View. Tonights guest is david talbot who has come to tell us about brothers the Hidden History of the kennedy years and david was born and raised in los angeles. Has been a lifelong activist and provocateur, going with days in Southern California and also it used the santacruz also at uc cruz. His father was a movie and Television Actor and a leftwing labor activist who cofounded the screen actors guild. After uc santa cruz, he wrote in 1978, creed of differences differences. After that he was the Senior Editor of a magazine for five years. After that, he was an editor at the examiners image magazine from 19851994, when the examiner was a full newspaper. Is not the publication it today. Founded a website and was editor and chief for 10 years. He is now chairman of the board. Please welcome david talbot. [applause] david thank you very much for the introduction. It sounded like my fbi file at points. [laughter] remarks,had prepared but i will put them aside and this 1500 book and answer
And they all did. Lets give clarence a chance. A couple clarifications from an old boomer. Los Angeles Times was the classified parks back then given a dime and told to look around and take notes on something called a telephone. I dont know if Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remember them or not. You can another thing cause sin queue called them self not having taken french, i guess. It is an honor to be corrected by you. It is a great job of reaccounting the period. The flavor of the period, i want to speak up for fred and other leaders to deannounced the weather on the ground. It sort of sounds like these were part of a fast radical left wing conspiracy. There were a lot of delusions you alluded to. I was wondering, the bla, was a fringe of a fringe group and the Weather Underground was as well. But did you get the sense of what drives people . And they believe it was reportt to make peaceful change in violence make change in evitable. That is what took people over the edge making bombs. Most of t
Chessboard. And in empire of self, Middlebury College professor of english jay parini recalls the life of gore vidal. Look for titles in in the bookstores this week and watch for the authors in the future on cspan2. Host glenn beck, in your newest book why do you open with Thomas Jefferson and the library of congress . Guest because jefferson changed hi life. He wrote my life. He wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr. Peter was 15, 14, somewhere in that a area. His mother had died, his father was about to the to die, and his father said to thomas, thomas l you oversee the education of my son when i pass on . Smartest man i know. Is he said, sure. So when peter comes of age, he writes him this beautiful letter. And he says in mathematics, you have to learn these things. Never read a book out of its native tongue because youll lose too much, and then he gets to the last one, and he said when it comes to religion, above all things fix reason firmly in her season and question with boldn
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People who are fleeing Central American violence. That is the headline of a startling new investigation published by the New York Times. We will speak with the author, Sonia Nazario. And it is been over 50 years since allen dulles resigned as director of the cia, but his legacy lives on. And no time is the cia engaged in any political activity or any intelligence activity that was not approved at the highest level. Amy author david talbot on his new book, the devils chessboard allen dulles, the cia, and the rise of americas secret government. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Five democratic president ial candidates will square off tonight in las vegas for the first of six debates in the 2016 campaign. The participants are former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, vermont senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland Governor martin omalley, former virginia senator jim webb and former rhode island governor l