>>guest: the book would have been very different had jim williams been alive when it was published. because much of it was not jim's life. >>host: what impact has the book had on your family? >>guest: it is difficult to hear certainly people who have picked up to present those as a reality. that is very difficult. we still deal with that here but the other impact is the attention of my home and what it received an as a result of the book we loved and lived in this house for over 40 years my children are at home here. when jim died and i came to settle the estate, i gave up my career in georgette and moved into the house and worked very hard to settle the estate. this was a wonderful home. my family loved it, we had great party's and my friends loved it and i enjoyed it but when the book was published suddenly the house gets a lot of attention. and that can be difficult to handle. >> host: why? >> guest: why? give it a thought, daddy. how would you feel if you had people around your house all the time? i did not open a house as a museum for more than the six years because i genuinely

c-span: jim williams one of the principal characters is dead. when did he die? >> guest: he died in january 1990. c-span: how? >> guest: the first -- the papers -- what happened is he came down, he was at home to be keen to get the paper and make himself to your coffee and collapse behind his desk and died. what everyone thought at first is a heart attack. but the irony is that if he died in the very spot where he would have fallen if danny hansard the man who killed, had actually fired a gun at him, has claimed, and hit him he would have fallen right where he eventually died nine years later. c-span: where were you when you heard of this? >> guest: i happened to be in the atlanta airport on my way to miami at two atlanta through atlanta to savannah. and i'd gone to miami for i don't know, for it. and i got the word that he died. i was on my way back to savannah any way and went back. so he died. in fact that's the end of the book there you go. there's some suspense right there. but before -- what happens before is suspenseful. c-span: how close were you to him

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when he talked to jim williams. we knew five days later that he would come home. and john berendt and i have jim snowdon's -- said he wanted to write a story and to draw up the contract and i said wait until you get home on your own home territory and settle down to do that and he was pushed into it and it was four days before he came home. >> host: what are your future plans? >> always used in conjunction with my plan, the word is the vault. just like getting the ph.d. are being on the faculty of the university i always wanted to do that. that is what i planned but on the other hand, you cannot know what will happen. jim's death have been so suddenly so i was the only member of our family who at that point* could come down to settle the estate. my children were in college and my mother was older. i think you have to be receptive to change and have to see how it evolves. i made the decision to open the house as a museum and it took some planning but i did it quickly and in fact, said i will open it with a tour of homes mime daughter said you cannot do that. very s

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jim burns was my mark hopkins. [applause] and experience unparalleled to be able to study with and work for one of the great scholars as an undergraduate, williamscollege is one of the very few places where that is possible. i thought i would talk a little bit about how jim came to write roosevelt, the lion and the fox. he claims that this is because his memory is not as good as his mind but actually it is because he is very modest and he doesn't like talking very much about himself. so i thought i would talk a little bit about how this happened as he is told me over the years and actually as i have gleaned it from other sources. perhaps to give a little bit of background on this, jim came into a family in eastern massachusetts that was not necessarily a new deal family, wouldn't you say jim? he had a father who was a dartmouth republican as i remember. there would be very large arguments add dinner and sometimes members of the family would go to bed without speaking. am i right on that? so that was his first exposure to the world of franklin roosevelt. it began to get him very interested. that fact did not prevent him in 1936 from being a centr

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jim avila. >> reporter: at 62, rene williams peers into the mirror not out of vanity but to check the strengthbones. renee doesn't have x-ray vision but is part of a study of post-menopausal women that contends that just by looking at the wrinkles on the surface of your face, a doctor can see what is happening beneath the skin. in your bones. >> going to look at the wrinkles in between your eyes. >> reporter: you are kind of lucky, though, right, you don't have any wrinkles. overtanning or cosmetic surgery and botox won't alter the link. the yale study measures natural wrinkles and says the deeper they are on a scale of one to six the bigger the chance of bone disease a direct link between aging skin and aging skeleton. >> they have the same collagen, so when the collagen breaks down and you lose bone density, the collagen in the skin which we can see breaks down also and causes wrinkling and other changes in the skin thickness. >> reporter: an important discovery that could eliminate the need for expensive across the board bone density testing which can cost $350 a patient. instead, post-meno

i never gave it any thought. >> pitts: williams runs newsouth books in montgomery, alabama, cradle of the confederacy and where jimwas once king. >> we don't want the niggers going in this school. it's a white school. >> pitts: williams, a son of alabama, says the civil rights movement changed him, as it did the rest of the south. for him, the subject of race and the n-word goes beyond any debate about the book. it's also about how far the south has come. >> williams: we learned to think differently about it, and thank god we did. i mean, the movement didn't just free, you know, black southerners. i mean, it freed white southerners, too. >> pitts: freed you from? >> williams: freed us from the sin of... you know, this... this was a big... a big sin. >> pitts: kids use it-- you know, the... the rap artists use it, the black rap artists use it, as you know, as i well know. brothers use it all the time... >> bradley: oh, yeah. >> pitts: ...when they talk to each other. >> bradley: i love it. >> pitts: sorry? >> bradley: i love it. >> pitts: you love it? >> bradley: yeah, yeah. "you're my nigger, man." look, what... i

here's jim avila. >> reporter: at 62, renee williams peers into her mirror, not out of vanity but to down also and causes wrinkling and other changes in the skin thickness. >> reporter: an important discovery that could eliminate the need for expensive across-the-board bone density testing, which can cost $350 a patient. instead, postmenopausal women between the ages 45 and 58 with heavy wrinkles would be identified as high risk by their doctors with the naked eye. >> it tells them that those people who have a fair amount of wrinkles may be ones who also have very low bone density. and might benefit from being treated early. >> reporter: just by looking? >> just by looking at them. >> reporter: vital early treatment because women with osteoporosis suffer most of their bone loss during the first ten years after menopause. jim avila, abc news, new york. >> either the botox is working or you are not a candidate for osteoporosis. >> whoa. you mean your botox that you got. is that what you are saying, daniel? what? interesting they can just sort of take a look and tell what is going on. >

