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Simpson was being watched by the fbi for years, but it didn't stop him from carrying out the first terrorist attack claim by
isis on u s soil, it happened in girl in texas, simpson and another terrorist open fire at a conference centre, incredibly an fbi, undercover
Agent was on the scene. I
Tell you where the weather, the f b I knew the attack was gonna occur. I would I don't like to think that the letter to
but it is shocking to me that an undercover agent sees fellas jumping out of a car and he drives on, and I find that shocking there's a lot of people got it for me, so I'm not going to be reckless who's gunning for you. You are
I'm on sixty minutes right tonight. Sixty minutes reports on the real consequences of fake news lie.
On the left and the right fed by fraudulent software that
our social media accounts point click on a fake news site and publishers like just in color,
big money, people in general are quick to believe anything. That is not anything but well, basically,
anything? That's put in front of them in a format that is news. Ish,
until a couple of summers ago, the ancient game of chess was still mostly a mystery to the folks of rural franklin. County mississippi
so imagine everyone's surprise. When a tall stranger arrived from Memphis to bring chest to the country aus like what law would somebody come down?
here less than two years later, a chess boom is under way in the unlikely list of places. People said that country kids could learn chess
and we shall never wrong.
By Karl Roma, I'm steve growth,
I'm Lesley Stahl, I'm bill whitaker, I'm anderson cooper, I'm sharon, alfonsi, I'm scott pelley
Those stories tonight on sixty minutes welcomes the player network featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports, tack, entertainment and more play. It
play died in Wednesday's terror. Attacks in london by a man who had been known to british law enforcement is justified.
This reminder of how difficult it is to prevent an attack before it takes place here.
U s? In just the past three years more than a hundred people have been arrested for isis related crimes. The fbi devotes significant resources to identify potential terrorists,
and sometimes bends years, tracking them? The terror attack in
berlin, texas two years ago, was the first
claimed by ices. On? U s soil. It's mostly been forgotten, because the two terms
as were killed by local cobb's before they manage
murder. Anyone in looking
what happened in garland. We were surprised to discover just how close the fbi
was to one of the terrorists not only had the
The I've been monitoring him for years. There was,
an undercover agent right behind him when the first shots were fired.
The target of the attack was in events taking place in this conference centre on may. Third,
two thousand and fifteen. As self describe free speech advocate name PAMELA geller was holding a provocative contest, offering a cash prize for the best drawing of the prophet Mohammed.
whose depiction is considered sacrilege. I some muslims, secure
the outside was heavy were dozens of police
a swat team in snipers. More than a hundred people were gathered inside and the event was ending when to terrorist drove up to a checkpoint,
man by a girl in police officer and a school security guard
Grainy image shows both law enforcement personnel standing next to an unmarked police car seconds. Before the attack bruce joiner, the security guard was unarmed, but it's like they paul outside
and the doors open. Do you remember seeing the weapon oh yeah, definite
saw their weapon and asked when I locked down to his face because he's got this smell
while he was literally smiling yeah like I got yeah
gotcha. The two terrorists opened fire with automatic rifles. Joiner do for
over but was shot in the leg officer. Gregg Stevens return,
fire with his hand, gun police nearby.
I ran toward the sea and right here this star shoe, met this provision when this video was recorded by a passer. By
I vote. Terrors had been mortally wounded by officer stevens and were lying on the ground next to their car.
Do you show me a swat team shot them.
in the head, because I kept moving.
They weren't sure there were explosives involved, they had to shoot them. How quick did all this happened? It's matter seconds, I would say twenty thirty. Second
it's a very quick the next day, the f b. I pick through the crime scene, the evident showed garland police had prevented a massacre. The terrorist brought six guns huh
two rounds of ammunition, bullet proof and tactical vest and xerox, copies of the black flag of isis
They were identified as thirty one year old, elton simpson and thirty for you,
not her susie just hours before the attack they had sent this twin.
pledging allegiance to isis,
Simpson was already well known to the fbi. He grew up
the suburbs of chicago and moved to finish
arizona in middle school. He briefly played college basketball before drop
out and converting to islam when he was twenty
applause,
two leaders of the phoenix mosque he attended, simpson
well liked in soft spoken. He was always asking
oceans, attending lectures,
with some show me as president of the islamic community center phoenix. Ah ha people here, thought so
much of the young muslim convert? Who took the name Ibrahim than he was
included in the mosques promotion.
video in two thousand and seven. When you come together, you pray for
times a day. With the brothers
You reminded about the hereafter, but
Time of this interview, simpson had already become interested in radical islam and the phoenix fbi which
investigating one of his friends hired and inform it a student.
