Im jamie colby, and today im in tucson, arizona, to meet the family of a man who spent his entire life building beautiful homes, and it led him to amass a collection of what some would say was lessthanfunctional furniture but others insist were works of art. My name is Diane Bennett. I was married to Edmund Bennett for 30 years. He left us an inheritance that had collectors around the world buzzing. Hi, diane. Hi, jamie. Diane was eds third wife. This is the last of eight homes they shared until his death in 2013. Oh, my. This is a history of 33 years of a blended family, eds children, my children, ed, and me. Diane, tell me about edmund. Well, he was a very complex man. He was very pragmatic but a real romantic. Born in washington, dc, in 1920, bennett serves in both world war ii and korea. By 1953, hes ready for peacetime and takes a job at the state department. He and his first wife, wilda, are making their own contribution to the baby boom. He buys two lots in washington, with plan
[ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and im driving into portales, new mexico, along the texas border and near the Cannon Air Force base. You know, the welcome sign here says it all 17,000 friendly people and three or four old grouches . Im here to meet a man whose strange inheritance certainly called for that kind of sense of humor. My name is john wall. My mother, irene wall, passed at 90 years old. She had left me with a very large collection that meant a lot to her, but i didnt know what to do. Great. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Welcome to my home. Well, so, what do think of all these dolls . Wow this is kind of the way it was in my moms house, only there were so many more. Johnny, i feel like im 8 years old again with all these dolls. Well, i have the reputation around here as the doll boy but i dont know anything about them. Looking around, you have earned that reputation. What are you going to do . The goal of my moms and mine was to find a
Im jamie colby, and today im in tucson, arizona, to meet the family of a man who spent his entire life building beautiful homes, and it led him to amass a collection of what some would say was lessthanfunctional furniture but others insist were works of art. My name is Diane Bennett. I was married to Edmund Bennett for 30 years. He left us an inheritance that had collectors around the world buzzing. Hi, diane. Hi, jamie. Diane was eds third wife. This is the last of eight homes they shared until his death in 2013. Oh, my. This is a history of 33 years of a blended family, eds children, my children, ed, and me. Diane, tell me about edmund. Well, he was a very complex man. He was very pragmatic but a real romantic. Born in washington, dc, in 1920, bennett serves in both world war ii and korea. By 1953, hes ready for peacetime and takes a job at the state department. He and his first wife, wilda, are making their own contribution to the baby boom. He buys two lots in washington, with plan
Im jamie colby, and, today, im driving into key west, florida, in search of treasure. You know, years ago, spanish galleons and pirate ships sailed upon and sank in these waters. More recently, the islands been home to the heirs of a man who became rich and famous searching for the treasure left behind. My name is taffi fisher abt, and i inherited a wreck. I mean literally a wreck, a spanish shipwreck. Its an incredible archeological find, and we keep bringing up more treasure all the time. You must be taffi. Welcome to the mel fisher Maritime Heritage society. Taffis father, mel fisher, salvaged tons of treasure from the sea. Oh, yeah. Solid gold. This is an emerald cross and ring that was found in 1982. Some of his most precious artifacts are in the museum he founded here in key west. He must have loved the adventure. He did. He was an awful lot like tom sawyer. Tom sawyer had the mississippi. Indiana native mel fisher dreams up his childhood adventures on lake michigan. He would go
Alive, not held by isis. The Syrian Government denies having him. It is been more than two years that austin is missing. After all the emotion and the american beheading of james foley, we know theyre still an american journalist allied in syria. As Reporters Without Borders campaigns to free austin tice, his parents will join us in our new york studio. Then in a democracy now exclusive, we speak to environmental activist eric mcdavid. In007, who sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring to bomb sites in california, including the nimbus dam. He is just been released 10 years early after federal prosecutors acknowledged withholding key evidence about how he have been entrapped by an may fbi informant he had fallen in love with. The government will not say it was deliberate or malicious. They say just the opposite. They say it was inadvertent. It is very hard to imagine that this was a mistake. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and p