Michael Moore Hosts Q&A at New York Premiere of ‘The Tillman Story’ (Part 1)
Michael Moore discusses ‘The Tillman Story’ with (L-R) Actor Josh Brolin, former soldier Russell Baer, producer John Battsek and director Amir Bar-Lev following a special screening at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 on August 11, 2010 in New York City.
‘The Tillman Story’ opens Friday, August 20th in New York and Los Angeles. Don’t miss it: http://www.tillmanstory.com/
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aside from thatand was therethrough most likelypeople thereto listen tothis moderntruck what's up with welcome this india
you work with you that part of thatprocess of recanting and you knowyou're making this movie it's it's a
story that's thata few years ago icm obama got elected
while you guys weremaking thisand he said well my movies can be
thinking about against any moreconsultant you knowtwelve-year my ofthe film came aboutbecauseback home in london i was i mean i
remember reading the story that pat lefthis n_f_l_ contracts and join the
military namaludicrous to excessive sports fan all
sports i was kind of amazed by thatnightand it registered with me inand then you know subsequently armreading the next story which is the
terrible story of his death and justimmediatelyfortresses whatever you know always been
a conspiracy theory hispanicimmediately just sowhatever about to read another's going
to be somethingfishy about it it's not it's going to beversion of the story that is going to be
real anayaso i was that i was very intrigued and
at the time was making another filmworking with the company over here in
new york and and and one of the guys whoever had worked with marie tillman at
yes canand so ii'm i'm talking from a rebound this is
an idea of the film you know we thoughtit would be inching to kiss you so i a mi asked the skies maybe he could
organize for us to have a conversationwith maureen we knew that she told
calderantaand that was the beginning a process
that was uh... you know we had a so verytentative conversation with her and she
wasbasically totally disinterested in
concept of a document you make the shevery graciously creatures coming to new
york's agreed to meet with us and we hadwe had our first meeting with her in
that meeting went well and she agreed towe sit with flashlights and spend a
couple weeks there in which you candecrease of workshop our ideas together
with her so she get a sense of what iswe're trying to doand a and actuallyi think the basis of up pitcher fits
right where it was was was anne what wefelt was thesomeone's going to make this story has
its own remarkable and shocking storyabuses extra me gone and i felt likeyou know that someone said she was sick
of wake up one day and turn the t_v_ ona more sample fallsdocumented at some of the made without
one about pat but would horrify the nodoubt be completely inaccuratethey could work with these people with
artists who track record of making youknow for the most partqualityfeature documentaries which was arooted in the truthand be part of that processand zenand i think you know marierelatively swiftly seven decided that
that was that was you know a good ideaand that we were right and someone would
make that someone they would rather bepart of it and not be part of itcarries out that we were aided by by
uh... other filmmakerswho had actually gone forward andmayen written scriptsand put them on her deskyou know in hopes that she would approve
blend and hand over the life rightand we actually shot a scenethere because a comic relief scenic and
making the film immediately dvd extrawhere weekly asked her to read the
script imageit's reallythere's a scene where patuh... it's just after nine eleven and
he's watching on television and hestarts throwing chairs all around the
room anne gets on a harley and justdrives destruction of the sense that you
knowand she's really amazing stormyet www there were no chairsand they get even funny actually there's
a scene wherepat senior leads the family in prayerthe people just i mean reallyits troop john instead like somebody's
candidates it wasn't so much that we'vesung espy is selling that we want themso josh calmwhat what brought you into this project
that westestimates are you your wife ishindi melittle statue and reaffirming the real
booed off the stagehad i was one of the our taxes are going
to want greater in that give you heremailbobbyat basically is a is a friend and john's
brother daniel that sick or no from frommiramaxyes and no country i'm called and said
would you like to be a part of thisand i just said i can't busy i had too
much stuff going oni was here working and they sent me andvds to set as a favor we watched and
some of my newthe basic story but i didn't know the
depths of the at alland what i like aboutthat i mean i was extremely moved but so
basically i'm representative from themismanaged you guys how do you guys in
the same as you goin washington is extremely moved by ithomo were or from the same area in the
same mentality and i like that it didn'treally get intoyou know partisanship didn't get into in
on itthere things about pat past life and
also about an area that i grew up inpencils california which is also central
coastfor a republican areabaatis so bucolic producing stream of
personal and that's what i love aboutpast life not sort of about his familyis it's it doesn't leave either way it's
not a more mature deeperto in of the to their own prominence
pretty much iteven though you know he'd get the most
incredible thing and sacrifice andwanting to look back on his own legacywith some peace the mustard which arehave a lot of respect for
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton questions Secretary Rumsfeld on apparent gaps in his preparation to testify.
