i want to say thank you actually to my mentors if it wasn't for my mentors mary lee and al perez and rebecca and rudy i didn't and all of you guys to invested in me and my generation i wouldn't be where i'm at today and use the same strategies to overcome things and be able to reach out to english community. we we were able to lied the biggest hepatitis best recollection projects. so thank you for your mentorship and a leadership >> all right. keep it going for giving me verify a rock star indeed. i'm personally one of her oldest groupies. okay. you know, it's amazing let's hear it for all our winners. all those today who were recognized. i've had the honor myself i'm a produce of district 6 myself working in the south of market area i've had the honor to work with women who shaped the community. i want to recognize them those are strong woman. we can applaud for them yes. raqeul works with john avalos and angelina. (calling names) man those are very strong strong women and i'm glad that we were able to recognize them. we have so many strong filipinos hero in the city. i'm proud to b

i want to say thank you actually to my mentors if it wasn't for my mentors mary lee and al perez and rebecca and rudy i didn't and all of you guys to invested in me and my generation i wouldn't be where i'm at today and use the same strategies to overcome things and be able to reach out to english community. we we were able to lied the biggest

we really do appreciate it and the cohost and mary lee and tom torque son and who you met this morning and our next panel is planning for student safety opportunity and success and planning for action around the bay. our moderator is jill tucker an education reporter at the san francisco kron cell. i told jill it's hard to find bios online for reporters. they can stay out of google. she's award winning reporter and covered california schools for 14 years and knows a lot about this subject and was honored by the california teacher association and received the highest award about the growing number of homeless students in the school system. she is a san francisco native and was in the peace corps and tout in west africa and please welcome jill tucker. [applause] >> thank you. she just dated me with that 9090 peace corps thing. okay. i want to say how great it is to be here. i have been looking at everyone's name tags and awed by the wide variety of people and i want you to in rolodex. email me. there are great stories i have been hearing today. we have amazing and large panel and it is a

someone like mary lee williams doesn't -- well, she does consider herself an activist. put some distance between the more tradition always of defining her work as political. >> absolutely. i mean, i think that they -- i wanted to show, one of the reasons why when i was narrowing down and i decided on these three is, one, i i wanted to show a range of engagement in different art forms, but also i wanted to show a kind of continuum of political engagement and involvement. so someone like a young dancer who's a student at hunter college who joins various kind of political organizations while she's a student and is probably the most, you know, what we think of as conventionally radical of the three, actually joins the communist party for a while. and so that helps to shape her analysis of the world, so that would be -- and then someone like ann petri who's a writer who is surrounded by people who are radical political activists and respects and admires and defends them when they come under assault, but also keeps her distance and, you know, doesn't join -- she's not a joine

someone like mary lee williams doesn't -- well, she does consider herself an activist.t some distance between the more tradition always of defining her work as political. >> absolutely. i mean, i think that they -- i wanted to show, one of the reasons why when i was narrowing down and i decided on these three is, one, i i wanted to show a range of engagement in different art forms, but also i wanted to show a kind of continuum of political engagement and involvement. so someone like a young dancer who's a student at hunter college who joins various kind of political organizations while she's a student and is probably the most, you know, what we think of as conventionally radical of the three, actually joins the communist party for a while. and so that helps to shape her analysis of the world, so that would be -- and then someone like ann petri who's a writer who is surrounded by people who are radical political activists and respects and admires and defends them when they come under assault, but also keeps her distance and, you know, doesn't join -- she's not a joiner,

marie tippett. her husband was j.d. tippit, a veteran dallas police officer who had joined in the manhunt for lee harvey oswald. tom brokaw sat down with marie. >> reporter: as a policeman's wife, marie tippit new her husband's job came with a certain amount of danger, but nothing could prepare her for what happened one friday 50 years ago. >> it started off as an ordinary day. we got the kids off to school. he went to work. >> reporter: her husband came home for lunch and then rushed back onto the streets looking for the suspect wanted for shooting the president. >> they had called him and told him a description of the person that they was looking for. >> reporter: at the corner of tenth and patton, just a few miles from where marie was waiting for him, officer tippit crossed paths with lee harvey oswald. >> the police officer was shot. >> he was driving car number ten. i think he's dead. >> reporter: oswald fired four shots, three to the body and one to the head. tippit never had a chance. your life crashed around you at that point. >> everything, i just couldn't believe it. it was just unreal. >> reporter: we

