in recent years john and mary beth have traveled the country on the tinker tour bus telling students their story. joining our panelist is the director of education, mike adams, who will moderate today's discussion. let's give our panelists and moderator a warm round of applause. [ applause ] >> good afternoon, everybody. welcome to the national constitution center on constitution day, the best day of the year to be here. joining me on stage as vince stengel are people closely related to three landmark supreme court cases that all took place in the 20th century, so not that long ago. in today's program what we'll do is i'll introduce each of our panelists. they'll tell you a little bit of the background of the supreme court case in which their father or in john's case themselves were involved in the case. they'll talk about what the court ruled, how it impacted our lives and why those cases are still relevant today. our first speaker to my left is karen koramatsu. she's the founder and director of the fred t. koramatsu institute. sfaeb established in 2009. she's the daughter in the ca

at the tennessee prison for women, we found that meeting personal needs had led to a dilemma for mary beth>> they done wrote me up. >> what? >> what for? >> look, it says that they found a glove in two trash cans and a tampon. they're trying to say i had -- they were trying to say i had a dildo. >> sexual activity of any sort is against prison rules. and even though she's allowed to have the individual items she was caught with, she was written up for how they were assembled, or at least partially assembled. >> i'm pleading not guilty because they have no evidence. when they found it, it was not intact, okay? >> what was you going to do with it? >> everything that they have is things that i was allowed to have. >> but she did tell us that if she were going to make what she's accused of making, she has a good idea of how to do it. >> you have to have your marker to make it hard and you have to put your pads over it to protect it. >> as mary beth began her how-to description, all i could think about is human nature and how when left without normal resources, want or need or desire will lead

he enlisted the help of friends and mary beth's mom.or so he created an illustration of her in a red polka dot dress and him on his knee proposing, and you see that she is also wearing the red polka dot dress that's in the illustration, and suddenly, he's down on one knee, just like the guy in the illustration. >> life imitating art. >> she can't believe it. and she says yes. through her tears, and the sobbing. >> what you don't see in the rest of the video is him being taken down with a taser and banned from the met for the rest of his life. >> honey, i'm glad you're happy but we can celebrate outside. >> what's funny is he really did roll the dice on this entire thing. everything from sneaking that picture on the wall to getting her in that dress because you know we wake up and say i really don't feel like wearing that today. >> why don't you wear the red polka dot. >> i don't feel that. >> wear it! >> she's obviously a lot more easy-going than you two. >> you should put that on ebay. it has technically been displayed at the met. sudd

so he got mary beth's mom to buy her a red polka dot dress ahead of time.t to the museum, it was a painting by christ depicting what was about to happen. there it was. he kneeled down in front of that painting and he proposed. everything worked perfectly. although a guard did arrive and said, what is that painting doing up there? you stuck it up there -- >> i don't know if highway got permission ahead of time. >> no permission. but she walk in and said, oh, my, and she looked at the dress and he dropped down. >> cool. >>> still ahead, on a busy monday morning, justin timberlake makes his return to the super bowl halftime official. what to expect from his performance. >>> and pastor joel osteen about what keeps him inspired and hopeful in very dark times. >>> and heather graham is here. she's going to talk about her starring role in the infamous menendez case. >>> and we have transformed our plaza into chocofeller plaza to celebrate all things halloween. great ideas for competitions and more right after this. i'm a migraine sufferer and i'm an emt. when i ge

we were finally told by my friend, mary beth, in the lex so luxor, where we're staying, we were allowedo come back. >> reporter: i can only imagine how you're feeling. the death toll is insur moundible. over 50 people now. what loss of life or victims, what did you see on the ground, as far as people trying to get away? >> once i was out, i was -- once i came out of the event, there were people bleeding everywhere. didn't know where the blood was coming from. whose blood it was. people carrying people. people laying down. just, one man was sitting next to me, who had a bullet hole through his arm. he was like, we can't help you now. we have other people to worry about. just wrap it up and hold still until we can come get you. that's all they could do for that guy. i haven't seen him in hours. >> reporter: thank you for sharing your story. these are the stories we're hearing as people are filtering back from the scene. police are starting to open up parts of the vegas strip. it is eerily quiet, very somber, as police are investigating what is the worst mass shooting in american history.

