Archives and research center. He discusses the Committee Findings related to political assassinations. The Church Committee investigated abuses by u. S. Intelligence agencies from the 1950s through wear the gate. This was recorded in 2013 at due cane university at an International Symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. Kennedy. The discussion ran 50 minutes. Hello. My talk is going to be a little bit different. I want to start with kind of a History Lesson that took hopefully will show some of the context of what were talking about. I not directly about the kennedy assassination, although ill be moving into that as well. I apologize if some of this is familiar ground. Okay. I would like to start by painting a picture of a time. Imagine this, if you will. Wiretapping and spying on americans, and even targeting a foreign adversary for assassination. Wait, im describing 2013. P not just liberal institutions and democratic leaders, but also on the other side
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Moving into that as well. I apologize if some of this is familiar ground. Okay. I would like to start by painting a picture of a time. Imagine this, if you will. Wiretapping and spying on americans, and even targeting a foreign adversary for assassination. Wait, im describing 2013. P not just liberal institutions and democratic leaders, but also on the other side. For example, in 1971 nixon discovered maybe yomen and Charles Bradford had been stealing documents from henry kissinger. Secretary of state. Anyway, nixons resignation in 1974 was followed by a heavily democratic socalled reform congress. Some of the names that we recognize. Henry waxman, tom hartman, and Patrick Leahy were elected in that congress. They immediately voted funding restrictions on the vietnam war which nixon had been succeeded by former Warren Commissioner gerald ford who along with his chief of staff Donald Rumsfeld feld and his aide dick cheney wasnt on quite the same page as the congress. Ford was not in a p
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Dera derailment. And government workers who spent your money filling their own gas tanks. Theyve already cost you hundreds of thousands this year. Theres growing pressure tonight for American University to take action after anonymous racist comments on an app thats popular with college students. This isnt the first time yik yak has been a problem on college campuses. News4 shomari stone took student complaints to a turks find out how the school is dealing with it. Reporter University Students tell me they are concerned about this. We talked to the faculty and they said they understand the students concerned. Reporter a sophomore at American University, he isnt satisfied with his college experience. I think that American University champions that it is a diversive and progressive institution and you see what students really feel and what they truly have to say and emotion about students of color. Reporter these students are outra outraged, racist messages on yik yak, a popular social ap