Written a book Charlton Heston, talking to him on book tv about politics when did mr. Heston become political . Actually he was political for most of his life. He was part of the greatest generation. He saw action in world war ii, off the coast of alaska. He was on several missions because he was trained as a radioman. He enlisted after pearl harbor he was in school and took him a year to call him if up and just before he went out the married his wife and they were married for 65 years. When he was in aleutians they were about to the soldiers were about to invade japan for the final big push, and the estimate was that the army would lose up to a million men. When he bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki he was overvowed. That was other overjoyed and hat semenned hestons political view. For for the world war ii soldiers think greatest generation men and women, there is a very clear delineation between right and wrong, and between good and bad. They all felt that they were the goo
You can watch this and other programs online apple tv. Org. book tv. Org. [inaudible conversations] starting now live from the texas book festival in Office Austin is a conversation about fake news. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Good afternoon and i would like to personally welcome you to the texas book festival in austin, texas, the greatest book festival in that united states. [cheers and applause] my name is Brian Sweeney a proud board member of the texas book festival so you can totally trust me when i say that. We are here with an esteemed panel of two writers i admire 48 panel called pulses, forgery and fake news. I often think this year may be the fake news, something that has come into the currency of our language. Fake news fake news has become so ingrained in every aspect of our lives in terms of how we consume our media and understanding our political discord in the large decisions we make as a country Going Forward. I would like to introduce our panel today. One
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