Thank you all for being here today. Our judiciaryk Committee Ranking member chairman condors because he was the chairman because chairman when we were in the majority. I can refer to you as chairman, but not myself. Thank you chairman for joining us to examine the longterm impacts of repetitive brain trauma, in particular trauma associated with Contact Sports. I look forward to engaging in dialogue about this issue. Playersek, football take the field and engage in a contact and engage in a contact sport they enjoy playing but may be harmful to their health in the future. There are a lot of concerning questions that we will discuss today. At the very least athletes and their families need to know they are being informed about the health risk and the risks associated with Contact Sports are being mitigated to the greatest extent possible. With more and more research coming out, the evidence is becoming clearer and clearer, the effects of repeated head trauma, even those received during o
Facility with the los angeles review of books. One of its Board Members one of its Board Members john is going to be an interlock for this evening. I thought i would tell you just a little bit about who ourest goes guests are tonight. John who i know is famous for many things hes a professor at uci river side, irvine, he he owes a book on the 1960s it a publisher i think thats true. Thanks for bringing that up. Hes most famous if anybody this evening needs to know anything about john lennon or the fbi hes your goto person he spends a decade litigating to get access to this information. Hes a writer commentator and man about town. And a friend of mine. And hes going to be talking to a friend of his stephen ross who is a professor at usc not ucla a usc and i would say of the two of them that these are serious historians who are not serious about themselves. The work that steven will be reading or talking about tonight and perhaps reading from is a really amazings captivating story that y
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