washington and lee, william and mary, in a single year, purchased 17 people for the campus.arolinarsity of north . in the north, you have something similar. the founder of government shows up with eight enslaved people -- dartmouth shows up with a enslaved people. for a lot of people doing this kind of work, studying the relationships between colleges and universities, you are often looking for the smoking gun. often what they are looking for is whether the institution owned slaves. do., lots of them but when their presidents do, they effectively do. when the professors owned slaves, the institution effectively owns slaves. and the students bring slaves to campus. the stepson of george washington -- he mixes the idea of sending him to william and mary. >> washington himself did not go to college. >> he did not want to send him to william and mary because he has bad habits and he thinks it will get worse among the sons of the elite planters. so he goes up to new york and enrolls him in kings college, now colombia, and they are glad to have him, because this creates another en

marie reached out to geriito campana and ron lee, bail agents and bounty hunters for 30 years. >> i foundout that the passports were used to exit the united states. >> reporter: gumshoe work by geri and ron would produce the break they desperately needed -- someone with inside info on the couple's whereabouts. >> and he gave us a street. >> reporter: a street where? >> florence. >> reporter: florence, italy. a romantic city, swarming with american tourists. the perfect hideaway for kip and nicole, but ron vowed to track them down. >> i had mug shots of them. i stared at them. when i was shaving, i took them in the bathroom and kept staring at them. >> reporter: after three fruitless days on stakeout in florence, ron's attention wandered to the unlikeliest of italian sights -- a chinese restaurant. >> i look down the street, and i see this sign that says chinatown. i said, hey, i gotta have a picture of this, and then as i got there, i looked up and there they were. >> and i said, oh, my god. >> reporter: kip and nicole might have been on the lam, but they had made no attempt to transform

. >> reporter: a few miles from where marie was waiting for him, officer tippet crossed paths with lee >> police officer is shot. he was driving car number 10. i think he's dead. >> reporter: oswald fired three shots, two to the body one to the head. >> your life crashed around you at that point? >> i couldn't believe it. it was just unreal. >> reporter: we begin this national period of mourning the president and yet in a very personal way, you have to deal with your own grief. was that hard? >> oh, was it ever? yes. he was the other part of me that was just missing. >> three children without him, it seems almost impossible. >> reporter: as the media storm began to swirl around her, marie tippet found her thoughts going to the one person who could truly understand her ordeal, jacqueline kennedy. >> certainly sympathize with her. >> reporter: the two young widows saw their husbands laid to rest on the same day and somehow in the midst of her grief, first lady found time to write a condolence letter to marie tippet, this never before seen letter was as direct as it was unexpected. dear m

i hope mary will be part of our new affordable housing for seniors. i'm glad this is being done under the item of mayor ed leeho's legacy he he's known as the housing mayor. he's done more than any mayor before him. he will speak later. i would also like to recognize the community advisory members. thank you (clapping.) and the community development corporation is hear from reverend mckay and the director whitney thank you to you and to urban core and to the staff that developed this project and our unsung hero our property manager he's the person who's going to be operating this wonderful housing. he got the residents moved in and settled and finally, there's to the organizers of this event janet and the supervisor and other folks of urban core. >> now to introduce the e d of chinatown development center who's passion is

lee's motion. and to up hold the order of abatement, for 30 days. >> and could i ask rose mary, there is a clarification, if we say this as the motion as it is on the floor, 30 days, that means 30 days completed work, right? and so that means in 30 days she has to go through all of the mayor's process and do the work? which is a lot >> the order is peeking to the issue what is before you is complying with the notice of violation, so whatever she needs to do to do that, that will be up to her. >> right. >> that is independent of that. i definitely would discourage you to condition that and says that she has to bring it up there and empty the building within so many days and with that with the violations that are articulated it is clear, that she violates the issue is going to be subject to several penalties under the housing code if we... or if there is some kind of a discussion between her and the city attorney, and we know in some ways the city attorney is free to do that because we refer it to the city attorney, but it was 30 days, and it is better for her than 7 and it is reasonable. >> and so if we

