blanton answered the phone and -- the speaker is calling for governor blanton. is he in? old son and his voice comes on and lead's story, he said this is ned, bill leach has something to tell you. [laughter] get back in line and go out the door. blanton's response was the hell you say. >> i think our time of telling this vital part of it, we have reached that point where we might go to the audience for questions or comments. we don't want to tell the whole story. you can all get the book if you hadn't gotten it all the way in or out or go back to it tomorrow. questions from the audience for comments? charles ogilvie? >> would you say john wilder said no, bill leach has said no, what did you drop on them? >> none of us said know exactly. there was reluctance. en un natural reluctance to go along with something like this, extraordinary to think of it. the attorney-general was most reflective of all even though his opinion most recently was -- left us in a quandary. if i wish to rank them, bill was the most supportive of it and i always felt he would go a long and governor w

blanton, speaker mcquarter is calling for governor blanton, is he in? yes, hold on, and then governor blanton's voice comes on, and ned's story is that he said, he said, governor, this is ned, bill leech has something he wants to tell you. [laughter] and they get back in line and go out the door. >> and blanton's response was something like the hell you say. [laughter] >> well, the story doesn't end there, but i think that, i think that our time of telling this vital part of it, i think we've reached that point where we might go to the audience for some questions or comments. >> we don't want to tell the whole story. [laughter] >> no, you don't want to -- you can all get the book if you haven't gotten it on the why in, you can get it on the way out, go back and get to it tomorrow. questions from our audience or comments. yes. charles ogilvy. >> hal, you said that john wilder said no, bill leech had said no, yet it is -- [inaudible] what did you drop on them? what was the decisive thing you said to get them -- >> well, one of them said no exactly, but th

the phone ring, it's governor blanton. and the judge answers and says, yes, sir, he's sitting right here. and he says it's governor blanton, and louis says i'll talk to him. he says they say you can't bring me your papers, and he say, well, i'll come to the capitol, and mr. donaldson says, no, you will not. i hope you feel the heaviness of this exchange. these are two extraordinary individuals, very distinguished people -- >> well, and the rest of that conversation is by blanton says so louis by whose authority, and louis says by the governor's authority, and blanton says i am the governor, and louis says, not anymore. [laughter] >> bill leech told you you were not the governor. he says, well, i'll come down there, and louis says, i won't let you in. >> question. yes? the dean at -- [inaudible] >> keel, when did you start the book? what inspired you to start the book? why is it coming out now, maybe not 10 or 15 years ago? >> well, a good question. it took me about a year and a half to write it, finished it about a year or

only blanton will now be tried.hey reportedly have a mystery witness and others who will implicate blanton. times they say have changed in birmingham. >> i don't think the people fear that if they get up there somebody is going to come and burn a cross in their front yard and try to blow their house out. >> reporter: sixteenth street church is now thriving, but a sense in the history when it was known as bombingham lingers. >> things seem to move mightily slow. even after 36 years, this case seems to be moving rather slowly. >> cherry was tried and convicted in 2002. sentenced to life cherry died in prison in 2004. >>> former secretary of state condoleezza rice is one of those who has a connection to the victims of the birmingham church bombing. amber lee explains in this report in december of 2000 when george w. bush nominated rice to be national security advisor. >> congratulations. >> reporter: condoleezza rice has an impressive resume. in 1981 at the age of 26 she became a professor at stanford and later went on

. >> and the rest of the conversation is by blanton says to louis, by who's authority? and he says, by the governor's authority, and he says, i am the governor, and he said, no, not anymore. >> he said you're not the governor. i'll come down there, and he said, well, i won't let you in. >> question? yes? >> when did you start the book? what inspired you to start the book, and this is a few years later, and why is it coming out now. maybe not in -- >> good question. it took me a year and a half to write it, finished a year or so ago. the event of the university press in the back of the room, sue, thank you, and she and her colleagues took time to do their good work, and i'd like to also recognize richard mcharty who linked me up with the vanderbilt press, and it took a while for the press to do their work, but the better answer is the research, all the interviews, you know, that took me -- it was fun to do taking me back to the reporter days, and in some ways, the book is as much about journalists as it is politicians, and that took awhile. we started interviews five yea

we're just getting an email now from brooks blanton on the scene saying removing the bodies and taking them to the coroner's office. >> shepard: johnathan, thank you. >> in one american state, it's okay for people to do not speak english to serve as jurors at a trial. it's been that way for some time but now there's a challenge we'll tell you about and whether it means translators for every case. that's coming up on "studio b." ] the biggest news in breakfast is actually tiny. new kellogg's raisin bran® with omega 3 from flax seeds. plus plump juicy raisins. flax seed? who are you? i still got it. [ male announcer ] invest in your heart health with kellogg's raisin bran® cereals. and my family moved es, straight to chicago. d [ male announcer ] invest in your heart health america is the only country i have ever known. senior year of high school, i was promoted to city court staff commander, i held the rank of cadet brigadier general. i was head of chicago rotc. i want to be a us citizen and i want to be a marine, i'm gonna be a marine, because i care. i care about this country. i care

hunt is a political consultant and speech writer and recounts the removal of tennessee governor ray blanton from office in 1979, next on booktv. the author reports that the former three term governor was taking money for political pardons. this is a little over an hour. >> tonight we've all come together to relive a moment in history. to be more accurate, we're going somewhere five and six hours

scheme of things in washington it won't break the banks bank so both condoleezza rice and hillary blantonaid to the congress please hire 1000 more officers. it will not break the bank. and neither of them was able to truly succeed. i supported both of them for trying to do that and i hope secretary kerry will do that as well. >> if the arc of history bends toward peace in the middle east, this patience and diplomacy imply a generational change and an evolution and what is happening in terms of the younger generation in the middle east and their expectations about peace? >> that recalls this beautiful 19th century quote from from theodore parker and abolitionist from boston and martin luther king used this quote in the civil rights movement. the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. it's a beautiful way of thinking about progress sometimes having to take generations or even centuries in the case of african-americans in the civil rights movement. and that may be one framework for the middle east. it's going to be a long process. these countries have not known plura