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picked up a, cameat it could be a tool for him to use to be able to express his own feelings about hilife brown: gordon parks was born in fort scott, kin 1912, the youngest of 15 children. he credited his motherh, who died when he was 16, with giving him confidence and strength, ev growing up amid poverty and prejudice. parks spoke of his childhood in a 1997 newshour interview. >> that disadvange sometimes pushes you. you know, if you use it right. because you want to... rid yourself of those things that hurt you emotionally when you're coming up. >> brown: inspired by the work of dorothea lange, walker evans, and other depression-era photographerhe saw in magazines, parks first picked up a camera at the age of 25.in t. paul and then chicago, he took portraits, including marva trotter louis, a performer, model and wife of stxer joe louis. and he did his fournalism, he befriended and photographed letsing african american art and scholars, including langston hughes, charles white, alain locke. and he did covering eleanor roosevelt's visit to a southside community center. parks called the ca
picked up a, cameat it could be a tool for him to use to be able to express his own feelings about hilife brown: gordon parks was born in fort scott, kin 1912, the youngest of 15 children. he credited his motherh, who died when he was 16, with giving him confidence and strength, ev growing up amid poverty and prejudice. parks spoke of his childhood in a 1997 newshour interview. >> that disadvange sometimes pushes you. you know, if you use it right. because you want to... rid yourself of...
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(laughs) >> rose: i always bece very sad when you descre th end of hilife. ken burns told me every time h ran the film as he was editing his dumentary heouldburst into tears. every timee showed that last... with the actors talking about what happened >> the truth is even as i was finishing the book the last couple months of it i couldn't bear the knowledge that he was going to die. i've lived wit this man for ten years and suddenly he was going to be gone. >> rose: to love shakespeare was part of the nature of this man? >> huge. nora and i talked about this when we were working on the book because she did a lot of research on the theater part of the book. think about what shakespeare... first of all, he memorized shakespeare. he could talk with aors, he could make all the moves the actors did. he knew it as well as any profession knew shakespeare and shakespeare's writing about tragedy and betrayal, wars, all the things he's dealing with. those huge themes are shakespearean, so he's loved him from the time he was a child. itas said when he got a copy of shak
(laughs) >> rose: i always bece very sad when you descre th end of hilife. ken burns told me every time h ran the film as he was editing his dumentary heouldburst into tears. every timee showed that last... with the actors talking about what happened >> the truth is even as i was finishing the book the last couple months of it i couldn't bear the knowledge that he was going to die. i've lived wit this man for ten years and suddenly he was going to be gone. >> rose: to love...
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hilife, career, and legacy are examined in a new book, "the man who ran washington" written by two veteranjournalists susan glasser and peter baker. and they join me now. welcome to both of you. peter baker, we know you as the white house correspondent for the new york times. susan, we know you as a writer for the new yorker. in real life, you are married to each other. susan, tell us, how did you decide to write a book about somebody who has not been -- held public office in almost 30 years? susan: i think jim baker is a unique figure of the last half-century. he is someone that combines the portfolio of karl rove and henry kissinger. he ran five presidential campaigns, was also the secretary of state when the cold war ended. and i see for peter and i, it was really an opportunity to write a big book about washington from the end of watergate, the end of the cold war, and how different it is from today and the gridlock and dysfunction very different from a time when baker was famous for getting things done. judy: peter, i think of the phrase born with a silver spoon in his mouth. jim bake
hilife, career, and legacy are examined in a new book, "the man who ran washington" written by two veteranjournalists susan glasser and peter baker. and they join me now. welcome to both of you. peter baker, we know you as the white house correspondent for the new york times. susan, we know you as a writer for the new yorker. in real life, you are married to each other. susan, tell us, how did you decide to write a book about somebody who has not been -- held public office in almost...
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yasir behrakci is picking up the pieces of hilife. >> we cannot bring back the dead.se we survived, we are trying to get out whatever is left. we have to live, we have no other choice. >> luckily, that mind shift and work is getting started. we were in adyaman which as you know, is 60% to 70% destroyed. they are already clearing large plots of land to put containers on. jane: tom smith is an american air force veteran, volunteering in turkey with washington dc based charity project hope. >> the challenge is there, when you talk about rebuilding, it is not just hey, here is the house we are going to build. it is going to be what is that intermediary step, which is basic housing units. jane: smith and his team have been assessing the needs of those displaced by the earthquake. >> the need for sanitation. everyone loves that hot shower, e ability to wash their hands, go to a safe latrine and safe drinking water. it is still cold here, 20 degrees at night, 40 degrees during the day. people are living in tents. jane: and yet, attempts to move on have been disrupted again,
yasir behrakci is picking up the pieces of hilife. >> we cannot bring back the dead.se we survived, we are trying to get out whatever is left. we have to live, we have no other choice. >> luckily, that mind shift and work is getting started. we were in adyaman which as you know, is 60% to 70% destroyed. they are already clearing large plots of land to put containers on. jane: tom smith is an american air force veteran, volunteering in turkey with washington dc based charity project...
