Tour, but only a brief clip is shown in the first few minutes of this program. Good evening and welcome, everyone. I am tom putnam, director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum, and on behalf of the executive director of the Kennedy Library foundation, the board of directors, and all of our colleagues, i think you for joining us this evening. Let me first acknowledge the generous underwriters of the forum, boston capital, the local institute, raytheon, the boston foundation, and our media partners. We considered having this Forum Last Night on the actual 50th anniversary of mrs. Kennedys tour but did not want to make any of you having to choose between sharing valentines day with loved ones or with your friends here at the Kennedy Library. We are so pleased to have so many of you with us this evening. 50 years ago, Jacqueline Kennedy introduced herself to the nation. In many ways, the public already knew her from her role as the president s wife, mother of two child
This was once a center of the nazi party in the unit. And here where the nazis planned the systematic seizure of jewish assets today a belated restitution for those crimes is being worked on. The backs of documents that have arrived at the Central Institute for our history in munich are a treasure trove for the art world provenance researcher michael hop has received the entire archive of the uli as buller our dealership from the years 1933 to 1945 to work through. It could be a huge opportunity to locate lost artworks from jewish collections. As this said that. This can be like looking for a needle in a haystack we have at least 1500. 00 photos like this to digitize we have a total of nearly 40000. 00 of burleighs transactions that were working on and figuring out so we have a lot of work ahead of us on making our microphones the. Picked up 10. Masa. Feet lend. Out to a wooden stein james blish without Fritz Goodman i got to sell and none. These are important names but we must always
Now the editor in chief Marvin Olasky examines the principles of journalism and offers his thoughts on reporting. Good afternoon and welcome to the Heritage Foundation, my name is rob bluey, Vice President of communications at heritage and executive editor of the daily said no. As a courtesy to the speaker spo become a habit to ask you silence your cell phone although dont turn them off, because we do encourage you to share on social media about todays program and to help us spread the word we are streaming on twitter and youtube and you can find it on the heritage beyond both of those channels and platforms. To introduce the guests today, Marvin Olasky is a prolific writer and accomplished editor. We are proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation where he is a former visiting fellow in somebody that is a close friend of the organization. Hes the author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism, which he will discuss with us today. Marvins political jou
Good afternoon and welcome to the Heritage Foundation, my name is rob bluey, Vice President of communications at heritage and executive editor of the daily said no. As a courtesy to the speaker spo become a habit to ask you silence your cell phone although dont turn them off, because we do encourage you to share on social media about todays program and to help us spread the word we are streaming on twitter and youtube and you can find it on the heritage beyond both of those channels and platforms. To introduce the guests today, Marvin Olasky is a prolific writer and accomplished editor. We are proud to welcome him back to the Heritage Foundation where he is a former visiting fellow in somebody that is a close friend of the organization. Hes the author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism, which he will discuss with us today. Marvins political journey is quite unique as he became an atheist marxist in high school and went on to join the communist party in the
These are important names but we must always remember that theyre simply representative of very very many fates and the nazi era. By them given the large number of objects we provenance researchers work with and the many names we encounter that we cant even properly identify cases like these are very important as examples they enable us to demonstrate how the mechanism of expropriation and looting functioned and how certain objects ended up in museums. And of course each object has a very moving story to tell of the fate of its former owners. And. The town of falling in is located in southwestern germany. This is where the jewish couple errands and i gotto zalman who were evident collectors loot from the late 1920 s. Until they were forced to flee nazi germany in late 1935. Providence researcher eras schmeiser was examining the collection of lead because museum in frankfurt. She was checking its legality when she found that the museum had a madonna figure that had belonged to the solom