Five years to solve her crime. They thought they solved it. They got the wrong guys, and they convicted the wrong guys and sent them to prison. Sent one to death row. Ron williamson went to death row. He had never met deborah carter. And he spent 11 years in prison and was exonerated 10 years ago, 1999, almost 10 years exactly. But he spent a total of 12 years in prison for the murder of deborah carter, and he never met her. Host who was ron williamingson . Guest he was a man i never met, i never heard of him. He was one of the first big, notorious dna exonerations in the late 90. And i met him when i read his obituary. So i never got to see him, obviously. But he was a fascinating character. When he was younger, many people in his small corner of oklahoma thought ron was the next mickey mantle. And ron certainly thought so. He had a nice ego. And he was a second round draft pick in 1972 of the oakland as and went off to seek major league glory and thought he was going to make it. Neve
Host good evening and welcome to the rare book room. My name is nancy and i am the owner of the store. This strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather benjamin and then on to my father fred and then on to me. For a little bit of history in the late 18 hundreds, syria around this bookstore here in greenwich village, was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers. Divine press, and they all had editorial offices and down below, they had theks bookstores to display their books rated along Fourth Avenue just around on that side, was known as book row. And spike of the work 48 used bookstores of which strand is the sole survivor. As the owner of the strand, 18 miles of books, i am not easily faced by 1000 books. But the bucket list, and tonights featured book taught me in my tracks. [applause]. s expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect eye for supplies of detail never again will you have to wonder what to read next. It is a one stop shop holiday gift for anybody wh
Tran11 primetime, tonight 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Lets more people expense great stories. For people who cant read yet. You are off the reason that 50 of americans listen to an audiobook in 2019, so heres to all of you, heres two amazing audiobooks and heres to 25 years of the audio world. Ladies and document, we are thrilled to introduce this evening im a master of ceremonies, the witty and wonderful mr. Rocca. A correspondent for cbs sunday morning. Frequent catalyst on npr show, dont tell me. Is the author and narrator of the recent New York Times bestseller, obituary. I audio. Hes also the host of the podcast. We are excited to have him as our host this evening. Without further ado, mo rocca. [cheering] [applause] thank you, thank you. This is kind of a dream for me, i have to say. [cheering] here i am in this fabulous venue in front of this crowd and stephen king is here. [cheering] [applause] i feel like carrie when she was asked to prom. [laughter] anyway, i think given the
Nation, the president announcing that travel ban. The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from china and other hot spots. As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were ceded by travelers from europe. After consulting with our top Government Health professionals i have decided to take strong but necessary reactions to protect the health and wellbeing of allmericans, to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the United States for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight. David, jim, were going to talk about the president s address, the markets obviously today, but really quick, the fact that youre there and im here, just reflects the fact that the nature of work is changing, and will probably stay this way for some time to come yeah, it will, carl again, were splitting up our teams in case something happens at the nyc or here so we can obviously still
To beat this disease maybe it even needs a bear market which is where we are today and the dow plunged and s p and nasdaq nose dived 4. 7 coron as coronavirus is a Public Health crisis wreaking havoc all over the country and it hasnt effected that many people yet but we know it will. And we thought we could keep it out and then thought it could be contained and then as it kept spreading we were told there was no big deal. Theres so few cases and so few why all the fuss and we discovered the Term Community spread we heard about the outbreak in Washington State and then the suburbs of new york and then the fiasco it dawned on us when they say novel as novel coronavirus, novel means we have no immunity to it. We have no vaccine if you dont, try not to get it. We have no tamiflu once you get it were all against this unseen nightmare. Novel, steven king novel all right. Were cancelling big Public Events what happens next. The two ways to do this, two ways to play it, pile on once again and