You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
No arrests yet. Reporting live Parker Collins channel thirteen action news. Also overnight. One person is dead and another is fighting to live after a shooting at a bus stop. This happened near eastern and tropicana just before one am. Police are also looking for whomever is responsible for thissoo. Right now in the valley. Metro is also on a manhunt for a man and woman they say are armed and dangerous. And its all because of a man who was stabbed to death. Officers say around 830 last night, a group of people got into a fight outside a house near the stratosphere. They went inside, and thats when Police Believe a man was stabbed. Metro says another man and woman live in the home and thats who theyre looking for. Information not to try to approach the suspects, but to just call police immediately, because again. They do believe the couple is dangerous. Ahead today. The woman at the center of an extreme animal hoarding case is getting ready to face a judge. Natalie beck is due in court
He didnt want a biography. He wanted a story of his life of flight. He failed anything that he did any of the astronauts could have done so he wanted them to get equal credit. He was that type of a guy. He never thought of himself as being anything special but he wanted the story of flight told him we were going to do it and when he passed away we had already worked one chapter out and i decided to go ahead because and do the flight because people suddenly they made sense. I looked around mike and all the people from a poll of practically all of them are gone. We have to realize that over half the people on the planet werent even here when he walked on the moon. The other asked it not said jay if you dont do it who else is going to do a quicks jim calls it a great book and adds to neils legacy. We did our level best to try to get this done for the history. We have had a heavy Library Event sale so thats great. We were trying to get neils story in a library for history and hopefully we
Associate director at the air and space museum. This week veteran space correspondent jay barbree and his latest book Neil Armstrong a life in flight. And at the nbc news man and a bestselling author examined the life of the first man to walk on the moon on the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. The program is about an hour im a curator at the museum here to talk to the author of Neil Armstrongs life in flight a new biography of Neil Armstrong. Im very familiar because he was a voice on the radio and a face on tv in my years as a space buff in the 1960s it was nice to talk with you today. Why did you decide to write this book . We talked about it for about 20 years because we had a close friend for half a century and i wrote a book with alan shepard which did well in the New York Times best seller list and he did the introduction of that. So we had to talk to because he didnt want a biography. He wanted the story of his life and flight and he felt like anything that he did commit an
Innovation that could solve some of these issues i just saw a statistic last week that is striking this will be more People Killed by guns this year and buy cars. At what level that is a lot of people with the terrifying statistic a lot of that is suicide but that is a lot of people obviously but what about cars . That used to killed many more people but they made them safer they did not confiscate the cars or take away peoples right to travel or drive they changed the drinking age your required air bags or seat belts in all the ways that overtime with a lot of controversy cars were made safer and there are all kinds of ways to make guns save for less likely to be used by the wrong people whereby children or in the wrong hands or by somebody who was not a lawabiding citizen. One of the examples is the micro stamping is what marks the bullet as it leaves the gun to be traced back to the owner. That will get litigated and i wish to that the debate was says reasonable as the one that we h