story behind the story. i think haley was a very competent journalist even for "enquirer" standards. >> i was in lantana in march when he died at the chateau marmont. we wanted to know what happened that night. there was thissist inry woman whose name wasn't released. we called her kathy silver bags because she sold drugs out of her purse. >>s she listed her occupation as backup singer. police questioned but released her. >> smith, a 35-year-old rock 'n roll groupie went home to toronto. >> we then went up to canada to find kathy smith. >> we spent about ten days in a hotel room. >> a and the story came out. and i say, you know, this woman is saying that she killed john belushi. she is not saying it. i said i want that headline. go back and get her to say i killed john belushi on tape. >> so we spent the next week partying with her. we ran up an enormous hotel bill hand had a great time and became her best friends. and she didn't want to say it. >> tony had a tape recorder going. i had one going. she would s

not just my family stories but stories of enslaved people. and they were represented as african-americans to leave strength and persistence and love that i thought was important to share. >> i want to hear more speaking about a sense of ambivalence to set you on a path of discovery many miles covered in many obstacles a lot emotional freight. your mother had reverence for the madison family they gave her pride and meaning and strength your mother had a hard life. i would like to hear your feelings about that because you had more ambivalence about being connected. >> i did. i grew up in the sixties so i came away with the black power movement so i felt licensed to take on some of the more uncomfortable sides and not try to hide and then said talk about it which is very different from the way my mother looked at it she was very proud to be a descendent of president madison and in some way, reassured and comforted by having something special in the background. that set her apart from those who were experiencing being black in america. >> and gre

>> it is the whole story. it is the real store are -- story. -- it is the real story. it is the voices that weren't heard. slaves weren't really able to speak for themselves, but they left their mark everywhere, from new york city, all over the country, in boston and everywhere i've lived, the mark of the slaves are there. >> question from jen p. the story of your family is amazing, and i love the book. your message of what it is like to be black in america -- [inaudible]. what would you like people and women in particular to take away from your story? >> women in particular? >> uh-huh, what would you like people and women in particular to take away from your story? >> as i was writing this book, kind of imagined black women reading this book and, you know, saying that [inaudible]. i hope that they would pass down those same qualities that would tell their own children about those qualities, but there's a chapter in the book that's called "visiting", and that's the chapter that's about -- [inaudible]. and one specific message i wanted to convey was that it could happen

and then the theme of the story america has a story.and we organize around stories of the social existence. and the chief way to find meaning in the intensification of the human need and impulse. and to have a fuller sense of the book and each dealing with an issue or event especially important but yet problematic and the single most sensitive subject in the presentation of american history and our nation's past that is one of balance insisting the importance of slavery without exaggerating the enduring significance. and then to imagine it was uniquely american institution. and the united states did not create slavery or racism or racial prejudice. these evils are as old as history. the default position of human nature absent from strong countervailing moral force. and having a history touch by these evils and having participated in them is a country that has a larger history of which it can be proud to overcome such things. and then to deal with the problem decisively at the time of the country's beginning. and then to become national

>> it is the whole story. it is the real story. it is the voices that were not heard. african slaves really were not able to speak for themselves that from new york city all over the country from boston with the mark of the slave. >> the story of your family is amazing i love the book your message of what it's like to be black in america what would you like women in particular to take from your story? >> >> as i was writing the book i imagined saying that they would passed out those same qualities that they would tell their own children about those qualities so that is the chapter so one specific message i want to convey is that it could happen in any setting. and within marriage. i did want to portray that to all women that marriage doesn't necessarily offer a haven from being sexually abused. >> there is a lot there for readers to dig into sexualization of african-american women. >> that was a tough chapter. the little girl there is a likelihood they could be raped and nothing their mothers can do about it. think of the racial divide i wonder if that interconnectedne

reporter: the whole story. [laughter] the mark of the slaves there. >> host: question from jenn's amazing i love the book. your message what it's like to be black in america what would you like people and women in particular to take with him or story? speech it women in particular? >> what would you like people and women in particular to take away from her story? >> guest: as i was writing this book i could not have imagined a black woman reading this book and seeing slaves and would hope they would pass down those same qualities, they would tell their own children of the qualities. there is a chapter in the book, that is the chapter that is about rape. one specific message i wanted to convey with this, it could happen in any setting. one setting was within marriage. i did want to portray that to all women, marriage is not necessarily, there's always the possibility of being abused. >> host: there's a lot of readers to dig into about the sexualization of african-american women. >> guest: that's its own chapter.

