That the Georgia Historical Society invited me to have this Senior Historian is my cohost. There is really no place i would rather be on the summer night than in this lovely southern town. Although i now live in california, grew up in georgia. It is wonderful being back. Seeing old friends, many old ends, making some new ones southerners are warm and embracing, and really the best word is dear. So dear. The south is a golden place. Yet, as we all know, there is another darker side. Behind locked doors in almost every southern town. Something unspeakable has been hidden. Nowhere is that more true than marietta. Tonight, a stones throw from where we are gathered , the best men of marietta were putting the last touches on a bold and dimmable plots. Damnable plot. They were motivated, they believed, by the desire for justice, but nothing about their actions would be just. It would lynch a man, most likely, an innocent one. They would terrify and traumatize a generation of american jews, pa
U. S. Foreign policy, the growth of terrorism and especially isis, and all so the fate of minorities in syria. He is a historian who spent a number of years in the levant. He is a graduate of Princeton University and studied at oxford as a road scholar. He has written for the wall street journal and the times literary supplement. For those of you who are frequent visitors to our meeting, knows the we try to reach out to experts, new faces, new ideas so we are in for a very exciting next 25 minutes and then we will open the floor to your questions and we have an overflow of questions from the overflow. Thank you for coming. It is nice to be here. I have admired the Wilson Center added distance for a long time and it is a thrill to finally be speaking here as an author. I want to thank Haleh Esfandiari for the invitation. Thank you for being here. I want to begin briefly by telling you about the book, what am i doing here . Then i will talk about among the ruins syria past and present. S
South carolina tonight. Reporter to so many tonight, what happened in this killing of another unarmed black man is only coming to light because someone in the bushes was recording with a camera. North charleston patrolman Michael Slager is charged with murder. He told his bosses that 50yearold Walter Lamar Scott had grabbed his stun gun after an argument over a traffic stop. In the revealing video the unarmed father of four is running away after apparently being hit by the stun gun and the cords of the weapon are still attached. As scott is down, the policeman is seen dropping an object near the body. Although the Police Report said they administered cpr, theres no evidence of that in the nearly fourminute video. Not every officer is cpr certified. Reporter theres the issue of looking at slagers past police work. Hes had two complaints in five years. He was cleared in the only charge of excessive force. Other incidents hes had. Well look at that. Reporter black demonstrators are marchi
Dzhokhar tsarnaev slumped in his seat in court as he learned he could now face the death penalty. The jury deliberated for more than 11 hours over two days coming back with an aross the board contribution. Finding the 21yearold responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing. The deaths of lindsey lou Krystle Campbell and Martin Richard. Including the murder of m. I. T. Police officer sean collier. Survivors responding. Tweeting todays verdict will never replace the lives that were lost and so dramatically changed. But it is a release, and one step closer to closure. The trial now moving into the sentencing phase. The defense team led by attorney judy clark who successfully fought to keep past clients including unibomber off death row will do the same for tsarnaev. The question for him is can we save his life. The only other possibility is life in prison. If the defense can convince jurors of the claim he was not a driven terrorist but rather a vulnerable teenager influenced bytamerlan. I
Targeted 50 people here in the bay area. It led to the arrest of people tied to four street gangs. They raided homes over the past mornt. All 50 people are being prosecuted on state charges. In all the Homeland Security officials charged 913 suspected gang members. A boston jury convicted surviving boston n marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of carrying out that deadly attack. He was found guilty on all 30 counts and now faces the possibility of the death penalty. Prosecutors argued the 21yearold self radicalized muslim was intent on committing miss murder. Were all going to move upon with our lives. Were all going to get back to some sense of normalcy. Hopefully when this is all done. So closure, i dont think so. A jury will decide whether to sentence tsarnaev to death or life in prison. His brother died in a shootout with police days after the bombing. Jeff who lost both of his legs said todays verdict will never replace the lives lost. But it is a relief. Some runners for the bay are