But they shared one thing. A passion for on the one case writing and the other case collecting but put them in the context of their lives if you would, please. Guest shakespeare was writing around the 16 hundreds. His life 20 years before, 20 years after during the reign of elizabeth and james i and he was a wellknown playwright poet. He was also a businessman and a shareholder in the Theater Company in london. And and hes he is very well known for being a businessman. Henry soldier was the chairman of the board of the company the Largest Corporation in the world and the most reviled corporation as well during the gilded age. Shakespeare wrote these plays after he died his friends decided to create a memorial volume and published 36 of the node node known 38 plays of shakespeare had written and they are connected across time and across the ocean and the book saved the play from obscurity and henry the chairman wanted to own every known copy of the first. Host theres Something Interesti
Entire country. There were amazing acts of self leness and heroism that happened inside the theater. Well hear more of those as we talk to witnesses. A couple that i heard as i went to the local hospital. Two teachers here on summer break wanted to see one final moey a movie a comedy as they were getting ready for school to start. One teacher jumping over her friend saving her life. Second teacher felt like the bullet would have hit her in the head if her friend didnt. She was shot in the leg and had the presence of mind to pull the fire alarm. Who knows how many lives were saved by that presence of mind. This shooting comes six days after james holmes was found guilty in the colorado movie shooting. The jury decided unanimously that the attack was cruel enough to justify the Death Penalty for holmes. He opened fire during a showing of the dark knight rises. 12 People Killed and oef 0 others injured. Defense attorneys are urging jurors to spare his life, despite the horrors he caused.
[applause] the applause was a little longer for him. [laughter] i was about to say how special this natives i am the executive director of the Jfk Library Foundation to call the colleagues we are thrilled but tonight is a treat the beginning of the centennial weekend we literally thought food could be the best air the speaker moderator we could get and this is what we have got essaouira. They are both here. [applause] before i introduce them for someone to thank our underwriters and sponsors bankamerica, and our media sponsors we are kicking off this centennial with information when you leave over the next few days were doing i hope there are opportunities with over 100 items including 40 that have not been seen on saturday and sunday we will have a master not here as part of our tribute to nasa and on monday we will have musec and the navy to honor president kennedys service said it 3 00 p. M. 100 years to the minute he was born to fet and flying overhead to honor president kennedy we
Local, state and federal legislation has been responsible for americas segregated cities. It is an honor to be here with richard for two reasons. Im a journalist and what that means is my work is deeply dependent on reporting, talking to people, getting to know people, getting into peoples lives, but its based in people who have really the time and the inclination to do the kind of deep research that richard does and demonstrate its. For all the praise i get nor work die, i try to make it clear that it its rooted in folks who do the deep, deep, research, that goes to bones of the country and unearths things were not so interested in talking about. Im deeply thankful to richard and just paying back the favor by being here in conversation with him. This second part is that there is a notion that i have been doing whatever i can to reverse in this country. For a long time we conceived of ourselves as a country with a quoteunquote racial problem and underneath of that is the notion that th
Or the times we would forget. To use bill back its baskets we used to have a saying that the file cabinet were his ideas in the fourth tour was newts good ideas. [laughter] he was the idea guy. And to be a part of the organization that is now a permanent part of the Republican Party that is not up permanent fixture. But you were up part of that. Was gingrich j. And extension of that . Absolutely. The contract with america was portrayed into the reagan principles. But Ronald Reagan inverses bill clinton to feel confident in the context but the results prove that. That is one way but i think how he got into politics with the people that were in power. It was not a conventionally conservative race. Key called itself a conservative but he wrote in 1970 for one of the first articles advocating governor reagan as president general ford in the primaries. Everybody had a chance with the eyelashes and a the whisker to defeat in kansas city in 76 so thinking of politics and revolutionary politic