And personally, this means so much to me. First, i want to sing, and im not a singer but im about to saying, for Helene Cooper as a reporter. She joined the New York Times in 2004 as an assistant editorial page editor, and she has been a Diplomatic Correspondent for the times as well as a white house correspondent, she is now the pentagon reporter for the paper. And in 2015 she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting specifically for work in liberia during the ebola epidemic. And that same year she received the prestigious george polk award and the overseas press club award. And prior to joining the times she spent 12 years with the wall street journal where she was an assistant bureau chief of the washington bureau. And i know that many of you are fans like i am of seeing her on sunday mornings giving insightful, thoughtful, words for us all to think about. Long before her life working highprofile job in the countries top papers, she experienced fi
I must tell you we have had sir and this is going to be another special session. Im delighted to be here at the history and biography stage. Have to admit that im a pretty history geek and personally this is meaning so much to me. First i want to sing and im not a singer but i have to sing for Helene Cooper as a reporter. Join the New York Times in 2004 as an assistant editorol page editor and has been a diplomatics comedy for the time as well as a White House Correspondent and now the pentagon reporter for the paper, and in 2015, she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, specifically for her work in liberia during the ebola epidemic and that sameyearold she received the prestigious george polk award and the overseas press club award. Prior to joining the times she spent 12 years with the wall street journal, where she was an assistant bureau he could of the journals washington bureau. And i know that many of you are fans like i am of seeing her
Retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Britain remains on high alert following last nights terrorism attack at two locations in central london. Three terrorists killed seven people, first in the van attack on pedestrians on London Bridge, and then stabbings at restaurants inside the nearby Borough Market. Hospitals are treating another 48 people for injuries, 21 of them in critical condition. Police shot and killed the three attackers within eight minutes of the response. Today, Police Arrested and detained 12 people in connection with the investigation to establish whether others were involved in the planning or execution of the attack. Londons night of terror began around 10 00 p. M. Local time last night, when a sp
And he once took us inside his own family in a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rod
And he once took us inside his own family in a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rod