>>> salt lake city, utah was founded by the mormon church. be a utopia of clean living and family values. >> we believe our body is a temple and should treat it as such. >> there are things we're taught by the mormon church not to do. there are thai de-- there are ideals we strive for. >> the population of the state of utah is mostly mormon, a faith that discourages drinking, smoking and drug use. but over the past few years, it's been rocked by something unexpected. >> oh, we don't want you guys to come here. >> unplug the phone. >> damn it. >> and it's taking place behind closed doors. >> i am sorry, mom and dad. >> people are going to do everything they can to hide it. >> prescription pill addiction. it's a problem everywhere, but it's taking a special toll here in utah. >> beautiful area. >> wow. and does your work bring you here often? >> this is where i do the majority of my work. it's the oxycontin that seems to be a big hit. >> more people are dying from pill overdoses in utah than almost any other state in the u.s. >> you know, i'll

the population of the town is very small, and it's mostly mormon.te county is one of the original settlements of the mormon pioneers. it's like going back in time. a place where people walk to church, where everyone knows each other. but this whole community is being shattered by drug addiction. last year, the county lost teens, adults, even grandmothers to heroin and pills. ryan palmer is a church leader. he's lived here all his life. and just a few months ago, his world was rocked to the core. >> we just -- we found him right here behind the minivan. and we did cpr for probably four or five minutes while the ambulance got here. cpr's very grueling. you can tell i broke a few ribs. it's just insane that you have to do that to your own child. >> this is the neighbor's driveway where ryan found jeremy, where his friends left him after he overdosed on morphine pills. >> have you been back here since his death? >> driven by. this is the scene of the horrific part of what we had to deal with. >> this is the last place you saw your son. >> yeah. we farm.

latino mormons. probably no other internal debate demonstrates these clashes more clearly than the tension with the mormon church. over a specific tenant called article 12. one article i found which is interesting, in the ironically named senate -- center for immigrant rights, a group with very little interest in immigrant rights. an lds member and former service officer ronald mortenson took to influence the influence of the lds hierarchy of passing an amnesty bill in utah. mortensen quotes article 12 which alleges that lds members will be subject to kings and magistrates in obeying the law. with the lds emphasis on the rule of law, and as mortensen notes, the lds tradition, old american -- america is a divine nation. they openly taught that the founding fathers were guided by the hand of god and the constitution was divinely inspired and the u.s. was chosen land for restoration of christ's true church. particularly problematic for the lds was the appalling reality that the church was allowing illeg

>> in 1830, joseph smith began the mormon religion in upstate new york. they quickly had to leave upstate new york because of religious persecution, and after a brief stop in the midwest, they settled in the territory that would become utah. >> the mormons arrived in 1847. the date is right there on the flag, along with 1896, the year the state entered the union. at first, mormon leader brigham young wanted to claim a much bigger territory and call it "deseret." congress didn't go for that, so the state was smaller and named after the ute indians who were there first. >> but one thing that's very interesting about the state is that of all 50 states, it boasts the youngest population, with an average age of 27.1 years. >> utah is also famous for amazing natural wonders, with two great national parks -- zion and bryce canyon. but they're too big to put on the flag! i'm brandon with "flag facts." >> are you ready to getfacts." face-to-face with a shark? how about a stingray? nicole has some close encounters of the underwater kind. >> the maritime aquarium in

they talked about whether or not mormons get a planet in the afterlife, and they said no.lked about the so-called mormon underwear the temple garments that they say aren't magical at all. but really what you saw was a realtime evolution of church teaching which you don't see very often. and you put all that together and you see a really sophisticated and deliberate plan by the mormon church to kind of shape how the public perceives them. i thought it was just fascinating. you kind of have to look beneath the surface a little bit to see it. >> the one that i wanted to mention is now getting the attention it deserves thanks to "time" magazine. during the whole ebola crisis, we were -- there was some deep paranoia in that discussion. and i don't think we paid enough attention to all of the extraordinary people, some of them religious, many of them religious, many of them not who were risking their lives to try to contain this disease in africa. i think it was great that "time" magazine chose those folks as their person of the year. you know, do-gooder is often used as a negat

