and his mother bernice.f only one charge, involving the theft of ben's diamond bracelet. for the crime that conspirator's almost got away with the murder of bernice novak, the conviction carried a mandatory life sentence for both. >> the best part was that bernice could finally rest in peace. >> after the verdict, narcy spoke with telephone with "dateline" from praise. she would never done anything to harm her husband ben and was innocent of all the charges. sergeant terry wilson and his team of detectives, the prosecutors won their case with some big assists from may abad. now her mother is gone and will spend the rest of her life in prison. >> she didn't see what she had in front of her. she had her daughter. she had two grandkids that totally loved her. and now she has nothing. >> and greed and some amount of jealousy presumably is driving this. >> absolutely. no matter what, i love my mother. she was my mother. she had grandkids that adored her, that would have done anything for her. and they did. and sh

he found a queen in a former coca-cola model named bernice with her beauty and effortless charm, berniceurned out to be the perfect hostess to greet the celebrities, gangsteres and just plain guests who made the fountain blue the scene of the day. king ben and queen bernice lived in a penthouse suite. then along came their prince, ben novak jr. >> he was a spoiled kid. he was a brat. >> ben jr., don't call him benji would be trotted out to shake hands with vips. then back up to the hotel elevator. >> the kids who came to the birthday party, were complete strangers to him. just kids who were passing through the hotel. >> the friendless, lonely boy disliked lost himself in the fantasy world of batman. the superhero became an obsession. even as an adult, ben jr. was still amassing a floor to ceiling collection of batman memorabilia. he bought an old bat mobile. but there was no holding off the real world and change. just as the rat pack faded away, so too did the fountain blue. by the late '70s, miami beach was regarded as a stale place for old people. ben novak sr. lost the hotel to bankru

pat and bernice were not wealthy when they had four children and middle-class existence but they took their kids every summer they went to yosemite or the river and it made a big impression on all of them. the oldest grandchild worked for years in the movement for the rivers. the environment to him is very much like -- he came out of the seminary after high school and it's a very important piece to him. he talks about the environment and the absolute being similar to hi this religious training ad bringing. both terms california was early in the standards and setting the standard for the country then as an advocate for climate change he c used the bully pulpit of california to affect change not just on the state at the international level. i tried to explain california the environment is so important for people here that are shapes people, their lifestyle and economy so it was the way that they committed to the outdoor world and a way to talk about a lot of those issues. when jerry brown was governor of the first time you couldn't see because of the small but. the last thing i will say

and first ladies in particular and i was just thinking how bernice lane brown was born in 19 '08. generation before barbara bush. when she was can be a teacher she tried to hide the fact that they eloped because you were not allowed to be a teacher if you are married. that is that world of 1930. and her eldest daughter. supersmart. went to cal as many of them did. it was the 1950s. she is still bitter to the state. about the fact that she was raised in a world where you were to get married and that was the 1950s a 1950s ozzie and harriet world. a really important piece of the political career. she was educated. pat never went to college. always felt intellectually deficient because of lack of a college education did not know how to pronounce words sometimes correctly and bernice was a really important part of his formative education. but always behind the scenes. and as the gracious first lady who entertained then you fast-forward to jerry brown 2.0. the second time where he was married to and gassed was born in 1958. and have a formidable career as a lawyer with the important cor

during that time period, she and her cousin, bernice robinson another prominent female figure in the movement, created the first citizenship school to educate blacks in literacy, state government, and election procedures. and martin luther king jr. relied heavily on her expertise regarding education, literacy, and the roles in which literacy and education could help the voting movements that he was part of. she was so influential that he insisted when he won the nobel peace prize in 1964 that she accompany him to sweden. he was adamant that she had to be there with him because of how much work she had put into supporting his overall movement. and she inspired many other women, particularly students are faced with further segregation. so most of the following women come from the student nonviolent coordinating committee, student activists, women getting involved at a young age. they have different experiences. so you heard about clark, born to a formerly enslaved individual. diane nash is born to a middle-class family in chicago. in talking with her, historians, scholars, journalists,

must've been this one in here but there was a severe thunderstorm warning that dropped immediately, and bernicetorms from the tropical system. for us, we missed out on that and got a bunch of fog along the coast. it is really deep so it has pushed well in land and you see it all the way into sausalito right now. temperatures running 10 degrees cooler in fairfield right now than it was last night at this time. 16 degrees cooler in other parts, 75 degrees in walnut creek, 79 and, right now so very pleasant. air-conditioners not whirling and your -- on the golden gate bridge, a lot of fog making a push for the inland valley. tomorrow is a lot like today because the pattern sticks with us which is the expanded marine layer, a deepening marine layer and the low offshore wishes to the north of us now but definitely has cooled things off and helps cal fire and air quality folks in that you really clean out atmosphere and the fire danger plummets compared to the last couple of days or even just 24 hours ago. look at the fog forecast for tomorrow morning. that is a big push and it burns off slowly so yo

and i've been writing pretty much every day since and in high school i wanted to date a woman named bernice wanted to date another guy, i was like what is she thinking, i write way better than the other guy. >> what did your parents do other than being hippies? >> 1950 progressives but my father was teaching at nyu, scholar of victorian literature and my mother scholar of victorian history. the phrase was think british, act british. so what they did was gave their kids names, super english names like norman, irving, milton, sidney thinking that no one would ever they they were jewish. >> so your last name jewish names, brooks. >> brooks was changed in world war i because it was too german. i was a b minus student. >> how did you get in the university of chicago? >> in those days university of chicago admitted 70% of applicants and i went to chicago because the admission's officers at colombia decided i should go. >> you didn't get in. what did you want to study? >> political theory, chicago in retrospect, chicago was the turning point because of great culture, the best thing about chicago i