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Audience members please turn off your cell phones now. Everybody take a second to make sure your cell phone is off. So we have two wonderful boston globe columnist here, kevin cole in in your penitentiary, and we asked him if he would like to attend but when the phone didnt ring we knew it was him. [laughter] shelley and i have covered, first of all, shelley grew up in dorchester very close to the south boston line. She went to south boston high. My entire maternal side is in south boston so we would have grown up knowing, learning about Whitey Bulger by osmosis. Everybody where we grew up where we were from knew he was a hoodlum, a and a very dangerous guy. Approximate the same time the different newspapers, we were paying attention to him and writing about him. And, obviously, what really made whitey just a remarkable story is while he was the most powerful gangster in boston his brother that was the most powerful politician in massachusetts. He was the long serving, longest serving

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