To post there. And send us a tweet, cspanwj. Also to keep our eye on other news this morning, including Hurricane Dorian and the latest on that. From the dallas morning news, their lead story obviously, at least five dead after more than 20 shot as gunmen targets random victims in the odessa. 20 were shot on saturday when a gunmen hijacked a postal truck and begin shooting randomly in the odessa. Odessa area of west texas. Three officers were among the shot, in stable condition according to the Texas Department of public safety. Michael gertie confirmed that authorities had fatally shot the gunmen whose name was not released. You can read more at dallas news. Com. From the local newspaper, their point of view, their editorial , to rally around the victims, we are all in shock at the senseless violence that touches our world each day and every day, german home on saturday as a gunmen shot five people to death and injured 21 in odessa. The why and the how is still not known, it will all
Randy roberts has written so many, hes written more than half of our total number, i think. So, we have a lot of experience in the genre and weve been drawn to it and we have an affinity for it in some way or another. Let me introduce the panelists, i will introduce each of you, if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about this genre. We have larry who is a professor of the graduate acting program at school of the arts in new york in the musical writing program. Hes particularly interested in the music of broadway and has written biographies of Richard Rogers and playwrights and in addition to several other books. His most recent biographical work is the documentary film, sammy davis junior, i gotta be me. So, larry, tell us what drew you to this. Hi. I may be a little different from the rest of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So, obviously, in entertainment you are dealing with a public person
This conference from Purdue University continues with biographers looking at political history, this talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking american political history, its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. We will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully we will convince you that the made the right choice, hanging out with you to talk about media and biography and political history. A lien between the four of us weve written at least 17 biographies, it might be more than that i was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many, youve written more than half of our total number i think. So, we have a lot of experience in this genre, weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So, before we begin lets introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could stand a minute or two, telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it
Choice hanging out with us to biographiesedia and in political history. Between the four of us we have written at least 17 biographies, it might be more than that, i was losing count because Randy Roberts had written so many, more than half of our total number. We have a lot of experience in this genre, we have been drawn to it and have an affinity for it in some way or another. Panelists. Oduce the as i introduce each of you, if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience, what was it that drew you to biography . What is it that you love about the genre . First we have larry, professor and in the graduate acting program in the New York University of the arts with an affiliate in the graduate musical theater writing program. He particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy, and has written the biography of Richard Roberts Richard Rogers and several other books. His most recent is a documentary film, Sammy Davis Jr. i gotta be me. What has drawn you to biography
crashes. in defense of this country, of course when we hear that, we think of bunker hill or normandy or the frozen chosen at a chosen watch for. perhaps even the invasion in afghanistan in 2001. we have seen good men and women leave behind wives and husbands, sons and daughters, long life i had to go die in a war. as we should we order them. i have thousands of blood brothers from the war on terror myself not because we still share the same blood but because we spilled our blood fighting for the same cause. for america. for you. so memorial day is a day we recognize that an honor it. again, as we should. but what about our actions? what do we do to honor them? do we think about their sacrifice before we tweet something hateful or before we slap the political bumper sticker on our car? do we have them in our minds when we show up in november and vote for people? most of whom have never served to pick our leaders. to our politicians, of course fancy themselves fighting patriot