Father and stepmother. In massachusetts. The bookstore in falls river hosted this event. Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to politics and pros. Thanks for coming out on this very beautiful day. Were very 34r50esed to have Cara Robertson here to talk about her new book the trial of Lizzie Borden. A little housekeeping. Lets take a moment to silence our cell phones. Ill do that, too. We are recording. Cspan is with us today so we dont want any extra noise or interruptions. After cara speaks there will be time for q a so if you have a question youd like to ask her, if you could use this microphone here so we can pick stuff it l of our would be great. We have a lot going on at politics and pros, even at the what were and union market and check it out on our social media. You may enjoy our True Crime Book Group that meets every third tuesday of the month in the coffee house. My name is jenny, im a bookseller here and really glad to introduce Cara Robertson. Shes a lawyer and educated at harva
Many of you know that we have a lot going on here. That, checkop of out our events calendar. Book, are a fan of this you may enjoy our true crime book club. I am a bookseller here. I am glad to introduce our speaker. She is a lawyer. She served as a Legal Advisor to the International Criminal tribunal and was a visiting scholar at stanford law school. She first started researching. He Lizzie Borden story this is her first book. She addresses one of the most infamous murders in American History. It remains a ubiquitous part of american law. Salacious away the and mythologized details and uses primary sources like Court Transcripts and letters to have a total look at the case. [applause] i am not expecting a call. This is just to make sure that i do not talk too long. Much for coming on such a beautiful day. You have been working on a subject as long as i have, there is always the year that you are involved in some kind of intellectual stockholm syndrome. I will give you a little bit of
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Silent night. Also coming up. The story of why terrence wont be spending christmas alone for the first time in 20 years. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Police in new zealand have confirmed that theyre planning to head back to white island tomorrow to recover the bodies of those killed by a volcanic eruption on monday. At least eight people are known to have died, and another nine are missing, presumed dead. The recovery operation has been hampered by ongoing volcanic activity on the island. In a News Conference earlier this morning, police admitted that the operation would be risky but said they will do what they can to find any unidentified bodies on the island. Tomorrow will be more about. We know exactly where they are, those six people, so, our First Priority will be to get those six people off, and we will have very limited opportunity to look about for the two others we suspect are out there somewhere. But we have done lots of aerial reconnaissance and with the eyewi