States Supreme Court decision in mapp v. Ohio is the heart of tonights program. That decision, as you probably also know changed the way courts in this country exclude evidence or consider evidence obtained in violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. Before the decision in mapp, the remedy of excluding evidence was unpredictable at best. If a Police Officer enters or searches our home, our car, our purse, our cell phone, we expect that the judge will prohibit that evidence from being used in a prosecution against us. Motions to suppress evidence are now expected. Theyre common. Defense lawyers in the oj simpson murder trial moved to exclude both blood and hair evidence from the trial of that case. Counsel for ted kaczynski, better known as the unabomber moved to exclude evidence of an unexploded bomb, a journal in which mr. Kaczynski admitted almost 16 of his bombings, and even his manifesto, all found within a remote montana cabin. In both of those notorious cases, the motions to sup
[inaudible conversations] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. There is one book that im reading now that i just about finished is sebastian youngers book called tried and he is the author of the perfect storm. The Veterans Affair committee and i chair that and its about ptsd reintegration of our veterans back into society and its a great book. I recommend that you read it and i serve also as the cochair of a literacy caucus here in washington and one of the things that i encourage everyone to do is read the summer. Honestly, we read a lot of boring things here in washington, papers and policy papers and all that but for fun this summer im going to read david fall dodgy. Im about to books behind. Ive read every book that he has ever written. Starting with his first one and ive never given up. Hes a great writer. I also want to read john needhams book and Andrew Jackson was the first person to hold my congressional suits and
Richard phillips in the attempted rescue of marcus the trial. That all happens tonight at cspan twos book tv. First up, here is Peter Brennan discussing his new book the ends of the world. Hello there. Welcome to foursquare books. Thank you for supporting local independent bookstores. We have events here all the time and they are usually not on the nbc nightly news as tonight will be i am just kidding about that. [laughter] it will be on cspan which is the next highest rated show after the nbc nightly news. [laughter] you can always find the calendars of events up at the register or on a website and you can get on our mailing list. Coming up the next couple nights, tomorrow night Legendary Music writer Rick Blackman will be talking about his latest book about the boston music scene and on wednesday night Sarah Moriarty will be out with her debut novel of north even and on and on. Please come back. Peter brennan is a journalist writing about science, not religion. The end of the world t
The navy and tracy crowe, a former marine have put together an illuminating anthology of womens writings about their experiences in war titled its my country too womens military stories from the American Revolution to afghanistan its all documenting the courage, resourcefulness and resilience with which women have served in the armed forces. Women have been struggling to fight alongside men since the beginning of our country, really. Back during the revolutionary period women would sometimes follow their husbands into war out of necessity. Many could be found in military camps working as long crisis, cook said nurses. In the civil war, some functioned as spies and several hundred women disguised as men served as folders in either the union or confederate side. In world war i, women were allowed to join the military in limited roles and those roles expanded some during world war ii. Although, they still did not include combat duty. Not until 1976, where the first women admitted to the m
The navy and tracy crowe, a former marine have put together an illuminating anthology of womens writings about their experiences in war titled its my country too womens military stories from the American Revolution to afghanistan its all documenting the courage, resourcefulness and resilience with which women have served in the armed forces. Women have been struggling to fight alongside men since the beginning of our country, really. Back during the revolutionary period women would sometimes follow their husbands into war out of necessity. Many could be found in military camps working as long crisis, cook said nurses. In the civil war, some functioned as spies and several hundred women disguised as men served as folders in either the union or confederate side. In world war i, women were allowed to join the military in limited roles and those roles expanded some during world war ii. Although, they still did not include combat duty. Not until 1976, where the first women admitted to the m