i am just wondering how much influence john wayne had for director john ford. >> john wade or directorhn ford, how much influence they had. he met wayne was prominent republican, but he wasn't a republican hack based. people were talking to him in the late 40s about running for political office. the president of the united states in 1948. but wayne was unwilling to give up his career. he still wanted to be a movie star. and ford was quite politically and that is behind the scenes, the wasn't politically active in a very public way. he started off in many ways the liberal and moderate does it targeted towards the end of his career. but he was in a hollywood that exists. >> would-be mayor had decided what movies get financed and how americans with the themselves on the silver screen. what about studio owners today, the politics generally? >> politics are the same as it's always been, such as the moneymaking business, not the conscious misreads indigenous. if you have to make a film that has social impact, that is finding good. from the very beginning they have always aimed at making a pr

he picked up, firing from the hip like john wayne, spraying the trees. i said don't, don't shoot that. don't shoot anything. he said no just spraying them to make sure there's nobody out there. i said don't unless you see suspicious movement, then because they're in the line of fire, the other guys up there. >> are you concerned -- are you concerned at -- at this point you're not concerned about conserving ammo or anything? >> no. >> you're just concerned about not hitting somebody. >> correct. >> because you don't know where everybody is. >> correct. because the firefighters over that way and it's fine this way and also all over the place so anyone didn't know exactly where they were, they could have been spread out at the perimeter. you fire over here, you probably hit some of our men. i was concerned about hitting our people. because we were getting -- we were also getting bullates from there. but it was sporadic. okay, and then i call for my first squad leader. i think he was a puerto rican sergeant, because i had a puerto rican sergeant in e-6, don'

that wanted to make them as a john wayne, you know? apparently. it was very sensitive in reality. you have to be sensitive anyway. but to look real mature like that. so i wanted to show the first collection i did. for me, it was evident. the male object. i always felt, not consulted because i do not consider myself as a woman, but i felt insulted for the woman to say, you know, there was that expression for the woman. [speaking foreign language] she had a lot to say, a very modern woman. i say, is that completely stupid? maybe she is beautiful. so i say that the men i show will be balanced. i do not say that is the only object, not at all. unless maybe. but i want to show that community and men. and i wanted to show the masculinity in the woman. >> humans and in passing just now farida kelfer, the was the beginning of the showing on the runway, models who were not typical of the models at the time. i am sorry to say that is this still true that we see so little diversity on the runways. it is really shameful. you have always thought their direct there are -- showing that there is

so that was being around hollywood glitter and such incredible actors and actresses, john wayne and jimmy stewart, he was so serene and so calm and he was just like, you know, in a wonderful life. claudette colbert, loretta young, they were all the reagans' friends, it was fascinating. >> famous story, president reagan got to turn the table on bob hope, who he once introduced, i believe, it may have been a dinner for queen elizabeth, but any event, hope was there, and president reagan introduced hope as someone who had performed for seven american presidents and entertained four. great line. >> great line. >> did the bushes have favorite entertainers? >> oh, yeah. i think, we had -- we always had an eclectic mix. i remember having lyle lovett, we had natalie cole, who was fabulous, for one of the dinners. we had opera singers, we had the boys choir of harlem, i think, for one of the ladies lunches. we always try to -- you would try to have sense who the visiting head of state, if it was the state dinner, if they had a preference, whether it was classical or temporary, and we'd try to book

george zimmerman shot and killed martin who was unarmed and the state attorney called the law a john wayneof thing. trayvon was wearing a heed when she was shot and the heed is no a symbol for supporters. a student has organized a hoods march in d.c. tomorrow and corrine free monhas more on that. thank you for being -- freeman has more on. that how are you getting the word out? >> i think this has a potential to be a really, really large march, numbers of 3 to 4,000 people and we have been getting the word out through social media outlets, twitter, and a tumbler page and blast e-mails and we have been flying around the city and think in the city, we have done a really good job of promotions. >> and give us your reaction to where the case is and that apparent lack of action in the case? >> excuse me, once more? >> give us your reaction where that is and what critics call the apparent lack of action. >> and i think it's abominable george zimmerman is not arrested. they no longer claiming the stand your ground law, which he was no longer eligible to claim and there is no reason for him to hav

