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roosevelt reading festival. [applause] >> thank you very much. great to be here. i need to look for more reasons to travel from texas to the hudson valley. this is a great place to be ended as always fun to come back to the fdr library. this book began as an oral history project. from 2000 to 2005 i was one of five historians who worked for the national park service developing a national historic site called the tuskegee site in tuskegee, alabama where the tuskegee airmen work. the national park service dedicated a significant amount of money to interviewing the surviving tuskegee ...

tuskegee airmen work. the national park service dedicated a significant amount of money to interviewing the surviving tuskegee mn to work those in to programs to find information museum architects needed as they were rehabing structures at the national historic site and create this repository of tuskegee history for when there will not just the tuskegee airmen to talk about what this experience was about. we recorded 826 oral history interviews and those interviews formed the core of this book. it is a narrative history of the experience. i tried to explain who and what were responsi...

[laughter] she didn't want to make her debut, she was afraid she wouldn't be popular. her mother had been one of the great beauties of new york society, and apparently when eleanor was a little girl, her mother said something like, well, you better be good because you certainly aren't beautiful. and eleanor did not have good memories of her mother, the love she got as a child came from her father. but then, of course, he was a desolate individual who die inside a drunken stupor, a fire involved at the home of a mistress. and he was a disgrace to that side of the family. .. >> this bo...

attorney to walk in front of a crowd of reporters, and we will bring it to you live as soon as we see it, but i know that my pal, joe johns, has been out there off and on covering the story, and he has literally walked outside of the courtroom. joe, first, talk me through what you have just experienced inside of the courtroom. you saw edwards, himself, in front of the magistrate, and how did he appear and what did he say? did you see his daughter with him as well? >> i didn't see his daughter. and it is funny, you know, i have covered john edwards for a long time, and i have to tell ...

house. he is inside of the courthouse in winston salem courthouse. and you can see it in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, but we are expecting john edwards along with the defense attorney to walk in front of a crowd of reporters, and we will bring it to you live as soon as we see it, but i know that my pal, joe johns, has been out there off and on covering the story, and he has literally walked outside of the courtroom. joe, first, talk me through what you have just experienced inside of the courtroom. you saw edwards, himself, in front of the magistrate, and how did he ap...