Thank you for being with us organizing todays event in my Live Audience here in San Francisco you can always visit us at www. Commonwealth club. Org and with the upcoming schedule. With cohost of morning edition of npr with jesse and john fremont thank you for coming. [applause] thank you everyone im delighted you could come this afternoon one of the most beautiful cities in the world San Francisco and to talk about jesse and john fremont to had some issue with the creation of california as we know it is so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. And then on the july a delayed flight from los angeles and then to be picked up by a car and driven by a car the thing about live radio but with San Francisco traffic but really you will not make your exact time. [laughter] but 8 00 a. M. Pacific time and still on the road creeping up the freeway seven or 9 miles an hour but looking out the right side San Francisco bay is out there and the Southern Suburbs with the hills i
I can very much, steve, are coming. [applause] thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks everyone and good day here delighted that you could come this afternoon. Im delighted to be in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And particularly to talk about jessie and john fremont who it so much to do with the creation of california as we know it. And so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. I got into summer cisco about 2 30 a. M. On a delayed flight from los angeles. Got a couple of hours of sleep in an Airport Hotel and then woke up again because i was to be picked up by a car and driven up the highway into San Francisco to do a live radio thing on kqed. The thing about live radio is it begins at a very exact time. The thing about going through San Francisco traffic is that youre you are really not going to make your exact time. I was supposed to be 8 a. M. That i would be there for the National Radio and at 80 m im still the road in the back of this
Everybodys did. What had happened to his mom . I still wake up in the middle of the night. Haunted for more than two decades, he would make a chilling discovery that would unlock this mystery. Now you know the whole story. Yes, sir. And everything kind of clicked. Its just so unbelievable. I knew he was telling his moms story. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Aaron fraser was only 3 years old when his mom left the house never to be seen or heard from again. Police soon learned that aaron may have witnessed the unspeakable the murder of his own mother. The boy would become a man before the whole truth was revealed. And though memories faded, the evidence pointing to the killer couldnt stay buried. Heres Dennis Murphy with she never left. Shed been gone, unaccounted for for more than 20 years. His mother, bonnie. It was odd to be the one that took to be the one that found her. Youd spent a lot of your life looking for her, right . Yes, sir. Theres a poignant video of the mother and childs