thorpe was great? david: she gave a speech in 1968 where she dealt with that question. first of all, i thought of him as a father, not as this mythological figure, but, you know, i'm terrible at remembering things precisely, but she basically took the dictionary definition of what it is to be great and in every possible definition of that jim thorpe was. for all of his -- all of the obstacles he faced, for some of his own doing he had trouble with alcohol, and he was constantly on the move. but in what he did he was the best at what he did for a long period of time. no one could match him, and in that sense he met the definition of greatness. kevin: remarkable in magnitude, degree, and effectiveness. he was great. we are at the end of our time, but i want to congratulate you on a wonderful book. i would point out it was produced during covid, which is quite extraordinary. but also to thank you very sincerely for such an insightful and synthetic treatment of jim thorpe and of the native people of this p

thorpe was great? david: she gave a speech in 1968 where she dealt with that question. first of all, i thought of him as a father, not as this mythological figure, but, you know, i'm terrible at remembering things precisely, but she basically took the dictionary definition of what it is to be great and in every possible definition of that jim thorpe was. for all of his -- all of the obstacles he faced, for some of his own doing he had trouble with alcohol, and he was constantly on the move. but in what he did he was the best at what he did for a long period of time. no one could match him, and in that sense he met the definition of greatness. kevin: remarkable in magnitude, degree, and effectiveness. he was great. we are at the end of our time, but i want to congratulate you on a wonderful book. i would point out it was produced during covid, which is quite extraordinary. but also to thank you very sincerely for such an insightful and synthetic treatment of jim thorpe and of the native people of this p

[laughter] jim thorpe played under the name jim jim thorpe.revealed he had played there the metals were taken away. it was only this july, 112 years later that justice were one and they were restored 112 years too late. and that's only part of the story of the electric life of jim thorpe, thank you. [applause] x please welcome best-selling historian and author candace moe lard. but mark clicks thank you so much. it is such an honor to be here, to be in the library of congress which is a national treasure. to be with the librarian of congress who is a national treasure. and to be with all of you. thank you for having me. one of the great regrets of my life happened at the national book festival 11 years ago. it was the first time i'd been invited to the festival so i was really excited. it was still in the mall at that time under the stunning series of big beautiful tents for history, fiction humor poetry, every category. and then there was an author's tent were authors could hang out. so after my event i went into that tent. i was talking with

just learned that contra costa county settled sexual harassment claims involving mayor lamar thorpe.this is a distraction for our city. we have a city of 114,000 people in the council has very serious business to do yet. we are sidetracked in these meetings by these types of issues. according to court documents two former employees of the los medanos community health care district accused thorpe of inappropriate sexual conduct when he was the district's executive director, they claimed thorpe made unwanted sexual advances and created a hostile working environment the case was settled for 350,000 thorpe has not been convicted of a crime. he released a statement saying he's heartbroken by the allegations, which he calls completely false. san francisco unified school district is under fire after a second victim says an ex-athletic director. allegedly sexually abused her on campus. it comes after a former student filed a lawsuit in august the school district allowed lawrence young yet chan to resign from san francisco's george washington high school. the former student says chan started

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carla: i can't get enough of david maraniss in his new best seller about jim thorpe. it is a heart rendering story. can we give a peek about it? he lost his olympic medals because of something other people were doing but he got caught because he told the truth. he went on to have a fantastic career. he has really been proclaimed one of the best athletes that ever lived. when you think about the inequities and the native american schools, that is part of the story. and then being an athlete at the wrong time in a way in terms of being recognized. then it is just a page turner because you want to know, did he have happiness in his life and all of these things. so i would really recommend this. >> at 10:00 a.m., david maraniss is going to be live. carla: people should get the book. and then this one, he is an environmentalists. you can see tabs on this one because it speaks to what we are thinking about and going through right now in terms of our climate and environment and the local nature. >> is there a reason you used different colored tabs? carla: yes, but i won't re

