The tv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. Tweeters or paste a comment on our facebook page. [inaudible conversation] hello and welcome to the 21st annual texas book festival. Thank you for coming out today in support of our author, the festival and celebrating great literature. As you may know, the texas book festival is a Nonprofit Organization that works yearround to strengthen literacy in texas by awarding library grants and with reading rock Stars Program sending nationally recognized authors and illustrators into title i schools and donating books to those students. By being here today and buying books to you are funding these important initiatives. Thank you. Now may i ask you all to please silence your cell phone. Clinton hill and i will be signing the books. The books are available in the sale ten and we will be signing in the main author ten. , clint, before we begin, did you want to Say Something clint. Hello austin. [applause] it is great to be here whe
This young woman is just one of two teenagers to lose their lives in horrific accident. Police say they were rushing to the hospital after learning of a family emergency when their lives were cut short. And so now a family already in crisis is trying to figure out how in the world to move forward and honor their loved ones memory. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. Some who knew the teens gathered to night to mourn together. Lets get straight out to our brad sattin live tonight in northeast philadelphia. Brad . Reporter chris, a very sad story here. We are not far from where one of the victims lived. They did have a memorial here a couple dozen people here. They left just a short time ago. This crash happened just after midnight this morning. Three teenagers as you mentioned rushing to the hospital but never got there. Tonight we all lost a great friend. Reporter quite few moments of silence in the darkness tonight honoring two lives tragically cut short. 19yearold man
This morning cost two teenagers their lives. Really nice character to him, you know, one of a kinds. Reporter friends of 19yearold struggling to accept their close friend is gone. He and 17yearold maggie were in the back seat of this hup day sonata as it flew down rows vessel boulevard early this morning. His 18yearold brother at the wheel rushing toward Temple University hospital after learning their father had been hurt as the victim of an Armed Robbery attempt. They never made it to the hospital. Pass me and went right through the light at rising sun avenue and then the next light at front street thats when the accident hit because he ran through that light as well. Reporter running a red light their car t boned a ford explorer. Close friends of maggie stopping by the intersection this afternoon for quiet tearful reflection. We were actually just talking to her about a month ago she was going to come over for week and spend a week with err had. Thats why its hurting her a little bit
This morning cost two teenagers their lives. Really nice character to him, you know, one of a kinds. Reporter friends of 19yearold struggling to accept their close friend is gone. He and 17yearold maggie were in the back seat of this hup day sonata as it flew down rows vessel boulevard early this morning. His 18yearold brother at the wheel rushing toward Temple University hospital after learning their father had been hurt as the victim of an Armed Robbery attempt. They never made it to the hospital. Pass me and went right through the light at rising sun avenue and then the next light at front street thats when the accident hit because he ran through that light as well. Reporter running a red light their car t boned a ford explorer. Close friends of maggie stopping by the intersection this afternoon for quiet tearful reflection. We were actually just talking to her about a month ago she was going to come over for week and spend a week with err had. Thats why its hurting her a little bit
The books are available in the sales tent, and well be signing in the main author tent just around the corner here. Now, before we begin, clint, did you want to Say Something . Hello, austin [cheers and applause] its great to be back near the hill country where i spent a great deal of time. A great deal of time with lbj. And were going to tell you, were going to give you a glimpse into our book, five president s, now as much as we can for about 35 minutes, and then well open it up to questions and answers for the last portion. First, i have to figure out how to make this thing work. [inaudible conversations] he said it takes a bit. All right. Takes a minute. Clint hill was born in 1932, the middle of the great depression, and his mother realized she couldnt care for him. So she had him baptized and dropped him off at the north dakota Childrens Home in fargo, north dakota. Fortunately, when he was about three months old, he was adopted by a wonderful family, chris and jenny hill and the