In march, two thousand and twenty a family on the northern cheyenne reservation in lame deer montana, got shocking news about their loved one christie wouldn't die. My daughter came and notified me that Christie was run over. I said it should be ok and she's like no. She died. I was like what missing justice from CBS news takes you inside what really happened that night and the federal investigation that followed, listen to miss injustice from CBS news on amazon music, for wherever you get your podcasts picked up the phone for Steve. We've got a problem. Okay, what happened is we've been hacked for? Oh, my god with that, since the first shots were fired in the sweeping cyber assault. On state voting systems that, u S, intelligence has tied to the russian government

We now realise that we are potentially dealing with something way. More serious. Sixty minutes investigate what happened and fines by partisan agreement that our democracy is under attack. Are we doing enough now wow? This is something there are eight hundred five steel markers one for each time. Where lynchings took place all across the country. So far the memorials research team has evidence of more than forty three hundred lynchings beginning after the civil war. Every name has its own story. Ass, that's right, lies a cow and was launched in lines county south carolina a lot I saw a woman, a woman if they couldn't find the man they were looking for. They would lynch that man's wife or daughter or child

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And emails and inflaming tensions on social media, while congress and special council Robert mahler investigate russian interference, including whether the campaign of donald trump colluded with russia. We have been looking into another vector of the attack on american democracy, a sweet cyber assault on state voting systems that, u S, intelligence tied to the russian government. Tonight you'll find out what happened from the front line. Soldiers of cyber war that was fought largely out of public view on digital battle grounds in states throughout the tree. The first shots were fired here in illinois, not far from downtown springfield in another, the script shopping center. The kind find anywhere in the united states there in a report, Four supermarket is the headquarters of the illinois, bored of elections, this doesn't look like a war zone, no designation

steve sand loss is the executive director. He told us in his first tell him an interview about the attacks that this office is on the front lines of a cyber war, we have a good. I t department but no match for the russian government. Those narrows again I hate to say it, bows and arrows against the lightning, so would have felt like a first. Yes, he vividly remembers. The call is, I t director on July, twelve, twenty sixteen just weeks after the demo Attic national committee announced that russian hackers had infiltrated its computer network pick up the phone steve. We got a problem, I said: ok, what happened is we ve been hacked? got a staffer notice, the server for the voter registration data base with the person

information of seven and a half million illinois. Voters had slowed way down the I TT discovered a malicious attack. A barrage of digital hits, I suppose, Good now adjacent to a fast growing tumor in the system, it was like anything. We had ever seen, do determine what they were after It was a very random nature for all the Democrats or all the republicans or all the people who lived in one district or another. There No reimer reason to it. Steve Sandford showed us the voter registration website, where the hackers exploited a security flawed to get in his eye. T t determine the attackers had been in their system unseen for three weeks. They all, we noticed when the hackers suddenly wrapped up their attack and in just a couple of hours, scooped up bits of it.

Information on up to ninety thousand voters, complete records of thirty five hundred his engineers upgraded the firewall and plug the website. Holes that stop the data heist, but not the check the hits continued, even though they were at a trading. The logs reveal data about a million and a half hits were coming in A million and a half year, five queries per second for a period of approximately, days. Some this almost seems like they wanted to be noticed. The only thing they didn't do is identified themselves is the russian side while says he suspected, the hackers wondered too so doubt about the integrity of the vote. Illinois notified the fbi, illinois discovered set off a chain of events that take us to today. Former fbi agent, Anthony ferranti, was director of cyber incident response.

President Barack Obama's national security council. When you go and to investigate this intrusion at tea state of illinois saw. What did you see? The fbi identified digital fingerprints left by the intruder, think of it as a crime using were fingerprints are dusted in pulled. We do the same thing. When investigating a computer intrusion and your analysis pointed the finger at russia. It did indeed the department of, land security was so alarmed by what it saw the russians doing. It took the unprecedented step of arranging a conference call with election officials from all fifty states. The f b I put out this flash alert, but the intelligence community wasn't prepare to publicly implicate russia, so the call on the alert simply worn states

to be on the lookout for the kind of malicious attack that had hit Illinois did information from other states start. Flooding in I would show up to work ever single day and learn of two three four more states that had been thirdly targeted by the same actors, and it was after two or three weeks of this. that my colleagues and I said we have to believe This is a large scale coordinated campaign to target every go state in the union, anthony for reported what he was into Michael Daniel president or most cyber tsar. What was the real when you saw this in the white house, I think that was the point. We realised that we were playing a different game, that we had thought that we were dealing with the new. what sort of espionage routine that was associated with presidential and