Refugee name, dublin dang to check simpson out. Therefore,
since I do not mean that
a case with them with elton simpson was what an informant that
befriending elton and taping his conversations downloading spent three years
pretending to be simpsons friend and was paid a hundred
two thousand dollars by the fbi, he taped more than fifteen hundred
hours of their conversations and finally recorded him. Talking about tat,
willing overseas to wage. She hot simpson lie
the fbi about it and got three years probation when he thought
that this guy was
spying on him and taping bend and finding out at the government is doing that. I think something collecting the mosque
We couldn't do anything because we don't know what to do what he did. He felt that the mosque and abandoned and he felt that a lot of people have abandoned and that's why he stopped coming to them.
Moved into this phoenix deportment complex with not or sushi who we knew from the mosque Sophie had just
a bitter break up and the pizza parlor. He
was going out of business. It was here in this apartment
Simpson and Sophie began closely following the rise of isis reaching out to them
supporters, online and acquiring weapons for terrorist attack
simpson and knew where they get into the likely knew they were him die.
Shit misuse tracks the online activities of ices sympathisers in the? U s, he served
national counter terrorism centre and is currently deputy director, george Washington, universities,
program on extremism, or he also trains, f
agents on how to identify a mirror
and she holidays why
the girl and attacked so significant? The guard?
tag is essential. The first open saville when it comes to attacks in their homeland attacks in the united attacks in the united states
low level attacks by ones and to people,
drawn to the ideology and decide to act. You gotta make sense of it all
Are we do to bring an altogether per on board and say who's connected to hill, using an old
ash and law enforcement tool. Hughes maps out isis is online tentacles into the united states. They have the two
attackers, susie and simpson. There also talk
into Muhammad miss key who's, an isis recruiter in Somalia. This is somebody in Somalia who they are talking to online, yet through an encrypted app sure spot. There also
oxygenated same and he's in rock edison rocca rock
is ices has stronghold in Syria hughes, caution,
Hussein, an icy rockstar, a british citizen who can
indicated online with english speaking recruit worldwide. It was killed in
who has drone strike a year and a half ago, misty anymore,
and living in, somalia tweeted. This link about the draw mohammed contest in garland, texas and direct message, Elton simpson, urging him to it.
I get the most interesting part about this is where in a hybrid tie right before,
is to be worried about these network attacks. The ghanaian
even with the hygiene,
training for years and then coming over here and then we had
loan actor attacks? Individuals were kind of drawn to this and decide to act now
this weird moment in between, or you have a number of individuals in rocca reaching out to americans in
ohio, new york and other places and saying so, here's the knife, you should use here's the address
of the local. U s military officer and do what you can do that
Simpson would have launched this attack if it wasn't for people in isis overseas were online whispering in his ear. I think that the focus
friends here was a big part of it. The f b. I closed the case
on Elton simpson in two thousand, and fourteen only to reopen
several weeks before the attack because of statements he made
on social media, speak too large,
problem. The fbi has
which, as you have an individual who pops in your radar in two thousand and six but doesn't commit an attack till two thousand and fifteen
So do you want the fbi to watch this individual for nine years after the attack, Phoenix fbi agents,
im convinced the two men hadn't acted alone and began investigating elton simpson's friends. They arrested this man, Abdul Malik, Abdul Kareem, a forty three year old, convert to Islam, who grew up in philadelphia and accused him of fun.
The attack, as well as training, and encouraging simpson and sufi witnesses at abdel cream
royal testified. The three men watched isis execution, videos together and discuss attacking a military
face, or the two thousand and fifteen superbowl england dale arizona, Abdul cream denied taking part.
any discussions about a terror attack? It says he rejects
his friends growing radicalization. He was found
guilty on multiple accounts and sentenced to thirty years in prison, but his attack.
