Coordinating committee and taking part in the 1963 march on washington. Mister courtland also served in the second terri general of 1974 six pan african congress. I was born in new york in harlem in 1941 and my mother moved me and my sister to the west indies to trinidad where my grandmother and our family lived. Four years later, 1945, i stayed in trinidad from 1945 to 1952 and then i came back to new york after my grandmother died in 1952 and lived in harlem for a couple of years and then moved to the bronx. I intended Catholic School, st. Helenas and then, you know, went from well actually Grammar School which was actually an interesting thing because it was african all African American nuns and then i went to st. Helenas and then went to Howard University. My mother sent me to Catholic School because, you know, at that point it cost a ten dollars a month, which was, you know, serious money in 1952 and 1954, but also she wanted to make sure that i had the best education that she cou
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Nbc news also reporting that, quote, by the time of the warning in late july or august, at least seven Trump Campaign officials had been in contact with the russians or people linked to russia, according to public reports. There is no public evidence that the campaign reported any of that to the fbi. In fact, after the warning, donald trump jr. Swapped twitter messages with wikileaks which the u. S. Intelligence community believed to be acting as an agent of russia. Todays revelations from nbc news against the backdrop of a nasty battle with special counsel bob muellers investigators and their efforts to obtain transition emails which are technically government property. Mr. President , do you believe your Transition Team emails were improperly taken . Not looking good. Its not looking good. Its quite sad to see that. So my people were very upset about it. I cant imagine theres anything on them, frankly, because, as we said, theres no collusion. Theres no collusion whatsoever. But a lo
77 injured after an amtrak passenger trail derailed onto interstate 5, i5. Witnesses onboard that train describe the terrifying moments when their train car plunged off a bridge and onto a highway packed with traffic. It jumped and hit, derailed off the track and hit two cars. It was awful. I saw bodies on the ground. I dont know if they fell from the train, but there were about three or five bodies on the ground, about two or three people injured with gashes in the knees, head wounds. This happened in the middle of the rush hour at 7 40 a. M. This morning on the west coast. The president tweeted a moment ago, the train accident that just occurred in dupont, washington shows now more than ever why our infrastructure plan must approved quickly. Not for long. Weve got a number of reporters following this story. From our Los Angeles Bureau is nbcs jo ling kent and dr. Torres. I want to do a bit of push back from our white house on that president ial tweet. This is brand new train, a brand
Duepo deponte dupont, washington, where this train derailing occurred. Reporter hauling people off, theyve gone and a couple on standby. The ntsb is seassembling a go team, on the way. You can see the mangle the wreck of what was train 501 the inaugural run of this new added service between seattle and portland. A train that left, full of dignitaries and people from the media as they were trying to extol the virtues of this newly configured track. Basically, they switched the track from the very scenic route along the waterfront, beautiful picturesque puget sound through this area that would shave ten minutes off of the spanishmade talgo trains trip to portland. It was a very big day for amtrak. Very well planned out. What happened, we dont know. At this point, though, we can say that at least six people are dead. The hospitals have received 77 people. 4 of them, ive been told, are in the most serious condition. No one on the ground was killed. This is a stretch of i5, the major route