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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are all sad. I am rubber provided i am Robert Brevard i am rubber provided with the reverend reporter pete thank you for coming today. Those in the back pews might make about coming up here a little bit closer to his wonderful authors that are with us. Our panel today is called shadow country. Race and country. Race and crime 19th century america. It will be part of the san antonio book festival broadcast april 30th on cspan2 if you want to see some of the programs that you missed because youre in here or because we do such a good job you just have to go watch it a second time in here everybody twice paid me to traffic authors to texas with us. To my left is my long time, long ago young reporter colleague at the dallas time herald, Skip Hollandsworth was the executive editor of Texas Monthly, the National Magazine award winner whos written some of the greatest true crime over the last 10 or 15 years and its got some