Joyce was appointed by governor perry to serve as the representative of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of texas and she is honored to have been the first non lawyer appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Innocence Project of texas. I will ask her not to come to the podium and take over for a while. Thank you for being here. [applause] a good evening everyone im so glad to see so many of your faces i havent seen in years. Some of you are new to me altogether so im very glad to be meeting you for the first time tonight. I want to thank the doctor and the entire staff at the Dallas Institute for being so supportive of my work over the years whether it was in the form of books, manuscripts, screenplays, columns and magazine pieces. Doctor allen is always a friend i could call and i could get his opinion and he was always and is very supportive. Thank you. The Dallas Institute is great because you are here. Before we start i would like to dedicate tonights book readin
We are here to get to know one another and also to celebrate the publication of a very special book by joyce king exonerated. Many of you have already read that so you know whats in it and some of you have lived through something similar to that so you know about the life that is depicted in it and we are very honored to have joyce at the institute. Im going to turn it over to her and i will reappear later. For those of you that dont know joyce came i want to introduce her. Shes a native texan whos traveled the world over with a message of justice, hope and healing. Shes an awardwinning veteran broadcast journalist and was a news anchor. The story of the dragging in jasper texas. We probably remember that if we have the book and its a powerful look in the end it is published in 2,002. It received widespread coverage and discussion everywhere from good morning texas to the Oprah Winfrey show and shes also written a memoir growing up southern white men i met along the way is the subtitle
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The head. That is how many times Michael Brown was shot by police in ferguson, missouri, according to a private autopsy. The governor of missouri calls in the National Guard as protest continue over the shooting. On sunday, ron johnson apologized to Michael Browns family. By talking to Michael Browns family. My heart goes out to you. I am sorry. Uniform and i should be appear saying i am sorry. Missouri to the latest and speak to the head of Amnesty International about why they sent human rights monitors to ferguson. We will look at the case of dred scott. Scott is buried a few miles florissant. Goodman. A private autopsy has found Michael Brown, the teenager killed by a police all caps are in ferguson by a Police Officer in ferguson, missouri was shot with all bullets appearing to enter from the front. Eric holder said the Justice Department would conduct its own autopsy. Has ordered the National Guard into ferguson today after another night of protests over his death. For the past tw
The head. That is how many times Michael Brown was shot by police in ferguson, missouri, according to a private autopsy. The governor of missouri calls in the National Guard as protest continue over the shooting. On sunday, ron johnson apologized to Michael Browns family. By talking to Michael Browns family. My heart goes out to you. I am sorry. Uniform and i should be appear saying i am sorry. Missouri to the latest and speak to the head of Amnesty International about why they sent human rights monitors to ferguson. We will look at the case of dred scott. Scott is buried a few miles florissant. Goodman. A private autopsy has found Michael Brown, the teenager killed by a police all caps are in ferguson by a Police Officer in ferguson, missouri was shot with all bullets appearing to enter from the front. Eric holder said the Justice Department would conduct its own autopsy. Has ordered the National Guard into ferguson today after another night of protests over his death. For the past tw