thorpe are complete we false. when presented with the information, it was clear that they lacked facts and evidence. quick's -- >> when we are talking about the board of supervisors wording to have an insurance company payout $350,000 to two victims that have outlined sexual harassment claims, i take that very serious. reporter: the county board of supervisors may have settled a lawsuit because a community health care district was dissolved earlier this year. councilmembers both admit that neither has spoken to the county board of supervisors nor the women who filed the lawsuit. this isn't the first attempt to get the mayor removed from office. a recall effort last year failed to get the required signatures. he plans to meet with the city attorney next week to consider the legal next steps. abc7news. ama: we did reach out to the contra costa county board of supervisors. the chair staff responded by saying the supervisor has no comment on this. dan: governor newsom is expected in solano county tomorrow to sign more

thorpe are complete we false.esented with the information, it was clear that they lacked facts and evidence. quick's -- >> when we are talking about the board of supervisors wording to have an insurance company payout $350,000 to two victims that have outlined sexual harassment claims, i take that very serious. reporter: the county board of supervisors may have settled a lawsuit because a community health care district was dissolved earlier this year. councilmembers both admit that neither has spoken to the county board of supervisors nor the women who filed the lawsuit. this isn't the first attempt to get the mayor removed from office. a recall effort last year failed to get the required signatures. he plans to meet with the city attorney next week to consider the legal next steps. abc7news. ama: we did reach out to the contra costa county board of supervisors. the chair staff responded by saying the supervisor has no comment on this. dan: governor newsom is expected in solano county tomorrow to sign more aggress

store -- thorpe are false.ear that they lacked facts and i wouldn't. >> when we talk about the board of supervisors have an insurance company pay out $350,000 to two victims that have sexual harassment claims, i take that very serious. reporter: some suggest they may have settled the suit because the health care district was dissolved earlier this year. council members both admit that neither has spoken to the county board of supervisors nor the women who filed the lawsuit. this is not the first attempt to get mayor thorpe removed. efforts lasher failed. there is a meeting next week to consider the legal steps. reggie: we have reached out to the board of supervisors imposter county. their chair responded by saying the supervisor has no comment. kumasi: bart is hosting a special event. it is a right along antisocial event to get people a chance to meet regional transit leaders. it is happening tonight. 11 general managers and ceos from agencies are taking part. they will be wearing name badges so you know who th

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loan thorpe is on a trail near the squamish river. you know where that is built in bc.o. yes no. yes. do not try. they're definitely did not nice view. it's beautiful to get there. i think. yeah there's somewhere you can say. it's just a camera angle and then other times when you're like, no, that's terrifying to say one more thing about jimmy garoppolo. and that is the fact that he the first snap he took with the number ones this year was when he was put out in the field on sunday, no practice time with the ones he was running a great team the whole time and he came out and he said. it's like riding a bike tough one in denver, but i think they'll get the w problem. thanks to that. yeah goodnight. everyone will see you back here at 10. sheldon: leonard... i've got terrible news. what's going on? before i tell you, perhaps i should soften the blow. your face is pleasingly symmetrical. just tell me. a swedish team of physicists is trying to scoop our super-fluid vortex experiment. oh, well, that kind of stinks. “that kind of stinks”? why aren't you more upset? did i softe

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they started making simple products like home, lazy, thorpe's live bombs, shambles. and just, you know, using it on my own, you know, sell fuse and my son's use. that's how it started for me. i think the journey went a little, the i c, d as in 2016. and the bugs got me a big blue. see this and i wanted to studies can give formulations again governor dreamed in banking, she now began to grapple with the science of surfactants fats and oils. it marked the beginning of her company. oh, through them. today it produces sustainable body care products such as soaps and shampoos, but honey sure, welcome on. doesn't call her products organic. we don't classify chemical and non chemical. we don't classify natural organic, but we classify ingredients only based on that box would be living that are the multi fires that can biodiesel easily into the soil legs or they might be slightly expensive, but there are such ingredients available. so we choose to consciously target ingredients that are more sustainable. and my only thing of what exactly is in the products we use every day o

looks like it's going to increase the possibility of thorpes. so we're going to watch it closely saturday. looks like best bet of spotty thunderstorms would hit us sunday. there is a little bit of rainfall with it, but of course the lightning is the big danger that could spark fires. all in all, the heat does definitely slide down this weekend. it's going to be so much better. >> the last thing we need are lightning strikes. >> i know, and that's going to be a day by day thing, so we'll have more on. that we'll get through the heat now, and tee that up for everybody certainly thursday and friday. >> you said it, day by day. thank you, jeff. >> you got it. >>> your roku device, find us, it's easy. select the tv tile on your home screen, and skrol down the channel 133. now you can watch nbc bay area news any time anywhere via roku. >> while we deal with this extreme heat parts of mississippi continue to search for clean drinkin for clean drinkin g fliving with metastatic breast gcancer means being relentless. because every day matters. and having