iranian and lebanese americans. >> you want to hire a mormon. mormons work hard. they thing they can be saved by work. southern back tichtptistbaptists, we don't. what is it about the mormon faith? what is it about the mormon experience that drives them to success? >> they've got this combination of qualities. >> it's a generalization. i'm sure there's one smoking pot or -- somewhere. >> these are all generalizations. overall, statistically speaking in general, they've got this sense of exceptionality from their religion and their moral practice. they've got this insecurity because they feel a little funny about their place in america still. same time they got all this discipline. impulse control from their habits. i can tell you the single most important social science experiment ever conducted, ever heard of it called the marshmallow test. they gave 3-year-old 4-year-old kids a marshmallow. they said you can just eat this marshmallow. if you wait 15 minutes, we'll give you a second marshmallow. most of them ate it right up. then almost by accident they tracked t

latino mormons.nalno other debate demonstrates his clashes more clearly than the tensions that arose within the mormon church over a specific tenant of the mormon faith called article 12. one article i found in the ironically named center for immigrant rights, a group with very little interest in immigrant rights as self identify -- an lds member, ronald mortensen, took to task the influence of the lds hierarchy in passing what he viewed as an amnesty of bill and 2011. lds members will be subject to quote, kings, rulers, magistrates in honoring and sustaining the law. with the lds emphasis on the rule of law, the lds tradition of that america is a divine nation. he laments the loss of this emphasis on law and in effect the loss of his imagined america. quote, they openly talk the founding fathers were guided by the hand of god and the u.s. constitution was divinely inspired and the u.s. was chosen land for the restoration of christ's true church. particularly problematic for mortensen and other lds m

. >>> salt lake city, utah was founded by the mormon church.ean living and family values. >> we believe our body is a temple and should treat it as such. >> there are things we're taught by the mormon church not to do. there are thai de-- there are ideals we strive for. >> the population of the state of utah is mostly mormon, a faith that discourages drinking, smoking and drug use. but over the past few years, it's been rocked by something unexpected. >> oh, we don't want you guys to

there are ideals that we strive for. >> the population of the state of utah is mostly mormon, a faithdrinking, smoking and drug use. but over the last few years, it's been rocked by something unexpected. >> oh, we don't like you guys to come

. >> my name is matt mormon. i'm the president of high country healing.up in colorado springs almost my whole life. went to high school here, all that other stuff. always loved colorado springs for what it is. it is a little more of a conservative town than denver. they have banned recreational marijuana. voters actually voted for recreational marijuana here in colorado springs. over 5,000 people voted for, more than against. but the city didn't recognize the vote. they basically decided to govern the people instead of the people governing themselves. >> amendment 64 was passed on a statewide basis and never intended as a local referendum. voters in colorado springs were in favor of the measure by roughly 5,000 votes. nonetheless, the city council has chosen to opt out of recreational sales. >> colorado springs is basically a large military installation town. very conservative town, a lot of our economy is built on military. so their fear is the military bases are going to get up and go away from colorado springs. we're currently in the process of basical

the northeast is not fertile ground either the mountainous west rather are mormons or mountains. i think in part because the demographics and population the church is like better at the crossroads of major highways but with big open spaces and the huge sprawling population that would be fertile ground. baby hispanic immigration is summarized come i can tell people right now we're supplant churches but it is about immigration population density and major highways. >> host: here in north carolina are there in this area? >> guest: yes. there is one prosperity megachurch in the area. one for the 1980's an amazing story one of the few that was not urban but in a town the church had more people than the town. it was the same type of jim and tammy fay baker appeal and that exciting attitude. >> host: what is the difference between the megachurch and prosperity megachurch? to they preach different gospels? et megachurch has a reputation to be nondenominational, optimistic , media's savvy, but for the most part numbers rise many if not most are to put the small or they just barely hit the

