Hi there, my name is John Jefferson loony. I am the editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson at monticello. We are here today to talk about jefferson and his correspondents. My moderator will be my esteemed colleague who will handle the questions for us. I will turn it over to her. Thanks, jeff. Can you start by telling us what is your role in working with jeffersons correspondents . Im in charge of a project to produce a total of 24 volumes between 1809 in 1826. I work with a total of 10 people to do that. Our job is to take jeffersons letters and papers and produce an authoritative addition for edition for those years that will enable future scholars to rely on that and not have to go back to the originals. So then, what exactly do you do as a documentary editor . One of the most important things is to make it clear what we arent. You hear of a documentary editor and you think either that you are creating film documentaries, and we have in fact have people apply for jobs were baffled
Portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend. In recent weeks in the united states, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice. Whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments of memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in. Working here at monticello, we are a sight of memory. Monticello was a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today, we decided that to have a conversation it, we would do something that we havent done, and im sure everyone knows this, youre not actually talking to Thomas Jefferson. Youre talking to, again, my friend bill who portrays Thomas Jefferson. Bill is going to join us today. When he does so, he will be out of character. We tal
Report recorded this conversation. You might recognize my voice, because in previous life streams, im usually the guy behind the camera, and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend millions all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments, memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in. And working here at monticello, we are a site of memory, and monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today we decided that, to have a conversation, we would do something we haven
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California. This is just over an hour. Lets talk about fake news. Joke about thea reporter who asked a tough question of Elizabeth Warren . [laughter] neither have i. But i am a journalist, i run a Journalism Program. I want to plead with all of you not to let 99 of journalists gave the rest a bad name. [laughter] i was looking through some Washington Post headlines recently. My favorite one recently was from last week. This is the headline, this is true, this is an actual headline in the Washington Post last week, it said, cant republicans relearn how to accept political outcomes they do not like you . They do not like . [laughter] that is what the Washington Post was wondering last week. Headline joelious alluded to was when we learned about the killing of the isis leader and did you see the headline the Washington Post gave that . Was, albaghdadi, religious scholar, dies at 48. That was the actual headline in the Washington Post. I do not what your experience was, but that was like