We now realise that we are potentially dealing with something way more serious. Sixty minutes obtained this previously undisclosed department of homeland security, internal document that details the scope of the russian cyber attack, a snapshot of what investigators were seen on october, twenty eightth less than two weeks before the presidential election. The document shows hackers tried to get into twenty state election systems and an election. I t provider in nebraska hackers successfully infiltrated Eleanor a county election database in arizona attend a sea state website, and I t vendor in florida, but it was always are. Working assumption that we did not detect all of the potential russian activity that was going on other stuff that they have done that. We don't know centrality possible we ruled out? The russians were tampering with voting machines. There are tens of thousands

them and they are not connected to the internet. What seemed much more likely to us was causing chaos at the polls on election day. So, if you intrude into a voter registration data, yes and you change to digits of everybody's address so that their voter idee doesn't match what in the vote or rules when they shop at the polls that creates chaos, church and those stories start to spread lines begins to form, election officials can't figure out what's going on. You would only have to do it in a few places in and it would almost feed on itself compound Do not worry states were reluctant to accept cyber security. Help from homeland security under the constitution, states run elections several pushed back against what they saw. Us federal intrusion still unaware the threat was coming from. Russia Our system was under attack. I not scream it from the top of the roof and lead the states, know that

was a serious and credible threat. The obama administration did not want to appear to be biased we had, potential candidate who was campaigning on the fact that the election was rigged. wasn't certain he was going to get a fair shot at the presidency and I'm afraid the elections gotta be erect. I have to be honest. There was a very sensitive issue. On october, seven, three months after the illinois hack and one month before the election, the obama administration decided. It had enough evidence to call out the russians, but there was no press conference no pronouncement from the oval office. Just this three paragraphs statement saying kremlin intended to interfere with the. U s election process. Did that statement get the reaction that you would hope for there were some news events that happened around the release of that statement that tended to swamp some of it out you access hollywood tape, yes,

How are you the hat emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, were all only the same day. The press and the public paid little attention to the administration statement on russian hacking. So the national security council did something never done before contacted russia on the cyber hotline. A communication channel added to the old nuclear hotline in two thousand thirteen to prevent cyber war. So what did the message say? It basically said we know that you are carrying out these kinds of activities and stop knock it off that tough enough. So I think certainly stop the fact that this was the first time we had ever exercise this channel, which was supposed to be for very serious cyber incidents and cyber issues. I think that in and of itself said sent a message: the russians brushed it off

The administration was bracing for the worst. It drew up this elite Andy response plan, which called for war rooms at the white house, the fbi and homeland security and planned for the unprecedented deployment of armed federal law enforcement agents. Should a cyber attack cause complete breakdown at appalling place. On election day. The team saw no signs. The russians tampered with the vote. Why do you think they didn't pull the trigger on election day? I dont know of will ever know. Do you think they would have succeeded in creating chaos? Absolutely the agency, charged with helping states protect elections from attack, is the department of. land security, the age ass. The agency has been criticized for a slow response. We tried repeatedly to interview secretary cures.

