jim lehrer was anchor on pbs for many years, but he's also been the author of a number of best-sellingassinated,

. >> jim lehrer's most recent novel is "top down" a novel of the kennedy assassination.this is booktv on c-span2. >> now and look at scientology with lawrence wright. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> well, good morning. larry let's begin with a word in the title of the book, "going clear" scientology, hollywood and the prison of belief. scientology devotes a lot of organizational energy to tap into the celebrity culture that is so prominent in the united states today. talk to us about that. talk to us about what you found and why he devoted so much attention to that aspect of the book. >> well scientology was really created as a religion. they would use celebrities. it was established in los angeles in 1954 and there was a reason for that. l. ron hubbard the founder of scientology realized that americans really do worship one thing for sure and that is celebrity. and where's the capital of celebrity? it's hollywood so scientology has become one of the major landlords in hollywood. early on, they set out to recruit celebrities. there was a church publication put ou

>> i think of our colleague, jim lehrer, who moderated many a presidential debate and conducted innumerablenterviews in his career. he used to say when he was getting a question in the debate, he wasn't trying to get the patitian to say something h didn't mean or didn't intend to say. he was trying to find out what the politician intended to say and believed. that wouldn't be a bad place to start. >> thank you, brit. >> what do you think of senator paul's comments. let me know at facebook.com/bretbaier. or on twitter. >>> still ahead, the little sisters of the poor undefeated against uncle sam so far. >>> first, a name synonymous with horror and evil returning to auschwitz. question, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagin how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 3years or mor so maybe we need to approach things dferently, if we want to be read

. >> reporter: but at a town hall in 2009, bernanke told jim lehrer that the fed didn't have the legal authority to intervene in an investment bank like lehman. >> in the case of lehman brothers, there was just a huge $40, $50 billion hole that we had no way to fill and no money, no authorization, no way to do it, so we had to let it fail. we had no choice. >> reporter: to blinder, though, the government made up all sorts of tools during the crash. >> guess what? they had the legal authority to save the money market mutual funds by using something called the exchange stabilization fund, which is supposed to be to support the dollar. now how did that work? but somehow the treasury's lawyers koshered that when just a few days before nobody was koshering a saving of lehman, so i count that as a mistake. >> reporter: but the rest of his tenure you give him an a? >> my grading system says lets take lehman day plus three or something, just a few days after lehman, grade him from that point forward, yeah i give a+. >> reporter: and that's pretty much the mainstream opinion of bernanke's role

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down" is the name of the book, a novel of the kennedy assassination and joining us is the author jim lehrer. mr. lehrer and novel about the kennedy assassination. >> that's right. it's based on an experience i had on november 22, 1963. i was a reporter for the dallas times which was the afternoon newspaper in dallas tonight had an experience on that day as did everyone else who was involved not only in the coverage but just involved with that day. it stuck in my head and in my craw for 50 years. i used it as a seed for a novel which is about the bubble top whether it was or was not at any given time on the presidential limousine that day and what consequences that might have had and particularly about his secret service agent who became overcome by guilt, a fictional secret service agent overcome by guilt over what happened that day so that's what it's all about. >> are you featured in the book is a reporter? >> some people have suggested that. the narrator is a reporter and he was a dallas newspaper reporter and on that day he did do exactly what i did with some modifications. after that i

a reporter named jim lehrer, later famous, writes a wire story about the uncounted shot.for three weeks j. edgar hoover tries to say there is no shot. what are you talking about? the u.s. attorney in texas has already cut out the piece of the curb and has the evidence. so now arlen specter has a giant problem. and, therefore, is born the single bullet theory. the first shot hits the curb, the second shot its kennedy and connally. the third shot its kennedy, case closed. nonsense. kennedy is hit from the front the first time. there are multiple shooters, without question. kennedy is hit in the front and the back without question. you can get off three shots in 6th with this kind of rival. the army couldn't duplicate it. cbs couldn't duplicate. nobody can duplicate. the rifle is not even cited. for those of you who are fire arms experts you understand. the scope was no good. it had not been properly cited. it's an absurd notion. the government goes through huge gyrations to say that he was shot simply from behind. 13 doctors and nurses at parkland say they see a hole in the