the story you did in the times magazine, with a place of disaster. >> guest: that was the story, and last year. a century and a half ago, i don't write about myself. this is a story when i was in my early 20s and went to alaska, people who were living up there, we were walking at the giant tree fell on my friend. getting them out and survived, worked at the new york times. when life continues. and similar to randomness. a tree falling on someone is random and the rescue unfolded just as much. could very well not have happened. we got lucky and a lot of ways. when i think of that story, i was finishing the book at that time. it is a part of the same idea. >> host: hard to tell. this is about disruption. and entry you did about it. you were working on it right after the election in the midst, considering the alaska trip, seems like a hokey question. if anyone can give strong words and perseverance and human grit, putting in a lot of that. i have -- anything in researching this book. >> guest: 100%. so much of the book is about the stories in the book, what people did in anchorage was h

this story. hello welcome to the program. the spread of corona virus and how to stop it dominates the news agenda of almost every media outlet in the world right now public health bodies rely on them to keep people informed but journalists are facing threats as they try to separate fact from misinformation have been reports of retaliation against the media since the global outbreak began rights groups accuse some governments of using the pandemic as an excuse to censor the news and punish reporters the u.n. secretary general wants more protection for media workers on world press freedom day we call on governments and others to get into their generally skin do their jobs throughout the coverage 1000 pandemic and beyond is the plan then express it is also given rise to a 2nd pandemic of museums to mation from harmful health advice to wild conspiracy to use the press provides the n.t. that very fired scientific fact today's news in the now is but since the pandemic began many journalists are being subjected to increase restricti

they want the whole story. one of my aunts, careens famous up on the wall were other slaves are listed. as i was involved in the exhibits it was called mere distinction of color, which is from james mattis, and that exhibit is something i feel all american should see. because it puts the role of slaves in perspective. and it talks about their role at mount pelee year how they were dealt with in the constitution the fact they were people and not just commodities. i would like to say there were millions of slaves they were millions of individuals. the visit to mount pelee or encourages you to see that. >> host: what does that mean to have the fuller more inclusive picture of american history? >> guest: it is the whole story it is the real story. it's the voices that weren't heard. african slaves were not able to speak for themselves but they left their mark everywhere. from new york city they built all over the country in boston and everywhere i have lived this is the mark of the slaves there. see when question f

>> it's the whole story. it's the real story. it's the voices that were not heard. african slaves were not really able to speak for themselves, but they left their mark everywhere, from new york city. they built a wall all over the country, in boston and ever i've lived. the mark of the slave is there. >> question from june. the story of them is amazing and i love the book. your message of what it's like to be black in america is -- what would you like people and women in particular to take away from your story? >> women in particular? >> what would you like people and women in particular to take away from your story? >> in this book, as writing this book i couldn't imagine that black women reading this book, and you know, saying that slavery was wrong, that did the same trips, too. i hope that it would pass down the same quality, would tell their own children about the quality. but there's a a chapter in a bk that is called visiting, and that's the chapter that is about rape. one significant message i wanted to convey was that rate was, it was, it could happen in a

inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a.j. inside story and i am at. it for me but it's me and the entire team here in doha by phone at. i. throughout history humankind has come together to prevail in our darkest hour this is a moment for pretty much the opposite side laying low saving humankind by really really not getting near every generation has its moment where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after this war is ours. choices and sacrifices made in the name of mother's love to provide the had children a woman in thailand must deprive them of the love they crave and focus this compassion and kindness on how well with alzheimer's patients from the west. while a swiss family travel halfway around the wild to leave their own mother in her care . witness kissing mother goodbye on al-jazeera. talk to al-jazeera we ask what will force work when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying your europeans go build united the stage of you know what we will not be with you we meet with global news make

they are part of the story. one way to think about them as they are in some ways the institutions of law. they are sort of like this slowing of voices in the sea of silence and what gets selected is guided by certain choices. preservation requires selection. on the other hand these institutions are also because of the proliferation of these archives and the historical society. to give an illustration when i was working and reading the papers and letters between him and they were writtethey were wp and resources into the books. all of them used resources to be able to tell that. you can see they never would have imagined writing such books were that he was collecting such and yet our ability to help write those books is because of the material collected by him into the society that he started so these things work in dynamic and complex ways and with each of the characters i talk about in my book there is a lot of complex dynamics going on. the work they do has lots of consequences in multiple directions. let me j