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now, in a statement tonight,sked pennies lawyer is right.n he risked hilifes ow an life and safety for the good of his fellow passengers. the unfortunate result was the unintended and unforeseen death of mr. neely. absolved we are confident mr. petitngdoi. will be fully absolved of any wrongdoing shot. >> if found guilty, the marine veteran could receive three and a half to fifty years in prison. >> brian , thank you . now, as a reminder, the victim in this case, jordan neely, wasn not the harmless michael jackson impersonator. like the left wants you toieveis believe this is a is a person y sadly, very tragically, who isll seriously, mentall.y. 2 prior he hadar forty two prior arrest, including a kidnapping charge, after he abducted a seven year old girl. he also racked multiple violent assaults against elderly new yorkers. his death witnesse and just prior to his death, while witnesses told police that neely was making violent threats on the subway and demandans, saying he didn't care if he went to jail, he didn't care if he got killed, here with reaction are former new york city may
now, in a statement tonight,sked pennies lawyer is right.n he risked hilifes ow an life and safety for the good of his fellow passengers. the unfortunate result was the unintended and unforeseen death of mr. neely. absolved we are confident mr. petitngdoi. will be fully absolved of any wrongdoing shot. >> if found guilty, the marine veteran could receive three and a half to fifty years in prison. >> brian , thank you . now, as a reminder, the victim in this case, jordan neely, wasn...
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complexity of that relationship, i think, plays out througall of his relationships s with women throughout hilife. with one wife after another. there's a, an inability to reach any recognizable level of intimacyra >> nr: young donald had his own crisis: finding his place in a family dominated by his father, fred, a stern and demanding real estate developer. >> i strongly suspect that he had a relationip with his father that accounts for a lot of what he became. and his father was a very brutal guy. he was a tough, hard-driving guy who had very, very littleot nal intelligence, to use today's terms. >> donald's father's overall h message children was-- and it was a very different message to the boys than to the girls-- to the boys, was, "compete, win, be a killer. do what you have to to win." >> narrator: inside the family, a harsh game of apprentice: who would ke over fred's empire? the fit in line wasn't donald, it was his oer brother freddy. >> my father was sensitive, he was nd and genous, he liked hanging out with his friends who adored him, and, may worst of all, although it's hard to say, he
complexity of that relationship, i think, plays out througall of his relationships s with women throughout hilife. with one wife after another. there's a, an inability to reach any recognizable level of intimacyra >> nr: young donald had his own crisis: finding his place in a family dominated by his father, fred, a stern and demanding real estate developer. >> i strongly suspect that he had a relationip with his father that accounts for a lot of what he became. and his father was a...
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if you're a journalist anywhere in the world, your hilife just t more dangerous today than yesterday.states is not going to speak up for you, particularly if there is someone who will pay money to the president of the united states. secondly, this entirely emboldened mohammed bin salman, who escalated a war in yemen, which led to a famine which can put people's lives at risk. what will he do next? basically, the signal not just to mbs but to everybody in the region, everybody in the saudi royal family who might serve as a check on mbs is, no, all our chips are on the table behind him. if he starts a war, if he wants to kill other journalists, if he wants to crack down more, donald trump just gave him the cover to do that. that is a chilling thing. i don't think there's any american president, of either party, who would ever write a statement anywhere near what we saw yesterday, in terms of its total advocation of moral leadership. >> exactly what the "wall street journal" said and, i think, what most people in washington would agree with. caskasie hunt, what are the republicans saying
if you're a journalist anywhere in the world, your hilife just t more dangerous today than yesterday.states is not going to speak up for you, particularly if there is someone who will pay money to the president of the united states. secondly, this entirely emboldened mohammed bin salman, who escalated a war in yemen, which led to a famine which can put people's lives at risk. what will he do next? basically, the signal not just to mbs but to everybody in the region, everybody in the saudi royal...