Dan maynard continued to investigate and uncovered,
evidence the fbi was much closer to the girl in a
than anyone realized after the trolley just
where the government knew a lot more about the garland attack than they had led on that's right after the trial,
I found out that they had had an undercover agent who had been texting with simpson less than three weeks before the attack to him tear up texas, which to me was an encouragement to the simpson. The man
talking about was a special agent of the f b I working undercover, posing as an islamic radical
meant sent attorney dan maynard. Sixty pages
declassified encrypted messages between
the agent and elton simpson and argued tariff. Texas was not an incitement, but simpsons response was incriminating. Referring to the attack against cartoonists at the french,
gesine surely have to row. You don't have to say that he wrote you know what happened in paris, so that goes without saying, no need to be direct, but it
turns out the undercover agent did more than just communicate online with elton simpson in an affidavit filed. In another case, the government disclosed that the fbi, undercover agent, had actually travel to garland texas and was poor
and at the event I was shocked, I mean I was shocked that the government had turned the sober and wanted to know. When did he get their way
was it there and this path?
november maynard, was good
Another batch of documents by the government, revealing the biggest surprise of all the undercover agent, was in a car directly behind
elton simpson and not her sophie when they see
bid, shooting this cell phone photo of school security guard, bruce joiner and police officer. Gregg Stevens was taken by the undercover agent seconds before the attack. The idea that he's taking photographs of the two people who happened to be attacked moments before
attacked? Stunning? I mean Togo being in the right or the wrong place at the right or the wrong time. The idea that he's right there, thirty seconds before the attack happens, is just in credit,
to me. What would you want to ask the undercover agent? I would love
to see under cover agent. Are these
the only communications that you had with sampson did you have more communications with simpson. How is it that you ended up coming to garland texas? Why are you even there? We wanted to ask
fbi, those same questions, but the bureau would not
agree to an interview, all the fbi,
I would give us was this email statement. It reads
was no advance knowledge of a plot to attack the cartoon drawing contest in garland texas, if you're, what
What happened to the fbi's undercover agent? He fled the scene, but was stopped at gunpoint by garland police. This is video of him in here
coughs recorded by a local news crew. We blurred his face to protect his identity. I can't tell you: were there
whether the f b I knew the attack was gonna occur. I would I don't like to think that the letter
but it is shocking to me than an undercover agent sees fellows, jumping out of a car and he drives on. I find that shot
that he didn't try to stop it and try to stop them. Marine didn't do something I mean
he's an agent for gusts sakes if this attack had gone,
four wave and lots of people had been killed. Would the fact that an underclass,
fbi agent was on the scene, have become
The scandal would have ended
store story. I you he have seen rational investigations and things like that
key for the fbi and for the participants of the event
texas, varens good shot there, the fbi's
shins around this foiled attack, offer a rare glimpse into the complexities faced by those fighting, homegrown extremism. Today the battle often
gins on line where identifying terrorists can be the difference between a massacre and the one that never occurred in garland texas me people brag about stuff
we'll talk, big one of the difficulties for the fbi's trying to figure out who is just.
And who actually may execute. Natasha did that's the hardest part. We talk about this right. There's a lot,
If the guys who talk about our great isis, it's very hard to tell when someone crosses that line and in most of the cases you see the
The eye has some touch point with those individuals beforehand. There had been an assessment of limiting investigation are full investigation
It is very hard to no one sunday decides job to jump, to play a new pike network featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports, tack, entertainment and more play it
play dot it. In this last election, the nation was assaulted by impostors masquerading as reporters. They poison the conversation with
eyes on the left and on the right.
He did it to influence the outcome, others just to make a buck. The president uses the term fake news.
discredit, responsible reporting that he doesn't like, but we're
owing to show you how Conner,
insert truly fake news into the national conversation with fraudulent software.
That scams your social media account. The stories are fake, but the consequences are real
This
December edgar welsh opened fire,
in washington dc pizzeria, he told police
He was there to rescue children forced into prostitution by Hillary Clinton, the story of
secretary Clinton's child sex trafficking operation in a pizzeria was invented.
