Thursday night at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Harriet McBryde Johnson spoke of the disability rights perspective of their 'Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race' exhibition about Nazi medicine and eugenics, as part of the Museum's Insights Series. She was just being her usual brilliant self, but the impact upon the 350 "civilians" and museum staff was stunning! C-SPAN was covering the event to coincide with the release of her book 'Too Late to Die Young' in paperback. We'll let you know when that broadcast will occur.

As I type, she is being interviewed by Dan Raviv, CBS National Radio Producer/Host of the Weekend Roundup and that will air over the CBS Network this weekend (depending upon your market) for a five minute interview.

In the next week or so, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum will post an online discussion about Harriet's presentation and Q&A on their website, and that is our chance to reframe and/or broaden the disability perspective debate with a huge audience - more details to follow.

The web version of last night's presentation will be posted shortly and will include captions and a "three shot" of Harriet, Joan Ringelheim, the interviewer (USHMM Director of Oral History) and the sign language interpreter - a first for the Museum!

Deep thanks for tremendous DC outreach to:

• Ollie Cantos, Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice
• Marcie Roth, CEO of NSCIA
• Andy Imparato, CEO of AAPD
• Maggie Roffee, of US Department of Labor - ODEP
• Jeanne Argoff, Executive Director of the Disability Funders Network
• Rayna Aylward, Executive Director of the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
• Michael Hartman, Disability Employment Programs at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center (and my brother)

And to many others who worked very hard to bring our disability rights perspective to this event by giving our community a strong and powerful voice.

Thank you Tom Olin for archiving the event. Stay tuned for more details, and wishing us all restful weekends.

In CommUNITY,

Tari Susan Hartman-Squire
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Museum Exhibition Now Extended Through May 29, 2006