For a complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Alan dershowitz talks about becoming a lawyer and the many cases hes handled over the past 50 years. This hourlong program is next on booktv. [applause] welcome, everybody. Its delightful to see you all, and remarkable in a funny way for the two of us to be here, alan. I feel as if you ought to be tutoring me for one of our final exams, which you used to do. Weve known each other for over 50 years, as you just heard, and i dont know how that came to be. But you say in your book that you were a dreadful student until you went to college. That during elementary and secondary school, you were a disaster. What turned it around . I dont know. I wish i knew. In Elementary School and high school, i was a c and d student. I have in my book an actual photograph of my senior semester report card with a 60 in physics, red circle around it, 60 in math, red circle around it, 65 in history, and i managed to squeeze out an 80 in english. So i had a 67 avera
Kirk so listen, are you having an affair with her daughter . No, im not kirk are you attracted to her . No, im not kirk are you intrigued by her . At the moment i was but i avoid the situation of being in the same room with her daughter kirk you admit you are a pathological liar i am a compulsive liar yes kirk how can i believe anything you say i came here seeking help and i took a Lie Detector Test and im here to clear my name. I did not sleep with her daughter. I didnt do anything with her daughter. I never touched her or kissed her nothing kirk you had sex with a welfare lady yes. It was a welfare kirk that is not funny. Welfare is serious. You popped a pimple in her private area because youere intrigued you could not say no hypnotized you would have jumped off a cliff but you are probably a paratrooper so it wouldnt matter. And you are sending sexuality texts yes. Kirk this is all fact this is all disgusting. Kirk why are you even with this guy . [applause] because i love him. Kirk
For academic deficiencies. He called me one day and he said you got a big mouth but not much of a brain. You have to figure out something you can do with your life. Do can be a conservative rabbi or you could be a lawyer. I wasnt smart enough to be a rabbi, so i became a lawyer. At age 16. 5, i was a failure, and by age 17 and a half, i was at the top of my class in Brooklyn College with straight as. I never got a b. And i think the reason was i didnt change as much as the school changed. I went to college where anything went. Youre punished essentially for raising questions. The classmates would have been trying to get into columbia. Wise decision based on my grades and i was so lucky the Brooklyn College was a free school and had an exam that you could take to get in so that is what turned me around. So, one person told me i was spared, why have a lot of respect for told me i was smart and i said i just have a good memory. He said you were actually smart. That son can and gave me a l
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