For the election by fraud
what new sites and shared by millions, jane
we're factors owns the restaurant. It started
on november. Fourth, twenty sixteen, where
started to get strange messages directly into instagram and to facebook and
direct messages or saying all kinds of various drain
bizarre things like what many the threats, death threats,
for some of the worst people saying that
I wanted to see my guts cut out and spell on the floor of my restaurant.
One person said that they prayed that some
We're coming, kill everyone inside and it was terrifying moments.
edgar welsh, fired into the only locked door in the restaurant and found much to his surprise, no sex slaves. No one was hurt. Unless you count, elephant is
an innocent bystanders at a character assassination. It went from a few people,
closing about something online or inside of chat rooms, and we never would have seen before to suddenly
blasted millions and millions of people, the police,
say there is no sex trafficking conspiracy, but millions read about it on dozens of websites, including one called danger and play which wrote Clinton's
inner circle includes child traffickers, pedophiles and now members of a sex cult days
in play is written by michael shorn of its southern california lawyer, who does
himself as right of centre politically, but who has become a magnet for readers with a taste
four stories with no basis. In fact, these
stories are fakes, the definite not fake. There.
it's not like at all hundred per
do you believe that or do you say that cause it's important for marketing your website? I believe it. I don't say anything that I don't
that doesn't seem like a very high bar, so high bar, because I'm in
ernie and know away and measure evidence, here's the story of my life, sort of it
streams commentary daily and publishers on social media. He reached
twitter users, ably three million times I dont last month. That was a slow matter. We have had our fifty million. Sometimes what I'm doing is its punches.
fun is counter intuitive. Its counter narrative and its informal
that you're not gonna, see everywhere else. In august he published this headline. Hillary Clinton has
Parkinson's disease physician confirms you don't think that
This lady now you believe, a true today,
That story was source to an anesthesiologist who never met Clinton. It got so much
traction it had to be denied by Clinton's doktor and the national parkinson foundation.
She had a seizure and froze up walking.
After her motorcade well, she
the mona. How do you know who told you that with well the campaign told us that? Why would you trust a campaign? The point is
you didn't talk to anybody. Who'd ever examined Hillary Clinton. I don't take anything. Hillary Clinton is going to say at all as true I'm not going to take her on a word. The media says we're not going to take donald trump on his word and that's why we are in these different universes. Certain of bitches webs
I is just one of hundreds publishing nonsense on the right and on the left wing.
Were curious how a particular fake news article breaks out from one website and becomes a
pillar trending item on facebook, twitter, for example, and we discovered that one of the reasons is fraud. Some fake news, publishers, use computer software called bots to make their articles appear much more popular
than they actually are botz are fake. Social media accounts that our programme to automatically like or re tweet a particular message
Jim did more knows all about boss he's a consultant who helps products or people
noticed on the internet? So we were taught
about these bought sneezer twitter,
counts, masquerading as real people that boy
the thousands meliot. We did an experiment with the mars help we bought
Five thousand bots from a russian website the costs. It is just a few hundred bucks. We set up an experiment, so you can show me how this works and I'm gonna tweet for my account. What happens
when sixty minutes investigates fake news shop. We got out at it.
Normally, I would expect real people to retweet my message a few dozen times that more programmed our bots to retweet my message and then he turned
whoops, headed with everything you said it with everything, got that continuity at three point two thousand retweet railwaymen. I would
three hundred thousand thirty for her?
Now. It's four point: four thousand mia
a searching. Real people start seeing they start retweeting aided responding to any takes off antics off that matters.
because facebook and twitter select articles to present prominently based
firstly on how popular they are. They can be fooled by botz arm
asters expanded the reach of our message: nine thousand percent, but our tweet didn't care.
Fire the way so much fake news does
because our message was not salacious.
In their language, about very specific words that can get that emotional response.
That's really are the key to it all the key to all of the fake so
in color says a fake news headline has to make blood. Boiled he's not afraid to admit that
made real money on fake news, he's known for to fake news sites
called national report, the other denver guardian, where he pushed peoples
on issues such as abortion and oh care
a peace on our if I d chips being
mandated through the obamacare exchange importer, those
essentially tracking device, so
as part of signing
for obamacare. You had to be
landed necessity with this tracking device. That story was red. One.
