Im the president of the historical association. It is my privilege to welcome you to Decatur House as well as the White House Historical association. Tonights program is exciting and we are honored to partner with our good friends at the Richard Nixon foundation. I would like to welcome dr. Jim esther, inhis wife, the front row. [applause] hewitt the president of the Nixon Foundation who you will hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests, many former officials from the nixon and other friends,ations, staff, and we are honored to have you here. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the united states. Under her leadership, the white as collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection. That is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but it is important to us here at the White House Historical association as a core part of our mission.
We had to fear many former officials from the and other administrations have the print of the validation and were honored at you here tonight this year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States under her leadership white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of the significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but its very important lost here at the white house of our mission which was inspired as most of you were all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservation and preservation restoration of those beautiful staterooms in the white house for the acquisition of items for the Permanent Collection at the white house as well and for Education Programs programs like this where we teach and tell the stories of the white house and its wonderful history going back to 1792 with
Coverage. The protest at Civic Center Park was not the first one of the day on the uc berkeely campus. And mostly peaceful kron 4s dan kerman is there for us live tonight with more. Natsthe greatest threat to free speech, the greatest threat comes from right wing forces, they will use violence against those who wish to speak and assemble freely. A noontime rally at uc berkeley was in part nostalgic no violence this time, just students with the International Socialist organization defending the rights of immigrants and the right to free speech this in the wake of the universitys cancellation of a speech by right wing commentator ann coulter. Sot mukund rathi International Socialist organization 2938my feeling is the university should not stop speakers from coming to campus and the role we as students should play those who oppose ann coulter is that we should protest. Natslet me tell you about First Amendment rightsas with more traditional protests at cal, there were competing megaphones
Avenue and douglas drive. John muir elementary is a stones throw from this location. A swat team and officer say they were tracking this suspect in walnut creek because of the suspects connection to a homicide there earlier today. Suddenly. The suspcet took off and there was a chase that ended at the location we just showed you. Now the background of how this started. ,. Around 1 30 this adternoon in walnut creek. A woman was shot dead near the lindsay wildlife experience on first avenue. Now officer and swat members have chased that suspect to martinez. Kron4s lydia pantasas is on scene gathering info. Shell join us with a live report in about 15 minutes. steve staying in the east bay. A big story weve been tracking all day. On a day that conservative commentator ann coulter was so supposed to deliver a speech. Politically fueled protests on uc Berkeley Campus with both coulter supporters and opponents pam the protests started this morning and happened all day. steve tonight we begin
All blocked off. You can see members of the swat team behind me and im in told they have the suspect surrounded in the car. pkg its here. Near larkey park and the Lindsey Wildlife Museum where a woman was found shot multiple times. Medical teams tried to save the womans life but she died at the scene. The suspect fled southbound on buena vista avenue in an unknown vehicle, the suspect is described only as a male. We spoke with neighbors who he i heard the car first of all and then i heard his tires screeching as he came around the corner in about a minute later i heard the sirens going and my dogs were howling so i checked outside and then the next thing with the helicopter that i saw. Swat team members and even a k9 unit was brought in to help. Police also searched a car in the area that they eventually towed away. Then they shifted their resources just one block over. But still no sign of the suspect in this neighborhood. steve thanks lydia thanks lydia well check back in with you as