you know i had been hearing for several weeks stories in the u.s. and other countries outside of china saying that they thought that the. outside of china was low and it me 0 sense to me because viruses spreading really effectively from person to person in china so when dr frenchie said that he thought the risk was for the united states at that point i pushed back because it made no sense he did say you know could this become a pandemic absolutely but it felt like they didn't want to alarm people at that point it wasn't coming and it was already you know spreading the united states just had been repeated. your work has also proven to be prescient an article you wrote back in 2013 included a quote about a bat in china carrying a potential pandemic this was peter dash a researcher that i talked to the quote comes from him so i was just doing my job as a reporter reporting his views so you know if anything he predicted it again and again in the in the last 10 years or so when i was doing my reporting this is the sentence came up from scientists where t

a good story is that story that named shame and guilt and the bad guy i mind can be unconventional itestify in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys are put behind bass and that has helped so many people have gone to jail as a result of my work and i'm proud of it if we look at the film that we've just seen spirit child i mean it's a heartbreaking investigation what happened to those concoction men did they go to jail yes they started their leader process but do you realize that there were 2 or so. by the time the process could finish some of them just couldn't even make it to dallas only they had some sympathy but the key if in that happened in that story is that it told the community that whoever you are when you attempt to do some of these things you are going behind bass for the fest and those witch doctors where arrested and they were put before courts that sent a strong signal to all witch doctors to be careful that when you are dealing with the life of a child it's a completely different math and that we can set down for this children to be killed in the way the have

you know i have one more story in was an interview story, on the john wynne book again with these onef these serendipitous moments. i tried to get an interview with a woman by the name of mary st. john, who was john wayne's personal secretary his entire career. and she had never been interviewed really by anybody. and i called her she was living in kansas city at that time, right outside of kansas city and she said oh, i don't know, i don't know anything more than anybody else knows, okay. can we come out and talk to you. okay sure. we show up at 9:00 8:00 whatever it was early in the morning, and i start asking questions and she said no, no. i don't want to answer questions. let me just talk let me just tell, you okay, tell us a story. it was like therapy. she just started, clearly she was in love with john wayne, not romantic she just admired the guy, nothing salacious. she was on every set with him, she was his personal secretary she went on every set. and basically people on the set you have actors that are performing in the movies and then you have people behind this set, hairdre

you've got to begin the story. the story has to have a beginning. i open my class on american exceptionalism with this question. i've done that multiple times but we set up a survey of 2000 people where we could track the answers with demographic data and political data and see how it all shakes out. a whole bunch of amateurs come in of course to this question of where and when america began. some of the standard answers you might expect, the answers tend to concrete congregate about cn edges of native americans, the first people in the americas, that's what america began. or you didn't add to like columbus. the first europeans in the americas, the story of america begins with europeans discovery of america. or sometimes you get an answer not as frequently jamestown virginia the first permanent english settlement is the really beginning of the story of america. the mayflower compact and plymouth rock which a return to in a moment and then an answer like like a declaration, american revolution, constitution. one of the things to see about this questi

to coronavirus story can be told in retrospect. put yourself in the shoes of the n.h.s. the u.k.'s taxpayer funded public health service you treat around a 1000000 patients every 36 hours and that's pretty pandemic the amount of health data you're now churning out is enormous and you want to harness that data in the fight against covert 90 so you turn to the private sector and get technology companies to help you do that seems to make sense but here's the issue companies with checkered histories over data handling start landing those contracts and to date the british government has refused to disclose the contractual terms information does not get any more personal than your health data and in the midst of this pandemic the british public has been left in the dark on where that data is going and what these companies and the government might be able to do with it down the road our starting point this. week is one. this pandemic has attacked populations and the response in country after country has amounted to an assault on privacy. the methods the authorities aided by big tech comp

inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a.j. inside story and i am jazeera for me but it's me and the entire team here in doha feith and. i. talk to al jazeera we ask what your thoughts were when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying your europeans go build you know the stage of you we will not be with you we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter on the whole just 0 these are the world ring and disjointed days especially for the young my life changed because i can't go will say we have to be careful to not get sick and also at university study found the one in 5 children and now afraid to leave their homes the sense of disorientation and confusion i think would be very understandable natural order reaction a lot of children in the past few weeks secure mental health units have been forced to discharge large numbers of patients there are children suffering from psychosis who believe the virus is a conspiracy others with eating disorders or histories of self harm we

telling their story has told their story repeatedly. in some cases they are part of a group that goes to an education setting and continues to tell their personal stories in a matter of historical record for studying something of historical reference. in some cases the first time somebody is telling their story and the first time even the most intimate family member reads or hears the story is through your book. we are gonna take a quick rake. i want to ask you what is that position of stories that are repeatedly told, stories told by the very first time? >> just to put it -- three out of the 11 speak often about their stories. that's not an accurate representation. most refugees are never speaking about it. they don't want their children to know the heartache and the hurt. no one has ever asked about their story. no one has ever sat down and asked. for those people this is really cathartic that they share it and they have a book and their children are seeing it and it's having a great impact on them. to me it emphasizes how important w

since the story broke they have slashed on this story each day and in a way, this is how government accountabilityow, it's a slugfest, like a heavyweight battle on the ropes, particularly when the government is failing to take responsibility for this and when dominic cummings has even failed to apologise. so it's not pretty and some of the public might think, why don't we move on with this, but i guess you could point to mp5' inboxes, we will talk about this letter, like the polling figures in which the conservatives have dropped in popularity. so this is notjust a have dropped in popularity. so this is not just a westminster bubble story but the government desperately wants it to go away but it isn't at the moment. it was interesting, shyama, at the briefing yesterday, the deputy chief medical officer was asked about this and he stressed, in my opinion, everybody should obey the rules photo he was pretty clear. absolutely, but i think what is interesting about the wayjohn has highlighted it was the observer and the guardian who have been continuing and this is of interest because the cummings sto

as i say, it‘s the story eve ryo ne story.od things and there like the fact that 10% of schools are not giving any work to the pupils and we had the english education secretary at the press c0 nfe re nce english education secretary at the press conference yesterday saying kids should go back in the name of equality and progress, and making sure that the most disadvantaged kids don‘t fall behind. sure that the most disadvantaged kids don't fall behind. quite interesting that the male do not lead on what is inside the paper which is an article by the prime minister on page 17 in which he says, yes, it‘s more complex now but 110w says, yes, it‘s more complex now but now we need to trust in the good sense of the british people. they could have put out on a front page, i suppose. there are some flicks of the piece on the front page story but it‘s a kind of voice channels churchill —type where he‘s talking about the huge effort that so many front line workers in the nhs and every other walk of life have made in this great pandemic b

separate lives, here's her racecar driver in the story i tell, that's his story. but after world war ii, he left the u.s. and there was a totally dramatic and incredible second part, second existence, he joined the army, he was involved in the invasion of italy, helped europe and the nazis and went back to the united states, by his grandmother, brother and sister and ends up starting probably one of the most successful french restaurants in new york city. he became the fixture on the restaurant scene and died of a new yorker. not given maybe four sentences, five, maybe a paragraph? but you could write a whole book about that. his autobiography, his memoir is called my two lives. for exactly that reason. racecar driver who then becomes this restaurant owner. the other part of the research that i probably couldn't get as much and as i wanted to was the remarkable story of lucy, this whole sort of generation of women in the late 20s and 30s really pioneered being part of our racing from all this sexism and just really in many ways, broke the glass ceiling on that. yo

out of a for the story? how are they not part of the story before suddenly become part of the story only when europeans arrived? how are they woven into the narrative you are telling? just as importantly, this is the part that drew me to this question, are accounts of purpose. we see a certain origin story is given and the motive that started the people is understood to be the motive still drives and defines an action now. what purpose inspired america the question comes, i don't know much later, relate to that purpose which defines what america stands for? never people came for is what we stand for. this is a claim frequently made especially in the history first is written in the 1800s. why are they a prominent role in these origin stories? it doesn't really sense so native americans makes sense, the first people in the americas. columbus was the first european in america, if you want to start back or you can start with the first english or english settlement for the first this or that. they are not the fir

