their remarks at powell's books in beaverton, in november 2013, 50 years after the j.f.k. assassination. [applause] renee.k you, and thank you to powell's books in beaverton, oregon for hosting scott and myself. it's an honor to be here this evening. here thisf you evening, who are 60 years or remember where you were when you heard the news that john f. kennedy had died? many of you are between the ages of 20 and 60, who do not where you were when you heard about the tragedy of 9/11? sudden, traumatic, unexpected events leave indelible images in our mind and in our psyches. i was seven years old on november 22, 1963. i was in the second grade, in a called hayward, california. and the older sister of a girl door --ass came to the because it was raining outside and we couldn't go out for the presidentsaid had been killed. of course, i didn't believe her. home,that day, i went across the street torks where -- to where my grandmother lived. saw my mother and grandmother watching television and i knew it was real. that weekend, i read everything could and watched everything i c

. >> because he is from beaverton, he may have an out.n school they taunted him. >> i am saying. >> i don't think we should criminalize people following their dreams, even if they have red hair. kennedy: i think beaverton is part of 3 rivers league, might or might not have included my high school, i say he is innocent. >> case three. arizona bride and groom were arrested on wedding night for inciting a brawl and assaulting a cop, police responded to a call of a woman wearing a wedding dress, assaulting an. o whiskey row. several members of wedding party attacked officers, they are charged with aggravated assault on a officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. >> this tough. because, there are in law no exception that allow you to beat up a cop, there is one, it applies here, if you did not actually know it was a cop trying to arrest you at the time. here is what i have. a bride. maybe she thought it was a late bachelorette party and he was a stripper, he is attacking her husband, she saves -- her husband from an attacking police st

for his research, viscelli tracked down truckers and their families, like shawn and hope cumbee of beavertoney, hope, i'm steve viscelli. >> hi, steve, nice to meet you.e >> to meet you, too, thanks. >> come on in. >> narrator: and their son charlie. >> this is daddy, me, daddy, and mommy. >> narrator: but daddy's not awn cumbee's truck has broken down in tennessee. hope, who drove a truck herself, knows the business well. >> we made $150,000, right, in a year. that sounds great, right? that's, like, good money.00 we paid 00 in fuel, okay? so, right there, now made $50,000. but i didn't really, because,t you know, you oil change every month, so that's $300 a month. you still have tdo all the maintenance. we had a motor blow out, right? $13,0. right? i know, i mean, i choke up a little just thinking about it, because it was... and it was 13,000, and we were off work for two weeks. so, by t of the year, with that $150,000, by the end of the year, we'd made about 20... about $22,000. >> narrator: in a truck stop in tennessee, shawn has been sidelined waiting for a new part. the garage owner is

their remarks at powell's books in beaverton, in november 2013, 50 years after the j.f.k.nation. [applause] renee.k you, and thank you to powell's books in beaverton, oregon for hosting scott and myself. it's an honor to be here this evening. here thisf you evening, who are 60 years or remember where you were when you heard the news that john en

people like richard from beaverton, oregon. he needs five different medications to get by, including insulin called homalog. he doesn't have the money to spare. he is 77 years old, blind, recently finished chemo treatments for bladder cancer, and he has continued to work odd jobs. he has been working to hold on to his house and try to pay for the prescriptions. another constituent, i'll call antonio, has type 1 diabetes and has a hard time affording the prescription. antonio uses insulin samples he found in his truck which are about ten years old or rations out the insulin that he does to make it last until his monthly disability check comes in and he can afford to get a new refill on the prescription. this is a terrible strategy for managing an illness. it's led to hospital stays, diabetic keto acidosis and other diabetes-related ailments. but from antonio's perspective, what can he do? because he can't afford the massive price increases these major drug companies have put on insulin. and that generic he would like to buy, tho