and nielson or one of her deputies but d h esther all our requests target. Instead, we were directed to the secretaries. Recent testimony for the Senate, select committee on intelligence. The threat of interference remains, and we recognise that the two thousand eighteen mid term and future elections are clearly potential targets for russian hacking attempts secretary mules and the senators, the age S is offering to run security checks of state online election systems. Its also grow security clearance is for state officials to receive classified cyber threat briefings Many senators expressed frustration with the agency's response, with the possible exception of north korea's nuclear well, This is the most serious threat that our country faces today and we are not adequately dealing with it. I hear

no sense of urgency to relay GAD. On top of this issue, with the two thousand and fifteen mid term elections fast approaching, sixteen states have require Did extensive onsite security checks from the age. So far the agency has completed only eight. Illinois, where it all began had its primary two weeks ago and still hasn't gotten its security check. We have to be prepared for wars without blood, senator commonly harris Democrat from California. and republican senator james length, furtive oklahoma, or on the Senate intelligence committee. Democrats and republicans- don't agree on much, but there's I've partisan agreement on the committee that our democracy is under attack. What was the russians endgame to disrupt our democracy, to disrupt americans, confidence in their government and their democracy, and in that way we can

standing in the world. This could be the iranian section could be, koreans that- and this is something that's been exposed as a weakness in our system that we need to be able to fix that not knowing who could trotted tested out next time. amateurs length for it and harris our backing legislation too. Minimum cyber security standards and stream Communication between states and the federal government, but even that modest bill languish in the senate. This does not seem like, kind of response that you would have to a nation under attack by a foreign power, are we doing enough? Now you not doing enough for not doing nothing, but we are certainly not doing enough

The senator say the: u: s needs a comprehensive strategy to fight cyber war, but concede upgrading systems around the country by the twenty twenty presidential election will be a challenge and the mid term. Elections are just seven months away. There is a reckoning taking place in america over how we remember our history. Much of the focus has been on whether to take down monument that celebrate the confederacy, but this story is about a new monument going up in montgomery alabama. It document the lynchings of thousands of african american men, women and children during a seventy year period following the civil war. The project is being led by criminal defence attorney brian Stevenson, who is determined to shed light on a dark

it in our past that most people would rather forget its a shocking and disturbing reality that lynchings were not isolated, murders committed only by men and white hoods in the middle of the night. Often they were public crimes witnessed even celebrated by thousands of people. Stevenson believes if we want a heel, racial divisions. We must educate americans of every color and creed These cotton fields in southern alabama or quiet now, but he nineteenth seven, a brutal murder took place here, the linchpin of west Johnson last january sum of Johnson indians came here and what has become a ritual taking place,

it lynching sites across the country organised by civil rights attorney brian Stevenson. Something happened here. That was wrong. Something happened here that was unjust and too few people talked about it, and so we want to acknowledge the wrong that happened to west Johnson. This is eighteen. You will western. and it is the only known image of him that remains. He was a tenant farmer accused of assaulting a white woman before he could stand trial. A mob of one hundred men dragged him from jail, shot him and left him hanging from a tree. The blood of western it is in the soil and I'd like you to begin to dig the soil in remembrance of west Johnson a collection is part of Brian Stevenson's project, a document and remember african americans lynch during a period of what he calls racial terror. We want to call this community to repentance, to acknowledge meant to shame,

want to tell the truth, because we believe in truth and reconciliation. But we know that truth and reconciliation are sequential. We can't get to where we're trying to go. If we don't tell the truth first so far Vincent team has chronicle more than forty three hundred lynchings. They continue to find more many victims, like benny simmons and John richards, were accused of murder. One in four lynching victims, like Joseph Richardson and frank emory, were accused of unlawful conduct with white women. In nearly every case No evidence just an accusation was enough there. So many crimes committed against african americans. Why focus on lynching at the end the civil war. Black people are supposed to get the right to vote and the only way people who were white could maintain their political control was to intimidate black people, and lynching was especially effective because it would allow

the whole community to know that we did this to this person. It was intended to send a message that, if you try to vote, if you try to advocate for your rights, if you insist on fair wages, if you do anything that complex, white supremacy and white dominance of political power. We will kill you anything that upsets the power structure as I want it to be that exactly right in ninety ninety three brian stevenson, in an organization he called the equal justice initiative, its illegal advocacy group montgomery alabama, narrowly focused on defending the poor and powerless? vince in his best known for his legal victories in the united states supreme court, an for successfully overturning the wrongful convictions of over one hundred people on death row but ten years ago he turned the attention of his organization to also investing