i think that is all of this story. when regular citizens unite and fight for the kind of democracy that they want grandma to that martin luther king the structural barriers they don't stand under that kind of pressure. .. .. former george w. bush administration john hugh and up first 2013 interview

it is story, a horrible story. a very young girl in one of our villages, vanished from public playground, found later, abused, murdered, and it rips your heart out. these are the kind of stories othey have certainly heard about and trying to address in my time cof public service in alaska. these are the stories that haunts us as alaskans. they wanted hopeless alaskans. and of course survivors, victims, their families. readers, good citizens and good people. they are difficult and shocking stories to tell the need to be told. they must be told. that is what kyle hopkins did. that is why he earned that polls share price. these are the kinds of stories and attorney general are confronted. when he came to alaska last may. his first trip to any state and country after it was confirmed as our new attorney general before his confirmation hearing, senator murkowski and i had both invited him to come to alaska. we talked to him in detail about these challenges. and then, we did something that i think mattered. and again, gi

a story of service and sacrifice.nning after losing both legs. >> you're still alive. you have to move on and get back on your feet. >> and later, remembering the sor of fact." now, a story of one marine's cross-continental mission, raising awareness for wounded warriors. rob jones lost both legs in 2010, in an ied explosion in afghanistan, but that didn't stop him from running. diane roberts shares his story. diane: hope should not have come easily to rob jones. but the marine corps veteran found courage following surgery to amputate both of his legs above the knee. his hope -- rob: yeah, survive, recover, live is something i came up with in the first week after my injury. diane: jones persevered through over a year of therapy and recovery following his surgeries, testing several prosthetic legs, and in the process, became the first double above-the-knee amputee to bike from maine to california, raising $126,000 for three non-profits that help wounded veterans and him. rob: when you wake up after your injury or whate

you are wasting people die that's the difference between stories that happen in the west and storiesthat happen in africa and author of a very good speech about the very brave what that you were doing thanks for joining us here on rewind thank you and that is it for this week's rewind if you want to catch any of the other films in the series you'll find them on the rewind page on the out of their website but for now until next time good bye. rewind a camera your people back to life i'm sorry but dates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries live and close the flawless a no like and the others through the green line continues with kosovo i feel the fear and hope this was my return to kosovo and the little village of book over one decade on i've come back to find out what happened to those hopes and dreams rewind on al-jazeera. frank assessments tourism but income stream is dead in the war what's been the result seen pushing go up quite significantly and in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. played an important role in protecting human. face. think

an unvarnished true story. a story that people really need to hear not necessarily what they want to hear. and i have learned that that is why everybody is responding to well. because people can also see themselves. everyone can almost see them selves in this exhibition. we have nine luminary individuals. six men, three women, seven civilian, two soldiers. and so, millenials can see themselves in people like a. pilchards ip randolph and -- pilchards ip rand phillip randolph and josephine baker who are those two young people in 1917, that era. so everyone's responding to it very well from i continue to hear. thank you very much for that question. >> on the line, nathanalyou're on with colonel salter. >> colonel salter, good morning. thank you for serving. >> thank you, nathaniel, thank you. >> i'm disabled regimen myself. >> thank you for serving and i appreciate your service. >> what i'm trying to find out, colonel salter, is this is the war where when everybody came back and in oklahoma city where they dropped

of the story. you talked about the language of memory. and i wonder about the importance of the authenticity of the first voices in crafting those stories that circulate as part of the public memory we have. mr. west, yes? >> i think that is an extremely important aspect of it. i was interested in the comment which does relate to the question you just asked me of the power of memory, is both internal, because with respect to the group of whose memory it is, we learn lots about ourselves knowing though stories. but ultimately it also is external. in other words, those memories serve as a bridge outside of our own community in ways that i think are corrective over the long haul. at the end mai, i think we were very specific about the control of the storytelling at the beginning, in part because we had never had before. if you look at native americans, everything about us was always in the third person, especially in museums. because native people had a very fractured relationship with museums themsel

