snatches up works by simply notorious figures -- john gotti, adolf hitler, charles manson, and john wayne gacy. his art shows attract even more bold-face names. >> he kept a database, and so he could mail out, you know, 5,000 invitations at a time. if you were on baird's list, you know you're going to run into a 100 people you know. you're bound to see hoop. he sort of had the same crew always there. >> but every great party comes to an end. and in 2007, concern is spreading among baird's closest friends, like marianne macy. >> you know, the 4:00 or 5:00 a.m. lifestyle had to change. he didn't look healthy. people's lifestyles changed, and baird was still out there doing a lot of the same stuff. >> do you want to do it afterwards? >> no, right now is cool. >> i think it was more like work for him later. >> on february 21, 2008, baird jones, life of the party circuit, is found dead in his apartment. he's 53 years old. do you remember when you heard he had passed? >> i was shocked. i mean, he was way too young to die, and i didn't know that he had ever had any health problems. >> an autopsy

and john wayne came on i was sitting in this chair made. me look i mean look to me what's your name. michael kay he said are you in a movie called alfre i said yeah. he said. too much. great sixty's and seventy's kane perfect his on screen presence with numerous memorable performances . hugely successful. in one thousand nine hundred. but when people. and i learned this trick i can go forever without blinking and my acting is made to look like it's not acting and it's very easy to make it look easy is a busted because. he won his first oscar for his role in the one nine hundred eighty seven woody allen film hannah and her sisters. a second oscar followed in two thousand for cider house rules. but many consider the quiet american to be his best film. i think marco realized that there was one of those parts that come so. complex character a complex story i think mark was getting hungry as he gets all about michael really wants to stop by in the two thousand and seven version of sleuth he plays an aging writer opposite jude law who played a yo

american war machines ability to fight off overwhelming enemy odds drawing more upon the mythology of john wayne's green berets than reality the green berets was made during the vietnam war with the full cooperation of the pentagon and president lyndon johnson likewise lone survivor was made during the afghan war with pentagon support killed when it depicted navy seals fending off hundreds of taliban and killing dozens in a valiant alamo like last stand but the after. report that day only acknowledged that the thirty taliban being present and no reports of enemy casualties even the afghani men who saved the child's life denounce the book but really what we're talking about is the military having a massive role within within hollywood in terms of manipulating script content we found that always to be interesting to us was not that there was a large number of these products that were affected but the previous scholarship that everyone knew all journalists everybody assumed that there were just a few hundred of these things like that but we found using critical information act request that there actu

. >> anthony: now, you weren't dressed up like john wayne or anything right, when you went to school?untry, but you can't take the country out of the boy. i don't know if that's true. we all come from someplace, that's for sure. but, new york city, in masa takayama's case, seems far, far away from the little town he grew up in. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> anthony: what does it mean to be strong? it implies hardness, inflexibility. okinawa is a place with a fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it's nothing like what you might think. not at all. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain

was it john wayne feign fan? >> i think so, yeah, yeah. they'd have to watch these westerns and drink with him. and then khrushchev would go home and say to his wife-- he would try to remember which one of his jokes worked and which ones didn't, you know, so that he would know, like, the next day. because they were all-- you know, they were all-- stalin instilled such fear-- not only in the whole country, but also in his closest cabinet members. >> stephen: yeah, you could just disappear. >> yeah. >> stephen: disappear, and then that person would be painted out of the official photos and they would be gone. >> and so when stalin died, you know, "the new york times," they made a list of, you know, who would be the successor, and i think khrushchev was, like, at the bottom of the list out of, like, 10 guys. >> stephen: so how did he do it? >> his main thing was he just didn't want the two guys that were closest to get it it, berrier and malcoff, she just thought berrier was this really sadistic predator, and just bad news. and he just didn't

