letelier to try to remember him also. and so around the circle, we have these two memorials to this one man and, of course, to ronni moffitt. sheridan circle will be marked forever in the heart of washington, d.c. by this assassination. olivia: hello, everyone. oh, good, we can hear everyone. welcome to busboys and poets. my name is olivia. i am the book events coordinator, and i'm very excited to welcome alan mcpherson for his book "ghosts of sheridan circle." it was an event that i was not aware of, honestly, and i'm very excited to read about it in this book, and i'm excited for alan to speak about it. here at busboys, we like to have conversations that other people are not having, and i feel like this is one of those. i would like to give you an little overview. if you have cell phones, please take photos, but don't make the flash happen. we are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. we will have the book for sale. we have them for sale currently. if you want to, i emplore you to look through it and have alan sign it as well. we have a wonderful server who wil

orlando letelier. at the same time, ronni moffitt, a u.s. citizen, was also killed. bomb, and all of this happened at sheridan on embassy row in washington, d.c. on that morning, september 21, 1976, orlando letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. he was driving his car to work. he lived in that direction. he came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. the car with him were two ronni in the car with him were two ips, ronnifrom moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. they turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. in that gray sedan were two cuban-americans who had helped put a bomb underneath the the driver's seat in the chevelle orlando letelier was driving. the order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at augusto by a custo a pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity that orlando letelier, a former ambassador to the united states from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know now that it was the dictator who ordered the secre

here by the institute for policy studies to memorialize the assassination of orlando letelier. at the same time, ronni moffitt,