[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] im going to take off my jacket. We may have a few latecomers but they will come to the back. First of all we would like to welcome you to the twa museum. Sar prided joy. We hope you enjoy it. Also if you want to tour the museum youll have to go back out and around and we have a flight group that might be of interest to you. Its my pleasure to welcome jack to the museum for this presentation. He will be doing q a after his speech. So welcome, jack. [applause] thank you for having me and this is a great venue. I suspect its the first time booktv has ever done one from an airplane hangar. This is my tenth booktv. Let me just start with a little background. Many of you know on july 17, 1996 at 8 19 p. M. Twa flight 800 left jfk airport in new york bound for paris. 12 minutes later at 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island the popular south shore of long island it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were killed, 53 of them were twa emplo