Welcome. My name is Francis Gary Powers jr. I go by gary. Im the founder of the Cold War Museum at vent hill, virginia, about 45 miles west of washington, d. C. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1996 to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history and educate future generations about the time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to High School Students in this area, nine times out of 10, the students would not know anything about the cold war. They would think that the utwo incident had something to do with the utwo rock band. I noticed that they needed to be taught about the cold war time period. In 1996, we founded the museum which opened in 2011 here at vent hill farms station. A former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. Area. It used to be used by nsa, c. I. A. , asa, Army Security agency, and other groups to monday horthe Electronic Communications around the washington, d. C. Embassy and international signals. The cold war was a geopolitical stan
[inaudible conversations] c i didnt even have to say anything. You are a welltrained bunch. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon and welcome to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and education center. My name is lillian and im the director public programs. I get the privilege under regular basis. We thank you so much for being here with us today. We hope you overturn on other occasions. Usually i play a game with the audience and i will do it very quickly. Is this your first visit . Please raise your hand. Raise it higher so i can see it they thank you, thank you, thank you. Over here too. Thank you. In the interest so the rest of you can exercise one of your arms if you are a regular and if you attend programs all the time and if you are one of our members please raise your hand. Thank you so much. Thank you. The folks who raised her hands the first time around these dont take my word for it alone. Ask anyone elset around you whoe hand went up a second time why they support
Coronavirus pandemic. Talks aboutakabas the u. S. Economy and the Record Number of job losses as a result of the virus. Camila dechalus good morning. It is wednesday. Four weeks since the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. As of today, nearly 13,000 americans have died of the disease, 400,000 americans have been diagnosed, and a 360 Million People in 42 states in the district and in the district of columbia are living under stayathome orders. We are asking how you are dealing with social distancing . Let us know how it has impacted you, your family and job. We have split up the phone lines by age. If you are under 25, 202 7488000. 2650 years. And if you are 5170 years old, the number is 202 7488002. And if you are over 70 years old, 202 7488003. You can catch up with us on social media. Wj on twitter. And regis on facebook. Reach us on facebook. Call now as we show you the map from the New York Times of the states in which residents have been told the stayathom
[inaudible conversations] welcome to politics politics and prose so we will jump right in. Please silence your cell phones we will be recording audio and video. To ask the same questions there will be a signing behind the register and then he will sign them and just prop them against the surface when were done thank you. Finance editor from the New York Times reporter and editor at the wall street journal david enrich before that and a reporter in new york winning numerous journalism awards previously the author of the Spider Network how the scheming bankers pulled off in history which was the book of the year so his newest book dark towers donald trump and the epic trail of deception and its relationship with us president and then to demonstrate the evolution and character to become the global face of financial malfeasance please welcome david enrich to politics and prose. [applause] hello. Ive had a lot of book events im not kidding six people in the room this is awesome so i will ta
A recent review in the philadelphia enquirer says this exhibition has love, death, and psychodrama. It goes on to examine a wealthy irish noble man who is part kickens with a spritz of Yankee Doodle into there is no doubt that his story from his traumatic head wound, to the demise at the hand of his own tenants is a cracking good tale, but it is more than love, death, and psychodrama. We see the entanglements of the 18th century and the global interconnectedness of the American Revolution. We find a story at the age of revolutions and also a story of today. A story of who we are and how we got here, and what the past means to us as a people or as nations. But we also find a detective story. A decades long mystery that started with two regullatively obscure paintings that had 22 works of art. One of the greatest mysteries of the past year, and my job brings me many, many joys on a regular basis, but one of the greatest has been watching this exhibition evolve and witnessing matts excite