. >> short supply of trees from the pacific northwest, like the mormon and mormon fur and noble tree? the rivas family has been selling christmas trees for more than three years. they say problems with supplies, to blame for the shortage. the reevees are selling them, and they are selling to other vendors. the goal, it is to keep customers happy to and get what they cannon to their lots. >> i noticed that trees were smaller this year then they had been and a little bit more expensive. >> and less full. >> less full. >> happening now red cross helping family forced from their home by a suspect firebomb. how they with their neighbors are coming to grip with what happened. >>> and then to the surprise of the life time, that was a proper home coming one vietnam war vet yan never got the thanks that he deserved. >>> a germantown home hit with what police believe are firebombs. these devices forced eight people outside into the street early yesterday morning, two row homes at colter and had to make a mad dash to escape when a suspect firebomb ignited these flames. resident are happy to be s

. >> this should be a little bit mormon define but probably not we've provided the board meeting schedule for 2015 i want to point out the november board meeting that is all phenomenon the second wednesday the 11 a holiday so i wanted to find out what the boards pleasure as far as rescheduling that meeting being the month of november morales that is an investment committee meeting as a whole we could try to hold the board meeting and the investment meeting on the 15 or move it it around to a day near the 11th and staff obviously will not necessarily he recommend that be moving forward to the figure out that cuts out a week of preparation time we could consider a wednesday or tuesday around the 11 a or move it back to the 18th if we move the investment committee back it's happy thanksgiving that's a rough month i want to get the boards pleasure we needed 200 need to post this so everyone will be aware of the meeting. >> commissioner driscoll share our thoughts first and go down the line. >> he'll show up (laughter). >> i know that is easier i want to move them closer together. >> is that t

i hope we can use that quote, like they used on "book of mormon." >> jon: i couldn't even get discountcab i went in-- >> "jon stewart says it's the best play ever." when did jon stewart become the play guy? ( laughter ) what does jon stewart think of "oklahoma?" >> jon: you know what's sad? my kids see that on the top of the cab, and they go, "oh, can we go see that?" and i'm like, no. "you said it was great." "no." >> i lie gld i lied. it's no good pup can't go. you can't go. what is it for you? what is the experience like for you? you know, as a stand-up you're always in front of the audience. >> yes. >> jon: so you ?efer actually experience your own work. >> i've never been to a chris rock show. >> jon: exactly! >> i hear they're pretty good. ( laughter ). >> jon: can i tell you something? they're great. >> thank you. >> jon: a little overpriced, but great. ( laughter ) but as a director, so you get to experience with the audience your work. what does that feel like is there is it subversive? is it weird. what does it feel like? >> it's subversive. it's weird. you know the thing. it

side, mitt romney seems to be a favorite of conservative christians this time around because as a mormon he is christian-ish. john mccain has a little bit of a tougher time because he called jerry falwell and pat robertson agents of intolerance eight years ago. if there's one thing we know about christians, they do not forgive. not in their nature. now, for the democrats on the left, the democrats have a much harder row to hoe. barack obama will convince very few conservative christians because i believe a radical muslim. am i right about that? check my email. they're telling me i'm right. of course, hillary clinton ale alienated a lot of evangelicals when she was briefly the keyboard player for slip notch. she's good. she was with that guy with the chop sticks in his face. here to agree with everything that i have said or thought about conservative christians, please welcome the author of "red-letter christians: tony camolo." your book red-letter christians a citizens guide to faith and politics. i haven't had a chance to read it. i will when the show is over. but i assume in here you a