Six million times
color road. Another fake story about an fbi agent investigating clinton emails who was killed,
murder suicide and
there was the fake army corps
nineteen of a texas town infected with Ebola that got eight million page view
it's kind of almost an addiction right. You can see something
They take off and then, as its coming down, you can look at
that next high. I guess his highs were profitable with each other,
A key made money on ads over ten thousand dollars a month. He told us writing fiction, posing, as fact facebook really is, was key. To only did how
We would basically join whatever
group it is. They are trying to target on facebook and once
a kind of took the bait so to speak. Then they kind of would spread this.
Around you know they they would be. The ones are essentially be our bots. What did you discover about
audience
People in general are quick to believe anything. That is not anything but well. Basically, anything this put in front of him in a format that is news is, did the
environment in this world change during the presidential election? It did sure
more players join again fake news
loaded, social media during the presidential campaign
story said? Donald trump was caught, snorting
came in a hotel. Another said after a colony,
could be reveals. Brain tumor, Donald trump drops.
race, part of many political camp.
In these days involves a very widespread strategy that involves manipulating public opinion over social media, twitter and facebook, or are part
that advertising strategy, Phil howard,
leads the internet institute at the university of oxford, which examines misinformation on social media.
I have web traffic in the days before the election in the swing state of michigan, how much
This news on twitter in michigan was, as you call it junk news and how much of it legitimate well
michigan we found that the proportions we're about equal, the junk news with the story.
That had not been fact checked and the came from organized
Actions that we're not professional journalism organizations was about
as the amount of content coming from the professional news organization.
as much fate news
There was actual news. There was to get an idea who reads fake news. We turned to the trade desk,
the internet, advertising firm that helps companies steer clear of fraudulent sites, Jeff green is,
see you so. The first thing that we found
is that it is definitely a phenomenon that affects both sides. Liberals,
and conserve. Yes, there is no question that both infected one fake news.
or a green examined, claim that the congress was plotting to overthrow president trump. He was surprised
learn that right, leaning, fake news overwhelmingly attracted readers in their fortys and fifties and he founded faking
his readers on the left were more like
to be a fluent in college educated that shocked why I think
thought the same way. That many americans, perhaps think is- is that fake news
is a phenomenon that only tricked the uneducated, not true. Just not the
It shows us just not true
greens analysis showed fake news. Consumers tend to stay in what he calls internet echo chambers
reading similar articles rather than reaching for legitimate news.
What is most concerning this the amount of influence that they seem to have, because the people
spend time in those echo chambers are the ones that vote
through the election. Facebook and twitter recognise the threat to their credibility and change there.
programmes to make it harder for fakes to proliferate. Both companies declined to be interviewed ever back.
Michael certain of it articles included the fake Hillary Clinton, pedophile ring and her bogus diagnosis of parkinson's is watching
his audience. Growing I'm a skeptical person, and I know that
There's a lot of people got it for me, some I'm reckless who's gunning for you. You are I'm at sixty
that's right. What do you mean we're gunning for you? Do I really think that you guys are going to tell the story that I would like to have twelve now
your story is going to be? Here's a guy spreads fake news uses social media, the social media, people better. I know the story you guys are doing before you. Do it what's wrong with that story because it has an agenda. Another story is here is a person who is able to bypass traditional media outlets, reach people directly to tell a story, maybe he's a good guy? Maybe he's not!
I'm not going to serve as a mouthpiece for anybody. Never in human history has more information been available to more people, but it's
so true that never in history has more bad information been available, and why
it's on line,
is news for ever? Welcomes a new package network featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports, tack, entertainment and more
play died in chess has been around for fifteen hundred years, but until a couple of
years ago. The ancient game was still
mostly the mystery to the folks of rural franklin, county, mississippi, feud ever played chest before many confused it with checkers chessboard was as out of place in the county, is a skyscraper
but that all changed when a tall stranger arrive from memphis to bring chest to the country, with the belief that the game could transform a communal
he was initially met with bewilderment. Who was this six foot six outsider, and why would anyone come to franklin county to teach chest
less than two years later. A chest boom is under way in the unlikely still places
The tucked deep in the southwest corner of mississippi lies remote franklin, county or the trains
stop anymore: half account
is covered by a national forest. The other half it seems
churches? This is typical of the bible belt. Seven thousand
people live here and no one's in a hurry. There only two.
