And the second night of the uprising, what we called rebellion, my mother and my sister and i had walked to one of the major intersections about two blocks from our house and we had been there for about 15 minutes and suddenly there were shots. There was gunfire. Everyone on the corner was shot except me. My mother and sister were shot, injured. Thankfully they were not lifethreatening injuries but they had to go to the hospital. I ran and got right father. He came up with the car and we took people to the hospital. I was 13yearsold. As you can imagine was very traumatic but notches for me, for the entire city that went through that experience. It has not been something that i had thought about. I have thought about it on my life and it affected the direction my life took. The uprising continued for nearly a week. 43 people were killed. Thousands were injured. At least 2000 buildings were damaged or destroyed. What started the uprising . What happened . There were a million reasons it
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Comfortable with that then that is fine. If they are not and they have to recognize the problem. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome to this season of brad snyder and his new book the house of truth a washington political salon in the foundations of american liberalism. To make sure we have no unnecessary a interruptions and i will mention if you are a regular we ask you to prepare chairs the we have another even so please leave them as they are. We also have cspan booktv covering this event this is being recorded so whenever you ask a question for the second half there will be time for q a come to the microphone so we have a record for Television Book tv. After the event is over all of the copies are available behind the register between 1912 and 1933 a group met in the Dupont Circle road house for discussion that was drawn together that the past administration as they had issues communism the role of the u. S. And in the third book from a strong and
General for National Security john carlin and google Vice President vince serf. This is an hour and 15 minutes. All right, well, good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome you to our cybersecurity summit that were having. My initiative is meet the threat to deal with the cybersecurity issues we have. Im always excited. But im really excited, really excited today to host this conversation and highlight all the great work that the nga has been doing. But before we do that, i do want to mention a resolution that we have that we talked about it at lunch today with all the governors. We have a resolution honoring the memory of justin stevens. Justin stevens, as you know served the National Governors association as the legislative director for the ngas Public Safety and Homeland Security committee. He worked very closely with me as well as governor hutchison here. Justin was also the point person for us on the council of governors. Those interest five democrats, five republicans appointed
General for National Security john carlin and google Vice President vince serf. This is an hour and 15 minutes. All right, well, good afternoon, everybody. I want to welcome you to our cybersecurity summit that were having. My initiative is meet the threat to deal with the cybersecurity issues we have. Im always excited. But im really excited, really excited today to host this conversation and highlight all the great work that the nga has been doing. But before we do that, i do want to mention a resolution that we have that we talked about it at lunch today with all the governors. We have a resolution honoring the memory of justin stevens. Justin stevens, as you know served the National Governors association as the legislative director for the ngas Public Safety and Homeland Security committee. He worked very closely with me as well as governor hutchison here. Justin was also the point person for us on the council of governors. Those interest five democrats, five republicans appointed