Production of George Gershwins crazy for you. And 2011 he starred in another music video titled land drew dance. And as recently as last year he was cast in the lead role for an outdoor production of oklahoma. Who knew . So what we do know is that hes in its outstanding incredibly effective. Investigative journalist, like no other when he founded project veritas. He didnt just revive investigative. Journalism, he reinvented it. We are pleased to have him here with us today and our truly grateful for his existence lady sent gentlemen. Please give the warmest east valley. Welcome to james okeefe. Thank you so much. What an honor to be here and southern, california . Im go brandon, obviously. Should i sing that . Um, wow, well, ive never seen so much musical talent in this room. I mean, i know im in california, but i was telling randy as ive never seen singing your i mean by music, i mean, yes, im a very musical person. I am the founder of project veritas project truth. Most of you famili
Capitalism. We conclude tonights primetime programming at 11 00 eastern with james votess book Freedom National taking a look at slavery 18611865. Visit booktv. Org for more on this weekends television schedule. Next on booktv, barbara matusow, editor of scooped it recounts the life of her career Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Barbara matusow is joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson. It is a discussion of jack nelsons memoir scoop the evolution of a southern reporter. It is about an hour. Good evening, everyone, good to have everyone here. My name is Hank Klibanoff and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight, as director of the Journalism Program at emory and coauthor of the book about coverage of the Civil Rights Movement, featured tags quite prominently. First of all i want to thank the Carter
Carter library and museum for hosting this and cosponsoring this and also the Emory University library, particularly the manuscript and archives and rare books library. Which costs papers and wisdom of a great number of journalists, white, africanamerican, of all sorts and we are so pleased five of those are Pulitzer Prize winners and the latest among them is at the 11. Barbara matusow is so generous and made jack nelsons papers in our position and there is some rich history and i encourage everyone to take a look at them. We are here to celebrate the life, memoir, papers of jack nelson with people who knew him extremely well. Jack is a man of the enormous influence and consequence in the nation. The story of jack nelson for those who dont know is a story of news reporting and the latter half of the 20th century. If you look at his career, starting off, he was born in alabama across the state line, moves as a child from biloxi where he starts telling newspapers, he was a newspaper boy,
Department will no longer be involved in the tent situation in ferguson that has seen days of protests following the teen. G of unarmed an lets here from florida. Go ahead. We will hear again from st. Louis, and, diane, we will welcome your call and wait for the governor. Caller good afternoon, how are you . Good afternoon. Caller im talking about the olice aren how peopl handling this. Anger is running really high do us a favor and just mute your television or radio and go ahead with your commentary he said anger is running really high. Please keep things under control. Caller anger is running really high. Last night was unnecessary. If people want to come out and protest to early in the morning, that is emphasizing your First Amendment. Exercising their First Amendment. With the police being there all you do that, i think that runs a lot more anger. I think that they should do a bit better, maybe back down and let these peaceful demonstrators them in straight what they are going to d
Ea about the past of the news. The troubles for this country faced. I will add one more thing. Those troubles have their seeds in georgia. Atlanta, georgia. Im a structural engineer. Iname to the United States 1969. 45 years. I got my masters degree in 1971. With one mission in life, degrees are not important. Money is not important. Positions, not important. Citizenship, i am right now citizen of two countries. The United States and iraq. Neverne in citizenship, subordinate your country to a pocket book. Once you do that you violate rule one. Here,hen i came to speak me im nottold supposed to carry those documents in my hands. Im going to give those documents to those gentlemen. They will see the horrible things going on. Respectful. Be very could you this is a q a session. Would you put the question to our panel . Id be glad to. If somebody told you that some of the major media in this nation kept the American People in the dark about major events, and this question is addressed to a