A champion who gave up perhaps the best years of his life by taking a stand, a personal stand saying he would not serve in the draft. He would not fight against the communists in vietnam, and he paid the price for that with some of the best years of his life. But he came back and became champion again. Gary radnich is here now. And this is certainly somebody that just transcends sports. And with next time you see an athlete make a prediction, stick out his chest and tell you what hes going to do it all began with ali. His career began in lewisville kentucky where he won an olympic light heavy weight gold medal. And upon his return, he found that racism with a gold medal around his neck or not was still very prevalent in his native lewisville. The story goes he went to a bridge, threw his gold medal into the water never to retrieve it. And it went on to become the heavy weight champion. In the early 60s he was a 71 underdog when he took on sonny lipton and he said im going to beat this
They argue over contemporary history. We dont have the ability to have a speedy analysis. The way i recognize this is this is my submission as the draft, political and organizational report of the last 30 years for my friends who are involved in different movements, and im hoping very much that they will read it, trash it, say this is wrong, this is wrong, but reflect on the contemporary history in order to think through strategy. Its not worth having a strategy thats not working and pursue the strategy. That is like that would be basically one needs to have constant rethinking of strategy, not based on what you are doing, but on the dynamics in which you are involved. Part of the story is to root what we are doing in dynamics. Im very much looking forward to people trashing the book because only then i know its helpful in some way. Thanks a lot. [applause] you from the an newspaper american librarian associations conference, a panel of librarians from throughout the country present th
This book, because it was family, because he was my best friend, and because he loved president kennedy, i felt that i owed it to him to do the kind of book that he would have done. And consequently you wont find anything too negative in this book at all. I think, it is, it shows my affection for family, and it shows his great affection for the kennedys, but there are parts of it that make you think, i mean, for instance, Jacqueline Kennedy lost many children, two or three miscarriages. She went into severe depression at one point and had electroshock therapy. And you begin to understand why the kennedys through themselves into mental health. Because rosemary kennedy, one of president kennedys sisters, also had electroshock therapy and it never worked and it was always a heartache for ambassador kennedy and for his wife. So there are poignant parts of this book, but it is for the most part a love story. And i hope you like it. [applause] thank you very much. Visit booktv. Org to watch
From coast to test. In dallas texas, los angeles, portland, oregon, boston, washington d. C. And new yorker protesters shut down one of the main highways for two hours and made their way to times square out into the boroughs of brooklyn. Dozens of protesters this evening, and there are protestss and ferguson in the wake of the announcement that it would be triple to 2200. There were posted outside the Police Department were last night we saw quite a bit of unrest. They and Police Officers had an intense at standoff. Craig melvin has been outside the Police Department. What are you singing . Who dont have craig just yet. We have seen protesters her were standing off squaring off with National Guard and police. Police moving into line, arresting individual protesters and putting them into cars. The National Guard forming a line behind them. 15 or 20 minutes ago, those protesters left the scene and headed down florissant avenue. There was a police carr set on fire that briefly burned, and