There . Guest well, theres always been, as is typical in all families, a sibling competition there. Alice was a very conservative woman, and about 17 years older than her younger sister, and as a result, she saw herself as surrogate parent, and nell was always extroverted and a little bohemian in her opinions and her appearance, and alice, for all of her life, served as the buffer between her younger sister and the world that was hungry to know more about her. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actually possible . And i began to investigate this. I
Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place . How is this possible . To investigate and found the most astonishing thing. To be traced back to three people. One was brandenburg who had spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear steadying frequencies that were inaudible. And he came up with the md three encoder to shrink the compact disc by 90 percent. But he could not monetize the invention and was locked out and in desperation 1995 he posted it as a free public down the road to a his website within a c
Of the before Columbus Foundation. Where about it was about eight years ago, i succeeded in that position our founder ishmael reed who were prpght to have with us during the program today. Needless to say there were some very, very big shoes to fill. Orveg toipght thank our friends here at the San Francisco jazz center who have been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years also our friends at cspan who continue to support Historical Mission and hern book awards. Ill say a few things about our direction that weve been embarked on recently. Over the past several years, we have expanded our ramming. To include a number of partnerships here in the bay area and nationally. Including those with the San Francisco Public Library who on very honored to say one of their representatives stewart shaw who has been so instrumental in facilitating collaboration between then an San Francisco Public Library has been about just this year we presented ann waled
Know several chp vehicles on the scene investigating looking at the car looking at talking to each other and essentially investigating the crime scene and with what happened here we should have a spokesperson for chp on the scene reporter several shots were clearly fired and based on the bullets in the vehicle but continued to follow this season and figure out j. R. and that richmond area and it does not appear anyone was shot in that circumstance but a car was riddled with bullets no arrests have been made. And bring them to you here on kron 4 news. In the crash was horrible. Spencer blake spoke with the family and the 19 year old kron fours Spencer Blake spoke with the family of Natalie Griffin, the 19yearold who kept herself alive in a rising river on a freezing night. Spencer is live in Castro Valley tonight. Spencer the details of survival are incredible. Natalie griffin and jenna santos were friends and graduates from Castro Valley high school. As part of winter break from colleg
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