writing career, in this room here. >> for the past ten years, bill griffith has been curator at william faulkner'sthe wall here is an outline of one of his novels. >> that was his greatest book. >> faulkner thought this was his masterpiece. >> jack pendarvis is the author of "your body is changing," "the mysterious secret of the valuable treasure," and "awesome" as well as a staff writer for the game-changing animated series "adventure time," all works of which i am a huge fan. he wrote right on the wall? >> he just wrote on it. >> it's his man-cave. >> it's his version. he said that houses in mississippi who have a family business have one room dedicated to the family business and this family's business is writing. >> from as early as 1919 through the early '60s, faulkner wrote extensively about the post-civil war south. he was the first author to do so, at a time when most writers were writing about anything but. >> he always said that he wrote about a south torn between itself, torn between the old ways, the old traditional ways and modern development. he said he was going to break the antebell

particularly emphasized this is a famous quote from the well-known computer scientist said -- william faulknerho said the pass is not dead. these overlaps, these continuities from world's past and they remain embedded in our system and give us fundamental problems. let me give you one example that may be a little subtle and illustrative but perhaps beyond your experience. it is important in the wake of think aboutcials information systems, that by and large, they were thought of originally in the context of espionage and developments. it is striking when you think about the national security world. implicit norms. basicallyd war, we did not interact in a direct way in the soviet union. the battlefield involved various proxies. think about cuba and other things like that. by and large, there was some sense of rules of the road. at the same time in the espionage world, by and large, all bets are off. intelligence officers in each other's capitals and the like. but if you could do something, that something by way of discovering intelligence and alike directly involves competition and confrontatio

william falk fle faulkner said , the past is never past. if we forget our past history it will repeat itself. >> emmett till's mom emma till moseley, was a great woman. >> yes she was. >> what do you think she would think about this racial tension? >> her work was to instill justice for our fellow man who has suffered injustice. i think she would be upset because of the fact that, you know, after all this time we're still fighting those same social ills that we have been fighting since 1955. >> and emmett till still inspires civil rights activists today. >> of course of course. i think the reason he continues to inspire us all is because every time you hear a story of an unarmed black male being shot by police, regardless if you believe the police or the victim whenever someone suffers an injustice emmett till's name comes to mind. >> it's a powerful important and terribly sad story. keith beauchamp, good to see you. >>> the pope sent a letter of support to an italian author of a gay rights book. pope francis praised the author for her thou

particularly emphasize is, that this is a famous quote from that well-known computer scientist, william faulkner the past is not dead. it is not even passed. do i have to explain this faulkner reference to this audience? i'm not even sure. we have these overlaps, these continuities from the world that has passed and remain embedded in our systems and give us fundamental problems. so let me give you one example from the national security world that may be a little subtle and illustrative but perhaps beyond your experience. i think it is important in the wake of officials think about the digital information systems that by and large they were in the warfare context thought of originally, and our biggest development of them, in the context of espionage and intelligence. the national security agency, nsa, is obviously the leading arena of capabilities in this regard for us. it is striking when you think about the national security world that it has some kind of impolice it norms. in the cold war, fellow named tim moore helped me to think this out. in the cold war, we basically didn't interact in a d

williams. he was described as the disgruntled former employee. he fled the scene buzz was spotted by troopers on interstate 66 in faulkner county. there was a short chase between police and flanagan before he veered off into the median. when troopers approached they found him with a self inflicted gunshot wound. he was air lifted to the hospital where he later died. flanagan's accounts were taken down by twitter and facebook. earlier today jeff marks describes suspected shooter vester flanagan. >> vester was an unhappy man. he -- we employed him as a reporter. and he -- he had some talent in that respect and some experience. a although he had been out of the business for a while when he was hired here. he quickly became -- gathered a reputation of someone who was difficult to work with. he was sort of looking out for people to say things that he could take offense to. he -- and eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. and he did not that take that well. we had to call the police to escort him from the building. >> marks also described working with alison parker and adam ward. >> we're hu