Where news happens im Eileen O Reilly the 2023 president of the National Press club and managing editor of standards and training and axios thank you for joining us both here at the National Press club and on cspan for our headliner book event. I wanted to take a quick moment to thank our wonderful staff and volunteers here at the National Press club for helping put this event together, including our headliners, team cochairs dan on line one, la jay and laurie russo and cecily martin, who is the clubs membership events and program coordinator. We have a very exciting tonight with our esteemed Panel Focused on a book just out called last honest man. The cia, the fbi, the mafia and the kennedys and senators fight to save democracy. So lets get started. Quote, if dictator ever took charge in this country, technological capacity that the Intelligence Community has given that government could enable it to impose total and there would be no way to fight back. That may sound like a statement
Stay, to take care of her, to get shoes for her. She was determined to find her precious baby. This is the part of the american story that we all need to know as well. Thank you. Good evening and welcome to the National Press club the place where news happens im Eileen O Reilly the 2023 president of the National Press club and managing editor of standards and training and axios thank you for joining us both here at the National Press club and on cspan for our headliner book event. I wanted to take a quick moment to thank our wonderful staff and volunteers here at the National Press club for helping put this event together, including our headliners, team cochairs dan on line one, la jay and laurie russo and cecily martin, who is the clubs membership events and program coordinator. We have a very exciting tonight with our esteemed Panel Focused on a book just out called last honest man. The cia, the fbi, the mafia and the kennedys and senators fight to save democracy. So lets get started
Of the select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the foreign intelligence act of 1978. Two former staffers are with us and will be with us to help provide Historical Context and understand the significance of the 40yearold video you are about to see from new york city. Fredericks forges with us. And here is elliot maxwell, a counsel to the committee. Thank you to both of you for joining us. In this installment of our series looking at the work 40 we will focus on the committees investigation into andnational Security Agency the Fourth Amendment rights of american citizens. To get us started, lets watch a clip from 1979. The agency remains unknown to most americans either by its acronym or its full name. , one hasst to the cia to search for in life to find someone who has heard of the nsa. To his right is the chief counsel to committee. He is with us in new york. The nsa is something of a household world for anyone who fol
Guns drawn flooded the area around a lawn mower plant. Killed killed three and wounded more than a dozen people. He was killed by police. The frightening incident playing out in the small town, hesston, kansas. Abcs Clayton Sandell is there. Reporter police say 38yearold cedric ford started his rampage shooting at random drivers wounding two before heading to excel industries in hesston, kansas, where he worked. To have Something Like this is tragic. Reporter fords heads inside armed with a rifle and handgun and opens fire on his coworkers. And then i seen a mob of people just start running out saying, run, run, and pop, pop, pop, pop, pop is all i heard and then everybody started scattering out of the building, and i didnt realizezehat had happened until we got outside anan i started seeeeg wounded people coming out. Reporter police and witnesses say he kept shooting until a single officer, the first to arrive, fires back. There was a particular Law Enforcement here in hesston that re
Man, 38yearold cedric ford is responsible. Ford has a long arrest record. He was killed at the lawn moor equipment maker where he worked but not before taking three lives and wounding more than a dozen. Cluck sivertsen has details . Gunfire and fear erupting in a small community. The gun was strapped to lim. He was ready to go. Reporter Law Enforcement says 38yearold cedric ford, armed with whats believed to be an Assault Rifle and a pistol went on a shooting spree. The suspect opening fire at two the separate locations before walking into the excel Industries Plant in hesston, kansas. Once he got into the excel industries, he shot a person in the parking lot. Itself. Reporter that are building a lawnmower Equipment Company evacuated. Outside employees lucky to be alive embraced. Ford who was employed there was later killed by Law Enforcement. Cowork others and neighbors are he was a really nice guy and thats for sure. I just cant believe that the guy that shot people up lived right ac