talking about the murder of disabled jewish new yorker leon klinghofer by palestinian militants in 1985. thank you very much for coming. the usual reminders to silence your cell phones, restrain from flash photography and plan to join us afterwords for the book signing. welcome, my name is andy kahan, director of author events. tonight we look back more than 30 years to the brutal murder of a disabled jewish new yorker at the hands of the palestinian terrorists, an incident that shocked the world and continues to reverberate through the culture at large and the lives of families affected. the initial murder, an innocent bystander, the killing of leon klinghofer, in an innocent bystander: the killing of leon klinghofer julie salamon offers a view of the never-ending cycle of the murder of innocents. initially a long time banking reporter and film critic for the wall street journal, then a tv critic and our reporters at the new york times, julie salamon has written notable
a disabled jewish new yorker at the hands of the palestinian terrorists an incident that shocked the world and continues to reverberate through the culture at large and to the lives of the families affected by the initial murder and the senseless reprisal. it in an innocent bystander the killing of leon klinghoffer julie salamon offers a train and 60-degree view of the ruinous never-ending cycle of the murder of innocents. initially a longtime banking reporter and film critic for the wall street journal and a tv critic and our reporter at the new york times ms. solomon has written notable nonfiction books about show business philanthropy the holocaust the insanity defense and modern medical care. for 10 previous works include several bestsellers into novels for children. it s a pleasure to have her return. please welcome julie salamon to the free library of philadelphia. [applause] i m a good evening. thank you for coming out on this hot summer night. you are not on vac
intelligence after some rough spots has actually been quite effective. so, i wouldn t change that. here s what i would do. we talk a lot about private/public partnerships. we do not do them very well. we our national security sits on a bed of privately held assets and we have basically left those privately held assets on their own. there are a couple of mandates here and there. but we don t protect we don t protect them, and we don t utilize them in a real partnership. we have to get over the notion that private is private and public is public and figure out mechanisms by which we can help each other in both sectors. we have been miserable at it and that has caused all manner of vulnerabilities in our society that i think could be fixed if people who are experienced and people of goodwill put their minds to it. mike? yeah, harvey, i will reinforce what jamie just said. this is beyond at the dotted line, it should be a solid line in terms of organizational charts. i do t
for everything you do every single day. we hope you guys have had a wonderful christmas. for those of you who are with your families, that is a true blessing. for those of you still a little bit far away from home, we hope you had a chance to give them our best and let them know we love them as well. michelle and i are looking forward to taking pictures with all of you. we see a couple of new babies this time. we always get our baby fix. when we take these photos. the main thing i want to say is keep up the extraordinary work. el and theon rest of the commanding officers here, thank you for doing an extraordinary job. thank you for welcoming us as well. the only problem i got when i am here is having to work out with marines in the gym because i generally feel like your commander in chief is in pretty good shape. then i get next to some guy curling 100 pounds and makes me feel small. [laughter] that is ok. it gives me inspiration. i will work harder to keep up with you next y
thank you for coming on such a chilly day, and i m delighted to present perhaps 25, 30 minutes of comments and the interaction with you on the questions you have. i m also very glad to see jim phillips here. i ve worked on terrorism issues with jim for it must be a quarter century now, and there are very few people that write with the intelligence and prudence that jim phillips does. here s a couple reasons why i wanted to write this book, with the way terrorism encounters the citizen. i remember back in 1980 reading some clippings many newspapers, it was in newspapers, it was in the chicago area. and a woman was looking out her window near her home, and she saw a van pull up. and in that van there proved to be some nine different people. and they looked rather like an athletics team, you know? the jogging uniforms and the bags. but as she looked out her window, this lady, mrs. walter jacobson, decides that she should be a little nervous about this. there d been some robb