nothing went right from there until i met jim freeman in the office and realized he was very serious ybe we had a chance to do things differently. >> your enrollment. >> i was already on the task force and i saw jim's taking over the task force and reconfiguring and bringing terry turchie in as an opportunity to leave the task force. i submitted a memorandum to that effect, please let me go back and do what i was doing before which was organized crime, asian organized crime work and unfortunately terry and jim had other ideas and convinced me i needed to say. you went and saw jim freeman and he said i know he was off but he is not going. >> maybe for our younger visitors are people not familiar with the case, give us a brief overview of the unabomber. what were some of his targets and motives? >> that is what made it so difficult to identify a suspect because the unabomber became very clear early on had to be a lone wolf. he was not talking to anyone or else something would have come to light, 16, 17 years. his early targets were against university professors, graduate students, bombs

jim: he was awesome to watch. freeman got a couple.towns do -- go with great sports nicknames atlanta might be right up there with the best. the likes of pistol pete. prime-time deion. the human highlight reel, dominique wilkins. matty ice. phil: there you go. alvaro: and, of course, cameron. phil: sure, man. matty ice. jim: second and 2. a loss of a couple for freeman. next thursday, your football week starts here. we're going to go to the n.f.c. east for the giants and redskins. another big-time matchup in prime time, "thursday night football" on cbs and the nfl network next thursday from washington. fine looking forward to watching both of those teams. the redskins kind of have righted the ship. the thing that jumps out about the redskins is their defense that has -- has played very well to start this year out. jim: arthur blank has come down to the sideline. third and 4. 3:30 to go. and dimarco has a catch for the third time tonight. by the way, speaking of catching, it was a huge performance by julio jones. he had a little talk wi

jim freeman, thank you so much for joining us here today. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [laughter] [inaudible conversations] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on but tb? send us an e-mail at c-span.org and tweet us at at booktv or proposed on our wall/booktv. this week, the national book foundation announced their list for the 2014 national book award for nonfiction. the list will be shortened to five nominees next month in preparation for the announcement of the winner on november 19 in new york city. this year's national book award titles are can't we talk about something more pleasant, the heathen school, a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early republic. >> this is a story of faith. and there is a connection that is really not so much the history as such, but to the way that we understand that history. we don't think and we don't like to think much about failure. americ

jim: he was awesome to watch. freeman got a couple.towns do -- go with great sports nicknames atlanta might be right up there with the best. the likes of pistol pete. prime-time deion. the human highlight reel, dominique wilkins. matty ice. phil: there you go. alvaro: and, of course, cameron. phil: sure, man. matty ice. jim: second and 2. a loss of a couple for freeman. next thursday, your football week starts here. we're going to go to the n.f.c. east for the giants and redskins. another big-time matchup in prime time, "thursday night football" on cbs and the nfl network next thursday from washington. fine looking forward to watching both of those teams. the redskins kind of have righted the ship. the thing that jumps out about the redskins is their defense that has -- has played very well to start this year out. jim: arthur blank has come down to the sideline. third and 4. 3:30 to go. and dimarco has a catch for the third time tonight. by the way, speaking of catching, it was a huge performance by julio jones. he had a little talk wi

as we were having lunch and reading the document, who walks in but jim freeman? oh no, you know. everyone got real excited about it. our task force you have to understand relates to a question you asked before. we had come off of the compelling suspect that jim had determined could not be the unabomber. the task force members, a lot of them believed sincerely that it was. they worked hard, long, exhausting hours and we said we need to give them a break before we start on this again. we do a little reconnaissance, talk to jim's secretary, jim is gone for the afternoon. won't be back. cheese said perfect. i can't withhold it from him so i will take it in and lay it on his desk with a little yellow flynn on it and say we need to talk about this monday morning and we go downstairs to the cafeteria at have a cup of coffee and relax and we haven't been there 15 minutes and this is the day of the pager and his pager is going off like crazy with the signal no. it that the boss wants to see you. he didn't go home. he came back and the minute he read it he got excited and we went back up an