it takes a behind the stacks look, says broadcasting and cable. the l.a. times calls it required tv viewing. and it solves some mysteries that even nicolas cage can t conjure. c-span s original documentary, the library of congress: behind the scenes of the world s largest library. sunday night at 9 eastern on c-span. and now from the 2011 chicago tribune printers row literary festival, laura caldwell and jovan mosley who was coerced into confessing to a murder he had nothing to do with. ms. caldwell and another attorney, katherine to daniel, represented mosley in his effort to clear his name. [applause] thank you. in the 1964 case of escobedo v. illinois, the u.s. supreme court wrote, we have learned a lesson of history, ancient and modern,c that a system of criminal law enforcement which comes to depend on the confession will is the long run be less reliable and more subject to abuses than a system which depends on extrinsic evidence independentlg securedoi through sk
please welcome moderator eric zorn of the chicago tribune. [applause] thank you. in the 1964 case of escabidoo versus illinois, which comes to depend on the confession end quotes. we are in the long run less reliable and more subjects of abuses of extrinsics evidence secured through skillful investigation. the book that we re going to talk about today, long way home by laura caldwell deals with a case of wrongful confession, a case built as they say that depended on confession. and this was a great problem for jovan mosley who is all the way to my right here who was the defendant/victim in this case of justice gone awry. i would like to start our conversation by starting of the case and to tell the story and i d like to turn to the author just to give us a little tassel summary of what happened and to bring jovan mosley to the conversation as appropriate. well, thank you. and thanks for doing this. it s a delight cause i ve been reading eric s work and he s been do
husband s funeral. and she insisted that she meet those who were coming from afar, those who were diplomats, the diplomatic corps from abroad. and so she stood with her brother-in-law, senator edward kennedy, to her right, and she insisted on greeting everyone who had come to pay their respects to her husband. on a more glittery note, again, we remember her for her state entertaining. in the short amount of time that she was in the white house, and it was only a little over a thousand days, she and her husband threw 16 state dinners. in the first term, full four years of the w. bush term, they held, i believe, it was two. now, mind you, 9/11 happened during that time, there were security issues, but the bushes, the second bushes from texas were just not as interested in that. they weren t as interested in state entertainment, they weren t as interested in bringing people from abroad and entertaining them at the white house. the kennedyss loved that lifestyle. they both came,
[inaudible conversations] welcome to the 27th annual chicago tribune printers row s lit fest. before we guinea today s program please turn off your cell phone and all other electronic devices. if there s time at the end for a q & a session with the authors, we ask you use the microphone located in the center of the room so that the home-viewing audience can hear your questions. if you would like to watch this program again, note our coverage will be re-aired tonight beginning at 11:00 pm. please welcome moderator eric zorn of the chicago tribune. [applause] thank you. in the 1964 case of escabidoo versus illinois, which comes to depend on the confession end quotes. we are in the long run less reliable and more subjects of abuses of extrinsics evidence secured through skillful investigation. the book that we re going to talk about today, long way home by laura caldwell deals with a case of wrongful confession, a case built as they say that depended on confession. a