in crimes of the past, the lynchings of african americans defence attorney see a sunny has spent hundreds of hours searching through newspaper archives an visiting county court houses is they're, usually newspaper evidence or documentation. Often there were published reports because people acted with impunity, and so there would be no If reports, sometimes in advancing a man will be launched, later this afternoon. This is an article about The linking of a man named Jesse washington, who was accused of a crime and weak or texas. The newspaper headline red burn young negro in public square as fifteen thousand look on a mob drag Jesse washington, a teenager who was convicted of murder. After a one hour trial from the court room to the public square. There's a remark

a photograph of the crowd and its people, dressed in their sundays, with their hats on and there's clothing oil soaked, his strong to tree fires under him and he is dropped into flames here, as fifteen thousand people were gone, I think it's incredible. we revealing that death was not enough. But it wasn't enough to kill people. People would be killed and then shot and then set on fire and then, even after that There are cases where the body was dragged to the heart of the black community. Fear of that kind of mob led was johnson, it gives to bury him in this unmarked grave awry here s where, where staff and isabel and you re here way work or how? Who is a filmmaker and west Johnson's distant cousin spent decades interviewing? Well james, who were alive at the time, and we

bird, the lynching! They had a barium and hurry who? Why? Because the lynch mob will come in. They want it s body, to take around town, to drag around town, to show the body of that wasn't just west johnson who was killed it demands. It was the entire black and you like that. Everybody was feeling fear and panic and menacing trauma of the night of this, linking them for the weeks and months and years after launching it was a community crime, this wasn't dunbar a clear or people, where mass this was done by teachers and clergy and law enforcement officers, and people you had to deal with every day every day. Stevenson's team started their investigation in alabama, but soon I'm would accounts of mobs murdering african americans throughout the southern states and beyond, as the cases mounted stevenson wanted to do something to commemorate the victims,

so in Montgomery alabama the heart of the deep south, which still dozens of monuments. Celebrating the confederacy stevenson's, equal justice initiative took on a bold project. They bought six acres of land and, construction on a memorial to the victims of lynching. Actually, you can still see name. Yeah yeah, it's better than I thought I think this spring. The national memorial for peace and justice, which was paid for through hundreds of private donations, will open to the public april. Twenty It- contains eight hundred five still markers one for each county religions took place and on each marker, the names and workers are suspended to evoke the horror of being strong up and hanged from a tree. So you start with

level and then on this quarter they begin to rise, and then you get to this corridor, and this is when you begin to confront. scale of all of these lynchings wow. This is something yes, yes, we wanted people sense of just the scale of what this violence with this terrorism was. So this is over four thousand. that have been documented, but of course, there are more thousands more thousands, more thousands more we ever we know how many we will never know uneven rust steel is meant to echo many shades and skin tones of those african americans lynched every name has its own story. Ass. That's right lies a cow in was launched in Lyons county south carolina eliza, a woman, a woman where women often lynch they were, they were sometimes because they were accused of something.

Sometimes women would be lynched if they couldn't find the man they were looking for. They would lynch that man's wife or daughter or child- and this was a minister, reverend t island who began talking to sharecroppers about their rights. and because it was doing that the plantation honours, the landowners got together and they they lynched him and the proof they use that he was somebody worthy of lynching is that when they found his body, he had a piece of paper that talked about sharecropper rights and the other piece of paper he had in his suit jacket was a note that said every man, a king lot of these folks were lynch because they showed too much dignity. show too much humanity. He just wanted to be respected as a human being, and I got him hanged on the side here. What we do is we start to tell stories. We want people to hear and understand

and what happened to some of these folks discern my Robert Morton S was lit for writing a note to a white one. They ass David hunter, We learned to learn county south carolina for leaving with afar where he work without permission, lynchings became so acceptable Onlookers would send picture postcards to friends and family this card depicting the horrific image of a burned Warps casually notes. This is the barbecue we had last night, even young children looked on here. The thing that gets me, and so many of the photographs that I've seen it is the fact that people treated it like major events, I think about who are people ask her smiling into the camera, and I think it's done real psychic damage, not just a black people, but the white people too, because you can't bring your child to the public swear and have you

watch someone be burned to death, be tortured, they have their fingers, cut off to be castrated, to be taught it to be menace, to be hanged like that and not expect it to have some consequence, some legacy and the legacy that I think it's created. Is this indifference to how we treat people who look different than us, and I think that's tragic. I don't even think that wiping in our country are free. I think we're all burdened by this history, operational and party. What about everyone who says in their black people and white people say enough already while that that happened, that surpassed let's move forward, I don't think we get to pretend that this stuff didn't happen. I dont think you can just play it off. This is like a disease. You have to treat it to do that, stephen and says we need to talk about it. So, along with the memorial, he is also opening a museum in montgomery designed to teach people.