Lights in the entire county and one in women transport. What's this call
so imagine everyone's surprise when doktor jack, fuelling ten showed up at school to teach the kids of franklin count.
A new subject, chess say shook me before Doktor became the town and you play
as before. I didn't have a clue how to move the pieces are nothing
tom was always on tv.
even more braden, feral parker wilkinson
benson, chicks need re, didn't know what to make of doktor be, as is known when he first appeared in two thousand fifteen. What did you think of doktor veiling effect
it will swell a twelve twelve foot man whenever diamonds,
room saying he was planning on teaching us chess.
I was like what. Why would some
come down here.
the middle of nowhere, their life
who guided doesnt, seem to make a lot of sense, its people,
it's not nowhere.
This is somewhere
thus the somewhere that doesn't give a lot of attention jet fuel winton was lord de franklin county by a wealthy benefactor wishes to remain anonymous. The benefits
Your had seen how buell linkedin had moulded chest champions in memphis in one of the most distress zip codes in amerika and wondered if chest could take hold in the car
great? Where can you put the king? He convinced fueling tend to give a few demonstration lessons in franklin county. Does that stop him from coming here afterwards?
sl, hey. What do you think you think these kids have it? Can they
I would just programme here he asked coursers.
Barnes any other kids. I've ever met, motivated,
the challenge building ten signed a ten year contract with a benefactor and with the city for the country. What does he do?
it's. The king building ten has taught chess for the better part of twenty five years, was a wonderful about the bishop and why we think of it as an archer by france, and he may not be a grand mass
but he's a master of using chest to tell a narrative, especially with beginners. This is a story.
About a little girl and the stranger and the little girls,
elizabeth? The stranger is just my adaptation of little red writing to the the chessboard elizabeth needs to get down here to iwan where school is where shall be faith and involves just so
we teaching how upon moves in a king moves. Oh no is she gonna make it
It is not that I
amber my partner in this project, saying to me, we'd, have maybe twelve kids playing chess
and his he didn't know what to expect and how
I think, kids do have played chess right now. Well, a couple of hundred hey. How are you students flocked abusing ten in part, because at heart he's one of them
he grew up in rural indiana and identifies with kids who have to feed the chickens, count tarantulas as pets and have different tastes in food. What do you like
fraud. Rattlesnake fried rattled, my house
profound rattlesnake, of course, of like a week, or so you get in some fraud rattlesnake view
captains opened up a new world to his kids. This is of a famous
by morphia against count is award and duke of brunswick has played in paris. This is paris, we teach history, we teach geography
Wait age. Science, we teach me as we teach our using the chessboard Bobby pool, is a part time preacher and a full time
I must just chess coach for building tin pool says there were doubts. The viewing tin could succeed in mississippi.
The statistics. Everything you look here in mississippi is a poor. Is this is this? Is it
The fact is, we know
The rest of the nation has conception over people said that country
It's good learn, chess and
We are on their way by roma proof.
last spring in stark, Phil we're bulent
a team of mostly elementary school kids from franklin county free off against much older highschool players at the mist.
city state championships, rebecca griffin, was in the fifth grade,
What was their reaction when they saw you little fist creators and across the table from them when it
who started brightened their friends about how he got it easy pickens. Is that a little scary playing somebody who looked at which, although I didn't really think about it until someone told me, you played a guy with a beard.
we're all in and they say who were these kids right? They were.
see thy trying to say we were a joke, because we were kids but
for the game? We usually beat them and they were like very shocked to evade, kill bad. You
Need all those older kids now or maybe not at all? I don't want that to make me see like a cruel person, but I'm I really am just okay with crushing people's spirits. In the end, the franklin county dominated the state championships. What happened is a bunch of hillbillies beat the snot out of a bunch of really highly educated, sophisticated people? So that's what happened Mitch hand was among the many parents in starkville. He thinks the victories served as a milestone for franklin counties, kids that was very sobering for them to suddenly realize wow. We are good,
them haven't realisation of their own potential was a beautiful moment have to the teachers. The other teachers react over the course of my career teaching. Just people say things like
I did not know that he could do something like that or they even
something as simple as possible.