what made it so important and as i began to unfurl the story and i learned his back story and the fact that he was a reluctant hero, his father was of conservative jewish faith and his mother was catholic. he didn't really give it could subscribe to any one religion or another. as he said, driving with his religion but suddenly in the mid 30s and 1938 he found himself kind of forced into this the story at its heart coupled with the fact that they had this tremendous e-mail carolyn at the heart of it, she was a rich american who could very well just wow and is a very brazen individual who became one of the earlier race car drivers. she was one of the best racecar drivers and then she decided at a certain point in 1936 to take on the germans and she would lead the development of the racecar and a team to defeat and i was pretty much done at that point and then began over the course of roughly two years researching this little-known story. there were very few mentions of it in any book so it was kind of one of those stories you have to gauge off of the past. there were family members goin

he put the story in my head. he was also just a fascinating character. he lived a life that felt like something out of the movies. he was bit by a coyote as a child. he went from being a conservative methodist to a radical communist. they have multiple second acts in his career and after the book is over he goes to jail to protest. he just was a handful and also somebody who the ambitions and careers were similar to being thrown into chaos of the forces beyond his control and i was curious about that. >> host: [inaudible] what did you think came together in your research? >> host: >> guest: i knew that it was a dissenter on this inflection .1949 or 50 when the housing authority is ejecting people -- evicting people and i knew that was going to be where they met and i knew that their lives were going to go different directions after that. so a lot of the work and the book was first of all kind of getting their timelines down and seeing what they were doing and then kind of balancing how to tell the story in a way that they would eventually have a tragic m

for number 10, cummings story?to ignore either story. it is interesting that they have been forced to still focus on cummings and they could not miss cummings and they could not miss cummings even if they wanted to put in the schools as well. henry, you have by chance and i didn't plan this, you have the final word on the subject. i think the other point about the school story is the government has slightly lost control of this and it is up to local authorities to offer guidance and some have said they won't open so it is not a grand unveiling and a moment of liberation for pa rents unveiling and a moment of liberation for parents around the country. what happens to their kids depends more on their particular school. henry mance from the financial times and anna isaac from the wall street journal and olivia utley from the sun, thank you very much. they will be back at half past i! for another look at the papers. goodbye for now. hello, this is a bbc sport centre. two people have tested positive for covid—i9 after t

you know, i have one more story. it's an interview story on a john wayne book. again, one of these serendipitous moments. i tried to get an interview with mary st. john who was john wayne's personal secretary his entire career. she had never been interviewed by anybody. i called her. she was living in kansas city at that time, right outside kansas city and she said, you know, i don't know. i don't know anything more than anybody else knows. can we come out and talk to you? okay, come. show up at 9:00, 8:00, whatever it was. it was early in the morning. i started asking questions and she said, no, no. i don't want to answer questions. let me just talk. let me just tell you. okay, tell us the story. it was like therapy, okay? she just started. clearly, she was in love with john wayne. i mean, not romantic. she just admired the guy. nothing salacious. she was on every set with him. personal secretary, she went on every set. basically, people on the set -- you have actors performing in the movies and then you have people behind this set. hairdressers, makeup people,

tell the unvarnished true story. tell the story people need to hear, not necessarily what they want to hear. i have learned that is why everybody is responding well. because people can also see themselves. everyone can almost see themselves in this exhibition. nine luminary individuals, six men, three women, seven civilians, two soldiers. millennials can see themselves in people like a philip randolph, and osephine baker, two of those younger people who are their age in 1917 and 1927. everyone is responding to it well, from what i see and what we hear. >> on that line for african-american veterans, nathaniel, smyrna, georgia. >> thank you for that >> colonel salter, thank you for serving. >> thank you, nathaniel. >> i am a disabled veteran myself. >> thank you for serving and i appreciate your service. >> this is the war where when everyone came back, oklahoma city, where they at dropped a bomb? kansas, oklahom, a they dropped a bomb on the black people coming up with their own schools, the kids dressed up going to c

how do they fit the story? how are they not part of the story before and suddenly become part of the story only when europeans arrived? how did they get woven into the narrative you are telling? just as importantly, this is the part that drew me to it this question, the purpose. over and over again we see -- what we will see is a certain origin of the stories given and the motive that started the people there is understood to be the motive that still drives and defines the nation now. so what purpose inspired america into it coming into being and how do i know, much later relate to that original purpose that then defines what america stands for. so whatever people came for is now we would stand for. this is a claim that is frequently made especially that first gets written in the 1800s. this returns to the question of the pilgrims in the puritan wire they such a prominent role in these origin stories? if you think about it, does not really make sense. so native americans make sense they are the first people in