August 1, 2007, Congressional Hearing of the death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman, who died due to friendly fire. However, the family of the fallen soldier and the American people were not told this information until a month after. In this clip, Rumsfeld apologizes for the situation being poorly handled.
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Rep. Carolyn Maloney questions witnesses.
"... I don't think they are very honorable people. I know they were lying. I mean, and I think that -- you know, like, you know, Pat and I are talking about, you know, we feel that there could have been something else that happened to Pat but -- I mean, we can't prove it. Every bit of evidence has been destroyed. ... Rumsfeld, Abizaid, Myers and Brown collectively said, 'I don't know, I don't recall, I don't remember' about 82 times and no one on that panel pressed them. No one did their research. Neither faction of that committee." -- Pat Tillman's mother Mary on Larry King Live
Check it out: http://www.tillmanstory.com/
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This video chronicles the remarkable history of the Hoover Dam Bypass through a timeline and interviews with the talented professionals who made it a reality.
Professional football player Pat Tillman joined the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire during a gun battle. But as Erica Hill reports, the story told by the government was quite different.
Michael Moore discusses 'The Tillman Story' with (L-R) Actor Josh Brolin, former soldier Russell Baer, producer John Battsek and director Amir Bar-Lev following a special screening at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 on August 11, 2010 in New York City.
'The Tillman Story' opens Friday, August 20th in New York and Los Angeles. Don't miss it: http://www.tillmanstory.com/
The Oversight Committee holds a hearing, "The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew." The hearing is part of an ongoing investigation and follows a previous hearing held in April. Witnesses will include former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. John P. Abizaid (Retired), Former Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (Retired), Former Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Bryan Douglas Brown (Retired). Gen. Kensinger has been served with a subpoena, but has not been able to be located over the past several days and will not appear. Rep. John Tierney questions witnesses on why nobody informed the White House that it was likely a case of fratricide.
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform holds a hearing entitled "Misleading Information from the Battlefield." The hearing focuses on the death of Army Ranger Specialist Patrick Tillman in Afghanistan and the capture and rescue of Army Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq. The Committee examines why inaccurate accounts of these two incidents were disseminated, the sources and motivations for the accounts, and whether the appropriate Administration officials have been held accountable. Specialist Patrick Tillman's brother Kevin Tillman gives opening remarks.
My ReThink Interview with Amir Bar-Lev, the director of the documentary THE TILLMAN STORY, which tells the story of pro football player Pat Tillman, who quit the NFL to join the Army Rangers and the cover-up that ensued when Tillman was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
In this interview, Amir talks about why he wanted to tell Pat Tillman's story, why there was not more public outrage when it was revealed that the military's stories about Tillman and Jessica Lynch were lies, why America seems to crave a "sanitized" version of war, and what Amir's favorite movie is.
For more about THE TILLMAN STORY, visit http://www.tillmanstory.com/
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The Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge's 1,060 foot twin-rib concrete arch is connecting! Here's what it looks like on August 1st, 2009.
The Colorado River Bridge is the central portion of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project. When completed in 2010, the Hoover dam bypass bridge will span Black Canyon (about 1,600 feet south of the Hoover Dam), connecting the Arizona and Nevada Approach highways nearly 900-feet above the Colorado River.
