Tv, legal scholar Cara Robertson discusses the 1893 murder trial of Lizzie Borden who accused of murdering her father and stepmother in falls river, massachusetts. Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to politics and prose. Thank you so much for coming out on this really beautiful day. Were pleased to have Cara Robertson here to talk about her new book the trial of Lizzie Borden. Before we get started a little housekeeping, lets take a moment to silence our cell phones. Ill do that too. Were recording, cspan is here with us today and we dont want any extra noise and interrupts. After cara speaks there will be time for a q a. So if you have a question, would you like to ask her, if you could use this microphone here so that we could pick it up on all of our stuff that would be great. Many of us many of you know that we have a lot going on here at politics and prose including at the wrarve at union market and check out our Events Calendar and our social media. And also if are a fan of this boo
Harris. For those of us who are old enough to remember the scars dale diet doctor murder. As we talk about this case, i want to keep two things in the back your mind when i come back at the and across the talk about these. The first i want you to think about how this case is both similar and different from the lizzy board and murder trial from 1893. About 100 years earlier. And the second is the question why do everyone know who lizzy borden is and raise your hand if you ever heard of the jean harris murder trial before this class . One or two kind of. And before we get lucky borne out of lizzy born in. What to talk about why some cases remain more famous than others, especially since everyone always talks about cases as if they are this case of the century, the trial of the century. We are going to begin with opening statements. The reason we are doing this is most of america really got to know our alleged perpetrator jean harris and her victim in the opening statements. Today luke ni
Hello good afternoon, thank you so much for coming out on this beautiful day. We are pleased to have Cara Robertson out talk about her new book the trial of lizzy borden. For some housekeeping. Lets silent our cellphones, cspan is here today we dont want any extra noise interruptions. And after cara speaks there will be time for a q as. If you have a question you would like to ask her, use this microphone here so we can pick it up on our av stuff that would be great. Many of you know we have a lot going on here and check out our Events Calendar and our social media, and if you like this book you can join our true crime book club. My name is jenny, im a bookseller here, and im glad to introduce Cara Robertson. Shes a lawyer, she was educated at harvard and oxford, she served as a Legal Adviser to at the formal tribunal at the hague, and is a visiting color from wall school. She started this book intra published her first paper in 1997. This is our first bush her first book, as she dress
Hello good afternoon. Welcome to politics and prose. Thank you so much for coming out on this beautiful day. Were very pleased to have Cara Robertson here to talk about her new book the trial of lizzy borden. A little housekeeping, its all take a moment to silence our cellphones, were recording cspan is with us today, we dont want any extra noise interruptions. Also after kara speaks, there will be time for a q and a. If you have a question you would like to ask or, if you could use this microphone here so we could pick it up on all of our av stuff that would be great. Many of us are many of you know we have a lot going on in politics and prose including at our bookstores at the worsen union market, check that out on our Events Calendar and social media. If you are a fan of this book you might enjoy our True Crime Book Group which joins every third thursday of the month in the party house. When him is jenny im a bookseller here im really glad to introduce kara robertson. She is a lawye
A lot to get to and discuss, everybody. Right now, though, a quick check on the markets because theyre higher across the board. The bottom right of the screen and come off the highs, the dow above 27,000 for the First Time Since june 10th on an intraday basis. S p 500 less than 5 from its alltime highs up nearly 50 from the march lows. 28 members of that index hitting a new 52week or alltime high and a cramer favorite stock, mccormick. The nasdaq is negative again there is a lot to discuss. Joe, we are off the highs. You can address that but also this the vaccines plural getting all the attention as they should. It only concerns, you know, all of humanity. But did Goldman Sachs numbers have anything to do with the earlier market strength . I think most of the early gains that we witnessed this morning you can credit to the vaccine optimism i do think, brian, that the Strong Performance from financials in the last couple of days, whether it be jpmorgan or a Goldman Sachs this morning, t