who was barbara ross? from the letter it said, do not answer. so the senator's office had no intention to even send this woman, whoever she might be, even a form letter. she did not deserve even from there way of thinking a form letter. and so i couldn't shake it, and i was telling people about it. told my sister about this letter, and she said, my goodness, you have to find a member of her family when the book comes out to tell them about this letter inure book. i told my sister, well, yeah. that is a good idea. and so i thought deeply about it, and the letter had an address. 2103 delware street, texas texarkana, arkansas, and i called the city clerk and said, my name is will hay goode. i just wrote a book about thurgood marshall's battle to be on the supreme court in the book i quote a letter from one--time resident by the name of barbara ross. my book will be out very shortly; i told her -- this was like six months ago -- and i said there is any way i can find an heir, any relative that this miss barbara ross might have in texarkana. the city

and that's what barbara ross did. i'm sure she had no idea where that letter went, where it floated off to, she never got a response. then many, many years later wil haygood, the little boy who was on the skateboard in 1967, grows up to become a writer, goes to arkansas, looks in the papers, finds the letter, put it in a book and finds barbara ross herself. and so people can make a difference and it's, it is wonderful to see things like that happen. thank you. >> host: did she review the book? did she like it? >> guest: yes, she did, she wrote me a wonderful letter which i will cherish. she said mostly in the letter that she had wanted to know all of the behind the scenes things that happened is that enabled thurgood marshall to make it on to the bench and she told me in, in her letter, she said, now i know, in that, her ps, she said, maybe i'll write my own book some day? so, she became a school teacher for many years. history, she taught history. yes. >> host: scotty in portsmouth, virginia. you're on booktv with wi

barbara ross might have in texarkana? the city clerk said, well, the name doesn't ring a bell, but let me ask around, and i'll get back to you. and so in about five to six days she called back, left a voice message on my landline phone and said, mr. haygood, you should call this number. and, of course, when somebody says that to a journalist, you know, you really get -- a little, more than a little excited. so i dialed the number. and this voice answered and just said, "hello." and i said, hi, ma'am, my name is wil haygood.nd i've just written a book calledy "showdown" about thurgood marshall's 1967 confirmation hearing, and i quote a letter by a lady named barbara ross, and somebody over at the texarkana city clerk's office told me to call this number because i'm trying to find any family members of mrs. ross so i can tell them that this letter is in the book. and she says, my name is barbara ross. and i'm sort of taken aback. and i said, oh, really? huh.am were you named after her or something? and she said, sweetie, i

showdown of the thurgood marshall . 1967 confirmation hearing and i quote a letter by a lady named barbara ross, and somebody over at the city clerk's office told me to call this number because i'm trying to find any family members of mrs. ross so i can tell them that this letter is in the book. and she says my name is barbarak ross. and i'm sort of taken aback and i said really? were you named after her orid something and she sent i was 19-years-old, i was home from college this summer and i graced the pic on the radio that the senators are giving mr. marshall a hard time and i told my mother and my daddy that i wanted to write a letter to senator mcclellan and my dad said don't do that come if i take the family in trouble.get the that the next day when my dad went to work my mom walked over to me and said go write your letter and i wrote that letter and a it was mind-boggling to me to be talking to the writer of this letter, and as i said the address, because i was now holding the letter in my hand, the address was on the letter, 2123 delaware street and i wanted to test her. i said can you r

barbara. look up.st i have one article here for you which you might be interested in. his was an article that appeared in red state recently. here's what it says. referring to ly rosserot but gives a little historical background saying his mistake is that he tried to run a 50-state campaign. with the crazy in this election, almost anything is possible. therefore, if a candidate is going to try to make this need to hey would only focus on some key states in order to make it so that neither donald trump or hillary clinton could reach 270 electoral votes. he election would then be decided by the house of representatives. it is not unheard of. legislated adams was president in 18 -- elected president in 1824 after the decided the election. there is a presence precedent happening but it's a and window of opportunity it's closing. from e have janet tennessee. good morning. caller: hello. how are you, madame? caller: i would not excuse my oice i just got out of the hospital. i'm 60 years old. i've got five uncles that were and, no, i ar ii would not vote for a lib tarn party. they might just pull from trump hillary.besides that, i want tl -- only 7%onvinced of all the inc