can be sensible, but they have been traumatized by their education that wanted to make them as a john wayne, you know? apparently. it was very sensitive in reality. you have to be sensitive anyway. but to look real mature like that. so i wanted to show the first collection i did. for me, it was evident. the male object. i always felt, not consulted because i do not consider myself as a woman, but i felt insulted for the woman to say, you know, there was that expression for the woman. [speaking foreign language] she had a lot to say, a very modern woman. i say, is that completely stupid? maybe she is beautiful.

can be sensible, but they have been traumatized by their education that wanted to make them as a john wayne, you know? apparently. it was very sensitive in reality. you have to be sensitive anyway. but to look real mature like that. so i wanted to show the first collection i did. for me, it was evident. the male object. i always felt, not consulted

john wayne, richard widmark, lawrence harvey, sorry, steve, i prefer the original. but in any case, what's happening here is that it's exactly as had happened in the west florida rebellion. americans had moved into texas. they had not been completely happy with the situation in texas. so they began asking for concessions to reorganize the government so that it is a separate state rather than part of it. at the time they didn't realize that mexico had its own internal problems. there's a struggle between centralists and federalists. americans in texas just get caught in that struggle. well, of course, the texas revolution, you notice it was a revolution. it was not the texas rebellion. so it was successful. the texas revolution. and texas becomes a free and independent state. president andrew jackson wanted to annex texas. can't do so because of the slavery question. he does recognize it as a republic on his last day in office. his successor martin van buren won't touch the texas question because of the slavery issue. it is not until the election of 1844 when james k

one of my machine gunners, he's firing from the hip, you know, like john wayne. spraying the trees. i said don't shoot that. did you shoot anything? no, just spraying them to make sure there's nobody out there. i said don't unless you see a suspicious movement. because they're in the line of fire, the other guys out wither. >> at this point you're not concerned about conserving ammo or anything. you're just concerned about not hitting any friendlies because you don't know where everybody is. >> right. because the firefight is over that way and he's firing all over the place. so i didn't know exactly where they were. could have been spread on the perimeter. i was concerned about hitting our people because we were also getting orders from that. but it was sporadics. so then i call for my first squad leader, i think he was a puerto rican sergeant. i don't remember what his name was. i think his name was sese. because there was a sergeant sese in the list from charlie company. he's the only one i don't remember who he was. he might have been the one. so i call him up and i told him you'

tried to play john wayne. but he came over and told him don't use so many bandages because he was putting bandages all over the place. i was the first casualty in the platoon. >> you thought there may be more, so you wanted to make sure that they held -- >> yeah, and they pulled me out of the line of fire. took my backpack off. i had the water and about 15 to 18 ammunition i had it will. and i told him to strap my m-16 as a splipnt, but it didn't wor. this was really high. but they pulled me back out of the line of fire. and there was a little depression there. so i was comfortable there. >> did you take any drugs, morphine or -- >> i told him not to give me any morphine, but he did. i was the perfect example for a morphine shot. not for head wounds, not for open wounds. and so i had an extremity wound, so just -- >> and then you went to sleep? >> no. i wanted to stay awake. if i fall asleep, they'll come around shooting and probably get me. so i fought the sleep completely. >>> 40 years after the first full s

i think this might have something to do with it johnny not john wayne personally but a culture around him beginning with novels in the one nine hundred century and then wildly popular t.v. shows throughout the twentieth century americans grew fascinated with westerns they were the perfect escape from the dreary urban factories that most americans work in and can find a regimented day to day schedules that most americans followed in westerns we saw the individuals riding free on horseback through the west and most importantly our new six shooter got to fighting with bad guys in black black hats it's a romantic ideal that most americans of my generation in my dad's generation were hooked up and i'd argue it's subconsciously one of the reasons why the older generations of america place enormous importance on their guns to them what was depicted in westerns was american exceptionalism at its best only problem the real west was nothing like the west that americans watched on their televisions it was all a myth first while shootouts totally the stuff of fiction in places like dodge city did

