chairman, members of the subcommittee, my name is oliver stone. i assure you it is with pleasure and with some pride i appear before the subcommittee today to urge the passage of house joint resolution 454 to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the assassination of president john f. kennedy. >> the purpose of the act was to make sure all of the records considered assassination-related were collected and opened as -- to the greatest extent possible. you can search on an item level of records in the collection. if you see something you would like to see, you can come here, ask to see it during our business hours. when we are available, the box will be pulled and made available in our research room at the national archives in college park. here we have three items you requested. unlike the physical artifacts, we were able to accommodate you and make it available to you because these are basically textual documents. they are not physical artifacts of the collection. this is a custom-made container made by our conservation sta

chairman, members of the subcommittee, my name is oliver stone. i assure you it is with pleasure and with some pride i appear before the subcommittee today to urge the passage of house joint resolution 454 to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the assassination of president john f. kennedy. >> there are various finding aids. the national archive has created a database of the items that were released after 1992 in response to the act, which actually, the database entries were created by the agencies that were holding the record. the national archives created the database itself. then all of that data was transferred here and we made that available to the public. we estimate there are about 5 million textual papers. .e also have photographs >> if the public want access to these items or research, how does that work? for most ofst -- >> the textual records, all they would need to do is come here and ask for access. there are records online. of the itemstabase that were released after 1992 in response to the act. the databas

oliver stone that. in good morning vietnam with robin williams. >> i was. >> how was it to be that successful that quickly? because by the time you were 30, you were a pretty established actor. >> i was really fortunate, you know. i worked hard to try to get better. i had a couple of opportunities. i was still going through, you know, the same struggles talking about getting better, then you get to play charlie parker in bird, clint eastwood dread that. >> right. >> you are winning best actor in the cann festival before you are 30 years old, getting nominated for golden globes. i think i was also critical of the work. i was blown away by the experience. i had never done any publicity for a movie and now, an air e a with thousands much people. i took my brother with me. my brother said, man, i heard somebody saying you might could win this award. really? no. you were a hard working innocent kid because you threw yourself into that role with charlie parker, learned to play the sax, kind of lived sort of a

in "platoon", oliver stone directed that and in "vietnam", with robin williams. >> yes, i was. >> by the time you were 30 you were an established actor. >> yes, i was fortunate. i worked hard to get better and had a couple of opportunities. i was still going flow, you know, the same struggles of surviving the life and stuff like that too. >> talking about getting better, then you get to play charlie parker in "bird." clint eastwood directed that. you won best actor at cannes, again, before you are 30. nominated for golden globes. was it a heady time. did it go to your head? >> no. i mean, i think i was always so critical. i was just blown away, you know, by the experience. working with clint - i had never done publicity for a movie, and you are thrown into an arena where there are thousands of people. i took my brother and he said "i heard someone say you might win the award." i'm like, "really? no." know. >> you were a hard-working innocent kid. >> yes. >> you threw yourself into the role of charlie parker, you learnt to play the sax and lived a spartan existence, is that something

number of celebrities who have treated jamal as though he's some sort of political prisoner hero, oliver stone sarandon and the likes. the president of the university is also praising this choice. where is the adult supervision? >> dan? >> i'm giving a miss to senator joe machine manchin who they can who said mary landrieu's defeat because her seat on the energy committee would be taken by democrat maria cantwell of washington whose anti-carbon and would hurt energy states like him. boo hoo, senator manchin, this is your party, love it or leave it. >> thanks to my panel and all of you watching. i'm bapaul gigot. hope to see you all here next week. >>> the fight to prevent the spread of ebola here in america. the director of the centers for disease control and prevention saying he has, quote, no doubt the u.s. will stop the virus. welcome to america's news headquarters. the head of the cdc, dr. tom frieden reassuring americans at a news conference today in atlanta amid fear that the government isn't doing enough to contain the deadly disease. >> there are clear things that we've got to do that

