CBS: Atty General Holder Was Scheduled to Attend "Anne and Emmett" Play At Holocaust Museum Tonight

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DOJ spokesman confirms Atty Gen Holder was scheduled to attend a play this evening at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Details on the one-act play. Tragic.

'Anne and Emmett': A dramatic reminder of our duty to remember
By COURTLAND MILLOY • June 4, 2009

WASHINGTON -- During a high-society luncheon in Washington a few years ago, Janet Langhart Cohen mentioned that she was writing a book about "growing up in apartheid America." Langhart Cohen is black. Another luncheon guest, who is Jewish, was taken aback.

"Oh, Janet, you don't want to go discussing that," Langhart Cohen recalled the woman saying. "You live in a penthouse. You're married to the secretary of defense. Why do you want to talk about those days?"

To answer those questions, Langhart Cohen, a former television talk show host and newspaper columnist, has written a one-act play in which two martyred teens, Anne Frank and Emmett Till, meet after death in a place called Memory.

Anne, a Jew, died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. She was 15. Till, who was black, was lynched by white racists during the Jim Crow era. He was 14.

"Janet came home after the luncheon and said to me, 'It hurts so much to be told that remembering my history is unbecoming,' " said William Cohen, her husband, who was secretary of defense during the Clinton administration. "Then she said, 'I wonder what Anne Frank would have said to Emmett Till?' And I said, 'Go write it.' And she did -- using two thumbs and a BlackBerry."

The play, "Anne and Emmett," turned out so well that two performances are scheduled in commemoration of Anne Frank's 80th birthday. One is an invitation-only engagement at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; the other is open to the public at George Washington University on June 12.

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1. Wonder if any of Bush's appointments to the Holocaust Memorial Council have anything to say?

After all, they presided over the ramp-up to the hatred that we saw today.


White supremacist James W Von Brunn opens fire at Holocaust museum, June 10, 2009






Bush Makes More Last-Minute Appointments, January 7, 2009

Outgoing chief of staff Joshua B. Bolten, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and top Republican donor Sanford Gottesman all earned five-year terms on the Holocaust Memorial Council, which oversees the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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2. That explains why William Cohen was there

Somebody posted in comments at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3916381, "CNN interviewed former defense secretary Bill Cohen, who was an 'ear witness' at the museum. Sec. Cohen had just arrived at the museum and was supposed to meet his wife Janet there. Cohen stated that he saw a car double parked in front of the museum. A moment later, he heard gunshots."

This makes it even worse.

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3. HE SHOULD GO!!!!!

If they are still having it he should definitely do to make the statement.

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4. How tragically

ironic. Just reading about that play is an emotional journey.