In so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor, bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopened this weekend, due to a global pandemic. In recent weeks in the United States, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments and memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in, and working here at monticello, we are a site of memory. Monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today we decided to have a conversation, we would do something that we havent done and im sure everyone knows this, that when you tune in youre not actually talking to Thomas Jeffe
Rick abath voiceover i was panicking. I didnt realize i was panicking, but i was completely panicking. I was afraid that they were going to set the place on fire after they were done. That was my fear. God, i hope they dont burn the place down. [suspenseful music] hello. And welcome to how it really happened. Im jesse l. Martin. Bostons Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is known for its vibrant Art Depicting Picturesque Dutch and renaissance scenes. But on One Dark Night in 1990, the Museum Became the scene of a horrifying crime. Robbers swept in, terrorizing the guards, and taking 13 works of art now worth half a billion dollars. The sinister smash and grab left the fbi with a mind boggling mystery on their hands. Where are the missing masterpieces and who were the masterminds behind this audacious heist . This is how it really happened. [suspenseful music] kelly horan voiceover march 17th, 1990, is st. Patricks day, which is practically a National Holiday in boston. Randi kaye voiceove
To separate the two issues they luckily i have one here tonight. The president can legally kick the fbi director to the curb cause it is anthat will position. E big question is why now . Maybe it has something to do with last weeks hillary declaration. I was on the way to winning until the combination of jim comeys letter on october 28 and russian wikileaks reached out in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. Kennedy with political enemies on both sides of the aisle comeys head on a platter should have been a bipartisan fees. Instead democratic jackals particularly pounced on the opportunity to fan on the flames of russian collusion. We know director comey was leading an investigation and whether the Trump Campaign colluded with the russians, a serious offense. Where those investigations getting too close to home for the president . Kennedy i dont know if chuck. It might be problematic for the president gives the democrats a hysterical entree to talki
To separate the two issues they luckily i have one here tonight. The president can legally kick the fbi director to the curb cause it is anthat will position. E big question is why now . Maybe it has something to do with last weeks hillary declaration. I was on the way to winning until the combination of jim comeys letter on october 28 and russian wikileaks reached out in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. Kennedy with political enemies on both sides of the aisle comeys head on a platter should have been a bipartisan fees. Instead democratic jackals particularly pounced on the opportunity to fan on the flames of russian collusion. We know director comey was leading an investigation and whether the Trump Campaign colluded with the russians, a serious offense. Where those investigations getting too close to home for the president . Kennedy i dont know if chuck. It might be problematic for the president gives the democrats a hysterical entree to talki
Before i ask a question, i want to show you a video. I mustve had six or seven biographies written about me. Exciting upnot that until i was president. Have these amazing experiences. I did not really accomplish all that much when i was in high school or in college. Folks think around and they are looking for stuff. Then they try to dramatize things that are kind of routine. There is a part of you that says why would you care about this, it is not that interesting. How right is he. Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your biography is a major part of american history. Had a mucha actually more interesting, much more richly varied earlier life then we have really to a large extent known up until now. People are aware he grew up in hawaii. But the really transformative period of baracks life in his mid20s came when he was living in chicago for the first time, 1985 to 1988, working as a Community Organizer on the far south side, his first immersion in an