The first time that happens so you know really trying to sit in that complex and nourish us in ways that enable to make lifelong commitments to the work important to me. Well, thank you. Thank you, everybody. Give it up for your name and i just want to say its been such a pleasure to work with you and be on your journey with you. Youre a person of courage, integrity and grace, so thank you much. Give it up again for gift and you well, everyone, you very much for coming. Welcome to the American Legion. Were going to lay down some ground rules. Please kindly remain seated and quiet at all times. Set your phones to vibrate. Airplane mode. Please hold your questions till the end and. Well have a questions and answers session at the end. Books are available for sale afterwards, and if you dont mind, take a photo of your purchase and then put it on social media of theres also were at the American Legion and they are the volunteers here they try to accommodate us as best as possible. So you d
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] im going to take off my jacket. We may have a few latecomers but they will come to the back. First of all we would like to welcome you to the twa museum. Sar prided joy. We hope you enjoy it. Also if you want to tour the museum youll have to go back out and around and we have a flight group that might be of interest to you. Its my pleasure to welcome jack to the museum for this presentation. He will be doing q a after his speech. So welcome, jack. [applause] thank you for having me and this is a great venue. I suspect its the first time booktv has ever done one from an airplane hangar. This is my tenth booktv. Let me just start with a little background. Many of you know on july 17, 1996 at 8 19 p. M. Twa flight 800 left jfk airport in new york bound for paris. 12 minutes later at 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island the popular south shore of long island it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were killed, 53 of them were twa emplo
On working with arab and muslim communities because it is the it shall its the mom, its the mother. Its the exwife its the father who knows something terribly wrong is going on with their son or daughter. And can must feel comfortable coming to, you know, either the fbi or the government officials to disclose their own concerns. An second piece to it, of course, which is the access people have to weaponry that can kill a lot of people so thats what we have to get very serious about. Whether its terrorism watch list and purchase of guns or having more stringent gun laws. So those are two ways this whicl we can do it and thats whyw people like me are very, very passionate and critical of some of the thaings youre hearing coming out of this transition and some of the people who support the president elect about, you know, about Islamic Community our muslim communitieo and arab communities. I will tell you as someone who has been in Counter Terrorism for a slorng time one of the things tha
Nod conversation [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for all the ambient noise. And welcome to Kansas City Public Library. Im the director of the Kansas City Public Library and its a pleasure to have you here tonight. To prove to you once again the Kansas City Public Library represents all political views and tonight its always it is as always a pressure for me to introduce my longtime friend jack cashill. Jack and i i have known each other almost since he was in short pants, in newark, new jersey, where he was born a little bit after he graduated from Siena College and got his ph. D at purdue in american studies. I think the only dissertation that defended the notion of american capitalism and american fiction, which is hard to do because is no american capitalism in american fiction. Jack and i Something Like 35 years ago, founded something the zenith boosters club, Political Discussion Club in which jack then ran for a number of years when i escap
More president ial hopefuls with books included weekends full of nonfiction books and american history, the popes isnt to the United States will continue today as he travels from new york to philadelphia. Live coverage starts at 4 30 p. M. Eastern as pope francis isnt independence hall. At 7 30 p. M. The pontiff attend the festival of family which is part of the world meeting of families. Moving to our road to the white house and join us sunday evening at 6 35 eastern as a harvard professor and president ial candidate lawrence less egg talks about his decision to run for president and his suggestions to change the political system. And on cspan2s booktv tonight at 10 00, fox news Host Bill Oreilly speaks with bay buchanan and his latest book killing reagan, an inside look at Ronald Reagans political career and the challenges he face following an assassination attempt on sunday afternoon and 1 00, doug casey sits down with booktv at freedom fest in las vegas to discuss his latest book o