And cultural historian as many books include new york intellect, the unfinished city, and a nation of nations. These professor of history at new york university. Editor of sex, death and god and l. A. Reviewsys, articles, and interviews have appeared in vanity fair, the paris review, the New York Times, the , Los Angelesst times book review and various anthologies. What you please join me in welcoming david reid, to a spiegel of it was fecal about his book and of each other professor bender. And then be joined by professor bender. [applause] mr. Reid thank you, lily. Its a pleasure and honor to be here in connection with this distinguished series. This is a memorable occasion for me because it is my first powerpoint presentation. [laughter] so bear with me. I might be the only person in america who does not have experienced in this medium. Got thet clicking microphone adjusted. Great. Survey just a very brief of new york pictorially. We begin with this. Its a fantastic shot of the fina
About his book, the brazen age, new york city and the american empire. A conversation with New York University history professor Thomas Bender. That betweenes 1945 and 1950, post world war ii new york city became a heaven for exiles. The museum of the city of new york posted this hourlong event. It is now my great pleasure to introduce our speakers. They have four bios in our program. An intellectual and cultural historian, whose many books include new york intellect, the unfinished city, and a nation among nations. Atis professor of history New York University. David reid is editor of sex, death and god and l. A. His essays, articles, reviews and interviews have appeared in vanity fair, the paris review, the New York Times, the washington post, Los Angeles Times book review and various anthologies. What you please join me in welcoming david reid to a speak about his book and and then be joined by professor bender. [applause] mr. Reid thank you, lily. Its a pleasure and honor to be her
National mournment and memorial capital hill in the background and we have to get through chilly days before we goat warmer weather. Absolutely. Today will be chilly. No more snow showers. They drifted by quick limit you may notice roads and cars are wet out there and showers moved off to the south and east just a little light snow in central delaware showing up on radar right now. And but even that is coming to end rather quick limit and we have clouds out there and you see the overcast skies and its still chilly a lot like yesterday morning starting in 30s. Notice temperatures above freezing. If you are up during the overnight hours and saw the snowflakes didnt stick. Temperatures above freezing. 36 mannasas and 31 in culpeper. Here forecast for today. Sunday afternoon High Pressure moves in and weak low pressure moves out. Despite this cloudy. Were hard sunshine today things on the cool side. Well ties the warmup headed in our direction. Ill let you know coming up in the 7 day forec
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Tonight 7 on your side on your side taking a closer look at how they work. Fighting back against crime investigator. Jennifer donelan went to scottsdale, arizona, to meet face to face with one of the top makers of body cameras. Jennifer if the answer to this is to put cameras on the bodies of the men and women in blue the question of will they work might lie in the question of how they work. Welcome to taser. Jennifer yes, taser. The company known for the stun gun weapons has become one of the most sought after manufacturers in the nation for the police body cameras. The camera lens up here is a fish island and it is capturing a wide angle. It captures most of what my periphery is. So if i wear these glasses, and i have the, i am looking that way it is capturing everything im seeing on patrol. The saving of that begins when they click it in a certain mode. Jennifer some raises the question do officers have too much control over the devices . It takes two clicks to turn on. Once its rol