my name is terry michael from the center of politics and journalism which is a very pleased to co-sponsor this event tonight. i have the honor of having brought robert pierre to washington under the politics and journalism semester program he was in the inaugural class and fall of 1989. we are now in the 22nd year with about 500 alumni and robert represents all of the alumni on the board of directors. he joined judy woodruff and mike mccurry and juan williams and a number of others who run why have to answer to the board of directors of the center. robert king to the program from louisiana state university. he was a junior and he went back to school and entered the school paper and then for a while he thought about getting a master's in business education, but the "washington post" saved him from the fate of personal wealth by recruiting him as a reporter for the post and now she labors under the slave wages of journalism. what's left of journalism. thank goodness the "washington post" owns caplin testing or there might be more problems here in washington, d.c. with journalism. on the mod

that same day, co-conspirator terry nichols is also taken into custody. eventually michael is apprehended as well. all three suspects in the bombing plot are locked away. but for the survivors this is of little consolation. >> you have to remember there were almost 700 people injured, a lot of people with hearing loss, a lot of people with scars. so it's not just the people who died. it's the people who are wounded. >> i had 40 broken bones. my legs and my ankles, my pelvis, my arms, and my feet were all crushed. and they just didn't think i would make it. they put me in a five-week coma, because they were going to have to do so many surgeries on me. when i finally was able to come out of it, they had to teach me how to talk, how to eat, how to brush my teeth. >> head and face injuries and neck injuries due to all the things that came down from the ceiling. plaster that was shoved up underneath the skin. i had an ear cut in half. the back injuries were because of the shrapnel just propelled into your back. >> it was a lot of stitching. i had somewhere between 3 1/2 and 4 fe

terry gross to talk about it soon. eric? [applause] >> thank you very much. i grew up in louisville, and i spent a lot of time in car michael's book store when i was growing up, thinking about how i wanted to be a writer and i just want to say congratulations to carol and michael and carmichael's book store for being the number one independent book store in the country. that's amazing. [applause] i want to -- i live in lexington now, we have the large he per capita carbon footprint in the country, and i want to talk a little bit about how we can begin to work on that. i know you'll have to really big one too, but i want to start by talking about this false dichotomy between jobs and the environment. in 2006, two miners died in an underground mine, because of a conveyor belt that caught on fire and they ended up dying of smoke inhalation. a few weeks before they died, don blankenship, the president of massey energy sent a memo to all employees of massey energy saying if you've been asked by your group president to do anything other than run coal, you need to ignore them and run coal, and that's what they did, they ran coal 24/

my name is terry michael from the center of politics and journalism which is a very pleased to co-sponsor this event tonight. i have the honor of having brought robert pierre to washington under the politics and journalism semester program he was in the inaugural class and fall of 1989. we are now in the 22nd year with about 500