Transcripts For CSPAN2 BOOK TV 20240622

It alters the course of a nation. I read that 17 or 18 years after it was written when i started researching the book at a founded chilling because thats precisely what happened. That moment, that theyve altered the course, altered israels trajectory. When you talk with israel being a small country, is mrs. Rabin still alive . Did she ever connect with simek spent she died about five years after the assassination and did not connect with the amir family. But also did not she felt, this is largely true of the rabin family, that while amir was the shooter, was the gunman, there was a Broader Campaign of incitement against rabin in the years leading up to the assassination by the right and the extreme right especially. People refer to rabin regularly as a murderer in the street protests, and held up signs of rabin dressed in a not the uniform in one instance. Nazi. For the family to cope with not just amir but a larger segment of the right wing that was against the israeli leader. Amirs family, his brother was released it was he doing today . He was released a little more than two years ago, and he was studying physics at the time. He was a University Student studying physics in 1995. Spent 17 years in prison and largely returned to the life he had left. So its back in his home, act in the same room he shared with his brother whether plodded the murder, back to studying. I think its Electrical Engineering now, and i think one of things the surprising was extent to which he and the rest of the amir family, and to recognize on the streets, spendt enough time in front of cameras, Television Cameras in the weeks and months after the assassination that people recognize them, the extent to which they lived a fairly normal lives, including the brother who spent all that time in prison. Will amir ever be released or is he in our life . He is in for life. In israel a life sentence is almost automatically commuted to a period of 2030 years. So very few people spend their entire life in prison and died in prison. I suspect that amir will be the exception. Its hard to imagine a president in israel signing a commutation of his sentence and having him walk out of prison. I think, im about 90 , lets say, but it will never happen. Killing a king is the name of the book and dan ephron is the author. It comes out in october of 2015. This is a preview on booktv on cspan2. Heres a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. Jonathan eig is next on booktv. He race leader at the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest to discuss his book on the history of birth control, the birth of the pill