you will hear from authors talking about such topics as race, jim thorpe, clinical conspiracy, the baldle, all day long coverage. you can find the schedule on our website. if you happen to be in town, come down and say hello. thank you for joining us on about books. a program and podcast produced by c-span book tv. book tv will continue to bring you publishing news and author programs which you can always watch online at book tv.org and if you want to download this podcast, you can do so at c-span now or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> did evening, everybody. -- good evening, everybody. i am excited to talk about this wonderful book with such a brilliant colleague and scholar. thank you for doing this. >> thank you for this conversation. taking time out of your busy schedule. i really appreciate it. >> i

now, for the last five years, gil thorpe has hosted, but as luck would have it, he's having a sketchy-lookingyp removed, so they've asked me to..."phil in."

and with that life of jim thorpe.hank you. >> please welcome the story in and author candace bullard. [applause] >> it'sry such an honor to be here at library of congress which is a national treasure to be withss the librarian of congress who is a national treasure and to be with all of you. thank you for having me one of the great regrets of my life happened at the national book festival 11 years ago was the first time i was invited it was still at the mall a stunning series for history and humor and fiction and then and authors tend i went into the tent and i was talking with one of the volunteers who asked me if there are any authors i like to meet i'm pretty shy so i was about to say no thank you purchase then i looked up and i saw david mccullough. i will never forget it you could notis miss him tall and straight back elegant and smiling so before i could chicken out i i said yes is there any chance i could meet david mccullough? i read his books for enjoyment that i wanted to thank him for that but six years ear

. >> eric raymond thorpe. >> nichola angela thorpe. >> tamra thurman. >> sal edward tieri, jr. >> johnk tierney. >> mary ellen tiesi. >> william randolph tieste. >> kenneth tietjen. >> stephen edward tighe. >> scott charles timmes. >> michael e. tinley. >> jennifer m. tino. >> robert frank tipaldi. >> john james tipping ii. >> david tirado. >> hector luis tirado, jr. >> michelle lee titolo. >> john j. tobin. >> richard j. todisco. >> vladimir tomasevic. >> stephen kevin tompsett. >> thomas tong. >> doris torres. >> luis eduardo torres. >> amy elizabeth toyen. >> christopher michael traina. >> daniel patrick trant. >> abdoul karim traore. >> glenn j. travers. >> walter philip travers. >> felicia traylor-bass. >> lisa l. trerotola. >> karamo trerra. >> michael angel trinidad. >> francis joseph trombino. >> gregory james trost. willie q. troy. >> zhanetta valentinovna tsoy. >> michael patrick tucker. >> lance richard tumulty. >> ching ping tung. >> simon james turner. >> donald joseph tuzio. >> robert t. twomey. >> jennifer lynn tzemis. >> john g. ueltzhoeffer. >> and to my brother rudolp

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>> nichola angela thorpe >> sal edward tieri, jr >> john patrick tierney >> mary ellen tiesi williameste >> kenneth francis tietjen >> stephen edward tighe >> scott charles timmes >> michael e tinley >> jennifer m tino >> robert frank tipaldi >> john james tipping ii david tirado >> >> hector luis tirado, jr >> michelle lee titolo >> john j tobin >> richard todisco >> vladimir tomasevic >> stephen kevin tompsett >> thomas tong >> doris torres >> luis eduardo torres >> amy elizabeth toyen >> christopher michael traina >> daniel patrick trant >> abdoul karim traore >> glenn j travers >> walter philip travers >> felicia yvette traylor-bass >> lisa l trerotola >> karamo trerra >> michael angel trinidad >> francis joseph trombino >> gregory james trost >> william p tselepis >> zhanetta valentinovna tsoy >> michael patrick tucker >> lance richard tumulty >> ching ping tung >> simon james turner >> donald joseph tuzio >> robert t twomey >> jennifer lynn tzemis >> john g ueltzhoeffer >> into my brother rudolph, we love you, we miss you, god bless you. keep us all safe. thank you. >> and my g

