Have everybody here tonight. Its a great crowd and i it feels like just kind of a festive light atmosphere and im glad. Weve got a great presentation for you tonight. My name is steve weberg, i work in the Public Affairs department here at the library and its going to be my honor here to introduce a guy ive gotten to know and really come to admire a lot here in the past few months working with him. Some of you may already have been through our new exhibit open just under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery called cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. Its just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection, of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection that i wasnt aware of down through history going back to the cattle days between city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. Its so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down in the first floor, you may have seen the big saddle there and t
One of the mose powerful writers of Supreme Court opinions. He wrote a lot of dissents that were real zingers, great for people like me quoting him. But this is not a book about Court Opinions. This is a book about speeches. Why speeches . His Court Opinions or memorable and im ontold by law students and report theyd went to his opinions first for that reason. So crisply written and evocative and powerful. His speech have some of the same quality all the same great qualities that his opinion does but the advantage of the speeches is that he could let more of his personality shine through for one thing. He was a great performer, a little bit of a ham. He had he played mcbeth in a High School Production of that play and was i think the president of georgetown theater club. So that kind of theatrical side shined through in speeches and not Court Opinions. Court opinions have to follow certain conventions that are apt to turn off the average person who is not a court follower or a law stud
It happened late this afternoon. In a wells far go bank in redwood city. Tiffany wilson is live outside the bank with new details on the investigation. Tiffany, what a story. Absolutely. Officers just cleared the scene behind me about five minutes ago. This all started with a very observant woman driving to the atm. She noticed a man pacing back and forth with a gun in his hand. She called 911. Reporter this cell phone video shows what happened next. Officers quickly circled the suspect and started talking to him. The man was just not compliant at all. Reporter interim police chief says the 30 yearold hispanic man was agitated. Unstable and well known to officers. They have known him him him m was eight years old. He was asked to drop the gun repeatedly. Seven minutes of negotiations that ended when the suspect shot his weapon. Lock closely at the video. We slowed it down. And you can see the suspect raise his arms and fire. He fired his gun i dont know how many times. Reporter officer
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