mary excess and i'll read two of the things from the implication. whereas the mexican museum is the repetition to exhibit the mexican chicano and mexican-american people and whereas edwin m lee and the members of the board of supervisors honored mexican day on 3407bd by celebrating the new home of the mexican museum at the jessie polarizing mrooz in downtown san francisco about it resolved that today is hereby declared mexican-american day in san francisco (clapping) >> and let me give this to also to victor marquis. i want to say that we have mayor ed lee in hanging this banner on the wall behind us. (clapping) >> the future home of the mexican museum. (clapping) i want to take a moment to thank all the volunteers and all the people that came to all the hearings. there was 2 hundred and 64 people altogether that attended numerous hearings to let's please give them a hand and committee members please stand up and put our hands up and thank you very much for coming to all the hearings throughout all those most. i want to thank former commissioner of the redevelopment, commissioner sing. i also want to thank the latino club for their support, latino the historic chamber of com

mary and avalos and campos. thank you without your unanimously support we couldn't have done that. and i want to thank other including willie brown and a tremendous thanks to marry ed lee for his tremendous support. i would also be remiss not to thank the staff agency steve and director john of the planning department and to all city commissioners respective of their office. today, there are several former commissioners my good friend christina and others who are great supporters of us (clapping) we also have to thank a huge thank you your development partner jeffries and his family for they're truly amazing support for bringing about the mexican museum. in closings i want to acknowledge peter rodriguez the founder

mary and avalos and campos. thank you without your unanimously support we couldn't have done that. and i want to thank other including willie brown and a tremendous thanks to marry ed lee for his tremendous support. i would also be remiss not to thank the staff agency steve and director john of the planning department and to all city commissioners respective of their office. today, there are several former commissioners my good friend christina and others who are great supporters of us (clapping) we also have to thank a huge thank you your development partner jeffries and his family for they're truly amazing support for bringing about the mexican museum. in closings i want to acknowledge peter rodriguez the founder of the museum. we have this sister and brother lloyd rodriguez representing the family (clapping) i want you to then please stay and enjoy the celebration together we can it gives me great pleasure to introduce mayor ed lee (clapping) >> thank you andy for that introduction. well, today, obviously is a very special day it's not only the 2 hundred and third mexican today, it's appropriate we recognize ann an important institution that will be built here, no s

november 22nd, 1963, president kennedy was gunned down by lee harvey oswald in dallas, texas but the assassination left behind two widows. >> mariesakes. here's jason whitely from our station in dallas. >> been here for years. >> reporter: they are the little items in life. ones often discarded. >> his glove. those are the ones he wore. >> reporter: lee harvey oswald wasn't just charged with assassinating president kennedy but also for killing dallas policeman, j.d. tippett. marie's husband. >> i will try to get through this without crying because this is a very emotional thing. this box has been sitting here for years. >> reporter: inside are the only tangible items she still has of his. extra buttons she would sew on to his police uniform. the map book that j.d. tippett used on patrol and even the old citations he wrote for things like loud mufflers. a small box of memories and mementos that she shared with us. a half century after her husband's death. >> i needed to keep them for the children, his grandchildren. >> reporter: then there are the personal items. j.d.'s wristwatch, which wound up, still works. the tattered book he

marie was waiting with him. officer tippin crossed fire with lee harvey oswald. >> he was driving car number 10. i think he's dead. >> oswald fired four shots, three to the body, one to the head. tippet never had a chance. >> your life crashed around you at that point? >> everything. i just couldn't believe it. it was just unreal. >> we begin this natural period of mourning the president and yet in a very personal way, you have to deal with your own grief. was that hard? >> oh, was it ever, yes. we have grown so hard together that he was the other part of me that was just missing. in fact, with three children, without him it seemed almost impossible. >> reporter: as the media storm began to swirl around her, marie tippet found her thoughts going to the one person who could truly understand her ordeal, jacqueline kennedy. >> i can sympathize with her. >> reporter: the two young widows had their husbands laid to rest on the same day and somehow in the midst of her grief the first lady found time to write a condolence letter to marie phipppet. this never before seen letter was as direct as expected