and then there's money to fight grasshopper and mormon cricket outbreaks on federal land.he mormon cricketcrickets? no price tag on that one. i'm being flippant but to make a point. with a budget this big you'll have those. i understand that. why are they in that? where's the resolve to get spending under control? whether they're rounding errors on rounding errors on interest payments that are rounding errors, where is our resolve on either the republican side or the democrat side? like i said, take a look at this. this is a big deal, right? i'm going to keep that there so you folks at home can watch this and realize your tax dollars at work in paper costs. buy all the paper companies, by wait. that's probably a good move. >>> everyone calm down to the point i just earlier made. something this size you're going to see something this size. i don't know, lisa. that point i don't know. what do you make of this? >> you know, you're right. there is a lot of government waste in here. that's absolutely unacceptable. and i think the fact that members of congress are going to have

i hope we can use that quote, like they used on "book of mormon." >> jon: i couldn't even get discounty cab i went in-- >> "jon stewart says it's the best play ever." when did jon stewart become the play guy? ( laughter ) what does jon stewart think of "oklahoma?" >> jon: you know what's sad? my kids see that on the top of the cab, and they go, "oh, can we go see that?" and i'm like, no. "you said it was great." "no." >> i lie gld i lied. it's no good pup can't go. you can't go. what is it for you? what is the experience like for you? you know, as a stand-up you're always in front of the audience. >> yes. >> jon: so you ?efer actually experience your own work. >> i've never been to a chris rock show. >> jon: exactly! >> i hear they're pretty good. ( laughter ). >> jon: can i tell you something? they're great. >> thank you. >> jon: a little overpriced, but great. ( laughter ) but as a director, so you get to experience with the audience your work. what does that feel like is there is it subversive? is it weird. what does it feel like? >> it's subversive. it's weird. you know the thing.

and according to some people that may concept they said that backed up traffic wise is already past mormon city if you are someone coming in from another bid to san francisco you should anticipate major traffic issues all morning long tried to avoid it if you can we did have a chance to talk the sea its feet the spokesperson about a half an hour ago and is said to talk about the rockslide how it happened. the one i we had that it now on the slide we need to get out your new evaluations a look at the whole thing. >> jackie sissel: that are working with caltrans to talk the sea its feed this said that once they clear the debris the work is not over yet because there to back the check the integrity of this hillside that is going to be a caltrans called at that point is not only what you see right here in the roadway in the 2 ride land is was above the slide that may end up causing a to be closed for much longer than anticipated investing you can do is avoid the area i know it's a huge income these two weeks ago we had a major rain and flooding that some people of force of three hours to get i

a mormon replacement brought in from idaho wrote home. the boys i'm with now are from the south. of course, they're good fellows and all that, but they have different ways and seem a bit funny to me. in a post-war interview, that medal honor recipient gave a vivid description of the alabamians. quote, they were a bit rough and a bit rowdy, but there were no boys who'd stand by closer. i'll tell you how it was. they were so full of life and pep, that they had to be doing something all the time. if there was nothing doing, then they'd have to try to do something. they'd raise hell. the drummer continued after the african-american soldiers at camp mills had been told by these irish boys that the alabamians were going to be lay in wait for them. the officers of the 167th before they went to europe played down these instances. the tensions that did arise and the violence that did occur were discouraged by the army at its highest levels. conflicts among the ethnic and geographical groups were also being addressed at the highest levels by president wilson. he created the commission on t

let's see the mormons. probably know whether internal debate about the immigration demonstrates the clashes more clearly being the tensions that arose in the church. over a specific tenet of the faith called article 12. one article that i found was interesting in the ironically named center for immigrant rights a group of very little interest in the rights but as a self identified. a member and former foreign service officer took to task the influence of the hierarchy and passing the amnesty bill in 2011 in utah. they quote the church doctrine that pledges that the members will be subject to the presidents rulers and obeying honoring and sustaining the law. with the emphasis on the rule of law and as it is noted that the tradition holds that america is a divine mission and laments the emphasis on the wall and ineffective the loss of america. it's for the restoration of christ through church. particularly problematic for the other members was that of the appalling reality of the church was allowing illegal a

