A u. S. Citizen, was also killed. Bomb, and all of this happened at sheridan on embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. The car with him were two ronni in the car with him were two ips, ronnifrom moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the the drivers seat in the chevelle Orlando Letelier was driving. The order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at augusto by a custo a pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity that Orlando Letelier, a former ambassador to the United States from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know n
Conversations that other people are not having, and i feel like this is one of those. I would like to give you an little overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos, but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them for sale currently. If you want to, i emplore you to look through it and have alan sign it as well. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk. [applause] dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is , you know, literally the scene of this crime. The institute for policy studies is very important
Commercial freighter from when it was built in 1911 to the 1980s. It became a museum when the city of toledo purchased it in 1987. Her main purpose was to deliver iron ore from Lake Superior down to lake erie to places like ohio where it was unloaded and put in Railroad Cars and taken to pittsburgh for a company to support its business. At its time, it was the largest carrier. It could carry more bulk material than any other from 1911 to 1927. Which was a very long time when every year a new boat came out that was a little bit longer. Because this boat was built so wide, it could carry more cargo for 16 years than any other boat constructed between that time. We are now in the pilothouse. Often called the wheelhouse. It is where commands decisions were made to operate a commercial vessel. A captain, a first mate would be in here. As well as some other Junior Officers who would assist the captain with navigation, steering, communication with respect to how fast they wanted the boat to g
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It. Here at busboys, we like to have conversations that others are not having, and this is one of them. I would like to give you an overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them or sale currently. If you want to, i employ you to look through it and have alan sign it. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the top of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is literally the scene of this crime. The institute for policy studies is very impor