Good evening. Im tom putnam director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum, and on behalf of the kenibrar and my of the ceo of the Kennedy Library thank foundation and all of my all library and foundation collects and i thank you for coming. Welcome all those watching on cspan. And acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedyth Library Forum lead sponsor bank of america, raytheon, bostonion, an our capital, the Boston Foundation and our mediart partners the boston globe, viacom. X you are for me with the story. Its th the late 1950s idential candidate scion to fortune, oneman force field of celebrity good look and charms, fresh all victory in his home state in the middle east and impatient under president eisenhower itching to get the country moving again and encountering his main impediment to the white house in the form of richard m. Nixon. The description applies to john f. Kennedy also fits nelson a. Rockefeller. The resemblance is more uncanny when compar
[inaudible] the role that [inaudible] have had in strengthening the Iraqi Kurdistan . You repeat that . Yes. If you could please comment on the role that exxon, the oil company exxonmobil. Yeah, sorry. Okay. Thank you. Exxon is one of a number of Large International Oil Companies that have signed exploration and production agreements with the regional government. They did that under threat from baghdad, that they might lose their positions and privilege to develop oil fields in parts of iraq. P. M. They need a Banking Sector they need to be involved in regional trade, but oil is king, and exxon has played a leading role. Seems like a good place to leave these things. David, once again, you have given us a comprehensive sweep of the kurdish issue as well as the politics of the entire region. Again, the book is othe kurdish spring a new map of the middle east. And here with author david phillips. Please join me in thanking him for his insights today. [applause] booktv is on twitter and f
By her family members. Janet oh, has more. Actually heard the thing rollover and heard the horn. Witness say they ran out to find the back end of a gravel truck on top of a car with a many would trapped inside. Myself and guy working on the side of the road trying to dig her out. Guy with the backhoe here he came around ripped the door off after he tried to pick the trailer up. She was smashed inside the car and dead. Martinez police along with cal osha are investigating the case talking with the driver of the truck to find out what went wrong. Police say the accident happened at 1 this afternoon along shell avenue. The truck was working for the city to improve the road safety. My own feelings i think they should have closed the road off. I dont think they should have been doing this with the road open. Neighbors say the driver was in the wrong place at the wrong time but they think the accident could have been much worse had it happened later in the afternoon when the High School Kids
Sky 7 was overhead. The truck was contracted to do some work in the area. The driver of that truck had asked the woman to move her car so it would not be in the way while they were working. Abc 7 News Reporter janet oh, is on the scene. We have news on a boy who fell from a skylight while trying to get his basketball off the roof. You can see the wooden board covering the light. The 9yearolds mother is now talking to abc 7 news about her sons condition and what hes now wishing for. Reporter the boys name is William Wells. He fell several feet fractured his spine and suffered a head injury. He is doing much better than yesterday. Hes talking. His mother described him as a good little soldier. 9yearold William Wells condition is improving. Hes asking to go home. My sons in there. I wish he wouldnt be there. I wish i could be going through the pain hes going through. Reporter yesterday he and a few friends were playing when the ball went on the roof. According to School District officials
Still here in part of the organization including people getting chained to benches that are set up right outside of the mission station and you can see there is a line of Police Officers in front of the Police Station. Also as part of the demonstration, they have stopped this tech bus transported employees to ebay and you can see this is a main reason why they are demonstrating over there as a poster of nieto and this is video of the scene a year ago of person am personal Bernal Heights park and police say he aimed a taser at officers and shots were fired. Now video of this scene here earlier this morning that started at 7 00 with part of the demonstration a bus and a lot of the ten workers were let out and one of points of stopping the bus is that urgency needs to be paid attention to the officer involved shootings as buses that have difficult transporting employees to the tech company. There are people still changed to the fence at the Police Station and the Fire Department is called