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For those that have the catastrophe that follow. Hello there. Guess who i am. [laughter] if i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover you need to get out of the hole you have been living in for a while. [laughter] her book has just celebrated 100 consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list. It is number one. [applause] Michelle Malcolm milken is down there. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats why you are still here at the last lecture on the second day but we thought we would go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho and actually it is such a beautiful setting and a lot of beautiful memories that you still have. Yes. It was a Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on but ....
Letelier. At the same time, Ronni Moffitt, a u. S. Citizen, was also killed in this car bomb. All of this happened here in Sheridan Circle in the heart of embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute for policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction in bethesda, maryland. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. In the car with him were two colleagues from ips, Ronni Moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner over here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the drivers seat i ....
Marked forever in the heart of washington, d. C. By this assassination. Hello, everyone. Good, we can hear everyone nicelily. Welcome to busboys and poets. My name is olivia. Im the book Events Coordinator here and im very excited to invite Alan Mcpherson for his book, ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Its an event i was not aware of, honestly, and very excited to read about it in this book and excited for alan to speak about it. Here at busboys we like to have conversations that others arent having and i feel like this is one of nose so im excited for him to speak about it. Im going to give you a little kind of overview. If you have a cell phone, please take photos but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you probably can see. Thats a little distracting. We will have the fwoobooks for. We have them for s ....
A u. S. Citizen, was also killed. Bomb, and all of this happened at sheridan on embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. The car with him were two ronni in the car with him were two ips, ronnifrom moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the the drivers seat in the chevelle Orlando Letelier was driving. The order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at augusto by a custo a pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity t ....