the story which along with the guardian first broke the story.oward the paper has, with dominic cummings and boris johnson coward the paper has, with dominic cummings and borisjohnson presented there, isaac, as equals. and i think there, isaac, as equals. and i think the little snippet that we saw where they mentioned the scientific advisers are saying that they feel that their policies that they have helped to contract dominic construct have been trashed. that is where we really start to see the potential for this story to run a bit further, to as we said, break out of the bubble. that is because throughout this entire crisis, government and politicians have said we are following the scientific advice. we will be led by the scientific base. they have very squarely put that responsibility onto the scientist. and now to have more and more of these same scientists on social media and in the newspaper saying, well, you've trashed it, that becomes a much harder play to make. so the spin that was constructed at the start of this affair to try and prot

if the story stops there, i think it is a happy story. yes, kennedy had the book written by someone else and we can talk about the details behind that. but good ghostwriting and bad ghostwriting. this is an is example of good ghostwriting. a book that is moving a lot of people and inspiring people because kennedy is an inspirational figure. with things change is the pulitzer prize. when i was working at the kennedy presidential library, i found documents that showed for the first time that jack kennedy was involved in securing that pulitzer prize. the story has often been, and you sought in that quote that kennedy's father was the one pulling the strings, but that is not true. jack kennedy wanted that pulitzer prize. there were many times that he brought that up. he told another historian, i would rather win a pulitzer prize than be president. he had a strong desire for literary fame, even though he did not want to do literary work, he got himself the prize. in new york city, in washington d.c., people had been gossiping "did kennedy writ

wanted to share their stories. >> thank you.here are some questions arriving in chat and i will just start perusing and sharing some of them with you one specifically here what are the demands of the hostage takers during this crisis from whatever suspense brought to that quick. >> they have to be very disparate demands but to motivate the straw that broke the camels back the trigger was the release of a hollywood biopic of the islamic prophet mohammed. and 1997 movie called messenger of god that was released marc march 9th so that's a new is premiering in new york and los angeles and they deemed it to be sacrilegious we can see maybe the relevance and more recent events but yes that was a major demand they wanted the movie pulled in a said mohammed was being portrayed on film when she was not the movie was made by a muslim man and immigrant to america and there were other demands as well so that story is framed by those 40 hours but it's tracing the long history of the central characters coming into this 40 hours. also what hap

in fact, my presence is sort of that i sort of in the summer, i'm away from story to story and from individual to individual. steve: is certainly does hold together. and you are the holder. and just to continue the kind of instruction portion of the conversation for graduate students, when you are selecting characters in stories they are to try to weave into that, evaluating for their intrinsic power as you say, enough you backwards but also i presume you're thinking about the landscape. you want something of the whole to be represented. beyond the individual experiences so what was the whole event in your head. what was landscape that you hoped would be stopped upon. alex: what drove me to the book was this notion that i do think that well two things, one, people get accustomed or parted or known to the violence. i think it has a profound impact on people. shapes their lives. many people work really hard from keeping to defining them. and the other part of it of course is sort of make that connection between the violence and the profound poverty and of course the profound isolation that these

when i heard it would be a story about violence i prepared myself to be a dark and difficult story. is that but also a lot that have hope and beauty and one that struck me was lisa daniel. >> i would love to tell her story one of the things that was clear to me i had the same concern but it's impossible to talk about death without celebrating life in all the love that's there and you certainly see that in lisa's story i feel fortunate to have met her to be a steward of her story that when i met her she was living on the south side of chicago and she had two sons. the oldest was an engineering student and the younger one strayed and high school and she did everything she could to hold him close. they were very tight and very close. but it's hard for five kids of my own it's hard to hold onto your kids. when he was 25 he went to buy a small amount of marijuana and to a suburb south of the city from a small town drug dealer they got into a dispute and a gunfight erupted and darren was killed. what is notable about her story in the local newspaper ran a headline that young man killed wi

is that comes thought of these the story i thought maybe you know after all this rash of stories that we were doing literally every week that maybe this problem is gone away but your position is no it had gone away it's just the media doesn't have enough sense to report it. former democrat presidential contenders kemal 'd harrison. you and kos castro they they they brought national attention to a video capturing a white police officer in iran to rancho cordova i think it was in my memory they were brutally assaulting an under-age african-american male walk me through that woke me through that story i just have bits and pieces that was that actually did come out in the media. sure this footage shows a rancho cordova deputy pinning down a 14 year old male child and punching him repeatedly as he screams now in a statement the police department seems to be supporting the actions of this officer they say the deputy saw what he believes to be a hand to hand exchange between an adult and juvenile that the deputy attempted to detain the young man on reasonable suspicion that criminal activity

