i'm mary mclaughlin, program coordinator with the smithsonian associates, and i'd like to welcomeo you to what promises to be the very perfect halloween evening. [laughter] on the grisly world of vick vicn surgeon surgery. before we begin, i'd like to ask everyone the please check their cell phones and make sure they are

i'm mary mclaughlin, program coordinator with the smithsonian associates, and i'd like to welcomeo you to what promises to be the very perfect halloween evening. [laughter] on the grisly world of vick vicn surgeon surgery. before we begin, i'd like to ask everyone the please check their cell phones and make sure they are silenced. i'm also delighted to let you know that this program is being filmed by c-span to be aired at a later date, so if you enjoy tonight's program and would like to see it again or if you think your friends would like to see it, we should check periodically over the next few weeks to c-span.org and see if it's up. sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it could be one or two months, so it's worth checking periodically. it is my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. lindsey fitzharris. dr. fitzharris tells me as a little girl she used to drag her grandmother fromet cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. though some thought she was obsessed with death from an early age, she like ared to think she was simply fascinat

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