somewhere in these woods human remains to be buried under the ground. torture victims who died at the hands of the german sect henchmen of chile s dictator augusto pinochet now witnesses to the crimes of breaking decades of science also off don t know exactly how i knew that this was the most dangerous moment of my life and. to this day the families of the victims are struggling to find out what happened to their loved ones. who want all i want to know is where are you on what happened to you. i can t financially but i have given one away i want to see mostly because we had to pressure the 2nd leaders who were still alive in order to get enough information we will go by the name of god. but the leaders of colonia dignidad have remain stubbornly taciturn the wings of the city the system is driving it works on all levels down to the smallest detail that. day the place where people cruelly mistreated has become a site for jovial gatherings justice and remembrance up to now any a
kremlin critic alexina voluntary calls for russians to take to the streets after his jailed upon his return to moscow he calls his treatment a mockery of justice in several countries now once new sanctions to hold moscow to account but it has told them to mind their own business. hello and play richardson welcome to the show we begin in the united states where the f.b.i. is vetting all 25000 service personnel involved in security for president elect a joe biden s inauguration later this week defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other potential threat with less than 2 days until biden takes office washington d.c. has become a fortress city of roadblocks and barricades security concerns have gripped the city since riots at the capital on january. 6 people going. running to safety into the capitol building these personnel were caught up in a lockdown during a rehearsal for the upcoming integration. b.r.s. we keep going right inside the cause. a false
conversations that other people are not having, and i feel like this is one of those. i would like to give you an little overview. if you have cell phones, please take photos, but don t make the flash happen. we are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. we will have the book for sale. we have them for sale currently. if you want to, i emplore you to look through it and have alan sign it as well. we have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. i will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of sheridan circle for the talk . [applause] dr. mcpherson: thank you very much, olivia. thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. i want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. i m so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is , you know, literally the scene of this crime. the institute for policy studies
the assassination at all, even though it was his government that did it, but later on, he trumpeted the version of events from the pinochet regime, which is that there s no way his government could have done this. it must have been some leftist guerrillas trying to pin it on pinochet. it is important the residence is there because the residence it self now has a bust of orlando letelier to try to remember him also. around the circle, we have these two memorials to this one man and of course, to ronni moffitt. sheridan circle will be marked forever by this one event. hello, everyone. we can hear everyone. welcome to busboys and poets. my name is olivia. i am the book events coordinator and i m very excited to welcome alan mcpherson for his book ghosts of sheridan circle. it was an event that i was not aware of, honestly, and i m very excited to read about it in this book, and i m excited for alan to speak about it and have conversations to speak about it. here at busboys
and when i first saw him, i changed my career trajectory. i was going to be a computer programmer. back then, computers were of course twice as big as this room. or an espionage agent. each one was pulling at me with equal force. i was immobilized and i was trying to figure out how to do both. back then there was no way. today you can through cyber espionage. but, i saw chuck berry somewhere along the pathway as a kid and said, that is what i want to do. it was chuck berry and another fellow, elvis presley, i saw him, too. they had made millions upon millions of people happy with their music. they touched them without even knowing them. that fascinated me. i thought, i want to be able to bring joy to people whether i meet them or not. brian: what was the story of your first meeting with him? daryl: he came to the university of maryland. it was going to be chuck berry and jerry lee lewis. i got down there super early, hoping i would be able to sneak in and meet him during soun