For those that have the catastrophe that follow. Hello there. Guess who i am. [laughter] if i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover you need to get out of the hole you have been living in for a while. [laughter] her book has just celebrated 100 consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list. It is number one. [applause] Michelle Malcolm milken is down there. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats why you are still here at the last lecture on the second day but we thought we would go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho and actually it is such a beautiful setting and a lot of beautiful memories that you still have. Yes. It was a Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on but i still have fond memories to be on the mountain and playing on the mountain. It is incredible we had this entire farm a lot of wonderful things that could happen i guess i was the original free range kid. [laughter] there was a
Hello there. Guess who i am. [laughing] so i am khoi le. This is Tara Westover, and if i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover, you need to just get out of hope youve been living in for a while. Because the book has to celebrate i think the 100th week, consecutive week on the New York Times best seller list, its at number one. [applause] ahead of michelle malcolm, down there so thats pretty cool. And im assuming a lot of people are familiar with the narrative that, the 40 so interested and youre still here on the last lecture on the second day, but i thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping. It starts in idaho and actually to me its like such a beautiful setting. There must be a lot of beautiful memories you must have that. Yeah, i mean, it was Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on. I still have really fond memories of being on that mountain and i love playing on that mound. I think its an incredible, you know, for the kids to get to put
Letelier. At the same time, Ronni Moffitt, a u. S. Citizen, was also killed in this car bomb. All of this happened here in Sheridan Circle in the heart of embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute for policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction in bethesda, maryland. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. In the car with him were two colleagues from ips, Ronni Moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner over here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the drivers seat in the chevelle that Orlando Letelier was driving. The order to put the bomb in there was given by the secret police of chile, and chile was ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator, who didnt like the Political Activities th
Marked forever in the heart of washington, d. C. By this assassination. Hello, everyone. Good, we can hear everyone nicelily. Welcome to busboys and poets. My name is olivia. Im the book Events Coordinator here and im very excited to invite Alan Mcpherson for his book, ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Its an event i was not aware of, honestly, and very excited to read about it in this book and excited for alan to speak about it. Here at busboys we like to have conversations that others arent having and i feel like this is one of nose so im excited for him to speak about it. Im going to give you a little kind of overview. If you have a cell phone, please take photos but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you probably can see. Thats a little distracting. We will have the fwoobooks for. We have them for sale currently and if you would like to, i really implore you to look through it and have alan sign it. Hell be signing afterwards as well. We have a wonderful server, aisha
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