speaking at the symposium, no one told me that that was good to happen where i had a chance to speak, so theres no pressure this morning to be the closing speaker, but i do hope that i can close the symposium and not disappoint. Today i want to talk to ab
On and in a new way. I saw this morning the Biden Administration is looking at the uc mj revisit a Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment can be prosecuted in military the language as it presently exists isnt strong enough, to your point. Do we have time for questions . Very good. Thank you for being flexible with us and thank you for this conversation is much appreciated and looking forward to the next speaker here. Thank you. [applause] we sought answers to the question where actions let us since the executive order and how we have come together to commemorate it signing. Last Nights Program was simply spectacular. This speech is included our president , fabulous dinner, all the excellent conversation, a few months ago when i committed to speaking at the symposium, no one told me that that was good to happen where i had a chance to speak, so theres no pressure this morning to be the closing speaker, but i do hope that i can close the symposium and not disappoint. Today i want to talk to ab
On and in a new way. I saw this morning the Biden Administration is looking at the uc mj revisit a Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment can be prosecuted in military the language as it presently exists isnt strong enough, to your point. Do we have time for questions . Very good. Thank you for being flexible with us and thank you for this conversation is much appreciated and looking forward to the next speaker here. Thank you. [applause] we sought answers to the question where actions let us since the executive order and how we have come together to commemorate it signing. Last Nights Program was simply spectacular. This speech is included our president , fabulous dinner, all the excellent conversation, a few months ago when i committed to speaking at the symposium, no one told me that that was good to happen where i had a chance to speak, so theres no pressure this morning to be the closing speaker, but i do hope that i can close the symposium and not disappoint. Today i want to talk to ab
On and in a new way. I saw this morning the Biden Administration is looking at the uc mj revisit a Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment can be prosecuted in military the language as it presently exists isnt strong enough, to your point. Do we have time for questions . Very good. Thank you for being flexible with us and thank you for this conversation is much appreciated and looking forward to the next speaker here. Thank you. [applause] we sought answers to the question where actions let us since the executive order and how we have come together to commemorate it signing. Last Nights Program was simply spectacular. This speech is included our president , fabulous dinner, all the excellent conversation, a few months ago when i committed to speaking at the symposium, no one told me that that was good to happen where i had a chance to speak, so theres no pressure this morning to be the closing speaker, but i do hope that i can close the symposium and not disappoint. Today i want to talk to ab