Remembering Kathy Kriger, Former Diplomat Who Opened Rick's Cafe Casablanca

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September 20, 2018

Lisa Mullins

Rick's Cafe owner American Kathy Kriger, poses in the lounge bar of her cafe, where "Casablanca," the famed movie directed by Michael Curtiz, released in 1942 and starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart, is being screened at all times, in Casablanca, Morocco, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. (Abdejalil Bounhar/AP)

Here & Now's Lisa Mullins remembers Kathy Kriger, the former diplomat and entrepreneur who opened Rick's Cafe in Casablanca, Morocco, in 2004 as an homage to the 1942 movie "Casablanca." Kriger died this summer at age 72, and there was a memorial service for her over the weekend in Oregon.

This segment aired on September 20, 2018.