they have a list and an understanding outside, and robert who was a real critic of the movie of oliver stoneame up to the red carpet to get into the screening, and frank said no, you can't come in, you are not on the list, of course he had said terrible things about the film, he said frank, i thought you were smarting than that, and frank said wrong again, bob. and that's was sort of the kind of interplay he had. he had a good time with what he did. he loves politics and the way that john madden loves football. he was very very smart. >> michael shore again. michael, thank you for sharing. more stories making news around america. >> david, two new york city police officers remain in the hospital after an attack by a man wielding a hatchet. a surveillance camera caught the moments before yesterday's assault, the man struck one officer in the head, and a second one in the arm. the suspect was with then shot and killed by two other police officers. police say they don't know what prompted the attack. in texas a seemingly unwanted child is now the subject of a custody dispute. when a two-month-o

the oliver stone interpretation of vietnam. each of these conflicts are of course complex. the way we remember them, we sometimes become victims of our own narrative reductiveness as we attempt to understand their vastness, their meaning, to understand our own identities. in order to understand who we are, sometimes we cut corners with the historical past. we see lenses designed for our own convenience. there is something very likable in us doing this. very much so. it is comforting. but if you know anything about history, it's not comfortable. it is messy. i was talking to one of you during office hours last week. how messy history is. how frustrating it is. and it made me very happy. not so much the student, i think. history is messy. but as historians, that is our role, to get to the heart of things, to push back against easy generalizations. to question their foundations and stride to complicate what we think we know of the past. this is what we do when we enter cleo's garden. so, let us leave cleo's garden and go into the murkier trenches. the first world war, as you k

the oliver stone interpretation of vietnam. each of these conflicts are of course complex. the way we remember them, we sometimes become victims of our own narrative reductiveness as we attempt to understand their vastness, their meaning, to understand our own identities. in order to understand who we are, sometimes we cut corners with the historical past. we see lenses designed for our own convenience. there is something very likable in us doing this. very much so. it is comforting. but if you know anything about history, it's not comfortable. it is messy. i was talking to one of you during office hours last week. how messy history is. how frustrating it is. and it made me very happy. not so much the student, i think. history is messy. but as historians, that is our role, to get to the heart of things, to push back against easy generalizations. to question their foundations and stride to complicate what we think we know of the past. this is what we do when we enter cleo's garden. so, let us leave cleo's garden and go into the murkier trenches. the first world war, as you k

olives. >> guys please way in. rolling stone's rock and roll hall of fame. it includes green day. meanwhile sting is honored for his solar career. comments? >> when did green day become u2? >> that's true. that makes you feel good. that they can be nominated. >> in the same breath as u2. >> sting, no question there. >> the "washington post" says a man want add raise. he copied the note to 200,000 co-workers. tyrell oates. >> he says my proposal is $3 billion, just a small fraction of what wells fargo pulls in annually and raise every employee's annual salary by $10,000. tyrell had an idea didn't he? >> do you think tyrell still works there? >> very good question. >>> we are thrilled to welcome key & peele back to studio 57. the fourth season of their peabody award -- >> peabody? >> yes. they won a peabody. they were there. they and charlie rose have something in common. they have a lot of impressions including the commander in chief. >> nice to meet you. come on, come orngs come on. feel that? >> emily george. >> nice to meet yo

olives. >> guys, please weigh in. rolling stones says it's time to vote.e stipg is nominated for his solo career. comments? >> when did green day become -- >> that's the first thing. green day, that makes you feel old. green day can be -- that they can be nominated. >> in the same breath as u2. >> lou reed, no brainer. >> double nomination there. >> and wells fargo employee e-mailed a bank ceo that he wanted a raise and he intenti intentionally copied the note to 2 had been,000 co-workers. $3 billion, tyro said, just a small fraction of what wells fargo pulls in annually and raise every employees annual salary by $10,000. tyro had an idea, didn't he? >> do you think tyro still work there's? very good question. >>> we are thrilled to welcome you back. the four season of their peabody award winning comedy -- >> peabody? >> yeah, peabody. >> were you there, charlie? i think you were there. >> you and charlie rose have a lot in common. winning comedy central series is long running amend the commander in chief. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> jay m

olives. and some lime and a fresh stalk of selly. right on. >> we like >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is p