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i am absolutely delighted to see all of you joining us for the inaugural event of our director series for those of you who do not know me. i am christy coleman. i m the executive director here at jysf. and again, i m delighted to have those of you that are safely masked and distance in our audience here at the robin s theater at jamestown settlement as well as all of our guests that are joining us on zoom and to those who will be seeing this later for all of our guests on c-span american history that is joining us this evening as well. so what are we doing? right. what is all of this the purpose of this series quite simply is an opportunity for us to expand our mission which has been around for about 25 years. most folks know our mission simply as the jamestown yorktown foundation through its museums explores the convergence of cultures between native americans europeans and central west africans. but there s another part to our mission that is often left out and that is to a
i am absolutely delighted to see all of you joining us for the inaugural event of our director series for those of you who do not know me. i am christy coleman. i m the executive director here at jysf. and again, i m delighted to have those of you that are safely masked and distance in our audience here at the robin s theater at jamestown settlement as well as all of our guests that are joining us on zoom and to those who will be seeing this later for all of our guests on c-span american history that is joining us this evening as well. so what are we doing? right. what is all of this the purpose of this series quite simply is an opportunity for us to expand our mission which has been around for about 25 years. most folks know our mission simply as the jamestown yorktown foundation through its museums explores the convergence of cultures between native americans europeans and central west africans. but there s another part to our mission that is often left out and that is to a
Still happy with me . Will you join me in taking this terrific and. Also, i think its very much for doingit is really wonderful foro have john and i back the Carter Library you know it has just been several years since jonathan was here. He was here for the book, a book about jackie robinson. And thats been probably seven or eight years since then. And whats really neat is that jonathan had decided to kick off his tour for his new book. His book just came out yesterday and that here at the jimmy president ial library, which is really, i think, great. This is his sixth book. Hes just as i said about jackie robinson, lou gehrig, muhammad, al capone as as the foursome who really did the push to get the approval of the Birth Control pill. But the thing that the thing that you see in jonathans writing is an amount of research that goes into it. And i think he comes by that naturally his dad was accountant so a stickler for details and his mom was a community activist. And so if you think ab
We are covering the israelhamas war. Were Tracking Developments late today as republicans are scrambling to agree on any replacement for ousted House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy. We have a report on that and all its implications later in the newscast. Today u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken was in israel for meetings with prime Minster Netanyahu as troop amass at the border. Amidst blinkens trip, the Israeli Government today released new graphic Photo Evidence of the mass atrocities. Israel says the photos show how hamas murdered and burned babies, which blinken acknowledged while pledging u. S. Support. He a reiterated bidens views that the destruction is on par with isis. Soldiers beheaded, young people burned alive in their cars or in their rooms. In a litany of brutality and inhumanity that, yes, brings to mind the worst of isis. The first accounts of those acts came initially from israeli soldiers. They recounted what they had just seen after reclaiming areas under attack. Its no