>> must be that mormon lifestyle. >> seriously, both you guys and your sister. >> we work hard. >> youl, you sleep. >> all the time, all the time. >> give us some secrets. >> he just did. >> there's no short cuts. >> maria is so nice though. do you do "i'm a little bit country, i'm a little bit rock and roll"? >> you got to do that. >> do people go crazy? >> depends on the generations that come. a couple weeks ago, i had back in the meet and greet -- because we have a meet and greet after the show, we sign autographs, pictures. there was a great-grandmother, the grandma, the mom and the little girl. she was 5 years old. great grandma knew me from the andy williams show. says, how does the little 5-year-old know me? she says, i want to hear donnies an monday anaconda song. she starts singing "anaconda puppy love." >> that's awesome. >> thank you so much for coming on the show. you can visit donnyosmond.com for more on the home furnishing line. >> and i got your tweet, by the way. >> my tweet? >> somebody tweeted out this morning. i love twitter. i wish i had twitter back in the puppy lo

mohamed islam, obviously a mormon, was the head of the high school investment club in manhattan. they decided to write a glowing profile as part of the annual reasons to love new york issue. the only problem? none was true. they published an interview with mohamed where he admitted to making the whole thing up. while new york has left the story, it is now pref physicianed with an apology to readers saying we were duped. our fact checking process was inadequate. we take full responsibility and we should have known better. on tuesday islam posted an apology video. >> i'm sorry by anyone who may have been hurt by the story. i'm sorry by the pressure i have caused my family. my dad taught me to be truthful and i can't even express what it is -- i can't even speak properly. i gave into the pressures more and more. >> yes, the reporter was fooled or wanted to believe just like this parrakeet. >> it is robots and robots paris having their way with each other. kids will see that. how are you going explain that to a kid? how are you, dana? it has bt -- it hasn't been a great month for jou

noriega asked, the mormons, they have many intelligence agents. >> where did you go to school. >> university of graduates and then in columbia. >> and you wrote some for "newsweek"? >> yes, i wrote for two years for "newsweek" out of the bureau covering eastern europe. >> you thank tim aid elman in the acknowledgments, how come? >> he's a savvy political analyst. his institute -- the institute for contemporary studies made available to me an office to work out of in the beginning months of the book and the secretary to use to help me with phone calls, etc. >> we haven't had much time. george bush. the missed opportunity. what was that? >> the missed opportunity, i think, was the negotiations of may of 1988. reagan was making a deal to trade noriega's resignation for the dropping. reagan thought it was a good deal. it was almost completely done. george bush chose to oppose reagan on this deal the first time george bush stood out pubically against ronald reagan on a major foreign policy question. the book goes into detail about how it pushed bush to opposition to reagan and how the pressures f

he said the mormons. many intelligence agents. >> where did you go to school? >> the university of utah. then the journalism school at columbia. >> you wrote some for "newsweek?" >> yes. covering germany and eastern europe. >> you think can in the acknowledgments. >> he is a very savvy political analyst. his institute for contemporary studies made available to me and office to work out of in the beginning months of the book. to help me with home calls. >> we haven't got much time. george bush. chapter 17, mr. opportunities. what was that? the negotiations of may of 1988 -- >> the negotiations of may of 1988. reagan thought it was a good deal. it was almost completely done. then george bush chose to oppose reagan on the deal. the first time he stood up publicly against ronald reagan on a major foreign-policy question. i think the book goes into some detail how that decision was made. how the pressure of the campaign pushed bush into opposition to ronald reagan. how ultimately these pressures from the bush campaign and other forced the u.s. to give noriega an ult

