And can see them over video. Woodruff and, the darker side of one of americas most moral characters. A look at racism in harper lees second book go set a watchman. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff greece reached a debt deal with european creditors today after an all night emergency summit in brussels. It agreed to a strict timetable for enacting further unpopular austerity measures in exchange for a Third International bailout. Now greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras must push the cost cutting proposals through his pa
On booktv we are live from jackson, mississippi, the home of the first annual mississippi book festival. All day long bringing events from the Mississippi State capitol including otter panels, civil rights, the civil war and more. First up today is of panel on harper lee whose book go set a watchman written and 1915s was released this past july. This is live coverage of the inaugural mississippi book festival in jackson, mississippi. [inaudible conversations] good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We welcome you to the mississippi book festival, to our harper lee panel. The rules the we have up in here, there will be no beverages allowed in here. If you have beverages we ask you to go to a garbage can and placed in the garbage can. Second thing, please silence yourself phones. We need everyone to please silence yourself funds. Again we would like to thank you and i would like to introduce the moderator, amanda nelson, editor of the largest book site in north america. He is also a judge of
August and september he is making his own train reservations riding in a common car grabbing a sandwich at the depot someplace in helping with the guide to the end of the line somebody would pick him up with a hotel reservation. Sometimes he has a private car as he goes through kentucky and tennessee he has had a private rail car provided but sometimes is that theyre ahead of the campaign who writes his compatriot to senator james jones to say i saw this of hellenized reticulate train to baltimore we waited until 2 00 in the morning to switch we got him on in there were a handful of people there. We if he has a private car he could fall asleep the train picks him up he could wake up and wash his face so then he is traveling. So mckinley is pressed to go on the road once panics debt says it is unstoppable he starts to believe he has a race on his hands and mckinley says if i go on and the road we will have to mimic him. I know what it is like. And finally he says i have to think before
Franklin cared about this as much as eleanor did. [laughter] in fact, his letter is almost kind of facetious. I think he said Something Like the president was like he said maam, i dont mean to i dont you to think you have to develop, build a new dorm for this young colored lady or Something Like that but when you get a chance get a dean to write about this situation. Well, he was going through the motions because eleanor was leaning on him in pol polly behf so she didnt get to go. She went to the university of california berkeley. But she did she did act. You know, she tried to move things where she could. Okay. Theres another case ill mention of 50 soldiers, still im sorry, seamen who were courtmartials and polly field it was unfair. Covering the case of the los angeles sentinel and feeding eleanor material about it and eleanor was pressing fdr to do something. This whether another place where they interacted with one another had to do with crossing between civil rights and human righ
Thank you very much. It is my pleasure to introduce a number of great winners to the Pulitzer Prizes tonight. Let me take a moment to recognize one of my predecessors both as the chair of the Tampa Bay Times company and of the Pulitzer Prize, andy barnes is with us. [applause] our purpose here this evening is to say happy birthday to the Pulitzer Prizes. They turn 100 years old this year, which is older than anybody in this room, i believe. [laughter] this is a great tribute to a robust and resilient american institution. So, lets also say thank you to Joseph Pulitzer who created these prizes. It is a very hard thing to win a pulitzer. It is hard even to become one of the finalists. Hundreds and hundreds of entries arrive in new york each year for prizes given in journalism, literature, and the arts. Volunteer juries of experts spend days winnowing down the entries. The Board Members read every finalists entry and vote on a winner. It is with great pleasure then to present to you these