their golf those questions and more and tonight's big picture rumble and abducted clint eastwood john wayne and paul newman and to do with america's gun loving trigger happy culture i'll tell you in tonight's daily take. for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by chris mooney chris is a science and political journalist and blogger and an experienced trainer of scientists in the our communication he works of the national science foundation trains scientists to better communicate the research and blogs regularly for science progress the website of the center for american progress has been a visiting associate in the center for collaborative history of princeton university of night science journalism fellow at mit and temple from cambridge develop in science and religion is a graduate of yale university and the author of several books including his latest republican grain science of why they deny science and the reality is joins me now in the studio of course. the be here thanks for joining us. one of the most interesting things throughout my life i've noticed that. i mean all

john wayne gacey. romney's mormon faith coming under fire. congressman acing the media of launch -- accusing media of launching attack on behalf of obama campaign. is that fair? we seal discuss it. don't forget to e-mail us at thefive@foxnews.com. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: i don't know -- >> greg: somebody having son in the green room. >> kimberly: really. with the nomination looking like a done deal, some in the media are focusing on mitt romney's mormon faith. raul, a mormon himself called a smear campaign on nbc in this weekend. >> you think the media will do it. talk about what you mean. >> you look at your network. you have lawrence o'donald, saying really nasty things about the mormon religion, about the founding of the religion, that it was based on some guy just waking up some morning and deciding that he wanted, that he had an extramarital affair and that is how religion was founded. nasty things said by your network, by nbc. >> kimberly: bob? >> bob: the mormon church has stayed out of the race for the reasons they u

john wayne gacey. romney's mormon faith coming under fire. congressman acing the media of launch -- accusing media of launching attack on behalf of obama campaign. is that fair? we seal discuss it. don't forget to e-mail us at thefive@foxnews.com. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] the next generation of investing technology is now within your grasp with the all-new e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world's first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they're doing with free streaming quotes, news, analysis and even your trade ticket. everything exactly the way you want it, all on one page. transform your investing with the all-new e-trade 360 investing dashboard. ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: i don't know -- >> greg: somebody having son in the green room. >> kimberly: really. with the nomination looking like a done deal, some in the media are focusing on mitt romney's mormon faith. raul, a mormon himself called a smear campaign on nbc in this weekend. >> you think the media will do it. talk

the gop used to be derided by democrats as the john wayne party. it loved shootem ups. wayne didn't ride into town itching for a fight, and he didn't ride in shooting off his mouth either. he was laconic, observant, he rode in hoping for peace, but if something broke out, he was ready. he had a gun. it was loaded. and he knew how to use it if he had to. but he didn't want to have to. which was part of his character's power. the gop should go back to being john wayne. >> first, peggy, what are you saying there? >> that was about foreign affairs. that was -- i wrote a column this week in the "wall street journal" that talks about the things we have learned throughout the presidential primary race, and one of the things we learned is that the republican candidates spoke aggressively on foreign affairs. i think you and i actually may agree on this. >> we do agree on this. >> their stance was somewhat aggressive, and they opened themselves to looking like the war party. if they want to do that, it's one thing. but if they are not noticing they're doing it, it's quite another

john wayne gacy, convicted of murdering 33 young men and boys in the late 1970s, and richard speck, convicted for the murder of eight student nurses in 1966, were both condemned to die in stateville's execution chamber. speck died of a heart attack in 1991. gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994. the last execution to occur at stateville took place in 1998. with such a high concentration of violent criminals in the prison population, it's only natural violence would continue within the walls of stateville. over the years, a number of incidents occurred that still reverberate among the old-timers today. >> in the old days we had quite a bit of violence here. you got up in the morning, you'd take a couple of magazines, go out and carry your shank wherever you want. you didn't know what was going to happen. so you was going to pack yourself with trouble. >> i've been up here 11 years. the majority of the holes that you see around us are mine. i've seen officers beat up. i've seen inmates killed. i've seen them stabbed. i've seen bloody fights out here. >> one man who knows stateville bett