Shortest month as if its some politically correct addendum but not as it turns out in the center of it. You just need to pick up todays paper and read whats on the front line. He owned a few people. And set it in motion. Its always struggling with the question of race. Im interested in how my country works. It is important that what were not trying to do is substitute one persons history for another. We are to try to expand. When they said at the end of that sentence that we should be in pursuit of happiness that meant we were a country in the process of becoming and always getting pretty free of debt. Women, he didnt mean africanamericans, he didnt mean a lot of things and he added that because he got bigger so what i think the opening of the africanamerican museum on the mall is not a narrowing of our history, its an expanding of our history. The south had 9 Million People when the civil war started, 4 million of them owned by other people. 45 percent of the staff so that means you c
Economist george borhaus examines impact of immigration on u. S. Economy. Astro physicist, explore questions of the universe. American enterprise institutes reports on the decline in the employment of american men. And National Book Award Winning biographer recalls the life of organized crime boss al capone. That is a a few of programs you see on booktv. For the schedule, to to booktv. Org. 72 hours of nonstop books and authors this veterans day weekend. We kick off the threeday weekend with Julian Guthrie and the look at privatized spaceflight. These lovely director chairs. All right. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the Space Gallery here at museum of flight. My name is jeff nunn. I amed adjunct curator of space history here at the museum. Doing king sends his regards and regrets. He is unfortunately unavailable to be here tonight as he has taken ill. I would like to begin thanking our special featured speaker, author, Julian Guthrie and dave moore. [applause] and also the team from csp
Thank you for having me and this is a great venue. I suspect the first time book tv has ever done one from an airplane hangar. This is my 10th book tv. Its one that is closest to my heart for a variety of reasons. Let me start with background and many of you know, on july 17th, 1996, at 1819 p. M. , twa flight 800 left jfk airport in new york bound for paris. 12 minutes later, 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island, popular shore of long island, it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were killed, 53 of them were twa employees. Many of you in this room knew at least some of those people. There is a memorial in their honor here at the twa museum and if i were coming here just to spread some conspiracy theory, i would be dishonoring their memory and i would be insulting you. Instead, im here to tell you what happened on the night of july 17th, 1996, in the nights and days and months and years thereafter. There are people in this room who know a whole lot more about aviation than i do an
Thank you for having me and this is a great venue. I suspect the first time book tv has ever done one from an airplane hangar. This is my 10th book tv. Its one that is closest to my heart for a variety of reasons. Let me start with background and many of you know, on july 17th, 1996, at 1819 p. M. , twa flight 800 left jfk airport in new york bound for paris. 12 minutes later, 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island, popular shore of long island, it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were killed, 53 of them were twa employees. Many of you in this room knew at least some of those people. There is a memorial in their honor here at the twa museum and if i were coming here just to spread some conspiracy theory, i would be dishonoring their memory and i would be insulting you. Instead, im here to tell you what happened on the night of july 17th, 1996, in the nights and days and months and years thereafter. There are people in this room who know a whole lot more about aviation than i do an
Report on the leadership of russian president boris yelton and Vladimir Putin and nashville authored local authors to take in the city at literary sites. That is just some of what you will see this weekend on booktv. For complete Television Schedule go to booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. We kick off the weekend with a panel on the history of race in chicago. It is from last weeks printers row lit fest. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. I want to give a special thank you, the theme of this years festival is what is your story . We encourage you to share the stories you this weekend on twitter, instagram or facebook using hashtag p rl f 16. You can keep the spirit of lit fest going all year by downloading the printers row apps where you will find all the Chicago Tribune premium books contests, free and discounted ebooks for subscribers and complete printers row lit fest schedule. D