more about what he calls the ugly parts of american history, it traces, the. Like american experience from enslavement to mass in cars, nation slavery and an eighteen sixty five. It just evolves because stevenson wants people to understand that lynchings were not just brutal footnote in history and today reflected a belief in racial differences that reinforced segregation in the nineteen fifties and Sixtys Andy says, has resulted in a pattern. Of unequal justice. Today and now we live in a landscape where you see young black boys and men being rounded up one in three blackmail, baby born in this country is expected to go to jail or prison. You actually that slavery and lynchings led to african americans being disproportionate. they represented in the criminal justice system. Yes, I do and I think actually it's not a heart

the understanding. I look. I think it is a hard thing to understand for people who think people get locked up. People are locked up because they commit crimes about thirteen percent of the people illegally section of drugs in this country are black that about our proportion of the population. You know what percentage are arrested. That's about thirty five percent- that is an echo of this conscious is the dozen value the lives of these folks? Equal value for every life is what, ryan stevenson, has spent his life fighting for so now, soil from the place of west since lynching sits on this in the museum in Montgomery, along with hundreds of others and right now, when we talk about our history, talk about our past, we're not telling the truth, which is not mac can be a great nation, even though there were slavery, even though there was lynching, even though there was segregation, but if we don't talk about.

those things we did, we don't acknowledge those things. We're not gonna get there now Jon wertheim, executive, editor of sports illustrated an assignment for sixty minutes. It sounds like the setup for a joke and an illustrious ivy league university famous for taking itself seriously one student magazine staff devotes itself to publishing parody, pulling pranks and causing general mayhem, yet here's the punchline one hundred and forty two years after it's founding the harvard lampoon remains as relevant as ever the wellspring of so much comedy in america. Today, over the years, the lampoon has changed in some ways a long time. Male preserve three of it's. Last five presidents have been women in other ways. It stayed true to it's roots, poking fun at the powerful, including the current occupant of the oval office. The recent victim of a sly lampoon prank, while they're straight laced in straight faced classmates, may a spot

to become supreme court justices hedge fund titans in terms of cancer for a core group of harvard undergrad. The lamp poon offers vocational training for careers. As comedy writers, we got a rare glimpse inside the place this winter in caught up with some of the lamp prunes cast of characters past and present Winter night, in Cambridge Massachusetts, the temperature drops a line of undergraduates forms outside the castle with forty four. Both this is the headquarters of the harvard lampoon. Our company magazine part secret society in these students One is akin to rushing fraternity. The pledges are called campers for the competencies they'll have to demonstrate before landing a spot on the magazine staff in literally school. The keys to the castle, convert out the first testing can they make their upper classmen judges, land well make room the cameramen place. Our cameras

were invited into the castle library to watch upper classmen, put coppers on the spot and right off the bat lampooned staffers, seize the opportunity to poke fun. It us too, ready using a fake microphone. They subjected coppers to spoof tv news interviews, tax, it so, and the fourth grade prodding them to tell their best store he's in playfully, reminding them of our presence as a kind of model lives being made by thirty monitors sixty, but the real criteria for admission here. Applicants must be funny on paper. They submit six pieces of humor writing critique by lampoon members, including Leon spiro, the currently in prison.

