as you know, 61 years ago this week, jimmy breslin introduced the world, not just the readers and thed, he was a grave digger and he made three dollars an hour and he dug the grave for president kennedy's casket 61 years ago this week. it seems to me that the jimmy breslin you outlined so prolifically and so will, he was always a guy who recognized the vulnerable because he was so vulnerable to a certain level. can you speak to his vulnerabilities based on how he was raised. kind of a lonely kid with a determined mind to write. >> that gets to the core of him. he acted like a tough guy but inside there was a broken little boy. that broken little boy really connected to the vulnerable and was able to tell the stories of people like clifton pollard that dug the hole that not just put the president but put america's hope in the ground. he told the story in a way that we can really understand. >> the gravedigger, published in 1963. jimmy writes, "pollard is 42, he is a slim man with a mustache who was born in pittsburgh and served as a private in the 352nd engineers battalion in burma in

that's jimmy breslin reporting three days after the assassination of john f. the end of that era when i was there in the early 2000s. talk to us about what america is missing, the decline of local newspapers. we obviously had some great national papers still, but just that spirit that carried the day. and that's bad for us all and bad for democracy. >> it could be bad for democracy. we have some good local outlets. gothamist, new york the city. they don't capture the big audience. now we ride the sub waste and look at our iphones, playing wordle, i'm playing the mini cross word, that's all i can do. then the pages were snapping and people were reading. and this was a voice that connected with people. we all had something to talk about that we had in common. in the city we lived in, whether it was chicago, bre-slin in new york, herb cane in san francisco. they were there for the people in the town where they wrote. and that is right now missing. and it is something i think will come back because, you know, it's a different medium. but the need remains. >> what

. >> jimmy breslin said. he is a small man in search of a balcony. he has to find something that he can correct. he's the corrector. >> the three complaints charge these three defendants and an unidentified confidential informant with carrying out a scheme to exchange information to obtain millions of dollars in illegal profits from wall street in new york starts to feel like the party has gone on a couple hours too long and at the same time, you're seeing a lot of different kinds of corruption emerging throughout the city. >> experts say that this is the biggest scandal ever to hit wall street, even bigger than some of those of the 20s. >> insider trading can hurt a lot of people. it's breaking and entering into the stock account. >> well, insider trading is a form of cheating. when an investor makes a decision to buy or sell a stock, what they can't do is use confidential information that is guaranteed to increase a stock price if you were a high ranking person, you happen to get this information of course, you could make money, but the average ame

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