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10:00Investigation into the Anthrax Attacks

The U.S. Justice Department claims it could have proven without a doubt that Dr.Bruce Ivins,a microbiologist at U.S. Army bio-defense facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland was responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks. Dr Ivins committed suicide last week. An update on the latest developments in the anthrax investigation.

Guests

Marilyn Thompson, investigative journalist, Washington Post and author of "The Killer Strain"

Leonard Cole, adjunct professor of political science and author of "The Anthrax Letters: A Medical Detective Story

Dr. Claire Fraser-Liggett, professor of medicine and microbiology and director of the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland

Dr. Jeffrey Adamovicz, friend, colleague, and former supervisor of Dr. Bruce Ivins

11:00"As We Forgive"

How a graduate film student stumbled upon her thesis topic on a church trip to Rwanda, told the ongoing story of reconciliation between killers and the families of genocide victims, and won a student Academy Award. Plus, a look at a new Rwandan report accusing top French officials of complicity in the 1994 genocide.

Guests

Laura Waters Hinson, director and producer of "As We Forgive." Winner of the gold medal prize for documentary at the 2008 Student Academy Awards.

Philip Gourevitch, journalist; author of "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda." His latest book, with coauthor Errol Morris, is "Standard Operating Procedure."

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