Is behind the scenes pictures and videos. booktv is our handle. We kick off the savanna book festival with retired air force Major General Robert Latiff on the future of technology and war. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. Good morning. My name is nancy leads. Im delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savanna book festival presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, that she and family, many thanks to jack and mary, the glorious venue, the Trinity United Methodist church. And members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturdays events possible. 90 of revenues come from donors just like you. And and it would be very helpful today. Following this presentation, Robert Latiff will sign festival purchased across the way. And as it empties so ushers can count available seats. Please take a moment to turn off your cell phone. And we ask you to not use flash photography. During the questionandanswer portions. I will call on you and one of the ushers will b
And then wrongly imprisoned. Florida lawmakers have just apologized for this grave injustice. We will speak with the Pulitzer Prize winning writer gilbert king. He wrote devil in the grove Thurgood Marshall, the groveland boys, and the dawn of a new america. Then to a modern day case of Racial Injustice in the florida legal system. We will speak to Marissa Alexander here in florida. She was jailed for three years after firing a warning shot into a wall near her abusive husband. Think of the people who are in my situation whose case might not have made the news, who dont have the support, and how difficult it is to come up with the money for probation or to find a job or anything like that. Amy this was around the time that George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. And here in tampa, florida we , will speak to a syrian refugee who just graduated from Saint Leo University near tampa. He gave the graduation address. So we went out to the street we were met by the Regime Se
Groveland four. One was killed by a mob of 1000 men. It was led by the local sheriff. The others were tortured in jail and then wrongly imprisoned. Florida lawmakers have just apologized for this grave injustice. We will speak with the pulitztzr prize winning writer gilbert king. He wrote devil in the grove Thurgood Marshall, the groveland boys, and the dawn o of a new america. Then to a modern day case of Racial Injustice in the florida legal system. We will speak to Marissa Alexander here in florida. She was jailed for three years after firing a warning shot into a wall near her abusive husband. Thihink of the people who o e in my situation whose case might not have made the news, who dont have the support, and how difficult it is to come up with the money for probationon or to find a job or anything like that. Amy this was around the time that George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin. And here in tampa, florida we , will speak to a syrian refugee who just graduated f
On social media with our 20 andrew twitter handle cspanwj or post a comment at facebook. Com cspan. Lets start off with a small piece of an event from wisconsin yesterday where the Vice President mike pence was district inl ryans wisconsin and had the health and Human Services secretary tom price with him and they talked about the economy. [video clip] had aence the president threepart agenda, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Will get this economy moving again by passing the biggest package of tax relief since the days of ronald reagan. [applause] will do it, with the strong support of speaker ryan and senator ron johnson, we will cut taxes across the board for small businesses, family farms, families, rollback job killing regulations, rain and unelected bureaucrats so they cannot cripple the economy from behind of their taxpayerfunded desks and washington, d. C. Restore fiscal responsibility to our nations capital, pass and infrastructure package that america once again has the best roads, bridg
In memorial is being set up where officers say he disappeared. Investigators found a body earlier today in the Merrimack River in massachusetts. The medical examiner has not yet identified who it was. Mike cronin joins us live from nashua now with more. Mike it all started at the storm drain behind me on friday night. That is where Police Believe that jacob disappeared. Tonight, dozens have to pay their respects after an emotional weekend. A tribute to jacob goulet is growing by the hour tonight. Friends sitting together consoling each other. Total strangers leaving flowers at the site where Police Believe he fell into a storm drain during torrential rain. As a parent, i would hope someone would care about my boys. I would hope it was not one left a kanaan verse shoe a converse shoe with a note inside. Police say he was walking home from a friends house friday night and may have fallen into the storm drain. He tried to make a joke and be happy. Cherise after a massive search mike after