as I did not know, he was smarter. She was smart or something like that. What does that tell you?
tells me some people got it wrong that some kids,
I've been underestimated or written off for
reasons that are false, chestnuts, helped blue,
tens players see there's more to themselves than they ve seen before chairs
like something that, like I like
good for works. Has it change you at all? It has
we greens have on your grades of ghana
oh what goes like low meeting. Louise nanda asian
Have these I feel like chest
take us anywhere, but it's not about where it takes us. It's about how
for it takes us last year, only seven of the ninety three graduates from franklin county high school went onto a for your college, but every chess player we spoke to plans to attend college. Some day is really short way forward
came jennifer brundtland is breathing mom. She runs the first
main cafe one of the few places in the cap.
that serves a hot meal shiva.
If her son won't be flipping burgers for a living, is it fun to see
kids, dream a little bigger than the airline is so
that it's almost like Brian Kemal get real wages git, so big
you always do you get to go further and athletes
This can be a vehicle to take on their this
in a window at a young age that hey there's a whole world out there. I don't need this,
my goals at making aid
We are now running to sit mangoes it whatever our woman be, has killed the social boy and me
the street a pulse in october, a new chest centre opened in the middle of meat. Will the county seat. You feel like chess,
has made the community more hopeful, certainly parts of a deal.
This flower hasn't bloomed yeah, it's just starting to right. There's there's a lot yet to come.
centre, has become like a beacon in the county each day after school kids who have the
sire and aptitude
More instruction from Billington too, was the
I'm so immersed in the game, with its infinite number of possible moves that when these students finish,
playing chess. They go home and play more chess in the past
sk player in the world, come from franklin, county,
absolute super possible before they could take on the world we would have to face. The nation was a girl the week before christmas
three of franklin counties. Chess wonders their parents gathered in this parking.
to begin a ten our journey to nashville for their biggest test yet
national, an old championship as day,
twenty seven excellent turned into night building ten.
His students were lost in what they call the chest: dimension
I don't know where we are worded in the middle of a war in the middle of problem. Number: nine! That's all! I know
preparing in their own language before attacking the queen, had for an inquiry into exile street check,
What lay ahead a weekend of intense checks,
more than fifteen hundred players from six hundred and forty four schools gathered
giant ball room at opryland for seven rounds of chess over three days. Every grade k through twelve was
buying for a national title, the best teams come from
best schools in new york city.
Two hours into the tournament. It appeared ass if little franklin county was overmatched after round one, the kids from mississippi had lost thirty of the first
thirty. Two games are real struggle on the run, a learned, the struggle at this level and their learning that they have to struggle at a different level that way around before
the feeling, when you walk in here as a player as a coach, his parents, so deep agonistic experience, agonistic experience, it's real true competition based on skill alone. You look around and you can see it in the parents' faces as much as the kids. If there's something
african at stake here: nervous
and from other programmes tried to sneak a closer peak into the ballroom desperate for any news. After their shaky start, franklin counties players bore down taking more time, hoping for openings.
watching for threats abusing tin mantra played in their heads. Let your opponents
Oh you how they like to lose. So is the last day of the hardest
and it's a pie sunday with the final two rounds looming, franklin, counties, fifth and sixth graders recovering mere that
tat. Everybody needs to fight for those points
we need them very much parker
wilkins, braden, pharaoh and vincent chicks nature.
all delivered for franklin, county dazzling, Donovan more
is mired in a two and a half hours struggle against a higher rate. Did opponent from Kentucky on the verge of victory? Donovan was asked for a draw. He said. No, his opponent snap, the attention of the event burst
turning to the surface, Donovan more eventually want boosting franklin counties: fifth graters to number eight
the country making their name you, the this age county elementary. This sixth graders placed tenth too
aids in the nations top ten. Only
year and a half after jeff fuelling ten first showed up to introduce chess to a small,
county in mississippi one day now
Thank us. I enough is thank you thank you
and urging us all this. What are they capable of somewhere in the top three? At least you think you can stick it out her apron
there's from franklin county. I won't even think of it as sticking around what do you think of it?
think of it is doing what I want to do.
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