,. To mark the centennial of his birth the Smithsonian American Art Museum collected dozens of images that chronicle the life of the 35th president. The Smithsonian American Art Museum allows me to be a guest curator of this exhibit on jfk. I photographed a lot of politicians. I started with Richard Nixon, Governor Brown in california and john f. Kennedy and many of the events he was present at. ,. Why this exhibit here in the American Art Museum at this time . It is the centennial of his birth 100 years ago on may 29, he was born. How do you put an exhibit like this together . First you start with a few researchers. We collected 34,000 photographs of jfk and his family. It took about six months and became the basis of a very important book that we published. From those 34,000 odd pictures in the book we were able to select 77 photographs that we felt told the story of jf k and his life and times. John f. Kennedy was a modern president who saw americas place in the world. He was a man
Turnout as georgians and now texans join the wave of americans lining up to cast their ballots 3 weeks before the u. S. Election. Cyprus scraps its controversial citizenship or Investment Program after an undercover investigation by aljazeera. And the netherlands becomes the latest european country to ramp up its coronavirus restrictions as infections keep rising. Hello abortion obamacare guns and gay marriage some of the topics featuring on day 2 of the confirmation hearings of president trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Kearney Barret republican and Democratic Senators each have 30 minutes to ask her about subjects that a touch points to Many Americans the full senate could vote by the end of the month on whether to appoint her just ahead of the u. S. Poll on november the 3rd but that declined to say whether she would recuse herself from any cases related to next months president ial elections. She also sidestepped questions on abortion by Dianne Feinstein the most senior democr
Are called d out brought into the light and you can no longer hide from the truth of iraq shows and that my friends is most certainly the case this week as 2 examples of the United States governments addiction to institutional cruelty and torture are making headlines the 1st comes in a new draft report on the office of Inspector General for the u. S. Department of justice which reveals that border u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions Deputy Attorney general in russia gate ashtray grid system 0 Rod Rosenstein and other top d. O. J. Epistles were dry were the driving force behind enforcement of the trump administrations family separation policy and pressured officials who spoke out to go along with prosecuting parents of children as young as infants. In fact a 2 year inquiry into the controversial marburys tactics of separating undocumented immigrant parents from their children along the u. S. Southern border even alleges that Jeff Sessions directly told u. S. Attorneys prosecuting these
Im british by mystery welcome to d. W. News asia its good to have you with us large parts of south and Southeast Asia are reeling from floods brought on by heavy rains and storms these are visuals from holy on in Central Vietnam showing its famous ancient underwater close to a 1000000 people in the country are affected and at least 36 people have died over in india record rainfall in the Southern State of telangana has killed at least 15 people its part of a wider trend in south asia where more than 9600000 people have been affected by severe flooding this year. Hyderabad is drowning the rain has been relentless in the south indian city and its now. And one deadly incident flood which has pushed a woman to the house which collapsed on impact. Other victims were swept away and raging currents. Pressley teams have been working day and night but they cant get to everyone president s in some areas in some areas say that had no help at all. 500 or 2 golden holders a lot of problems in the w
Any easier, as well, for people who are sheltering or actually working from home. Today in the bay Cierra Johnson joins us live in c calistoga and monitoring some of the outages in the north bay. Yes, good morning. As i was coming into the main drag of calistoga you can see it was really, really dark. Typically they have the generators running and it may be too early forbut many of the bu this main drag are dark, but behind me you can see the main square does have power. Thats because a while ago the city did have a collaboration with pg e to have that microgrid. But for the most part it is dark except for the occasional headlight coming down. We wanted to provide you an update with the Power Outages so far. Right now 9,221 customers are without power in napa and as for sonoma 1,777 folks without power. Folks going on about hour 12 of not having power here in calistoga and keeping track of the brush fires and right now all clear on that front. Folks in calistoga without power because o