Sinister and a larger operation than we had ever suspected. That is having very devastating and bad influences upon our economy upon the morale of morals, of our people, and upon politics and government. And thanks for joining us for congress investigates an American History tv series looking back at historic and significant congressional hearings this week. Our focus is organized crime. Well, it was in the early 1950s that democrat senator Estes Kefauver of tennessee and his special committee in interrogated major organized crime figures like Frank Costello. The hearings held over a series of months, had 600 witnesses and went to 14 cities. Many americans learned details about organized crime for the first time in 1951. 12 million us households had tvs and this became a major and Early Television event. The hearings also made Estes Kefauver a household name and helped fuel his political career. Here to talk about the work of the Kefauver Committee is daniel holt, associate u. S. Histo
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President trump promises the culprit will face the full extent of the law. Eight people have now been arrested in the uk in a third day of raids police say the Investigation Continues to be fast moving. I want to reassure people, that the arrests that we have made are significant and initial searches of premises have revealed items that we believe are very important to the investigation. Im Reeta Chakrabarti also in the next hour. President trump delivers a blunt message to european members of nato. He tells them they must spend more on defence to meet the threat from terrorism. Ukips paul nuttall describes the decision to launch his partys manifesto today as a message to terrorists that they will not win. And net migration to the uk falls by 84,000 most of those leaving the country were eu citizens. Good evening from st anns square in manchester. Flowers continue to be late. They have been all day to remember the victims of mondays bomb attack. The queen has been here in the city toda
Have time at the end for a q a session please line up at the microphone to the right so with that i will handed over to the interviewer the managing editor for the Chicago Tribune. Welcome to ruth printers row lit fest. I am pleased to be sitting here with lisa napoli with a fellow journalist who is the offer of ray and joan the man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the woman who you gave the ball away. We were working on a cover line for a magazine people dont put appreciate how long it can go. Reading the New York Post that this was different and i got lucky. It is a book about the man who made mcdonalds what it is and then the head spinning philanthropy of his wife joan kroc so liz taylor who was the Chicago Tribune editoratlarge in said a Business Editor should do the interview and then said it is more like a love story. I think it is a little more complex than that. Is. It is a love story and a hate story and about mid 20th century americana and that is what kept me going it took
Bbc news through a Virtual Reality headset . Audiences take to experiencing news events this way. And what questions do the new technologies pose for journalists . First, though, safi roussos, one of 22 People Killed at a pop concert in manchester on may 22, her ninth birthday would have been on tuesday. To mark the occasion, we spoke to safi rousoss parents. We did not want to let her birthday pass. We did not want to let her birthday pass. She loved the limelight. Ijust wanted to celebrate safis birthday through doing this. What has your family lost . 0h. We have lost everything. We have lost everything, we have. Life will never be the same. Stephanie and trevor firth were among a number of viewers to pick up on one aspect of the interview, writing versions of the report Ran On Bbc News all day, leading the news at six. It provided powerful and moving television, but some people had concerns about the prominence given to the item. Heres mark eaton linda dell also contacted us about t