For the john and Mabel Ringling museum of art in sarasota and the Sir John Museum in london. The lost world of James Smithson was her first book, and she resides in new york. So please welcome heather ewing. [applause] heather thanks for having me. Can you all hear me . Wonderful. It is really a pleasure to be here. And i very much look forward to speaking and meeting with you all afterwards. I just wanted to let you know that i will be bowing to you i am not shaking hands, per our current instruction. I encourage you all to do the same. Anyway, i wanted to thank you all very much for having me. It is a pleasure to be here to talk about this topic that i care about so much. And so, here we go. You all know the smithsonian well as the keeper of many of the most iconic objects of american culture. And, i thought i would run through a bunch of them. Dorothys ruby slippers, of course. Charles lindberghs spirit of st. Louis. Soon after i to the smithsonian. Abraham lincolns top hat. And, si
The king of pops death i think age 50 added one more mystery to a life already filled with so many mysteries of life that constantly landed him in the news for his bizarre behavior as much as for his record sales and a decade on questions still swirl around his life and death what pledge acts and to become dependent on the dangerous sleep drugs that eventually killed him. What led the child star of the jackson 5 to disfigure himself through repeated extreme plastic surgery. And the question that many are asking once again whos telling the truth when it comes to the several allegations of child sexual abuse against the star jackson was acquitted on all Court Charges against him but just this year the h. B. O. Documentary leaving neverland raised that question once again with the role. As well for. Us. In the film 2 men accused jackson of molesting them when they were children told me if they ever found out what we were doing. He and i would go to jail for the rest of our lives and the f
The story. In the next days the shock and then the emotional outpouring of his adoring fans were felt around the world. The king of pops death at age 50 added one more mystery to a life already filled with so many mysteries of life that constantly landed him in the news for his bizarre behavior as much as for his record sales. And a decade on questions still swirl around his life and death what pledge acts and to become dependent on the dangerous sleep drugs that eventually killed him. What led the child star of the jackson 5 to disfigure himself through repeated extreme plastic surgery. And the question that many are asking once again whos telling the truth when it comes to the several allegations of child sexual abuse against. Star jackson was acquitted on all Court Charges against him but just this year the h. B. O. Documentary leaving neverland raised that question once again. In the film 2 men accused jackson of molesting them when they were children told me if they ever found out
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