You today by your television provider. Good evening and welcome, everyone. Im tom putnam, director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum. Medical examiner of our foundations board of directors and all my foundation colleagues, i thank you for joining us this evening. Let me first acknowledge the generous underwriters of the Kennedy Library forms, lead sponsor the Boston Foundation and our Media Partners wbur and the boston globe. We considered having this Forum Last Night on the actual 50th anniversary of mrs. Kennedys tour, but did not want to make any of you choose between sharing valentines day with loved ones or or with your frinds here at the Kennedy Library. So were so pleased to have so many of you with us this evening. 50 years ago Jacqueline Kennedy introduced herself to the nation. In many ways, the public already knew mrs. Kennedy through her role as the president s wife, mother of two children, and as the woman who charmed world leaders. But on february 14
Storyteller john flashal who leads walking tours at the site where the statues are located. So you are now currently on the property of mr. Howard hankins, a Business Owner of Hamilton Road materials. Its an Industrial Recycling area. Mr. Hankins owned as much as 600 acres here and partitioned off a couple Hundred Acres to the nearby golf course. And this is a small sliver of whats remaining of the 400 acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the original president s park, a tourist site 12 miles from here that was open from 2004 until 2010. That was the home of all 42 of these sculptures. He was actually also instrumental and commissioned in 2010 to come take these sculptures when that park went bankrupt and put them in his stone crusher. So he did not have the heart to do that, thank god. And spent a considerable amount of his own money to transport every one of these one by one from that bankrupt, nonfunctional park 12 miles from here to
J. Putnam of the kennedy john f. president ial library and museum, members of our foundations board of directors and all of my colleagues i thank you for joining us this evening. Let me first acknowledge the generous underwriters, lead sponsor capital of america the Boston Foundation and our Media Partners and the boston globe. We considered having this forum last night, on the actual 50th anniversary of mrs. Kennedys tour, but did not want to make any of you choose between sharing valentines day with loved ones or your friends here at the kennedy library. We are so pleased to have so many of you here with us this evening. 50 years ago Jacqueline Kennedy introduce herself to the nation. In many ways the public already knew mrs. Kennedy through her role as the president s wife, mother of two children, and as the woman who charmed world leaders. On february 14th 1962 it was a more substantive Jacqueline Kennedy who guided viewers on a televised tour of the white house. The nation was tra
Berlin welcome to the day. The. North Korean Leader kim jong il has given an order to open the border to. China welcomes and supports the efforts by north and south korea to improve their bilateral relations. We will discuss working level issues related to sending a Winter Olympics delegation. We dont take any of the talks seriously if they dont do something to ban all Nuclear Weapons in north korea. The entire United States is within range of our Nuclear Weapons and a Nuclear Button is always on my desk and were going to keep all of our options on the table as we have said time and time again. That front hasnt changed. Well well talk about the latest developments on the Korean Peninsula and just a moment first u. S. President donald trump passed a scathing attack on his former chief strategist steve bannon ahead of the release of a new less than flattering book in a formal white house statement to mr trump said that steve allen has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fi
Been there. And he is a legend in his own time. Bill murrays films have entertained us for decades, but now hes taking his talents to the world with his band in a tour. Right here in studio 57. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Its a fight against time, a fight against Mother Nature as they assault the fires from the ground and from the air. Firefighters are spanned out across the region, many of them charged with putting out hotspots to make sure the flames dont reegg night. Newly released footage captures the fran taj efforts to save homes. Importantly iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal. President trump is threatening to quit the iran nuclear deal. If the United States were to pull out, no one knows exactly what iran would do. The president also added 7 billion in subsidies for the Affordable Care act. We just took care of a big chunk and knew well take care of the other chunk. House Speaker Paul Ryan led a group to puerto rico t