Public service and brought to you by your television provider. Up next on American History tv, a conversation from the texas book festival with the author of the book gunfight the battle over the right to bear arms in america. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the texas book festival. Im rick dunham, the Washington Bureau chief of the Houston Chronicle and Hearst Newspapers and the creator of the texas on the potomac Political Blog on crime. Com and my san antonio. Com and ive been highjacked to perry president ial because some governor is running for president right now. In my extracurricular life i am the president of the National Press clubs Journalism Institute of which the crown jewel is the enational journalim library. Libraries are what the book festival is about. Raises money for Public Libraries in tbs and for literacy programs. All of the books you buy benefit the libraries of the state of texas. I highly recommend you buy gunfight. Our author will sign books after our pro
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the texas book festival. I am rick dunham, the washington brew yo chief of the houston chronicle, and the creator of the texas on the potomac Political Blog on crime. Com and mysanantonio. Com. And ive been highjacked to perry president ial because some governor is running for president right now. In my extracurricular life i am the president of the National Press clubs Journalism Institute of which the crown jewel is the National Journalism library. Libraries are what the book festival is about. Raises money for Public Libraries in texas and for literacy programs. All of the books you buy benefit the libraries of the state of texas. I highly recommend you buy gunfight. Our author will sign books after our program in the book signing tent up congress avenue. I have been asked by the folks at cspan to ask you to turn off our silence your cell phones. Weve had some problems earlier today. If you want to take out your concealed weapons permits now its
the gunman in the deadly shooting at an outlet mall outside of dallas. eight people were killed. also developing this evening, at least seven people are dead after a car plowed into people outside a homeless shelter in brownsville, texas, this morning. that shelter has been housing migrants. first we want to play you the moments leading up to the incident. we should warn you, withat you e about to watch is very disturbing. we have frozen that video right before the moment graphic moment of that footage. the video comes from a congressman s office. i will speak with him later. let s go to rosa flores. what do we know about what happened? reporter: according to police, seven people are dead. at least six excuse me, ten individuals are in the hospital. police are still going to hospitals to see if there are any other individuals injured. from talking to the director of the shelter, he says that at about 8:30 this morning, there were 25 migrants sitting waiting for a bus. tha
gonna have a conversation and hopefully insightful conversation around that very question, but we re also going to show you some television clips. so if historians do not watch enough television, maybe you ll get the chance to do it here and then we re going to talk about how we work with with tv and and at the end we want to bring you into the conversation, of course, and so if you re looking at the program you can see that that frank isn t able to join us today, unfortunately, and then my lights and everything you can tell that this is being recorded for c-span. and with me today to to help moderate this sage goodwin of university of oxford. yes. hi everyone. so yeah, we re getting pretty massive. we re gonna be filmed talking about tv, but first we re gonna introduce some of the political historians we have here to talk about working on tv and we re gonna you know, you can you can google them to find out it ll be amazing things that they ve written but we re gonna get to k
clips. so if historians do not watch enough television, maybe you ll get the chance to do it here and then we re going to talk about how we work with with tv and and at the end we want to bring you into the conversation, of course, and so if you re looking at the program you can see that that frank isn t able to join us today, unfortunately, and then my lights and everything you can tell that this is being recorded for c-span. and with me today to to help moderate this sage goodwin of university of oxford. yes. hi everyone. so yeah, we re getting pretty massive. we re gonna be filmed talking about tv, but first we re gonna introduce some of the political historians we have here to talk about working on tv and we re gonna you know, you can you can google them to find out it ll be amazing things that they ve written but we re gonna get to know them a little bit better by asking and their relationship with tv by asking them. what was the first television event that they re