Preparedness with the coordinator ron klain all that plus bob schieffers interview with Laura Hillenbrand author of unbroken the story of louis who survived world war ii plane crash was captured tortured for two years in japanese prison camp. Unbroken is now a major Motion Picture. Hillenbrand tell us how her battle with rare disease helped her write his story. When he was talking about really suffering, i knew something about what that felt like. I think it enabled him to open up. Garrett and special look back at 60 years of news on face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs good morning, bob is off today. We begin with breaking news. Rescue crews are searching for airplane thats been lost over water in southeast asia. In london with the latest. Good morning. This is what we know so far the plane was flying from indonesia to singapore, now that is journey that usually takes around two hours. Burt just over 40 minutes in to the flight the pilot asked to change routes, he wanted to tu
Pole. Youll also see books about the u. S. Border patrol, israel, fracking, the taliban in afghanistan and the American West in 1776. All this and much more, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. Booktv, television for serious readers. Up next, a. J. Baime appeared at the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest to discuss the arsenal of democracy about the creation to have u. S. Bomber force prior to americas entry in world war ii. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you very much, john, and thank you to everyone whos here on a beautiful, sunny day. A its good to see you, and welcome to lit fest. If this is your first time, this is one of the great festivals of chicago, and were glad werere getting a good turnout today and there is a lot to do. Thank you for coming to this event. To theres another one right after, it. A friend of mine, rick kogan, will be conducting a discussionr so theres a lot to do, so, please, stick armed. Anything occurs to you, well give it at least ten m
He was as unlikely a champion as seen come any sport. Physically he was nothing to look at. He had a great big knobby of knees, his neck was too big, he had a big hammer head. He had this flailing motion when he ran as if he were swatting flies. They tried to give him away and was rejected by how bad he was. The day that Charles Howard discovered seabiscuit tell us how charles was first introduced to this horse. He and his wife were sitting up in the grandstand. Saratoga was the lowest level of horseracing going on. He looked down at a very ugly horse and so did his wife and they were watching him and he that hurt eliminated the horse would win and she felt this was silly and said no and took the best but said he wouldnt win and he did. They shared their lemonade and they both had a tradition and he was a man whose intuition was superb to be if he could recognize potential and he liked this horse. There was something about him. He told the trainer to look at him and he bought him. The
Of alabama. Next on booktv, author and former Major League Pitcher larry colton recounts the teams exploits on and off the field amongst a backdrop of political and social change in birmingham, alabama. This is a little over one hour. Hi, everybody. Im really delighted with the opportunity to introduce larry this evening, but i know most of you know something about larry already. I become he is a kind of one man portland institution, the founder of the community of writers, founder of the work to stop workshop literary festival, just recently the Stewart Holbrooke libere legacy award, and so his devotion to writing and support the writing Community Important is really well known. Some organizing programs for Grammar School children getting their first taste of how to organize their thoughts about the world, to advice for aspiring writers, people like cant, recently honored at the oregon book award who turned to larry for advice when they were starting their own writing projects. But i
Was fundamental for the commission to see the site and speak to police and speak to witnesses. So we ended up doing that, and in order to avoid the press from following us or anybody that might want us harmed, we decided to, on a ploy putting in a program that we would go at 3 00 in the afternoon the next day, and we ended up going at 5 a. M. In a convoy. And it was all fine and good until we arrived there, and the police put, located about, you know, two blocks a perimeter so that nobody could access the place where we were. And, but we saw people, you know, like two blocks away, and we couldnt find out. One of the commissioners was the former Deputy Police chief for ireland told me you know who they are . I said, i dont know, cant distinguish. Theyre journalists. Of. Host god forbid. [laughter] guest they are a bunch of journalists with cameras and with telephoto lenses, and somebody had tipped them off. And we thought that we had avoided any undue presence, and they were there. The