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not john wayne and the guys in the black hats. going back to the revolution, you had the first book it is wallace and in the second buffed -- and that is okay. world war i, the red baron. when you get to world war ii, it changes everything. because the bad world war ii changes everything because the bad guys are the best. in the character when i found out rommel was not a bad guy. he is not a nazi. he never joined the nazi party. he's a german hero from world war i. he's awarded the iron cross what he does in the first world war northern italy, a legitimate german hero and he hates politics. he comes to hate hitler and he comes and meets hitler and realizes this guy, he can't win to what he is doing. again, it makes them human. normal is an outstanding officer, and understanding soldier and the material he wanted and the manpower he wanted first to north africa where he's up against the british and against the past he changed everything. hitler treats, like a stepchild and because there was hitler looking? russia. he has all his r

there's in fantasy, this john wayne mythology that is not a reality.a lot of people walking around with guns -- and -- but the reality is we are leading ourselves, deluding ourselves into how safe we are by having these weapons. most often they end up being used against us. >> scott -- >> i'm sorry if i blew your cover there. >> if i'm a gun-owning american. i think there's common-sense measures to engage it. it already started. donald trump signed into law that i think we're pooh-poohing pomp things. it happened relatively quickly in large part because of the activi activism. they're already getting some things done, both in florida and at the national leism. i think common sense, let's raise the age to 21. that makes sense to a lot of conservatives and liberal. more physicians latitude on who in the mental health system should go on the no-buy registry form the kid that shot up the parkland school, he had been in and out of the mental health system. that's a common-sense thing to put in the hands of local people. they're going to know whether they're

not john wayne and the guys in the black hats. going back to the revolution, you had the first book it is wallace and in the second buffed -- and that is okay. world war i, the red baron. when you get to world war ii, it changes everything. because the bad guys are the bad guys. and when i found out to my beloved is not -- is not a bad guy, not a nazi. he never drank enough -- he never joined the nazi party. he hates politics. he comes and he meets with hitler and realizes this, we cannot win doing what he is doing. and he makes him human. he is an outstanding officer. an outstanding soldier. i would rather have given the material he wanted in manpower he wanted first in north africa where he is up against the british and then us, even more. it changed everything. but hitler treated him like a stepchild. and -- hitler has all of this research and focus on defeating the russians. and while in north africa tempo then he make such account of himself they take him whence all of the campaigns are finished they put in a minute -- they p

. >> he truly was the john wayne of the 19th century. >> he leaves behind a trunk of relics... and awoven into the fabric of america itself. >> there was a pair of old blue jeans in here. >> what'd they look like? >> they said that they were the oldest unworn pair they had ever seen. >> that's unbelievable. >> so are the lengths to which folks go for vintage old denim. >> finding any levi's pre-1900 is a massive rarity. that's the holy grail. >> what do you think they're worth? ♪ [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] ♪ >> i'm jamie colby in tucson, arizona. wagon trains used to pass right through here on their way to california during the gold rush, and one of the rough-and-ready pioneers who helped settle this area left behind a very strange inheritance. i'm here to get the skinny on it. >> my name's jock taylor. in 2009, i inherited a wooden trunk full of family heirlooms going back more than a century. now i'm told i could pocket a small fortune. >> i meet jock, a 60-year-old electrical engineer, at his home here in tucson. >> hi, i'm jamie. >> i'm jock.

never the boys, he was having severe anxiety and depression and isolated because he didn't fit the john wayne masculinity stereo tape. when he was scouring the internet for sexual assignment surgery. fortunately he decided it would not give him what he wanted. it wouldn't make me a girl, he said, and that is what i want to be. he put it to his parents, by the time this is junior high, i think like girls think i'm interested in the things girls are, god should have made me a girl. his parents worked with him extensively to help him accept himself as a boy, kept telling him it is not you that is wrong but the stereotypes that are wrong. it is possible to be a gentle, emotional, relational boy. god equipped you for one of the caring professions like psychologists. last time i talked to him, he had graduated from college. got his first job, seemed fine and at the end of discussion had a shy smile and said i'm still a little girl on the inside. that shows how intractable these things are. it is very difficult. what his parents did is loved him, loved him, loved him so he never did transition. and

john wayne alone has given us so many stories that all the names and famous names and places we know all of that. when i began to research the first of the trilogy is the war in europe and the story covers the first involvement in north africa and sicily. that is a story most people don't know. what they don't realize we go to northowat africa, we don't do too well we come up against a guy named rommel we flee from these battlefield that there is a man one of the key voices of the story and i feel it is somewhat appropriate to talk about this man tonight it is dwight david eisenhower long before he was president is a in charge and administrator a terrible description who sees himself as a fighting general and that the british and the french and he creates an army into fees that is hitler's germany. and he wins. how? that is part of the story it is an extraordinary honor to be included in this. i am walking in enormous footsteps because if michael have been from his second heart attack at only 59, he would be writing these books the audience he could not find with thefi killer angels

