Author timothy eagan. This is live coverage of the tucson book festival. Good morning, welcome, im going to be moderating this conversation this morning with timothy eagan. I want to expand thanks to cspan tv and book tv for sponsoring and will last approximately one hour, including questions and answers till the end of the panel immediately following the session tim will be autographing books at the bookstore, thats 153 by the university bookstores. Because youre enjoying the festival and im sure you all are, please consider joining the festival of the tucson festival of books. So become a friend by visiting the Student Union ballroom or go into our website. Out of respect for the author, please turn off your cell phones, now, if you would. This morning its our pleasure to have timothy eagan. The worst hard time and the National Best seller the big burn. Tims current book just released last week is entitled to immore eat irishman who became an american hero, a biography of thomas mar.
Off the 911. And Christopher Todd today said he never heard it. Reporter todds attorney said he was remorseful and argued because his client has no violent past, he should not be incarcerated. The judge is found middle ground with the 5year sentence. Its beyond dollars and cents. Reporter technically todd got three 5year sentences. They will all run concurrently. Deputies have a man in custody they believe fired a gun at his girlfriend but hit an innocent bystander. The victim building a fence when he was shot. The victim is in serious condition right now. Reporter the Sheriffs Office said hes not doing well at this point. And he was working at the time. Putting up a fence where you see those black poles. Next to it is a playground attached to a small school. No kids were outside at the time. And the suspect is now in custody. Reporter neighbors living off forest city road are used to hearing gunshots. Today a bullet struck an innocent person. Cops were all lined up here. Caution tape
The food that you want and what you cant do is p pcrastinate because there are only so many plates available, and for more information and where you can get the ticket head over to so field taste. Com. Anchor miami mayor, has officially deemed march cuban sandwich month. Today was a Second Annual cuban sandwich, smack dodo, and our own, andrew, perez. Was one of the eight judge and this years winner was the cuban food truck and two weeks it will move on to the international cubanandwich festival in tampa. As a ninth and fifth judge next year. Anchor yeah. Anchor everyone has been all over today, out in the community. Reporter and thank goodness the weather cooperated. Reporter i looks better than today. A little bit more sunshine, the clouds will be around e rly and so if you sleep around a little bit, the Better Weather will over miami right now, you can see and look through the tower cam things are gloomy but by tomorrow, we will start to see the sun come up, the radar, and the showe
And in kansas, rather, another sanders win with 70 percent of the vote there. Sanders with a huge lead over clinton, but in louisiana clinton came out on top with the huge lead over sanders with 70 percent of the vote, the results did little to change the delegate map, clinton keeps her significant lead in the racfor the nomination. The super saturday, show down started offith a big win for senator, ted cruz, the republican swiping voters by a two to one margin in kansas and taking the state of maine. We are the only campaign that can and well, beat donald trump in this race. It was a super saturday, froro gyms and barns, snaked across locacions in kansas, nebraska and louisiana. It was a victory lap for senator bernie sanders, the democrats securing delegates with wins in kansas and nebraska. We want to make sure that a republican does not go into the white house. Michigig touting her victory in louisiana am grateful for everyone who turned out to support us, but now a ll eyes, turn t
Daniel davis and Philip Greenwalt talk about the 1864 battle of the harbor that took place in the civil war. This program is next on booktv the place harkens a sense of doom. A child visiting for the first time with my dad making our way through and around the entrenchments found a certain sense of foreboding. The perception persists today 150 years later we see the images after the war from the battlefield which is that on the cover of the hurricane from the heavens and we read words such as the six core of the potomac. Its very interesting to visit the battlefields of the war but i never heard anyone as engaged that expressed an interest in the harbor. Its a peoples of earth and the rifle pit and traversed covert way theyve now yielded to the sun and the plow but it remains in american history. It would become the final battle that took place in the spring of 1864 virginia between the u. S. Assist grant and robert e. Lee. Beginning in the wilderness wilderness the fighting would move