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Support. Checks on people entering and leaving the border zone. Reporter with the days sport as French League football resumes amid high security. A week on from the attacks in paris a welcome to the news hour. A group linked to alqaeda has claimed responsibility for a hostage stand off in mallees capital which has left 27 dead. They burst through the Radisson Blu Hotel and took about 170 people hostage. Mali troops assisted by French Special forces have entered the hotel. The remaining hostages were freed. It is still unclear whether the gunmen remain on the top floors. The Peace Keeping mission is on the ground. Two of the attackers in the siege have been killed. Reporter soldiers held an employee of the radisson blu out of the building after a hostage situation at a lasted hours. Gunmen got inside shouting gold is great in arabic before taking 170 hostage. As the full extent of the attack became clear many here were in shock. As the malian president ial cut short a trip and influenc
You said to me, this is the most fine ive had. What was it about the experience . Hat resonated with you bang bang bruce were talking a lot about character of a president because we are in our president ial campaign season. This is a man who demonstrated unusual character in the white house. He faced some of the hardest decisions any president in American History has faced. About the invasion of india which comes simultaneously with the cuban missile crisis. He handled to huge global crises simultaneously. In both, he showed unusual depth of thinking about the problem and thinking it through, not necessarily doing the easy thing or the thing his advisers told him to do, but in the end, coming up with two important victories. Charlie with people urging him to bomb cuba. Virtually his whole cabinet wanted him to go to war in cuba with the russians. And the president were the only two looked at this problem and said that is crazy. If we do that, we are initiating a nuclear apocalypse. 50
You said to me, this is the most fun ive had. What was it about the experience that resonated with you . Bruce the Kennedy Administration. We call it camelot. It really was something special. John f. Kennedy was a particularly gifted decisionmaker as residents. President. Were talking a lot about character of a president because we are in our president ial campaign season. This is a man who demonstrated unusual character in the white house. Charlie what you mean by character . Bruce he faced some of the hardest decisions any president in American History has faced. The book is about one of those, india,nese invasion of which comes simultaneously with the soviet adventure in cuba and the cuban missile crisis. He handled two huge global crises simultaneously. In both, he showed unusual depth of thinking about the problem and thinking it through, not necessarily doing the easy thing or the thing his advisers told him to do, but in the end, coming up with two important victories. Charlie f
My name is sarah and i am im the events director of kramer books and on behalf of both the staff im pleased to welcome you and bruce for his book jfk forgotten crisis. In the buck, he book, he shares a gripping story of the conflict that really has escaped history is attention but is really still resonates today that of the union war. He draws on the documents and details of the decisions made by jfk to send the tie the tide of an allout war and explain how the forgotten crisis is influencing the world more than half a century later. We are glad hes here to share his book. Please welcome bruce. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction and all of you for coming out tonight. I want to begin by taking you back half a century. On the morning of october 16, 1962, george bundy, john f. Kennedy National Security adviser arrived at his office in the west wing of the white house. On his desk as there was every morning there was a final prepared by the white house situation room of t