john wayne alone, has given us so many world war ii stories.ll of the names and all of the famous places, we know all of that. when i began researching the rising tide is the first of a trilogy. the war in europe. the story covers america's first involvement in north africa and sicily. that is a story most people do not know. what most people do not realize, we go to north africa, we do not do too well. we come up against this guy named rommel. he sends us fleeing from the battlefield. it is not quite an auspicious beginning for american soldiers in the second world war. but there is a man, who is one of the key voices of the story. and i feel it is somewhat appropriate to talk about this man tonight because of the setting. the man is dwight david eisenhower. dwight david eisenhower is, long before his president eisenhower, he is the man in charge. he is an administrator. i mean that is a terrible description for someone who might otherwise see himself as a fighting general. he is not george patton. not a man leading. in fact eisenhower never l

jeffrey wayne henry and john sully and henry and sons construction company also charged injuring 13 othersncluding 4 minors. and lsz indicted former director tyler austin miles and the water park on 20 counts including involuntary manslaughter. >> it's unusual for a company to get charged criminal and more unusual for the individuals who run the company or are responsible for the actions to be charged criminally. >> the indictment says the design of the ride guarantee the rafts could go air born in a manner that could severely injure or kill the occupants that's what happened in summer 2016 when caleb schwab was killed after his raft went air born. two others suffered facial practice yourd. >> they call that insane. >> i was there when the ride first opens in 2014. >> literally not for the faint of heart. >> it was deemed not for faint of heart. >> there were life guards. safety checks. and on this day at least a park employee at the top of the ride reading a two page liability agreement. >> there's a risk inherent to the fall. >> yet they knew the water slide was quote a seer youpsly dang

here to wayne is john jordan. thank you for joining us, appreciate it.ent started tweet mr. chambers he tweet something over the weekend talking about the makeup of the people working for mueller, talked about the 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and 0 republicans and goes on but we have broken this down and he is not wrong. >> it is factually accurate, democrat donors, political actors. while he is basically right, what upsets republicans and behind us is the fact that there is a cost to this. he personalizes the mueller probe which he shouldn't do. it is not helpful in any way but also costing him politically, he should be talking about issues that are winners for him, trying to get a deal done with daca and the wall. these are political winners for him rather than rolling around in the mud with mueller which does nothing and certainly doesn't further his agenda. >> doesn't seem like anyone else is standing up for him and saying these things? as soon as he started tweet mr. chambers out there was a back lash, people saying he

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john clark from nbc sports philadelphia. the sixers' road trip continuing in charlotte. the sixers just beat them here. look back at who is at flyers practice. good to see wayne simmons. he is expected to return tomorrow night for a big matchup at home against the penguins. wayne has missed his teammates. >> it sucks watching. i think the boys played well, you know, but like i said, it's nice to come back in and lend a helping hand. hopefully we'll try to finish first in our division, right? hopefully i can be an extra piece to help out. >> flyers welcome members of the military to the joint base, always special, so the flyers and our troops. phillies starting to hit more down at spring training. maybe the best part of spring has been scott kingery. take a look, the phillies future first baseman. hitting close to .400, but he's going to start the season at triple a, but he is being bold. >>. >> he told me to go test my limits, see what i can do. there's some stuff, we talked about that, that i want to try on the base. it's been something i've been wanting to true, but never have. >>> villanova's first game is on thursday. jalen brunson could become the first

john will be discussing in greater detail. astonishingan disagree.r those who of course, it was to or agon -- oregonians. a democrat in the house joined by another, a man named wayne moore. he was sometimes republican, sometimes democrat. a graduate of the university of wisconsin, the university of minnesota, and then became president of -- then became dean of the university of oregon law school. these are all public higher education institutions. these two are most improbable figures joined together to make the case to their colleagues in the house and senate that higher education needed support from the federal government. -- the whole country they would bethis significantly persons of limited financial or political resources. john mahoney what happened next. [applause] john: the conventional energy when your second speaker is to comment about your predecessor that she was a rough act to follow. i will break from that script. patricia is a great act to follow. context of thed significant issues so this allows me to focus on some of the deliberations of what i call history in our own time. i want to talk specifically about the higher education act, how it was sig