Hello and welcome, its good to be here in person with you all. My name is kim daniels, i am the director of georgetown universitys initiative on catholic thought and life. I want to thank all of you for joining us in person and online for this important public dialogue on the 60th anniversary of the march on washington for jobs and freedom, keeping the dream alive. [applause] we are so grateful to have so many of you joining us today. With a full house here, over 1600 people joining us online and many more joining us via cspan. 60 years ago today, more than 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the march on washington for jobs and freedom. Dr. Martin luther king sent to all of those gathered and watching throughout the country, i have a dream. Words that would inspire so many at that time and in the years to come. The leader of washingtons Catholic Community at the time delivered the invocation earlier that day. The archbishop had encouraged d. C. Catholics to participate
Cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book developers every weekend. But Tv Television for serious readers. Hi everyone, thank you for coming to the Tattered Cover and thank you for joining us for tonights author event. Thank you for coming out to support your local independent bookstore, we greatly appreciate it. Tonight we have dan hampton, most of you probably know hes the author of hunter killers and wards of the sky among several others. Hes a decorated pilot and a historian of, okay. A noted historian. Tonight hes going to be discussing the flight, his recounting of Charles Lindberghs famous transatlantic flight from new york to paris. So without further ado, im going to go ahead and turn it over to dan. Lets give him some big applause. [applause] i also tap dance and sing badly. Well, thank you jennifer. And michael, and the Tattered Cover crowd as well as my cspan buddies mark and steve whove done this with me several times before. Probably tired of looking at me. And its good to be back
My mom used to say i know but i cant put my finger on it. I knew, but i just couldnt name it and described it and the new jim crow put everything that i experienced through the criminal Justice System, through my community in plain and distinct order. So as i stayed around and continued the work, my understanding and analysis grew and with that, my commitment and determination grew to change things. Not only for myself, but for everybody who crossed my path. And that resulted in Movement Building and systems change, in Leadership Development and in building a Strong Community that sticks advice together thank you for that. Susan, let me ask this of both of you because you talk about your own sort of narrativearc or your learning curve. Michelle, certainly before that as well and im very aware that we have a much larger consciousness about ending mass incarceration now. It wasnt this big when we started critical resistance in 1997 with angela davis and i wonder what it was that was disr
Pope franciss Easter Service includes a prayer this years race for the white house puts a spotlight on religious tolerance, the topic of the week ahead. And the bell tolls for the u. S. S. Ship, a mystery of what happened to the crew 95 years ago finally solved. I cant re pe ginning with a suicide bombing in lahore. 65 killed, most women and children. 250 wounded. Hosts ran out of ambulances, taxis brought people in for treatment. A Pakistan Taliban group claimed responsibility, saying they targeted christians. We have this report. Reporter an explosion at a childrens park in the heart of lahore. This was the latest Taliban Attack to claim lives, a food cart vendor described the moment of the blast. I was talking about it. I heard an explosion, i couldnt understand what was happening. It was the weekend and the park was full of families, as a result host of the dead and injured women and children. Witnesses reported bodies strewn everywhere. People used taxis and rickshaws to move the
In the big apple and he is making his way shortly to st. Patricks cathedral and earlier today the pontiff addressed the joint meeting of congress then met with homeless people, being assisted by Catholic Charities and had lunch with them. We are going to get back to the popes story in america in just a moment but there is another huge story we are following as well. Tragedy on one of the holiest days in islam, over 700 people were crushed to death in a stampede during the annual hodge in saudi arabia. Hundreds more were injured as many as 800 more injured. Saudi arabias king solomon promised a swift investigation into the worst disaster in two decades, we will have much more tonight in our 7 00 eastern hour. Lets get to libby casey now live on capitol hill as our coverage of the pope continues and libby is it safe to say the pope left quite the impression on capitol hill tonight . Absolutely tony and a lot was on a personal level. As we heard from senators and house members reacting to