It alters the course of a nation. I read that 17 or 18 years after it was written when i started researching the book at a founded chilling because thats precisely what happened. That moment, that theyve altered the course, altered israels trajectory. When you talk with israel being a small country, is mrs. Rabin still alive . Did she ever connect with simek spent she died about five years after the assassination and did not connect with the amir family. But also did not she felt, this is largely true of the rabin family, that while amir was the shooter, was the gunman, there was a Broader Campaign of incitement against rabin in the years leading up to the assassination by the right and the extreme right especially. People refer to rabin regularly as a murderer in the street protests, and held up signs of rabin dressed in a not the uniform in one instance. Nazi. For the family to cope with not just amir but a larger segment of the right wing that was against the israeli leader. Amirs f
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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome tom petty to this program. The rock roll hall of famer has reteamed with his band, the heartbreakers, for their first c. D. In eight years. The new disc is called mojo from the project. Here is some of the video from i should have known it. I should have known it i should have seen leave it to you to treat me mean every promise was just a runaround i should have known it yeah youre gonna knock me down and i should have seen this is the last time youre gonna hurt me youve. Youve been rocking for a long time. You having fun yet . Im always having fun. Yeah. Playing is fun. Yeah. Music is fun. After all these years still . It has to be. I love the music. Im never, ever tired of playing it. Now traveling, some of those things get a little wearing. Yeah. I love to play. I love i love the audience. And its still just as much fun i think. Yeah. No matter how long you are around, there are certain cla
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Jonathan eig is one of my favorite writers etch hes a New York Times bestselling author. His latest is a biography called ali a life. Ali is the only guy who could put his face on the cover of a book, and you aint got to say nothing else. I know. The photo the cover literally has a photo of the guy, only ali. Heres a clip from a 1971 conversation with journalist and talk show host michael parkinson. What did you think about the other black athletes like them who in their time have had influence or would have been in a position to have influenced people, their own people and sort of thing about their attitude which is certainly slightly less moderate than yours . Slightly more moderate than yours . They go down in history just as athletes. Im im given more praise and credit for what im doing now, coming here and beating the 5yearold english champion. Right now black people, when you show them home jumping, home s
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Pleased to welcome tom petty to this program. The rock roll hall of famer has reteamed with his band, the heartbreakers, for their first c. D. In eight years. The new disc is called mojo from the project. Here is some of the video from i should have known it. I should have known it i should have seen leave it to you to treat me mean every promise was just a runaround i should have known it yeah youre gonna knock me down and i should have seen this is the last time youre gonna hurt me youve. Youve been rocking for a long time. You having fun yet . Im always having fun. Yeah. Playing is fun. Yeah. Music is fun. After all these years still . It has to be. I love the music. Im never, ever tired of playing it. Now traveling, some of those things get a little wearing. Yeah. I love to play. I love i love the audience. And its still just as much fun i think. Yeah. No matter how long you are around, there are certain cla