chris planned to propose to his girlfriend, mary beth, at the metropolitan museum of art.to one piece, it was a painting by chris, depicting about what was to happen. there it was. he kneeled down in front of that painting and he proposed. everything worked perfectly. a guard did arrive and say, what is that painting doing? >> i don't know if he got permission ahead of time? >> no permission. she walked there and saw the picture. and looked at her dress and he dropped down. >> cool. >>> still ahead, on a busy monday morning, justin timberlake makes his return to the super bowl halftime official. >>> and pastor joel osteen about what keeps him inspired and hopeful in dark times. >>> and heather graham is here. she's going to talk about her starring role in the infamous menendez case. >>> and we've changed our plaza to i'm a migraine sufferer and i'm an emt. when i get a migraine at work, it's debilitating. if i call out with a migraine, that's one less ambulance to serve a community. i just don't want to let these people down. excedrin migraine. relief that works as hard as

chris planned to propose to his girlfriend mary beth at new york's metropolitan museum of art so he gotg wear it at a museum. when they ended up in a room full of picasso's, there was one painting that stood out, it was a painting by chris with what was about to happen. he kneeled down in front of that painting and he proposed. everything worked perfectly although a guard did arrive and say, what is that painting doing up there? he stuck it up there. >> i didn't know if he got permission ahead of time. >> no permission, just stuck it up there. but she walked there, saw the picture, looked at her dress and he dropped down. >>> still ahead on a busy monday morning, justin timberlake makes his return to the super bowl halftime show official, what he said you can expect with h >>> also8f ahead pastor joel osteen with what keeps him inspired and hopeless. >>> heather graham will talk about her starring role in the mendez case. >>> we have transformed our plaza to celebrate all things halloween. great ideas for celebrations, fun competitions and more gh after this. i'm a migraine sufferer and

we were finally told by my friend, mary beth, in the lex so luxor, where we're staying, we were allowedme back. >> reporter: i can only imagine how you're feeling. the death toll is insur moundible. over 50 people now. what loss of life or victims, what did you see on the ground, as far as people trying to get away? >> once i was out, i was -- once i came out of the event, there were people bleeding everywhere. didn't know where the blood was coming from. whose blood it was. people carrying people. people laying down. just, one man was sitting next to me, who had a bullet hole through his arm. he was like, we can't help you now. we have other people to worry about. just wrap it up and hold still until we can come get you. that's all they could do for that guy. i haven't seen him in hours. >> reporter: thank you for sharing your story. these are the stories we're hearing as people are filtering back from the scene. police are starting to open up parts of the vegas strip. it is eerily quiet, very somber, as police are investigating what is the worst mass shooting in american history. back

mary ellen's death. her death -- the name patrick o'bryan and bridget daily. what heaped to michael and julia? well, they're beth from ireland. well, turns out patrick o'bryan is her brother's name. and bridget daly -- by the way, this is the shortened version of -- not the 140 slides that would have didn't john mccormack, the movie. but brig daly was a neighborhood lady of mary ellen and her son, bernard, was baptized the same day by the same priest, and it's three lines separate them in the archdiocese records that i was able to track down before they moved them. well, notice up there, it says, married. married. john has told everybody his father died when john was 13, which would have been 1905. this is eight years later and says married. why mary? pause john knows his father is still alive. how does he know that? because joe's sister is alive and living in st. fields corner in dorchester. soon -- love john, so aunt sarah knows her brother is still alive. but as far as john and younger byes are concern, dad is dead to them. but nevertheless he will not put down that his mother was a widow because he knowed sh