jim crow. for him to imagine the possibility to move for him to imagine the possibility of an african american president is also unimaginable. >> host: robert gooding-williams, what do you teach? >> guest: political theory, a variety of courses, some having to do with the american political thoughts. i also teach more systematic courses. nineteenth century german philosophy, and right now. seminars. >> host: social. i just finished teaching a course on the cali an african american jewish political thought. next year i'm teaching another course on heidegger. so a range of courses. most of them have to do with either political thought in manson century german political pot or having to do with african-american critical thought. >> host: also the author of another book. >> guest: a collection of essays present representations of race in film. a few other essays as well. so, for example, i have an essay on representation of race. a movie that many of us saw long time ago. i have an essay on the representations of race during the rodney king piece that was originally published. also an interesting piece engaging another philosopher, stanley gold, around his read

williams are in the fourth round. that's going to do it for sports. back to you. >> all right. thanks a lot, jim. >>> we'll be right back. [ man ] did we get anything good? sweetie i think you need a little extra fiber in your diet. fiber makes me sad. oh common. i dare you to taste one hint of fiber in fiber one. oh, i'd be able to tell. why don't i just eat this bag? and how can you talk to me about fiber when you are eating a candybar. you enjoy that. i am. [ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition. fiber one. >>> i have to admit. i've been whining about the wind and not being that warm. you're telling me that could be changing? >> i think so. by tuesday into wednesday, you'll be looking back at today and tomorrow, diane, saying, why couldn't it last? not bad at all around the bay today. temperatures a little cooler than the average. mainly mid-70s for san jose. 62 in santa cruz. and 70 in san rafael. and 76 in santa rosa. what's ahead for us? we have the strong onshore flow. that's going to continue tonight into tomorrow. so, we'll set until with the low clouds and patchy fog for tomorrow

but abc's jim avila reports now that researchers say a simple look in the mirror could give us all vital clues about our health. >> reporter: at 62, renee williams peers into her mirror daily. not out of vanity, but to check the strength of her bones. >> i'm going to look at your face. >> reporter: renee doesn't have x-ray vision, but she is part of a yale-sponsored study of postmenopausal women that contends that just by looking at the wrinkles on your face, you can tell what's happening in your bones. >> going to look at the wrinkles in between your eyes. >> reporter: you're kind of lucky, though, right? you don't have any wrinkles. overtanning or cosmetic surgery and botox won't alter the link. it measures only natural wrinkles, and says the deeper they are, the bigger the chance of bone disease, a direct link between aging skin and aging skeleton. >> they have the same collagen. so, when that breaks down and you lose bone density, the collagen in the skin, which we can see, breaks down also and causing wrinkling and other changes in the skin thickness. >> reporter: an important discovery that could eliminate the need for expensive across the

americans what slavery could not have done, the harshest jim crow laws and racism could not have done, namely break up the black family. >> walter williamsr than to compare slavery and welfare. slavery is perhaps the biggest stain on american history. it turned human beings into property. it doesn't get much worse than that does it? meanwhile, welfare programs help american families survive when they're destitute. welfare helps folks meet their basic needs while they lift themselves up and get back on their feet. so for walter williams to say welfare has hurt black families more than slavery, pretty cruel psycho talk. don't you think? new jersey governor chris christie and the republican party, they continue the attack on teachers. one republican has had enough. his name is daniel bowman. he is a state representative from the great state of alabama. he got so fed up with the gop he left the party. he'll talk about why, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] thanks to advanced natural gas turbine technology from ge, the power that will help make our nation more energy independent is right here in america. [ crickets chirping ] ♪ [ cheers and appl

but jim reports how a simple look in the mirror could hold some vital cluesism at 62 renee williams peersanity but to check the strength of her bone. >> i look at the face. >>reporter: renee doesn't have x-ray vision but is part of yale sponsored study of post menopause women that contends that just by looking at the wrinkle on the surface of the face a doctor can see what is happening beneath the skin in your bones. >> i lack at the wrinkle in between your eyes. >> you are lucky. right? you don't is any wrinkles. over tanning or cosmetic surgery and botox won't alter it but the yale study measures natural wrinkle and says the deeper they are on a scale from 1 to 6 the bigger the chance of bone disease. direct link between aging skin and aging skeleton. >> they have the same collagen. when that breaks down and you lose bone density the collagen in the skin that we can see breaks down also and causes wrinkle and other changes in the skin thicknesses. >> important discovery that could limb tonight the need for expensive across the board bone density testing. which can cost 350 dollars a pat

william wearing his military uniform, as he addressed military members. the irish guard just got back from a six-month tour in afghanistan. catharine looking fabulous, as usual. >>> jim, looks like the weather is looking fabulous here. >> fabulous, absolutely. our heat wave is over now, temperatures returning to normal, if not a little below normal for this time of year. lots of low clouds and fog linger around the bay. we'll look for sunshine, coming up next. >>> also coming up, the governor just bought more time, so will they try barry bonds -- the government, rather. the prosecution in this case. we'll have a look at why they may not have much of a choice. >>> plus, using an iphone to catch a -- taking justice into your own hands. we'll be right back. ack's cere. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? uh, try the number one! i've never heard of that. [ wife ] it's great. it's a sweet honey cereal, you'll love it. yeah, this is pretty good. are you guys alright? yeah. [ male announcer ] half a days worth of fiber. not that anyone has to know. barry bonds was back in a san francisco federal court this >>> 8:41. lot of people in town this weekend, n