Thank you. Hello. Las vegas, nevada. I appreciate it. Welcome. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for joining us on the strip for the first of five nights in vegas. Thats very kind. I dont know, how many just out of curiosity, how many locals do we have in the audience tonight . [ cheers and applause ] all right. Well, i see a lot of faces i know. I grew up here. We moved to las vegas when i was 9 years old. I went to kenny gwynn junior high school. [ cheers and applause ] i went to Clark High School. [ cheers and applause ] and then the university of nevada las vegas. [ cheers and applause ] i enrolled at unlv in the fall of 1985. As a young man i had the privilege of watching the great Jerry Tarkanian and his running rebels electrify this town. [ cheers and applause ] i started a promising career in high school at a store called millers outpost where selling parachute pants and shrink to fit jeans. I got my first job in broadcasting, unpaid of course, hosting a sunday night talk show
On this memorial day we honor the follow the fallen. We are we honor those who were killed in action during the vietnam war. President nixon was commanderinchief. This week marks the 46th anniversary of when the president and first lady welcomed the american prisoners of war held captive in vietnam, and their spouses and their mothers. It is still considered one of the largest dinners ever held at the white house. As president nixon said, it rained all day and much of the evening. Many of the womens long dresses got splattered with mud, but nothing would dampen the spirits of that night. With the wives and mothers of the pows during the christmas season. He wrote that the women spoke respectfully and passionately about the need to get their husbands and sons returned home to american soil. From that time on, each pow was an individual to me, obtaining the release became a burning cause. Our distinguished speaker on this memorial day will tell this important story. Her name is heath har
Last train to memphis and careless love. Theyre here discussing wills new book colorization 100 years of black films in a white world. Publishers weekly calls it an engrossing account of a vital but often slated cinematic tradition full of fascinating lore and Dwight Garner writes for the New York Times. This is sweeping history, but in hagoods hands, it feels crisp urgent and paired down like a good movie. It pops from the start. Were so pleased to be hosting this event tonight. The digital podium is yours will and peter. Thank you. Thank you. Well, its great to be here with you. I wish we were here in person. And congratulations on the book. Weve known each other a long time. Weve known each other over 30 years. And all that time, you know, i feel like weve been not so secret santa asks. Yeah, last youve come out and declared yourself, and i wondered if you always had. Book like this in the back of your mind. Big book resting on the twin pillars of art and social history and storytel
Last train to memphis and careless love. Theyre here discussing wills new book colorization 100 years of black films in a white world. Publishers weekly calls it an engrossing account of a vital but often slated cinematic tradition full of fascinating lore and Dwight Garner writes for the New York Times. This is sweeping history, but in hagoods hands, it feels crisp urgent and paired down like a good movie. It pops from the start. Were so pleased to be hosting this event tonight. The digital podium is yours will and peter. Thank you. Thank you. Well, its great to be here with you. I wish we were here in person. And congratulations on the book. Weve known each other a long time. Weve known each other over 30 years. And all that time, you know, i feel like weve been not so secret santa asks. Yeah, last youve come out and declared yourself, and i wondered if you always had. Book like this in the back of your mind. Big book resting on the twin pillars of art and social history and storytel
That you can indulge in any way you like, and the only way you find out what you cant do is if you do it. In the 70s, you start to sense the old days are over. You could just see that las vegas lost its mojo. Reporter Howard Hughes asked for permission to buy another gambling casino, this one in reno. Charles when Howard Hughes came in, corporate mentality took over. Elvis i like to get there and fool with an audience. If you can do that, it works. Elvis was caught in a trap, and he couldnt get out. Luck be a lady tonight Luck Be A Lady Tonight tonight luck, if you ever were a lady to begin with Luck Be A Lady Tonight luck be a ladyyyyy tonight [ jazz music playing ] binkley the purpose of las vegas was to forget what was happening in the rest of the country and leave it behind. People in las vegas were certainly aware of what was going on in the 60s, but no casino was going to have a bunch of hippies coming through protesting against the vietnam war. So you start to see a transition p