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A few hours ago stacy acted as a private citizen stepped up and says he is calling for a special prosecutor to handle the grand jury in the jones case the officer who shot and wounded a suspect who was pulled over at the very beginning of the month. We talked to stacy walker impartiality and transparancy, i think it just makes sense to bring in a third party here a special prosecutor to bring the facts and the evidence of the dci investigation to the grand jury that will be made the decision. If you consider the fact that the victim a case that involved lucas jones and another involved officer shooting you consider the fact that he has to maintain a professional relationship with Law Enforcement, in the interest of partiality and transparency makes sense to bring in a thirdparty to bring the facts and evidence to the understand that stacy walker is speaking as a private individual. Jerry mitchells family also backs the decision and they say it would be a huge step in creating more trus
Finally, if youd also help us by filling out a survey form after the program before you leave, that helps us in evaluating the programs that we provide. Charles rappleyes interests are wideranging. Hes written about the media, law enforcement, organized crime, slavery and the American Revolution as well as the wellreceived biography of robert morris, financier of the American Revolution. A native of cambridge, massachusetts, he attended the university of wisconsin where he majored in economics. One of the strengths of rappleyes study of the hoover presidency is to explain in simple language the complicated Economic Issues that brought about and sustained the Great Depression. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome charles rappleye. [applause] hi there, and thanks for coming out today. Its a little, its a little awkward for me to come to the hoover institution, the hoover president ial library and talk to people about hoover, Herbert Hoover, about what i know about Herbert Hoover, because
I came up with this in about 2002 when i was creating this course at Temple University for honor students called dissent in america. Of the Honors Program asked me to create a course on a topic. What topic interests me . Im from the 60s. Dissent. It made sense to me right away. I started teaching the course. The students got into it. Teachings grew out of it. We would start meeting on fridays after class talking about the historical background of contemporary issues. At the time we started the teachings, we were invading iraq. This created a lot of consternation on the part of the students wanting to talk about it and understand why we were doing that. When i was putting together the first book, dissent in america, i wanted the students to read what they had to say and not what someone else said about them. That was the first way i got into it. Over the last 10 years while teaching the course, i have written this new book, which is the narrative history of a complete study of American
And subsequent financial reforms. Im donald ritchie, the senate historian, and we are in the Senate Caucus room in the Russell Senate Office Building. Before cspan started covering the senate, this was the most famous room in the capitol complex th, becausee this is where major hearings had been televised coming back newsreels covered it in the 1920s and 1930s, but television came along in 1940. This is where viewers would have seen the crime investigation, the kefauver crime investigation, the mccarthy hearings and the watergate hearings. So this was the most televised room until the Senate Chamber was open to television. I bring people in here from time to time. You can hear the echoes. Point of order, mr. Chairman. You can hear the gavel. Of the chairman. My point of order. [gavel bangs] counsel advised the chair that the senator is engaging in a statement im getting sick of getting interrupted in the middle of a sentence. Mr. Chairman, do i have the floor or do i not . Oh, be quiet