Interrupts the soap opera with the footage of Walter Cronkite announcing the president s passing. Emotional,ming taking his glasses off. Our focus is not on it kennedys death, but kennedys life. This exhibit examines one of the most iconic parts of his life, his world war ii service. He was a world war ii hero. He did we have some amazing items, including a letter where he request to serve in the military. He wants to serve on a pt boat. Flight logbook is believed to be the only evidence that exist that he took flying lessons. After he recovered from his back injury, he took flight lessons for a while. This was the logbook signed twice that he did a solo flight. Stopped the training after his brother was killed in a plane explosion. We wanted to be sure the highlights were the most important times of his life. The incident where he became a war hero, that helped in his election to congress a few years later. Back thatm with a bad would plague him the rest of his life. He found some rel
University of Southern California for the 20th annual Los Angeles Times festival of books. And why cuba matters. Before we get into cuba, for those who dont know why you are, give us a brief biography. I am an archaeological dig. I am 75 years old. I come from michigan and wisconsin. I was a student in 1960 at the university. I have always been a writer. I became an activist and freedom rider in the early 60s and i was in the anti vietnam war movement, 50 years ago this week, the first peace demonstration in washington and we are commemorating that on may 1st and Second Coming up in washington. Then i went on to 18 years in the California Legislature and off and on i wrote, and i right for publication, the nation, i right hubble log tom hayden. Com and books that reflect my experience combined with whatever study or interviews i am able to do which brings us to cuba. Listen, yankee why cuba matters just came out. You had to update it because of what president obama did. I believe from
Is next, from hyde park, new york, home of the fdr president ial library and the annual roosevelt reading festival. Hello, everyone. For those who were here this morning, welcome back. To for oh who are new, welcome to the 2016 ralph reading festival. Were so glad to have you here today. I think you already know the format. Well talk for half an hour, about ten minutes of question and answer, and then i will go back and set up and you can get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. Were very excited about this year here at the library. This is going to be our 75th 75th anniversary. The end of june and we are celebrating in many ways in the reading festival is one thing we think frank loan and eleanor would both be happy about. This is exactly how they wanted this site to be used, as aer in for people to talk about the presidency, about the roosevelt era, and to bring people together to have a meaningful conversation. To support programs liking this you probably sow saw we
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Edition of booktv in primetime on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. For those who were here this morning, welcome back. For those who are new to the session, welcome to the 2016 roosevelt reading festival. So glad to have you here today. I think you already know the format. I will talk for about a half hour, then about ten minutes of question and answer, and then hell go out and set up and be able to get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. Were very excited about this ear year at the library. 75th every at 75th 75th anniversary at the end of the month, and this is something that franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt would be happy about. They want ted this site to be used as a center to bring people together to have a meaning philadelphia conversation. We have a membership table. We greatly appreciate it. The challenge we face here, with someone like david, is that he is highly accomplished and i could spend the next half hour talking bit his background but