>> it is such a sad story but i saw a story earlier this week of a u-haul with 60 bodies from a nursinge in it in new jersey but we've had problems with the nursing home situation as well, as far as so many people dying in the nursing homes that you are seen morgues completely overrun. so, again, if you are "the new york times", for instance, and cover not just national news and international news but the state of new york where are the skating editorials and where is the smugness in the coverage we see so often reserved on the federal level in terms of the trump administration and where is that being directed at governor cuomo? why aren't the hard questions being asked of him? i think we know the obvious answer. "the new york times", mark, has not endorsed a republican presidential candidate since 1956. that means they endorsed mcgovern or carter 1980 or mondale in 84, carrie 2004 and go down the list so we know where they stand. i don't know how they could be the paper of record when you have to go back more than 50 years to find a republican that they endorse for the highest office i

i really wanted to tell the story as completely as i could . within the reasons, within reason and within a single volume . i wanted to kind of unspool fred as long as the work would be and when you're writing a magazine article, even along magazine article, a feature cover story article, really far of a certain length and a certain kind of focus, usually on one or two subjects and if you get beyond that it gets confusing and doesn't do the subject justice and the subject of this book really needed kind of a longer telling on the page but also more time and more researchto be told right . and as a journalist, you only have so much time to get to your next story and hit your deadline and i couldn't have sent in enough work as a reporter and researcher to turn this into a magazine story. >> going from there and hearing how you made this reference, in the book there's a lot of history whether it's about mexico, the us in general and you talk about other historical tension between mexico and the us . but you also talked about people in different ch

what you know here's the point i mean out of all the stories of this year so far when i look at the story that says ok this is the story that makes it very clear that we have to get rid of 12 this is the one i got to say this is the one because this affects consumers it's expert consumer health it affects the environment it has the chamber the u.s. chamber of commerce in wall street in charge of american politics this is the reason we need to get rid of trump unfortunately the dysfunctional d n c hasn't even given us anybody to work with i mean this is a sweeping reason why we got to get rid of him but the character we have is supposed to get rid of him just isn't there this is important stuff and is that is i look at it this seems to be getting worse by the week almost where they're allowing wall street to do more and more of their ugly little things the flying monkeys are out off of wall street right now. just doing everything they can to take and take advantage of consumers during the covert gries is what your take. yeah i think that's absolutely correct now the problem is we want to s

network in that story on national t.v. and cherry health c.e.o.ashi blackman just e-mailing a statement that some staffers were in the line to provide a visual backdrop showing how busy the tests i can get and james they also said that they did it to protect patient privacy which was a bizarre claim i think you know that doesn't make a lot of sense to me it actually hurt the patients who are trying to get the tests they were actually folks in the line maybe one or 2 of them and they were being delayed from being get in treatment because they were patients and the saw that you know they're in the car if you can't see through the glass you don't see that the people behind the steering wheels are medical personnel and in fact patients and by the way you know nobody would know anything about this but not for project. and this insider so they hide at the press tends to hide behind the scent demonio 1st amendment but again they have to be a police and and see if they don't so it's important that people reach out to project so james c.b.s. did at this st

is connected to that story. being puerto rican, most of us who come from puerto rico feel a connection to the island even after we have left it even if we have never been there which is the truth, there is -- a lot of puerto ricans know of phrase which comes from a poem by -- i forgot his name but comes from a poem and it means i would be puerto rican even if i was born on the moon. i wanted to reach people who would never read about puerto rico or pick up a history book or didn't have access to that history for whatever reason and make some of that history accessible to the general reader, to a reader who picks up a memoir about girlhood so i tried to talk about the parts of puerto rican history and colonialism but shaped me as a woman and human being and as a writer. and a lot of this influence the kind of writer i became and i was thinking about who i was writing for. in so many ways i felt like this book, even though i intended it to be as open and honest and intended it to be vulnerable i wanted to be in co