Cspan2 as a public service. Im Chris Goodwin with Mississippi Department of history. Our session is titled uniquely American History and in one way or another these three books touch on every state of the union aswell as our neighbors to the north and south. We will hear from each of our authors about the story they tell you in thebooks and ill ask a few questions before opening it up to questions and comments from you all. Remember since we are on cspan the viewers will be able to hear your questions. All comments and questions take it to the podium. Jeff nguyen has chronicled the Southwestern United States such american undesirables as bonnie and clyde, charlesmanson and jim jones. He lives in Fort Worth Texas and was a member of the texas literary hall of fame with such bestselling books as go down together, the last gunfight, manson the road to jonestown and waco. Today he tells us about his war on the border, the Texas Rangers and an american invasion. Brian casper is received a b
Im chris. Good luck with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Our session is titled uniquely American History. And in one way or another, these three books touch on nearly every state in the union, as well as our neighbors to the north and the south. Well hear from each of our authors about the stories that they tell in your books. And then ill ask a few questions before opening it up for questions and comments from you all. Please remember. That since we are on cspan and the viewers wont be able to hear your question unless you go to the microphone and ask it. There. So all comments and questions take it to the podium. Jeff lynne has chronicled the Southwestern United States in such american undesirable roles as bonnie and clyde. Charles manson and jim jones. Lives in fort worth, texas, and is a member of the texas literary hall of fame for such bestselling books as go down together the last gunfight, manson the road, the jonestown town and waco. Today, hell tell us abo
Understand the history of mississippi and share the history of mississippi. Thank you so much. Im chris. Good luck with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Our session is titled uniquely American History. And in one way or another, these three books touch on nearly every state in the union, as well as our neighbors to the north and the south. Well hear from each of our authors about the stories that they tell in your books. And then ill ask a few questions before opening it up for questions and comments from you all. Please remember. That since we are on cspan and the viewers wont be able to hear your question unless you go to the microphone and ask it. There. So all comments and questions take it to the podium. Jeff lynne has chronicled the Southwestern United States in such american undesirable roles as bonnie and clyde. Charles manson and jim jones. Lives in fort worth, texas, and is a member of the texas literary hall of fame for such bestselling books as go down to
Going to be dragged along the bottom of the river, and you better prepare your family for this because you arek going to come back up and you are only going to have your underwear on. [laughing] so that was the big thing, fear, we had a lot of fears. There were deputy sheriffs in southern ohio. O. Southern ohio, southern indiana, Southern Illinois as deep south as you can get really, and they come over, we talk about it, come down to the boat. We talked for a while, maybe have a beer or two and they go all right, now what kind of weapons do you guys carry . We go weve been off three weeks now, everybody slept without guns. The look of consternation on these guys faces, you know. You mean yall are coming down this river and you dont have any weapons . And the reason they thought we needed weapons was the kids, we parked in cincinnati and paducah in places like that and kids were going to come out of the inner cities and they said, kids will come storming out of the ghettos, kill you and
You all. Please remember. That since we are on cspan and the viewers wont be able to hear your question unless you go to the microphone and ask it. There. So all comments and questions take it to the podium. Jeff lynne has chronicled the Southwestern United States in such american undesirable roles as bonnie and clyde. Charles manson and jim jones. Lives in fort worth, texas, and is a member of the texas literary hall of fame for such bestselling books as go down together the last gunfight, manson the road, the jonestown town and waco. Today, hell tell us about his new book, war on the border, via pershing, the Texas Rangers and an american invasion. Brian castner is a former explosive Ordnance Disposal officer who received a bronze star for his service in the iraq war. He and his family live in buffalo, new york, and hes the author of the books the long walk and all the ways we kill and die and the coeditor of the 2017 anthology, the road ahead. His journalism and essays have appeared