It will be hard, but the time is now. You must act. Be bold, be courageous. Americans are counting on you. Thank you. Kelly, obviously that was a gripping way to start the hearing. Where do we go from there . It is rare you have something so emotionally and politically charged and have a witness like Gabby Gifford that is the panel can relate to so personally. That made today more compelling. Key issues, democrats and many of them are supporting the idea of universal background checks to expand how they would know the background mental history and that sort of thing. Also what to do about ammunition and should there be restrictions related to the number of bullets and the number of high capacity clips and that kind of thing. Those are very difficult issues and Many Democrats on the panel acknowledged their own support for gun ownership and trying to find a path to make restrictions, but at the same time to be able to respect the rights of Second Amendment and the gun owners and gun ent
To a mrs. Begg. Just as today, they focused on individual letter shapes the spacing between words, and the way letter pairs like th are made. In addition to these physical comparisons they pointed out that the notes were written as if by an immigrant. This is the first ransom note that was left in the nursery. We warn you from making anyding public or for notify the police. Its an odd way of writing. The dear sir ends with an exclamation point. The dollar sign is put after the dollar amount, which is a german way of writing the money. Also there are misspellings of words. The word signature is spelled singnature. Narrator but the defense expert using the same comparisons said hauptmann was not the author. So who is right . We might know if we had taken hauptmanns begg letter envelope, retrieved a dna sample from the licked flap and compared it to dna samples from the ransom note envelopes. But new jersey refused our request to do a dna analysis. Today handwriting analysis has become mo
The crucial bit are these chains which encircle the rod, one, and here is a second and entwine. This is the double helix. An extraordinary feat of intellectual deduction, and it led to a whole new branch of science molecular genetics. More recently, dna has given us new insights into the family relationships of animals using a technique called dna fingerprinting. It was developed by sir Alec Jeffreys of Leicester University in 1984, and using just a simple smear of blood, its possible not only to identify one particular individual, but to establish whether or not its closely related to another. For example, we used to think that most birds lived in straightforward pairs. We watched them courting and mating and rearing their young, and so we assumed that they were faithful to one another. But dna fingerprinting showed us how wrong we were, as i explained in the life of birds. Perhaps the most bizarre behavior of all takes place in the suburban gardens of england and it seems that until
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was put to death for his part in the case in 1936, and Charles Lindbergh - the first pilot to traverse the Atlantic - was never even considered a suspect.