And also reflects the mission of the university. Very strong philosophy and theological department. Then in 2010 i started the empire state addition. It is 110 years old, the director of the Fordham University press is in new york. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thank you for coming to the Tattered Cover and thank you especially for coming out to support your local independent bookstore. We greatly appreciated. Tonight we have dan hampton, most of you probably know he is the author of several books. He is a decorated fire pilot and a historian of a noted historian. [laughter] tonight he is going to be discussing the flight. His recounting of Charles Lindberghs famous transatlantic flight over from new york to paris. Without further ado, im going to go ahead and turn this over to dan. Lets give him a big applause. [applause] i also tap dance and sing badly. [laughter] thank you jennifer and michael and the Tattered Cover crowd as well as my cspan buddies. Mark and steve who h
Just net. Most people live in thelined lives when kennedy was killed, they werent floating any more it was like realtime adrenaline for the whole country. Schieffer you know, those of us who were here and covered this story, i think a part that is not really understood today is that beyond this tragedy that we saw unfolding on television, wed never seen anything like this before. Hanging overall this it was like we all felt on 9 11 we didnt know what it meant. We didnt know if this was the beginning of world war iii, a year away from the human missile crisis. It was just this profound, i cant understand this. Why is this happening. And i think in a sense that america was never quite the same of a it was after that day. Your book focuses on kennedys last 100 days, why do you think that period was so important . Because finally in that period he was addressing the two great threats to our nation, a nuclear war and racial conflict. You know, at the inauguration robert frost wrote a poem t
Organization but we need to do a better job with the whole nation about going to places where there isnt a national structure. I want to bring brooke de lench. Tell us about your web site. Do you working with the nfl . Yes, we are actually helping with the nfl evolution so each day you see some of the tips from the team which i and the publisher in that fight, i am also the author of Home Team Advantage the Critical Role of mothers in youth sports and i have a great new hat, a producer of a documentary around football. And i keep hearing these great pieces about parents, so moms team is the web site that i run and for the past 12 years we have been leading the way i believe in concussion education as a youth 49 High School Level. Moms are concerned. Moms are very concerned. Your ago, nine months ago i received a letter from a mom in oklahoma and she wanted momsteam to parachuting with our team of experts to set up a Concussion Management program and that is a very common question we ha