i saw john is going to be speaking soon and he has excellent chinese from his mormon missionary daysand i wish that colleges when they send their acceptance letters would say okay you're in but think about working for a year and people often think that it's going to be expensive. if you do it for the formal program it will be that we must defend websites where you don't have to pay. you can teach either legally or illegally. my middle son managed to earn a substantial profit on his deck here in china by setting himself up as an adviser to chinese students to attend graduate school in the u.s. even though he had never stepped foot on a college campus. he realized there were these bangs and beijing and they would play poker when they were way too drunk and he cleaned up so it can be done and i really encourage people to do that. the last thing some of the projects involved as leader of one thing wanting the developing world has a lot of this labor. so if you can bring a scale that is often more useful and that can be teaching. >> i want to congratulate you for bringing more visibility

latino mormons.bably no other internal debate demonstrates his clashes more clearly than the tensions that arose within the mormon church over a specific tenant of the mormon faith called article 12. one article i found in the ironically named center for immigrant rights, a group with very little interest in immigrant rights as self identify -- an lds member, ronald mortensen, took to task the influence of the lds hierarchy in passing what he viewed as an amnesty of bill and 2011. lds members will be subject to quote, kings, rulers magistrates in honoring and sustaining the law. with the lds emphasis on the rule of law, the lds tradition of that america is a divine nation. he laments the loss of this emphasis on law and in effect the loss of his imagined america. quote, they openly talk the founding fathers were guided by the hand of god and the u.s. constitution was divinely inspired and the u.s. was chosen land for the restoration of christ's true church. particularly problematic for mortensen and

we could all use little mormon think time of year. >> it is the worse. >> christmas eve is a week from oh! >> and let's get to the forecast for today. because we can pretty much say, probably not going to be a white christmas for

we could all use little mormon think time of year. >> it is the worse. >> christmas eve is a week from today. >> oh! >> and let's get to the forecast for today. because we can pretty much say, probably not going to be a white christmas for yesterday, it was only rain, it was nice and mild, and i think we'll have the mild temperatures lingering one more day, so we will give you a eight out of ten, some gusty wind, become g up little later on, bus stop buddy, still need to be warm at the bus stop. temperatures are in the 40's, but, for december, it is not that cloudy, and on the mild side, our satellite and radar picture shows the rain has left us, moved up toward new england, 41 degrees right now, we head to high of 50, that will happen around lunchtime. again, wind gusting as high as 30 miles an hour at times today. so, that should get rid of any fog that we have around right now. but, to check on those hazy roadways this morning, here's bob kelly. >> hey, sue, good morning, everybody, 6:01, happy hump day. roads are wet, little damp from the rain we had yesterday. also dealing with so

this is understanding that religious actors with the exception of a very few)rra new ones, the mormonsew religious actors, major world religions are prestate actors. they existed millennia before the founding of the modern sovereign state in 1648. what does that mean? it means there are three is are very well developed and very old. okay? you do not turn to doctors without borders and ask them for their law. to resolve disputes among competing communities. doctors without borders doesn't have laws. it doesn't marry people. it doesn't have a book of holy scriptures and ideas that people pray to. screeria -- nigeria. -

. >> brown: liman who lives in blanding comes from a long line of mormon settlers who founded towns across the state. >> for those of us who live here and our grandparents, great garnets and great great garnets were involved in building those roads, you can't just erase a town's history that way. >> brown: for liman, this dispute is about how much local governments have over federal land decisions. it's a major issue in a state where the federal government owns two-thirds of all land. >> it was the b.l.m.'s disregard for local interests. local culture. the local people. the people who live here and have lived here for a long time. that's why i say it's not about recapture and atvs. it was right get a message through that there are actually people here. we have the same rights to exist in this area that you have the rights to exist, you know, in washington, d.c. or wherever you come from. >> brown:-says local officials should have the right to decide how to use what he sees as a well-established pathway and is angered by the length of time this has all taken, seven years and running. in res