It's a whole semester of writing comedy and then having other people earnestly, read it and spend a lot of time. You know telling you what they think about it. I believe in it strongly. I think people are funny or by the end, but only the funniest survive out of about a hundred pledges. Last semester is the concepts coppers made the card- and I presume, MR before that Only three avow, the initiated will see their name on the mast head of the harvard lampoon eclectic periodical full of original straightens in niche advertising? One recent issue on the theme: just friends, those two words, no college kid ever want to hear- includes a dialogue piece on chance, encounters a comic about phony etiquette and typical random beat in ode to tv meteorologists the lampoon is published five times a year with a circulation barely extending beyond harvard's gates, men

We are under no illusions about the magazines impact here that we are writing the magazine for ourselves and that no one is reading it and that, I think, actually is one of the most beautiful things about the lampoon that we feel like. No one is watching and we can just stance. However, we want you doing this. For yourself, not the cute across the hall are the key to the dining hall. We could print. You know five copies of the magazine and it would still be worthwhile, and I think and would still be here just as much trying to be just as funny officially members major in everything at harvard from math poetry, but the lampoon, there really area of concentration. Take alice jus philosophy, student in former lampoon president. What percent of your time here harvard is devoted to lampoon versus? you're schoolwork, like ninety nine billion, and then one percent sleep, I guess- and zero percent regular schoolwork prepare the pleasing yeah, I mean they have already given out. So I really am

sister, who will be like doing all the right things. While I do this most aspire to a career in comedy and the lampoon serves as their first writer's room just as iron sharpens iron. You might say that here irony sharpens The important is a rich history of deploying that irony in special edition parities of other publications name, a popular magazine and be assured, has been the victim of a lampooned send up this parity of cosmo complete with Henry kissinger. Centerfold endures is a classic in the genre. Their latest isn't absurdest parity of harvard daily student newspaper, the crimson, but that's just the physic.

I love the pranks of cooking them up and then carrying them out are as much a part of the lampoon tradition is actual humor. Writing the lampoon staff invited us to see how it's done. We watched as they fanned out across campus, taking that parity issue and scheming to swap it out with the real crimson. It's a kind of thing they live for for decades. The crimson has been the butt of lampoon highjinks. We on a spiros crowning achievement. So far when mark Zuckerberg returned to harvard to give a commencement address, she hacked into the crimson's website, and we wrote up hundreds of these fake headlines about mark Zuckerberg in the silliest comedic tone

well extremely dumb and basically, the crux of the humor was just changing his name to like mink singled to hunk like over and over again, and our amusement went on shared by the harvard crimson helps that were there, they were My roommate actually is on the crimson, and this is the only time that she really was upset me. She had worked weeks on a very long peace like ten thousand words about some corner of harvard administration, and then I had worked. You know two hours on some headlines about mink single tonkin,

but I'm super pro packing them all the time every once in a while, the lamb putin will pull up a prank. So bold it achieves comic glory in Tom. Want a curly senior may have set the new standard. This one started late. One night was recruited some lamp who conspirators to break into the crimson headquarters in steel, the papers famous president's chair. It was the summer of twenty fifteen and donald trump had just now. He was gonna run for president pertaining to represent the crimson wanna contacted the from campaign and offered up the steep it newspaper's endorsement would mister trump like to pose for the accompanying photo in the crimson's chair. They say this seems like something that MR trump will be very interested in. What I can crew raised from harvard to manhattan in parked a few blocks from trump tower. They loved the chair in a freight elevator and made it to the

the fifth floor by the way, the chairs about it like one hundred and fifty two hundred pounds. So it takes think two or three people to to carry it anywhere with an eye on the chair, trump welcome students. He believed to be crimson editors. see and his hair fixed. While you were there, Were there then that sort of ferris sprang coming over and he said people don't think my hair is real. When you can all testify. This is very real. Once the cosmetics were complete. It was time to capture the moment, so he said everybody the thumbs up, so are all doing a sort of signatures. I was up around him and I was just like we got it not quite a few days later, as he was preparing to publish the endorsement, one received a call from trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, the trump camp Payne realized they'd been had it says you know, I'm going to come up to harvard you're all going to get expelled if this photo gets out the outer that school faster than you know- and I can be up there tomorrow- what's it like most emily

terrifying. Actually, he asked me to send my harboured ideas, so we could have my identity. My information did you send it a sense of right away? I was so afraid that if I didn't, he might actually be crazy enough to fly up here and the trump campaign never did follow up the crimson good sports that they are published. The story of the prank later that summer, complete with photo and with that Tom Watkin company gained a measure of lamb, poon immortality, which is saying something given the alumni roles early generation. count everyone from william randolph hearst to george plumped in to John updike. What the hell is wrong. With the modern era produced conan, o brien and common jos curly cool anchor weakened update for saturday.

