They formed that bond with him and i think that carried him through. It kept him from getting a lot more trouble in places where other president s would have faced a lot rougher time. Rawhide is ok. Up next, a panel of espionage historians talk about julius and Ethel Rosenberg. A spy couple who leaked secrets of the atom bomb. The role of antisemitism in their prosecution, and the eventual execution of the treasonous couple that sparked National Debate in the u. S. This 90 minute event to place in the National Archives in washington dc. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I will get us going. I am the Senior Adviser of the pulitzer center. A harvard professor emeritus, im happy to add, and a former journalist for cbs and nbc. Our program focuses on the rosenbergs and the role they played in soviet espionage in the United States during the cold war. It is a heck of a story. To start with. Im sure you are all here because you are involved in it, emotionally or intellectually. It is a stor
Lessons in iraq. We will give him some tough questions versus some of the wet kisses out there. Top headlines. Good morning. Investigators hoping the fatal amtrak crash investigators want to know why the train was going so crash. The crash killed seven and entered more than 200. The ntsb has determined the train was traveling twice as fast as it could have been. The authorized speed through the curve was 50 miles per hour. When the engineer induced brake application the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. The ntsb says the accident cut off been prevented if the track had been equipped with automatic braking technology. That is already on most of the line between washington and boston. Amtrak service is still suspended, no word on when it will be restored. President obama is meeting at camp david with the leaders of six persian gulf nations. They will try to work out disagreements caused by u. S. Negotiations with iran. Saudi Arabias King Salman will not be there, h
Days festivities. Reporter theres nothing like the home opener and it seems to be a lot more magical. The giants are 12 and 3 at at t park since they moved here in 2000 and today coming off a world series championship was really special. Lets show you what happened. They started out with the entire team walking out from center field. The fans went crazy with bruce botch bocci and tim lincecum. Just a special moment for everybody, and as i mentioned the place just went nuts and then the introductions happened and of course, colorado was introduced first. I think their team had to stand there for about an hour and i would have taken it back to the clubhouse at that point and even the giants players were getting restless when you have this long of a pregame. The Marshal Tucker band singing the anthem. That was my old college band at florida state. Good to see them out here at at t. And then a tribute to 230r78er giants broadcaster lon simmons who passed away last week and they threw out t
Talking about both people accused on the base of solid evidence of providing information in the making of atomic weapons from the United States to the soviet union. They were americans who are doing what they thought was right. It started in early 1950, when one of the most important soviet spies, a physicist, was arrested and fbi officials learned that he had passed information to moscow by courier, a courier named harry gold. Under interrogation gold identified David Greenglass as his contact. Greenglass identified Julius Rosenberg as the leader of a key spy ring. In june of 1950, julius and his wife ethel were arrested. Both of them charged with conspiracy to commit espionage under the espionage act of 1917. In march of 1951 they were convicted. In june of 1953 they were executed. Since that time, there has been new information produced, and we will talk about some of the new information this evening. What i would like to do now is quickly get into the introduction of the people who
And together, we will overcome. [cheers and applause] my message to american americas is one of optimism, confidence, and hope. Your sacrifice has not been in vain. The light at the end of the tunnel is near. We are rounding the turn. I say that all the time. Some of the media doesnt like hearing it, but i say it all the time. We are rounding that turn. Dont listen to these cynics and angry partisans and professional pessimists. We are americans, and we will prevail. We are prevailing. Its amazing whats happening if you look at whats going on, been very amazing. Moving heaven and earth to safeguard our seniors from the china virus to deliver lifesaving therapies in record time and to distribute a safe and effective vaccine before the end of the year, and we are really doing it even sooner than that. We have the vaccines getting ready to go. Seniors will be the first in line for the vaccine, and we will soon be ending this pandemic, hasnt happened like this since 1918, 1917. That was a