four s dan thorn. joining us live tonight with details they re well grande panned the suspect apparently called police are on around 9 o clock last night and confessed to killing his mother investigators finding her stabbed to death in her apartment and her neighbors telling us they were stunned when they learned what happened concord police arrested 18 year-old who says he killed his mother the victim elizabeth barry was found stabbed to death at this apartment along treat boulevard wednesday night. her son harrison mercy a has been charged with her murder. i was shocked. still still shocks specially can i know what happened to chris rodriguez lives in runs a small day care next door. she says the victim was friendly and quiet. she was also unaware that her 18 year-old son was staying with her when we got home. we saw that a gentleman was sitting, i m on a steps and then all of a sudden we police. when police arrived on scene wednesday night they found mercy a waiting
My name is howard unger and on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial museum it is my honor to welcome you to todays program title, a relentless pursuit bringing holocaust perpetrators to justice. I am the son of holocaust survivor and have served on the council for the u. S. Holocaust museum for the past five years. Ive come to learn that the museum is so much more than just a building that houses exhibits. The museum researches history cup trees educators, members of the military and judiciary, both in the u. S. And internationally and has many programs focus on preventing the future genocides from occurring again. Here in new york, the museums northeast Regional Office offers a variety of of events including talks like the one you are about to hear, plus Film Screenings and programs on holocaust histories as well as contemporary genocides and antisemitism. Tomorrow, well be holding the same program at the synagogue and mount cisco new york. So please encourage your westchest
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Dangerous to believe. That happens tonight on cspan to book tv. Good evening and welcome. By name is howard and on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial museum is my other two welcome you to todays program titled a relentless pursuit bringing holocaust perpetrators to justice. I am the son of a holocaust survivor and have served on the counsel for the Us Holocaust Museum for the past five years. Ive come to learn that the museum is so much more than just a building that houses exhibits. The Museum Research in history, trained educators and members of the military and judiciary within the us and internationally and has many programs focused on preventing future genocides from occurring again. Here in new york, the museums northeast Regional Office offers a variety of events including talks like this one that you are about to hear plus Film Screenings and holocaust history as well as contemporary genocide and antisemitism. Tomorrow, we will be holding this same program, so pleas
Mentioned i think its always fun when you can put documents together that casts several different lights, several different kinds of light on the same event and sometimes even the same person saying something differently at different points in time. A little example of that for example, in hemingways novel about the war for whom the bell tolls, the central episode in that novel the blowing up of the bridge behind nationalist lines, hemingway himself part in a. That lou up the bridge and i tell that story in the book. Anyway in that novel he paints an excoriating picture of stalins man who was in charge of the international brigades. When the book appeared in this country, the communist press was outraged because they had expected hemingways muchanticipated book about the war would be about workingclass men from Different Countries standing shouldertoshoulder in the fight against fascism and the hero is a lover of Spanish Literature who is nonpolitical and heres this portrait of stalins