a mormon replacement brought in from idaho wrote home. the boys i'm with now are from the south. of course, they're good fellows and all that, but they have different ways and seem a bit funny to me. in a post-war interview, that medal honor recipient gave a vivid description of the alabamians. quote, they were a bit rough and a bit rowdy, but there were no boys who'd stand by closer. i'll tell you how it was. they were so full of life and pep, that they had to be doing something all the time. if there was nothing doing, then they'd have to try to do something. they'd raise hell. the drummer continued after the african-american soldiers at camp mills had been told by these irish boys that the alabamians were going to be lay in wait for them. the officers of the 167th before they went to europe played down these instances. the tensions that did arise and the violence that did occur were discouraged by the army at its highest levels. conflicts among the ethnic and geographical groups were also being addressed at the highest levels by president wilson. he created the commission on t

if you are the book of mormon or you can send every weekend for years and you sell every ticket in thehere is money to be made. week, is $75,000 per that actually relatively speaking pretty descent? >> it is tricky. whatever the capitalization, the initial capitalization, the company that is formed to produce it on broadway, if you are a smart producer and "the last ship" has very several -- several very smart producers, you will bring in a cushion. i'm sure the conversation has been about the margin. a $75,000 goes to $15,000 and then moves across, you are in good shape. are in000 dollars, you trouble. >> the audience was generally older. i walked outside and everybody was generally older. up"nt to see "the lash couple of weeks ago. " a couple ofship weeks ago. >> broadway has always looked for a younger audience, but it is a tricky grab with the ticket prices. lottery forave a inexpensive tickets in the front row or other places in the theater. nobody has the magic solution to getting a younger audience in. you have to do shows you think will appeal. it is not the kiddies. it is the

tie it wasn't 83 year-old mormon was one of the two presidents that were sleeping in the run when theare concerned as our mother and other people that live there to >> reporter: despite the dramatic energy it damages and no one suffered major injuries. the workers spent the day removing the tree piece by piece from the rubble by the union public works department assesses this is the ability of the remaining trees on public property of these homes. >> reporter: largely done with the reign of the right now, although within a few isolated showers. were looking live with the bay bridge toll plaza up traffic and is not funny watching pat's treasure island there's still some minor rain all the birds right now. you see the yellow they're over the center of his strained right it the bridge they're still seeing moderate rain. >> reporter: the showers are scattered this is our. we are still under a flood advisory for much of the bay area. just because we could see a few isolated since self the cause problems in areas that were already heavily damage because of the storm. >> reporter: with the g

browning made it more genius of a utah mormon said designed and held the patents on almost every automatic weapon that the united states used in the second world war from the browning automatic rifle, the heavy machine guns and the fabulous 1911 pistol that was to the service for 75 years and still the station today. hearsay to america. >> a guy who designs the landing draft. i thought that was fascinating. >> years a success story and established in new orleans. he anticipated before the navy they need for mass-produced landing in event of not a war, but the next water. generically called the higgins boat was actually the landing craft vehicle in personnel. it made possible amphibious operations in every theater of action. >> i thought that was directed. you finally cleared up from the various things with the kinds of airplanes used. we all know about there be 47, the workers armor, b-17. but i had not realized that the douglas aircraft, what you call the skytrain, was it the sea 47, became basically a passenger plane that they manage to turn into a personnel carrier, airborne personnel c

assigned to be his handler was james ellsworth, a mormon who had gained fluency in german as a missionary during his missionary service in the late years of germany and he happened to be an inveterate diaries and letter writer and the family was extremely generous in sharing his diary and his letters. this is what he wrote in his diary when he met william sebold. as i was getting out of the shower in the hotel room william sebold came in. i found william sebold to the atoll, thin, 157 pounds german. you, is a big bunt, brown eyes and had brown hair. he spoke english brokenly as time went on he spoke very well. the fbi wasn't entire be sure they could trust this character with his incredible story. i spent three is trying to get a file from the national archives. the fbi had transferred it to the national archives and i made numerous requests and begged and pleaded and got it that the last minute because in the book which included a version of what today would be a psychological analysis, i will quote the words of sam bok fourth was the head of the new york office of the fbi, william sebol