Lincoln assassination as my topic. I was fascinated by it. The following year the kennedy assassination took place and kept everyones interest and has continued and ive been interested in it and i have done interviews, you know, as far as various groups and lectures and two years ago Roman Littlefield loaned to me an email we see and do lectures on the subject and he said would you loo ick to write a book . Here i am semiretired, a lot less work to do and more time thinking why not . I said okay. They sought me out and i was pleased to say yes. Brian you start with Andrew Jackson. What is that story . Professor feinman Andrew Jackson is the first president we know of that has any problems with assassination threats. There were three such cases. There was the case of a young man who punched him in the nose in 1833, which is pretty minor but a first example of assault. Then we have the father of later lincoln assassination John Wilkes Booth who writes a threatening letter to jackson in 1
Nausea. I was enrolled in the Childrens Hospital Score Program that dr. Goia will describe later where i received ongoing cognitive evaluation and treatment for symptoms. After missing school for two weeks, i tried to go back but was unable to function. The frustration of trying to focus on lectures, moving through the pandemonium of the halls and constant sensory bombardment made a Normal School day impossible. However, through my school i eventually enrolled in a home teaching program. With the help of tutors and family, was able to complete my coursework at my pace. I returned in september but was far from recovered. I have spent two and a half years since my concussion slowly regaining organizational skills, the ability to learn and retain information, and most important my personality. During this time, my friends and family learned to recognize the signs that meant i needed to shut down from any mental or physical activity for a day or two. These relapses were particularly tough
What is the proudest moment of your career so far . Guest wow. I dont mean to sound snarky or snippy here, but i hope it is yet to come. I feel very fortunate in just a few days well start our 12th season on pbs. Im now on 15 years in public radio. I feel very blessed at start of this year to do all weve done so far. I hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to i hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that i am still in here and so many people that against me in so much of my life. When i started on npr some years ago i remember the complaint when i first started, that i talk too loud. My favorite was that my laugh was too boisterously last too boisterously. My laugh was too much mike haydns was wrong, i spoke too fast, it was too big for public radio. This is National Public radio and i started the bidding was i was not going to make it, 15 years on public radio. People didnt think, charlie rose had done well for years nobody expected
Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years d nobody expecd for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edid. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and plic Television Work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challen fellow citizens to reexamine the sumption they hold. We all bring assumptions to the
United states roughly about 75 of traumatic brain injuries. It is a brain injury. There is damage to the brain. Theres a discussion about whether its permanent or temporary. In the military the rate is 77 . So it turns out that youth sports are a good model for also looking at concussion in terms of the military. In fact, most of the military concussions occur in situations most like they do with the rest of america. Some certainly occur in theater, but the majority occur outside of theater, in accidents like youth are prone to experience. If we look at brain injuries overall, there are estimates these are all estimates, of course, and they vary across the literature. Were looking at somewhere probably in the neighborhood of 4 million traumatic brain injuries per year in the United States. A sobering part of that is our birth rate in the United States is also roughly about 4 million. This does not count other ways that children are exposed to head injuries. Perhaps a disciplining irate