mr. haygood until i saw him on a show of yours years ago. i am calling in because i love sammy davis as well and i read the biography he wrote himself which was rather long if i recall right. i was a teenager when i read it. when i look at sammy davis i like listening to his recordings from the '50 and '60s. those are some of the songs and arrangements i enjoy. when i compared sammy to frank sinatra i didn't consider one of those gentlemen extremely handsome but i thought sammy davis, jr. was a triple threat. he was a better actor, singer and dancer. i do feel having not been african-american in that time era he might have been the preeminent star and given the preeminent power that frank sinatra enjoyed in holiday. i wanted to hear some of mr. haygood's comments on sammy davis, jr. and thank you for writing. i am looking forward to reading more of your books. >> guest: yes, wow, i think frank sinatra was well aware of sammy davis, jr.'s talent. he was at the paramount theater when he first saw sammy davis junior out on stage and he was bowl

mr. haygood for your books. i am sitting here listening to you and being a novice myself i would like to make a comment and pose a question also. i find it has never seem to be an attempt to give us a level playing field as far as mental and psychological fairness. the media things to slant things to always keep it in the physical construct which most of the time some time of negative trigger is always acustomed to things we do even the good things. i would like to pose a question for you because i look for places where we can have an intimate audience with people like yourself and we can deliver information to us in the way that is mentally and psychologically support each other. do you know of any venues i can become a part of? >> guest: you know, my life is glued mostly to the writing aspect of what you happen to be talking about. i look at the case of the new york congressman, adam clayton powell, when he died there were a lot of -- you are right. there were a lot of negative stories about powell and one of

mr. hey haygood call this number. and when somebody says that to a journalist, you really get more than also excited. so i dialed the number, and this voice answered and just said, hello, and i said, hi, ma'am. my name is wil haygood. i just wrote a book about thurgood marshall's 1967 confirmation hearings, and i quote a letter by a lady named barbara ross. and somebody over at the texarkana city clerk's office told me to call this number because i'm trying to find any family members of mrs. ross so i can tell them this letter is in the book. she says, my name is barbara ross. and i'm sort of taken aback, and i said, oh, really, huh. were you named after her or something? and she said, really? i was 19 years old. i was home from college that summer, and i heard a snippet on the radio that the senators were giving mr. marshall a hard time. and i told my mama and my daddy that i wanted to write a letter to senator mcclelland, and my daddy said, don't do that. might get the family in trouble. but the next day, when my da