lie, but move lamp stars are not stars at all. David Mandela placid. Ninety two have written her shoes from s unable to sign, filled he's currently the show runner for each views deep, vague emmi winner for outside comedy series three years running. This is for a chubby jews from the upper west side. What made you want to join a weapon? The building, you kind of you can't help it. I would have said you know you see a lot of other organizations, you go to a lot of other meetings and there's one place, it happens. Have a castle definitely hits you it's hard to overstate the importance of the cap built in nineteen o nine style describe as mock flemish whatever. That means, The exterior, almost winks, again foreshadowing, farce in inside the great hall plaintive lampoon party, so legendary movie,

have been made about them in real life. The great hall, along with most of the castle, is strictly off limits to non members. Our cameras were permitted anywhere, but the library, no matter how many times we are We did, however, tracked down the unofficial godfather of the place. Jim downy class of seventy four cut, a mythical figure within harvard lampooned circles, the centerfold, the guy responsible for that kissinger centerfold, fondly recalls his late night at the castle. We thought it was the funniest thing on earth two point, leslie put the word frankly into any answer to a question, so it could be like come what must close up tenth avenue frankly, the m eleven or what what what planet has the most eccentric orbit. Frankly, murder

sit down, he made a career of mining humor from the mundane. Frankly, he's also written some of the most enduring political satire for the last forty years sum up in a single word, but best argument for his candidacy. Governor boy Strategically for decades, downy sketches called open Saturday night live yet asking downy about his most memorable moment in comedy any harkin's back to january of nineteen. Seventy four than hitherto pool, invited John wayne, the campus, and it became news alarm bone challenge. Conservative wine the come to harbour. We not only accepted he rode through town on a tank that only in accomplices had borrowed from a near by military installations, still recall the party that night its traditional for

we'll get up and dance on the table and wayne was was right up there with with didn't, have to be coaxed, galleys, most lasting contribution. He opened in employment pipeline hiring and referring countless who'd alumni, who now fill writers rooms at shows from curve your enthusiasm to silicon valley, AL gene. Some eighty one came through the downy pipeline and now runs the simpsons, the longest running comedy and television history, half his writing staff as former lampoon ever even so it is that more the few subversive references to their alma mater make their way into simpsons episode that little girl, respect. Would I get that hybrid diploma are the areas they read script to hire people and a redistributive on its great and then look at the background of the past and then I got an l info. I didn't want to hire and I know well because I wanted the show to be much more diverse and you're not actively seeking out

lampoon, our labour actively. We found a man the crew when we visited the castle last may, but the lampoon pipeline to tv writers rooms has been called a mafia one favours lampoon alumni to the exclusion of more diverse voices. When alumni come back there, almost and sometimes they all feel like clones of each other. It's like white men of varying ages who are into comedy, and you just feel like none of these people look like me. Would we do with that? I think just like saying to the world that we have notice that we're not diverse and that we aren't happy with that and want to change she could do a lot back. In hollywood, David Mendell was watching and reading this current generation reading. He has two pieces of sage advice. He make me laugh, that's all I care about. Make me laugh. Is it funny

this kind of hoping that the undergrads don't burn the place down you're carrying the torch. Now your job is not to burn down this place, yet you handle you handle adele, while the fire alarm has gone off four times in the last year, so that would indicate perhaps no but the olympian is still standing so safe. I'm build whittaker, we'll be back next week other edition of sixty minutes from taylor, sheridan concrete, her pillows and cleaner abating. Free comes the new paramount, closer regional series. Nineteen, twenty three, a yellowstone origin story: you have no rights here, storing academy award nominee, harrison bore tell the world what happens when they cross me. Can you would winner Helen, mirror and greed, repeating it kills the south stream nineteen twenty three now exclusively on paramount ploss, gotta, paramount, plus icon to try it for free