the berliners donated this airplane, the smithsonian. this is the only existing berliner helicopter left. there's actually the history of this helicopter's virtually overlooked in most histories of aviation or a vertical flight. it's most a footnote. but it was the most advanced american prototype helicopter until sikorsky invented the helicopter in 1940. i wanted to point out some interesting aspects. so you can see our mannequin in the airplane and how close the propellers are to his head. surprisingly, no one was ever injured or killed in the experiments here. even though we have a photograph of a crash, was there a height limit? did they have to be particularly small? it was not that i'm aware of. so the the main inventor, henry berliner, was the main test pilot. we don't know why we don't he wasn't even a licensed conventional aircraft pilot. but he he was the one who tested most of his aircraft until he partnered with the military and got a professional military test pilot. this is we believe this is the. first helicopter to ever u

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and nea fellowship, a smithsonian year and fellowship and two massachusetts cultural council. alicia abbott is the author of fairyland, a memoir my father, which was a new york times book editor's choice, an l.a. stonewall award winner and was a finalist. the lambda literary awards as a journalist, essayist and critic. she's written for the boston globe, the guardian, new york times, wall street journal, washington post, vogue and marie claire among publications. she holds an mfa in creative nonfiction, new school, university and was a contributing producer at wnyc radio. and she has directed the boston district, as well as scrubs streets memoir incubator program in boston. tonight, we'll hear about the secret of the rape kit. the latest book from pagan kennedy. the book is a thrilling investigation that tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman, marty goddard, who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics when she dreamed up a new crime tool, the rape kit, and then into obscurity. as journalist pagan kennedy follows a trail of clues to solve the mystery of marty. she

they should put this cain in the smithsonian.n in history. >> how about the ponytail? the ponytail should go in the smithsonian right next to archie bunker's chair. that thing is a fire hazard. >> jesse: it's like the men in the democratic caucus are ponytails. i think they should put it right next to the pistol that hamilton was shot with. this thing, it's a big momento and i might bid on it on the next auction and i will use one of those little paddles, adam. >> it's funny the democratic party, the women are bald on the men have ponytails. it's not exactly your grandpas party. ultimately what's going to bring down the democrats is pride. they talk about pride, they talk about black pride, gay pride. they need to drop it. they need to humble themselves and move on. it's pride and then trump shames them and they are acting out like high school girls. the pride is what's causing the problem for them. >> jesse: where's the pride in the country? there's no pride in the country. you are going to sit on your hands while hostages are c

and now he is the secretary of all the smithsonian museums. and he is a part of this work. so, the makua chief hands to lonnie this calvary shell encrusted basket, and lonnie is light, why is he handing me this gift? but before he gives it to him, he reaches down and he puts soil from mozambique island or mozambique into the basket. and then he says to lonnie, i am charging you with going back to that wreck site, and i want you to pour the soil that i am giving you now over that site so that my people can touch home for the first time in over 200 years. it is an incredible story. and then lonnie and the team decide to do just that. so, they go back to south africa and they choose an african-american, a south african, and eight mozambican, and the three of them walk into the water with the basket and they pour the soil over the site. and what makes this story really extraordinary, again, i was not there when this happened so i can't say if it actually happened, but from many accounts, and i talked to a lot of people around this and they all say the same thing, that when they

and now he is the secretary of all the smithsonian museums. and he is a part of this work. so, the makua chief hands to lonnie this calvary shell encrusted basket, and lonnie is light, why is he handing me this gift? but before he gives it to him, he reaches down and he puts soil from mozambique island or mozambique into the basket. and then he says to lonnie, i am charging you with going back to that wreck site, and i want you to pour the soil that i am giving you now over that site so that my people can touch home for the first time in over 200 years. it is an incredible story. and then lonnie and the team decide to do just that. so, they go back to south africa and they choose an african-american, a south african, and eight mozambican, and the three of them walk into the water with the basket and they pour the soil over the site. and what makes this story really extraordinary, again, i was not there when this happened so i can't say if it actually happened, but from many accounts, and i talked to a lot of people around this and they all say the same thing, that when they

and now he is the secretary of all the smithsonian museums. and he is a part of this work. so, the makua chief hands to lonnie this calvary shell encrusted basket, and lonnie is light, why is he handing me this gift? but before he gives it to him, he reaches down and he puts soil from mozambique island or mozambique into the basket. and then he says to lonnie, i am charging you with going back to that wreck site, and i want you to pour the soil that i am giving you now over that site so that my people can touch home for the first time in over 200 years. it is an incredible story. and then lonnie and the team decide to do just that. so, they go back to south africa and they choose an african-american, a south african, and eight mozambican, and the three of them walk into the water with the basket and they pour the soil over the site. and what makes this story really extraordinary, again, i was not there when this happened so i can't say if it actually happened, but from many accounts, and i talked to a lot of people around this and they all say the same thing, that when they

first appeared as a very popular piece in the new york times in 2020, and following article, the smithsonian got that rape kit into the museum and now more people will know this hidden history, the secret and know who marty goddard is and will be inspired by her work, which you uncovered. and, you know, we can't answer the questions of how to make, but we can applaud the power that is this history, this book. and i really urge you all to buy it or listen it. the secret history of the kit a true crime story by pagan kennedy paganwell, thank you alg us this evening. and charles, of course, thank you for this really remarkable investigative work that is at compelling, troubling but also deeply human human. and i'll share that my father had vascular dementia. and so the process of watching a loved slip away is deeply, deeply painful. and the way people reach for answers to that desperation is part of what runs throughout your. but i want to take us to the very beginning and tell us about when the questions first began to come up for you around how this research was being conducted and whether we