This is our last panel of the day. I think its been a terrific symposium. Im sure everybody here will agree and i thought it was very fitting. We are going to be hearing from dr. Tevi troy today and if there are last panel, this is his book and you see it up on on the screens as well. And we really thought that dr. Troy would be excellent for our final panel of the day because if youre not familiar with his book, it is an overview of everything weve been talking about today, about the intersection of Popular Culture, the white house and the presidency. So its going to be a terrific synopsis. If youve been wondering about it, to get a big picture of everything, weve kind of dove into some of the details with television and movies. Were going to take a little bit of a step back because in terrys book, he gives a great historic overview of the history of Popular Culture and the white house and the presidency. So ill tell you a little bit about our guest today. Our panelists. Tevi troy is
And he did do some heroic things after his boat was cut in half. But he also stumbled in getting the boat kind of to begin with. But the movie sort of overlooks that and just talks about his heroism in rescuing the crew afterwards. And that movie helps kennedy become president. And kennedy, in fact, complains when the movie is shown on tv and is shown along with commercials, sometimes for antiperspirant and other body products or pharmaceutical products, not actual pharmaceutical products, because they could be either hasnt, but, you know, houseware products. And he complains to newton minow, who is the head of the fcc, and the guy who famously coined the phrase the vast wasteland about that. His great movie is showed on tv with all these, i guess, unimpressive ads. But those movies do present idealized versions of president s. Now, its also interesting that in the president s i mentioned, fdr or kennedy, clinton, none of those i mentioned are republicans. So hollywood rarely presents
Well, weve made it to the end. This is our last panel of the day. I think its been a terrific symposium. Im sure everybody here will agree and i thought it was very fitting. We are going to be hearing from dr. Tevi troy today and if there are last panel, this is his book and you see it up on on the screens as well. And we really thought that dr. Troy would be excellent for our final panel of the day because if youre not familiar with his book, it is an overview of everything weve been talking about today, about the intersection of Popular Culture, the white house and the presidency. So its going to be a terrific synopsis. If youve been wondering about it, to get a big picture of everything, weve kind of dove into some of the details with television and movies. Were going to take a little bit of a step back because in terrys book, he gives a great historic overview of the history of Popular Culture and the white house and the presidency. So ill tell you a little bit about our guest toda
Respected Inspection Services in San Francisco and is still in operation. Alec was active in politics serving during feinstein, agnos and brown administrations. He was personal and compassionate and wrote campaign speeches. We thank alec for his years of service to San Francisco and our deepest condolences to his family and close friends. And i would also like to do an in memorial for dennis parone. Born april 8, 1945. He served the country and served his country in the United States army during the vietnam war. Following his discharge, made his way to San Francisco and settled into the castro, where he met harvey melk and was an integral part of the melk machine. Whenever harvey needed bodies, he called dennis, who had, at that time, a cannabis operation, obviously not legal at that time. Dennis could turn people out at a moments notice and did a lot to help harvey. He met and fell in love with his partner jonathan west in 1990. Jonathan was diagnosed with aids and was dying and denni
Involved with cannabis would give jonathan cannabis and the cannabis that jonathan received gave him substantial relief from the symptoms of aids. It helped him eat. It relieved pain. In the early case, many of the diseases that people were struck with were incredibly painful, whether it was the sarcoma lesions, which were unbelievably painful, or some of the bacterial infections that made it hard to eat, and hard to swallow. And so out of that came really the origins of the medical cannabis movement. Dennis opened the first cannabis club. And i believe i could be wrong, but i believe the very first one was the church at market, where people i think that was the original where people suffering tom aids would come and he would provide cannabis to them. That cannabis, like what happened with jonathan, would relieve their pain, would stimulate their appetite. Eventually, he opened a 5story club, and i talked about this before, around the corner on market street, more of an aids hospice th