In 1963 . Well, it was north stanford so thats mad mow had more land it and was our family. In 63 may have been more. May have been two or three. In that section of the south. Very much signature segregated ourselves in stanford, connecticut. Host what would you. At that segregation, one of the fee africanamericans. Guest i remember in Elementary School children asking me if i bathed and me feeling very insecure, very shy, not didnt speak at all. I wouldnt ask questions. I wouldnt wear my glasses because i didnt want to be different in any other way and didnt understand that was part of my experience there, being the only black child in the fifth grade. So fifth grade i was the only black child in the school. Host why did mom and dad want you to have that . Or wanted you to live there. Guest i dont think they wanted to us have that level of isolation nor lack of really they werent sending us out there as an experiment. It was that my father was still playing for the brooklyn dodgers, w
Now carry cargo to the International Space station and of course you have elon musk and jeff bezos with blue origin and elon musk with space x building rockets. Must is maybe more of the celebrity type. Jeff bezos is more of the just working away. Hes got three rockets assigned, the first one is the armstrong which is the suborbital, the second is the glenn that we put people in orbit and the third is armstrong which will be something to carry interplanetary to the moon or elsewhere. This is very exciting. How many of you guys know Robert Bigelow . He is right up here in las vegas, North Las Vegas and i think it was 2001, he invited a group of about 15 or 20 space geeks, me included by the way to las vegas and he said he made 1 billion in his hotels and he said i want spend half of that putting up private space stations and i want to make sure that i dont run afoul of regulators and so forth who screwed things up. So we had to three days talking about how to do that what he came up wit
I did want to miss that question. Black People Living in stamford connecticut in 1963. It was north stanford so thats it had more land, so there were not, it was just our family. In 63 there may have been more. There may have been two or three. In that section of the town. It was still segregated ourselves in stamford connecticut. What you remember about that segregation being one of the few african americans. I remember in Elementary School children asking me questions. And i remember feeling very insecure. And shy, not being able to speak at all, i wouldnt ask questions. It wouldnt wear o my glasses because i didnt want to be different in any other way. I didnt understand that that was part of my experience there. Being the only black child. Since fifth grade i was the only black child in the school. Why did mom and dad want you to have that. To live there. I dont think they wanted us to have that loophole of isolation or lack of you know they were sending us out there is an experime
But i had a wonderful professor at Columbia Law School who later moved to stanford, jerry gunther. He was in charge of getting clerkships for columbia students, and he called every federal judge on the Second Circuit, in the southern, eastern districts of new york, and he was not meeting with success. So he called a columbia graduate, judge edmund palmieri, who was a columbia undergraduate, Columbia Law School graduate and always took his clerks from columbia. And he said i strongly recommend that you engage ruth Bader Ginsburg. And palmieris response was ive had women law clerks, i know theyre okay, but shes a mother, and sometimes we have to work on weekends, even on a sunday. So professor gunther said give her a chance, and if she doesnt work out, a young man in her class whos going to a Downtown Firm will jump in and take over. So that was the carrot. It was also a stick, and the stick was if you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia graduate as your law c
Mark also worked with ben cramer on joe dimaggio, published in 2000. Since 1989, he produced, directed, and has written many awardwinning programs for pbs spanning a rich friday of subjects such as battle of the bulge, the pilgrimage of jesse theon, mount rushmore, Transcontinental Railroad, and jesse james. He has received the dupont columbia award, the George Foster peabody award, the Writers Guild award, and the prize from the japan foundation. Was producer and writer for the four hour pbs history of the United States supreme court, which was awarded the International Documentary associations award for Outstanding Limited series. Also the American Bar Association and the Parents Choice gold award. Mark was also nominated for a primetime emmys in the category of Outstanding Achievement, in nonfiction filmmaking and Outstanding Achievement in writing for his pbs program on walt whitman. Hes also the author of will you miss me when im gone . , which came out in 2002. It was one of the