Okay. Welcome to the Commonwealth Club. Im the former executive director for the investigative reporting and the current board member and moderator for tonights program. This program is part of the clubs series by the Bernard Foundation and it is my pleasure to introduce todays distinguished speaker senior fellow at the institute at Brown University brothers overthrow hes also an awardwinning correspondent for the boston globe. His new book tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the cias seat medical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. On the original interviewer int, survivors testimonies and documentary research, the book brings to light the massive hunt for the secret of mind control that spans several countries including the work of nazi scientists and led experimentations on Government Employees willing and unwilling, foreign politicians and the children, prisoners, sex workers and anyone else they deem threatening or expendable. Youre about to hear a tale of the most po
Club. Im the former executive director for the investigative reporting and the current board member and moderator for tonights program. This program is part of the clubs series by the Bernard Foundation and it is my pleasure to introduce todays distinguished speaker senior fellow at the institute at Brown University brothers overthrow hes also an awardwinning correspondent for the boston globe. His new book tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the cias seat medical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. On the original interviewer int, survivors testimonies and documentary research, the book brings to light the massive hunt for the secret of mind control that spans several countries including the work of nazi scientists and led experimentations on Government Employees willing and unwilling, foreign politicians and the children, prisoners, sex workers and anyone else they deem threatening or expendable. Youre about to hear a tale of the most powerful unknown americans in the 21
Foundation today or speaker Stephen Kinzer from Brown University it also has a new book poison or in chief. The author of nine books to overthrow with that awardwinning correspondence and to tell astonishing stories of the cia medical experiments of the fifties and sixties. With original interviews and survive her testimony in documentary research for the secret of mind control span several countries including nazi scientists leading to experimentation of Government Employees and foreign politicians prisoners, sex workers and anyone else that is deemed threatening. With the most powerful unknown in the 20th century of the government lies and deceptions. Please welcome Stephen Kinzer. [applause] thank you. This is now my tenth book. I have to say that if i devoted a great deal of my career to figure out whats behind the facade of politics and Public Diplomacy that we see maybe they were surprising or shocking to some people but this is the first time i have been shocked im still in shoc
Could present a danger to the community. Two of epsteins accusers, asked the judge not to release epstein on bail. One saying she was 14 years old when epstein abused her in palm beach. Was a very dark time of my life but i just hope that basically he gets what prosecuted the way he should have been. Epsteins defense attorney argued if he wanted to flee he already would have and hes disciplined himself his conviction in 2008 telling the judge its not like hes an out of control rapist to which the judge replied, how do you know that. So epstein wants to stay in his 77 million townhouse how would that work. Ultimately will be up to the judge but legal team says he will pay for armed guards for surveillance cameras and ankle monitor to prevent fleeing. To complicate it for the judge more women have come forward since epsteins arrest more than a week ago but the judge will decide on bail this thursday. Okay. Thank you. Protesters in san juan demand their governor step down after using prof
Was a Mysterious Illness that point everybodys attention highly lethal. And it started to spread people died this was on the heels and nine all over. It was chaos we didnt know who was doing it. [theme music] welcome to how it really happened. Im jesse l. Martin. A suspicious letter arrives in the mail. Inside the envelope, a white powder. The fbi responds because today, thoughts immediately turned to terrorism. That fear was born out of an attack in september 2001. Just one week after the tragedy of 9 11, powderlaced letters began to make their way through the us postal system. The potential of murder by mail gripped the country with fear and launched one of the largest investigations in fbi history. This is how it really happened. [music playing] [people screaming] get out get out look out look out look out today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. It was something that the imagination didnt ca