On this tuesday morning, i keep thinking, the fair is next weekend. Its a big party. There are a lot of big names coming. I do not want to name anyone because the smallest acts are big too. All right. Very nice, also this coming weekend, the giants are back home, five games left. If they go zero and five, they lose 100 games this year, hopefully we will be okay. How much were the tickets. Fire sale. I wanted to begin the news cast with big news in college hoops, four college assistant basketball coaches are facing federal charges and a probe of corruption in the ncaa. Its tony bland, from the university of california, the coach from auburn, the coach from the university of arizona and the coach from oklahoma state. They are expected to make Court Appearances later today. They were among 10 people charged. Others include financial representatives from the company adidas. They are accused of conspiring to get athletes to play at universities sponsored by adidas. Its about giving money to
Hagel. Both volunteered to go to war and fought in the same infantry unit. Daniel bolger recounts their journeys from Middle America to vietnam at the height of the war, and home again. As we observe the 50th anniversary of the war, we are privileged to hear from these two eyewitnesses. The author, Daniel Bolger served in the u. S. Army for 35 years, retiring as a lieutenant general. He commanded troops in afghanistan and iraq, earning five bronze star medals. Fors a contributing editor Army Magazine and the author of eight other books. He currently teaches history at North Carolina state university. Chuck hagel has long served our country. He was the secretary of defense from 20 13th 2015, and before that a u. S. Senator from nebraska. During the vietnam war he served in combat and earned two purple hearts, the combat infantry man badge and the vietnamese cross of gallantry. After graduating from the university of nebraska at omaha he worked as a Congressional Staff assistant, cofound
I am please today present tonight Leigh Montville. The team from barns noble have the books for sale. Please do consider purchasing the book and help us bring more great authors in st. Louis. So tonights presented by the author series, the program was started in 2004 and presents authors of politics, history and sports. You can visit the program for the list of businesses and organizations that sponsor the west fall series, our next west fall event will be next tuesday may 23rd, first fiction writer when jeff shara will be here. Hes a writer who writes sort of military history, history base but their novelizations. Its about the korean war. Onto tonights program, Leigh Montville former columnist, wrote New York Times biographies, babe ruth. Tonight he will share his new booflg of one of the most celebrated and and trough eial athletes, muhammad ali, appropriately titled sting like a bee. Subsequent legal battle that took him all the way to the Supreme Court. Its an inspiring account of
He also talks about the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission, which was organized to investigate the assassination. Its a little over two hours. Ralph lovely thank you all for coming. It is never easy to get here. The metro is not working well today. Second i would like to thank the Smithsonian Associates program. They do such a remarkable job. If you cant find Something Interesting in that catalog you are dead. There are so many fascinating programs in art and history and science. Just on a nice job of putting the programs together. It is always a delight to be here. I am appreciative that cspan3 is filming this. I was able to watch as they had the first segment. The lincoln talk is this past saturday. It is now archived so if you want to watch it again it is now available and easy to find. I dont know when they are putting garfield or mckinley on. It would save us a lot of time. Todays talk is quite different than the other three. A lot of us in this room were alive
He also talks about the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission, which was organized to investigate the assassination. Its a little over two hours. Ralph lovely thank you all for coming. It is never easy to get here. The metro is not working well today. Second i would like to thank the Smithsonian Associates program. They do such a remarkable job. If you cant find Something Interesting in that catalog you are dead. There are so many fascinating programs in art and history and science. Just on a nice job of putting the programs together. It is always a delight to be here. I am appreciative that cspan3 is filming this. I was able to watch as they had the first segment. The lincoln talk is this past saturday. It is now archived so if you want to watch it again it is now available and easy to find. I dont know when they are putting garfield or mckinley on. It would save us a lot of time. Todays talk is quite different than the other three. A lot of us in this room were alive