News about Bart Conner

Jill Biden supported Team USA's athletes on the first official day of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris Saturday.  The First Lady, just days after her husband Joe Biden passed the torch to Kamala Harris, cheered on the US men's gymnastics team as they kicked off the Olympics in front of a star-studded crowd.  Biden was joined by Olympic gold medalists Dawn Staley and Bart Conner, Denise Campbell Bauer, the U.S. Ambassador to France, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at Bercy Arena. 

On a November night in 1989, two weeks after the Berlin Wall's fall, seven people hurriedly but ostensibly toward the border between Romania and Hungary. The frozen furrows of a ploughed field crackled underfoot. They heard barking in the distance from nearby villages. The temperature had plummeted so low that the cold was a real threat, but it wasn't the only one. The seven people were embarking on their lives' most treacherous journey: they were going to cross a hardline communist state to another that was in the process of revolting and transforming itself.