>> i think wyatt earp was a man of his time. in those times, young men trying to make a living, trying to establish themselves operated on both sides of the law. i don't think he was a st.. i don't think he was evil. i think he was like all of us a flawed human being who made some good decisions and plenty of bad ones. i did not in any way find myself disliking him. i don't find myself wanting to put a pin of him on my wall. i will tell you this. he was a damn interesting man. >> thank you all. i know jeff is exhausted but he will be glad to sign books over at that table. books available for purchase over there. also this doesn't come up very often. we have a collection of earp memorabilia. pistol, bible, badge, wedding ring on display. they will go back in the fall after this. take time because you won't see again. take time to look at that. you have a real treat in store when you read this book. >> thanks for coming, everybody. [applause] >> that was jeff gwynn in any event posted by the arizona history museum in tucson. for m

[laughter] the town fathers did not consider that earps their =. very useful, tools to do certain functional things after the gunfight public opinion began to sway looking like it was going against the earps then the town leaders think they may not like how this turned out in in the earps were disposable. in then they came to present that when they realize that. >> host: i want to quote this, but why it legacy was limited to on culpable memories of the minor bond sherry who overstepped with particularly violent regrettable ways. hi audrey get from that to all brian? [laughter] >> the way history is remembered quite often is the way the general public decides the way they want it to happen. at the turn of the 20th century there is great intensified interest. you have teddy roosevelt writing popular books and assert 10 lifestyle and also riding magazine articles about the heroes that he rode with including wyatt err. the silent movies, the cowboy traumas presented as we get into the depression, it is a complicated in a scary time and what to think th

corral and vilest wyatt earp, doc holliday and the clanton. scenes of virgil and morgan have been bumped into the background, as have tom and frank mccourt. birds a wanted to be a good lawman. very pragmatic about the way he enforce the law. he must prefer giving people a chance to back away without embarrassing than or having their private attacked. he did his best that date to lead the cowboys settled down and cried on out of town and finally felt forced to act. when he did he call on the people he tested most, his two brothers. then, of course, there was a doctor who would never miss an occasion like this. it was a terrible tragedy that this happen to. i think if things had happened differently in one or two instances in virgil had not been approached by a couple town leaders offering vigilantes' if white and tom have not had that, if the cowboys walking through the okay corral really meaning to leave town but not wanting to leave too fast because they did one of the onlookers to think the arabs had back then down and made them leave. any n

you get to the final moments and virgil hurt --earp has that moment like what custer had when he goton to the ridge and fall these indians or travis had when he realized nobody was coming to save him at the alamo. virgil says i don't mean that. what does that tell us about how this event happened? >> i will repeat that i think something was bound to happen. whether it was going to involve these specific individuals or others there was too much tension and too much mistrust. james earp said there was a certain amount of pressure on virgil by some of the townspeople that none of this would have occurred. i liked virgil a lot and i felt sorry for him. i think he tried hard to be a good lawmen. in the eyes of average americans today the gunfight at the o.k. corral involved why at her, doc holliday and the clintons. seems virgil and morgan have been bumped into the background as have tom and frank mcclowey. virgil preferred giving people a chance to back away without embarrassing them or having their pride intact. he did his best that day to lead the cowboys settle down and write out of t

. >> so this guy is a gay looking wyatt earp to me. there should be nothing angry about him having sex. have you seen the guy? my god. he should be smiling having sex. >> why because it is so rare? >> exactly. >> i think if mark were here he may say this guy looks like a less gay clay aiken. >> that is an excellent point though. that's an excellent point. these people would never say these sorts of things to their faces. it is a joke on marr because you have the audience that applauses everything. especially people you don't like. you make fun of them, they applaud. and i think he was trying to impress marr. those were the things that work. he was like, let's see -- >> he is a liberal dude. he hosted a show on air america. he politically liens that way. >> am i wrong to infer -- i don't know if i am using infer correctly. but when he mentioned in bred, he is talking about palin's family. she has a child who suffers from down syndrome or has down syndrome. am i making this link or is he making this link? >> i didn't put them together or

with newly available documents jeff quinn to all the different story about wyatt earp, doc holliday and the clinton gang. and the lost war against the international state system. for mexican foreign minister george jorge castaneta talks about mexico. find out about booktv alert on weekend schedule in your in box. .. >> not just on cnn, but also through this book. steve, i want to get right to the action. this is a provocatively-titled book. not push come to shove, it's push has come to shove: getting our kids the education they deserve. what do you mean? >> enough is enough. there's no more room for our children to be failed by the system. we finally have an opportunity to transform education as we know it. we have an opportunity now like we've never had before because 20 years ago, 20 years ago if you had told us that poverty and race, that the participants' education and concern parents' education and where you lived determined the capacity of the child, we didn't have to believe it. now we've seen with successful schools and class rooms all over this great country in some of the wors

his son james murdoch, form earp editor in chief of "news of the world," rebekah brooks, were calledut. after hours of testimony they all said they had no idea that their reporters had allegedly been hacking phones, bribing police and prying into the private records of everyone from the former prime minister to the families of fallen soldiers. but it begs the question, when you're the boss, when do you have to take responsibility for other people's actions? i'm joined now by richard, an expert of culture and president and ceo of levitt communications and howard kurtz, bureau chief for "newsweek." first, richard, to you, you literally wrote the book on leadership in a time of crisis. rupert murdoch and son james saying today they had no idea this was happening on their watch. when you're the boss, is that even possible? >> you know, it's possible but it's not leadership. rupert murdoch missed an extraordinary opportunity today to show leadership. while his son james was doing a good job in talking about the facts and showing himself to be an executive, rupert murdoch was periodically

with newly available documents, jeff gwynn tells a different story about earp, doc holiday and the the challenges facing our southern neighbor. look for the complete book tv schedule at book tv.org and sign up for book tv alert, schedules in your inbox. "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from new york is the media editor for the financial times. we wanted to have you onto talk about what's been going on, especially tomorrow with "news of the world." for those who have been following and for those who need to catch up, can you bring us up to date of the publication itself and the story behind it? guest:, 168-year-old newspaper in the united kingdom. at the time, rupert murdoch was a local australian press barren. he had inheritted his father's newspaper, expanded it within his father's empire but he was not known on the world stage. he battled for the british establishment to get his hands on it a pretty scandal lass, titilating scandal sheet in london. 42 years later he has closed it this week after a very intense, very chaotic week of revelation which is have tipped a lo

. -- about why it irks w --yatt earp, doc holliday and the dalton gang. son of for book tv alerts, weekly schedules in your in box. >> who is really going to get fired up over nancy pelosi on the one hand or john boehner on the other? there is an incredibly narrow range of choice that we have in elected officials. >> in the declaration of , nick gillespie takes on the problems of two- party system. that is sunday night on c-span's "q&a". >> the house today passed a $649 billion defense spending bill for fiscal year 2012. the vote was 336-87. members began debate on an energy debate. majority leader eric cantor announced the house would not be taking a scheduled break from work so that members can consider a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. this is one week earlier than originally scheduled. there will be back on monday. following the passage of the defense bill earlier today, the majority and minority leaders held their colloquy and previewed the week ahead. >> i want to pursue what i presume is the reason for not having the recess that was