my father was a b 17 copilot, also stationed thorpe abbotts, but he yeah with the 100th bomb group and he got england at the end of 44 and 45. so 25 missions that you talked about was 1943. and my father, 35 missions. and i'm wondering what changed where they requiring more later or did he just choose to stay on and not get out after 25. do you think they were more later as the as war progressed and what were the gentlemen's question before us as the americans started to dominate the air that the number of missions went up jimmy doolittle when he shows up and takes over the eighth air force, he changes tactics. so the p-51 used to fly with the drop bombers information and would would then try to defend the formation or when doolittle gets here he uses the bombers as bait he'll send out the luftwaffe will start to spin up and then the its fighters will attack them on the ground. and so as they get more effective at taking the fighters out, the, the numbers of for the missions go up. and i'll add one point about jimmy doolittle. you know, he's very famous for his raid on tokyo actually s

the bbc�*s nick thorpe in budapest.wo buses carrying migrants were dropped off near the vice president's residents in washington. our correspondence houses update from washington, dc. after weeks of making the trek to the united states, about 100 migrants in two buses were transported from texas to the residents of the vice president kamala harris here in washington, dc. we spoke to one couple who didn't know where they were until we told them. they had travelled for about one month from venezuela to america, looking for a better life, for economic reasons, they explain. but i don't know what the future holds. translation: ~ ., , ., , ,, holds. translation: ., , ., holds. translation: ~ ., , ., , ,, ., , translation: we are very happy to be here, i translation: we are very happy to be here. i would — translation: we are very happy to be here. i would be — translation: we are very happy to be here, i would be able _ translation: we are very happy to be here, i would be able to _ translation: we are very happy to be here,

let's hear from our correspondent nick thorpe on this.proud of their own record and the changes they have made to the justice system, to the media and so on, but over those years, the criticism have grown, the number of allies that viktor 0rban and his government had in brussels and his government had in brussels and elsewhere in the eu has diminished, now they have lost their great ally poland, so hungary because of the war in ukraine, so as far as the government is concerned, this is the latest unfair criticism. but how serious it is is that financially, this is a threat to hungary. they are the last in the eu 27 not to receive the funds it is due under the covid recovery plan, and now looking ahead to the budget, now the eu for the first time has tools in the view of meps in brussels and in strasbourg to punish hungary for what it sees there is backsliding on democracy, so hungary stands to lose a huge amount of money, and that would have a huge effect, it is already having a negative effect, both on the hungarian economy and the statu

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and then out here towards the east bay, we're looking at thorpe activity. let's get you into a closer view. we got nailed with heavy rain in livermoran hour, hour and a half ago. this has been slowly moving to the east. and also the north. right now beginning to hit the tracy triangle with the heavy downpours. about a quarter to a half inch per hour. multiple lightning strikes even some small hail. so not advised to head over to the pass. at least over the next two hours. now as we put a storm track on this, this could hold up towards discovery bay by 6:31 tonight. that will be the most serious thing right now. we're looking at that on the radar. and check this out. in case you haven't seen it, i compiled some numbers here. the our september monthly average rain for the entire month, 500 to 1500th. we picked up two to ten times that amount in just 24 hours with that storm system. i'll have a look at tomorrow's forecast and the hotter weather this weekend. that's in about 15 minutes. >> we'll see you shortly.

authorities say they are being looked at for so-called -- last month, the mayor, lamarr thorpe, revealed that police officers are under investigation. today, walker claims that three of them were involved in a case that was recently dismissed by the d.a., a case where the councilwoman was accused of interfering in a police investigation. >> i absolutely do believe -- under investigation currently in the city of antioch. it will cues -- increase transparency. yes, i do believe that. >> reporter: torres walker, alongside -- and interim police chief, dr. steven ford, they held a conference today at city hall calling for police reform in three areas. >> early intervention to track and monitor use of force, a system to monitor cell phone use. >> reporter: chief forms says it is critical to provide credibility within the department. >> all of these measures will be used -- forward thinking and the procedural justice policing, account ability, and transparency of public service. >> reporter: city leaders say they are planning to discuss them further in an upcoming study session. depending on ho