Deirdre Baer News Today

Thank you for having me and this is a great venue. I suspect the first time book tv has ever done one from an airplane hangar. This is my 10th book tv. Its one that is closest to my heart for a variety of reasons. Let me start with background and many of you know, on july 17th, 1996, at 1819 p. M. , twa flight 800 left jfk airport in new york bound for paris. 12 minutes later, 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island, popular shore of long island, it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were kill...

Thank you for having me and this is a great venue. I suspect the first time book tv has ever done one from an airplane hangar. This is my 10th book tv. Its one that is closest to my heart for a variety of reasons. Let me start with background and many of you know, on july 17th, 1996, at 1819 p. M. , twa flight 800 left jfk airport in new york bound for paris. 12 minutes later, 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island, popular shore of long island, it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were kill...

Dies vietnam and the memory of war. [inaudible conversations] tonights wisconsin book festival. Im here as a member of the board of the wisconsin humanities council, and its really a tremendous pleasure to be able to introduce the next speaker and to thank, first of all, the Madison Public Library the library foundation, humanities council, all the other sponsors. This is probably a good time to remind you to check and make sure that your cell phone is silent. Everybody reaches for the cell phon...