runs and hersey and his wife. jf hale selling hersey what's happened. jfk had been part of the vote that was sliced in half by the japanese destroyer. and he's like i went that story. he said it was significant because he was just candy sign because it was a story in its own way. they rejected he brings it to the new yorker. and they expected to have it at last. so in many ways that story helps make kennedy's political career. i got trotted out by kennedy and campaigns team for every political campaign that he had. it also makes john hersey's career. as to the magazine that would make him famous he's going nowhere fast. sue any mention to that old joe kennedy hated the fact that it appeared to the new yorker. that was not a big enough magazine. life would have been great if the new yorker was just a little pie for him. and so he even badgered harold ross into having it syndicated and i think reader's digest. it was another magazine. i don't know how kennedy twisted his arm, but it did end up being in the reader's digest. so to get the publication of sto

so why john hersey?rn and bred as a new yorker, he came from the à Ãwhat made sean trust that hershey glass they hated each other. hilariously publicly hated each other. hershey reporting since 1939 and at one point he was really grooming him to be the à [multiple speakers] >> he was of that type, he was not a fat new york jew he wasn't elegant figure. >> he was also, from yale, à [inaudible] also, when you read this, the time and the distractions that hershey broke, it's a far cry to what he was writing for for the new yorker later on. >> as somebody who cares only about literary style, it's a hugely important point. >> you run with it. >> he had written one hugely significant piece, in historical terms, incredibly significant piece for the new yorker before that, set in the pacific. >> i'm going about it back to you after i tee it up, that's how hershey did come to the new yorker. he breaks up with Ãis far too chauvinistic for him and he said, thanks but no thanks. instead of being heir apparent he's a

so when hersey is admitted to tokyo, he didn't have free reig reign. not only monitored by staff with the macarthur operation, but at the same time you don't want to read too much into it what you a tour what you thought or how many cigarettes you smoke every day. but they gave him clarence - - clearance for two weeks with 24 through 36 hours of travel and when he gets there he has the help of the german priest who was living there and returned and spoke english. and one other japanese minister who was educated at emory and spoke english. these two gentlemen that only gave their own testimony but also made enormous introductions for hersey among the last survivors who were returning to rebuild their lives among the ashes. later hersey didn't remember how many he interviewed probably a couple dozen. >> and something that preoccupies me and what makes hiroshima the important work is that hersey's subject and even as he revealed has the novelistic pattern he was applying to his material. >> right. it wasn't enough to show it from the individual point of v

he came from -- what made hersey, what made shawn trust that hersey could get this story? >> hersey couldn't have been less of a new yorker. he's writing for time magazine. they hated each other. hersey reported for the times in 1939, and they were grooming him to be heir apparent to time inc. >> not to enroll, it's very timing by sq to say now, he was of that type turkey was not a fat new york jew. he wasn't elegant figure. >> and he was also, you know, from yale school. and also when you read this, the time and the way, the dispatches hersey wrote, they were a far cry from what he was writing for the new yorker later on. .. and he says thanks but no thanks and he's the heir apparent to this burgeoning media empire. he's a freelancer in 1945 but in 1944 he had managed somehow a story that william sean at the new yorker had released and percy had a story that rice had rejected and he brought it to sean and sean said come this way and it was the story of john f. kennedy in the pacific. pt 109. so percy's wife had been her former paramore of jfk. >> this is a significant cla

earlier hersey made he surveyed the damage. two people were killed during a protest against racism and police totality last week as clashes turned deadly when two people were shot and killed. president trump today is focusing on the positives. >> we have had such a big success in shutting down what would be a city that would be kenosha, a city that would be burned to the ground right now. >> president trump has been campaigning on a law and order theme and he blames local officials for the unrest in kenosha, wisconsin. democrats are weary of the trip. in fact, wisconsin's governor asked him to reconsider it just on sunday. >> what we need right now are messages of healing, of uniting people, and i hope that the president finds that capability today. >>> in the meantime, taking a live look at another gathering. the family of jacob blake organized this, a peaceful community gathering, as they call it. this is at the site of the shooting. you can see people there with their signs wanting their voices heard. and the president is no

. >>> ruth bader ginsburg , hersey draped in black for the ongoing memorial across the country, including area. >>> could be back to class for some students. what schools need to dough to reopen. it is monday, september 21st and i am michelle griego. >> i am len keise. sunshine is on the way but the fog is taking over your monday morning. let's get to mary lee. >>

highlights the plight of those the tined on suspicion of trying to overthrow the government part of the hersey rallies have gathered momentum since last month's disputed presidential election stepping up the pressure on authoritarian leader alexander lukashenko. well they doubly correspondent nick connelly is on the ground for us in minsk nic these protesters say they feel like it's their time how did it look from your vantage point. well definitely very very big you would very difficult to tell it quite how many people were out because the geography was different this time around the government had effectively closed down the downtown of me to the protesters where the protests had been previous weeks until they were spread across ordinary residential district about david and you play but you had people. cheering clapping seeing the project come to them or us and them having some protests and then the protests moved on to an area where the top officials and i like to look good government. can't direct threats and so on all. from not going. out of the way these protests are very big they're ver

got four more minutes left here so i'm going to do is we together 2 questions, one from robert in hersey pennsylvania. and asked essentially, if we were in a disinformation war with russia, are we still or is it the case that basically homegrown forces have learned a lesson from russian disinformation packets and maybe other third parties have as well the russians and walk away from that more. they can declare a truce the problem doesn't go away and to the extent that that may be the casewhat do we do about it going forward ? >> i would say we are still in an information war with russia . we've not imposed costs on russia to an extent that have been unnecessarydeterrent . part of our government, the executive branch as accepted foreign assistance in terms of interference related to the election and not only that, the social media companies not close off all the avenues that the foreign adversaries are using to manipulate our discourse. it's such a low cost both in terms of human and monetary spend that there's no reason any bad actor would stop right now. it's really quite effective and

. >>> ruth bader ginsburg , hersey draped in black for the ongoing memorial across the country, including here in the bay area. >>> could be back to class for some students. what schools need to dough to reopen. it is monday, september 21st and i am michelle griego. >> i am len keise. sunshine is on the way but the fog is taking over your monday morning. let's get to mary lee. >> good mondaymorning to you, len and michelle. we are tracking that g along we ofour day and the afzy sunshine this afternoon. here is a look at air quality. moderate for most of us through our day. we have good air quality for the south-central bay as we go through the rest of our monday. and as we go through our day we will see temperatures a little bit cooler compared to yesterday. the start of the cooling trend with that ocean breeze kicking in, it is 87 in concord, 79 in san jose, 74 in oakland and 70 for san francisco. we will talk about when temperatures will be on the rise and return to offshore winds. details on that will be in my full forecast request check in with gianna for look at traffic. >>> it is mo