very good friend william kennedy annapolis to he wrote a book many books the william j kennedy. well, it's william kennedy of albany. he writes novels about albany and more. he wrote one of the best political novels called roscoe, but he also did iron weed which meryl streep and jack nicholson starred in but kennedy runs the for years with his wife dana randall writer's school at the state university of new york. and he was very tight with frank mccourt in when we go to these writers conferences heat frank mccourt would always be there talk to anybody and tell stories and and william kennedy's that way too one of our most underappreciated. novelist of my lifetime was is william kennedy. i when i would frank mccourt just reminded me of the story, but i went up to stivensen high school where he taught new york city to take his photograph for the first book notes book we ever did. and after it was over i was so excited because he just he was electric. that wonderful irish accent and afterwards he said were you going next i said, well, i have to go back up town. i said come on. i'll

very good friend william kennedy annapolis to he wrote a book many books the william j kennedy. well, it's william kennedy of albany. he writes novels about albany and more. he wrote one of the best political novels called roscoe, but he also did iron weed which meryl streep and jack nicholson starred in but kennedy runs the for years with his wife dana randall writer's school at the state university of new york. and he was very tight with frank mccourt in when we go to these writers conferences heat frank mccourt would always be there talk to anybody and tell stories and and william kennedy's that way too one of our most underappreciated. novelist of my lifetime was is william kennedy. i when i would frank mccourt just reminded me of the story, but i went up to stivensen high school where he taught new york city to take his photograph for the first book notes book we ever did. and after it was over i was so excited because he just he was electric. that wonderful irish accent and afterwards he said were you going next i said, well, i have to go back up town. i said come on. i'll

william kennedy was that way too. one of our most underappreciated novelists of my lifetime, it is william kennedy. >> frank mccourt just reminded me of a story. i went up to the high school where they taught in new york city to take his photograph, for the first book we ever did. after it was over, i was so excited because he just was electric. he was wonderful, irish, he had an accident. he said where you're going next? he said, i'll come with you, i want to buy you a subway ticket. we got on the subway, and a woman on the subway and came up to him and asked are you frank mccourt? will you -- there was just a big love affair going on, he was quite that big deal. >> as you know, all these people in your life as you get order, people start going, and you -- we are talking about well-known people, but one of those people stayed in touch from everybody with my high school. we talked all the time. i just had a meal with one of my friends in ohio that came to see me. people from my class, -- >> i'll stop you right there.

i got to know him through my good friend, very good friend william kennedy. a novelist. he wrote a book, many books. he wrote racicot and iron weed. but kennedy runs the -- for years with his wife dana wran the writers school at the state university of new york. and he was very tight with frank mccord. frank mccord is always there. talk to anybody. and william kennedy is that way, too. one of the most underappreciated novelists, my lifetime. that is william kennedy. >> i went up to the high school where he taught new york city to take his photograph. he was electric. that wonderful irish 5:00 accident. afterwards he said where are you going next? i said i have to go up town. he said i'll ride with you. i want to buy you a subway ticket. >> really. >> we got on the subway. and a woman on the subway came up to him and said you are frank mccourt? he said yes, that's me. >> you taught my son in high school. and then there was a big love affair that went on. he was quite a guy. >> oh, man, yeah. you start missing as you know all the people in your life as you get older. and i

williams. >> reporter: when joseph kennedy was an assistant high school football coach in bremerton, washington, he began dropping to one knee on the 50 yard line after games to pray. >> it just was myself, you know, just giving thanks out on the football field after a game and it kind of organically i would say kind of grew. >> reporter: soon his own players gathered around so is players and coaches from the opposing teams the school district told him to find a more private place to pray wanting to avoid the appearance of an official endorsement of his religious views, but he kept at it prompting more attention and clouds some of the supreme court's justices said that pushed members of the team to join in. >> the idea of why the school can discipline him is that that puts a kind of undue pressure, a kind of coercion on students to participate in religious activities when they may not wish to. >> reporter: the court's conservative justices suggested they believed he was expressing his own private views and wasn't coercing anyone. >> this wasn't, you know, huddle up, team, you know, which is a c

kennedy: word on the street. juan williams, my money is on you. gary, define the word hi keith. will lose one. >> hi key. i'll take the clue in exchange for the points. kennedy: used in a sentence, i hi key want that shirt. in. >> kennedy, the meaning of the term hi key would be really or enthusiastically. kennedy: absolutely right. gary hoffmann, one of the board, it's a big night. we are off to the races. the word is woke fishing. would you like to guess the definition or use it in a sentence and you would lose one? >> i'll take the hint. kennedy: the hint is, he said he wanted to dissolve the police but i think he was just woke fishing. >> my guess is then he's really playing games trying to find out who thinks they are so woke and expose them as a fraud. kennedy: yes, lying about your level of wokeness to attract a dating partner, variation of cap fishing. i will give you a half for that one. you are on the board. >> okay. kennedy: scott horton. your word is approaching. would you like to get the definition or use it in a sentence? >> i think i know this one this is when you'

and after that, the board voted by ane-vote margin to allow kennedy to come to ole miss. william f. winter: he understood that that was the right place to be. dick scruggs: it was a game week atmosphere. it was a big event. and so it created a lot of excitement on campus. charles k. ross: robert f. kennedy on the campus of the university of mississippi that represents this bastion of segregation, this closed society. frank thackston: the more the consternation-- the public consternation about him coming-- wringing of hands about what a hell of a note it was that he was invited in the first place-- the more people wanted to come. gerald blessey: there were a lot of reassurances. the chancellor invited ethel to come with senator kennedy, a special invitation-- invite your wife to come, please, and we'll have lunch. donald r. cole: that allowed a humanistic side of him to be seen a lot sooner. i trust you enough. even in this dangerous situation, i bring my most dear loved one with me. gerald blessey: we had a luncheon. but after going through the receiving line and shaking hands and i

bill clinton, chester arthur, william howard taft or nancy pelosi? >> taft. [laughter] kennedyr. what was president clinton's cap name? main, buttons, grover or socks? you are right. you are in the lead. dave, you can tie for the mustache hairs with richard if you get this. which of these presidents had a sport named after him? herbert hoover, chauvin coolidge, haze or linden baseball johnson? [laughter] >> what's? kennedy: i don't think -- but that was fun. >> i don't want the mustache hair from the man who ushered in the progressive era and destroyed the country. i'll just go with coolidge because he did nothing with. kennedy: i love that guy. but that is wrong. herbert hoover, a medicine ball game invented by president herbert hoover. he can't fit. richard, you win. i'm giving you the mustache hair. thanks, gentlemen. good job you get mustache hair, too. >> you can send him the mustache hair. kennedy: you get to win. dibs all around. nuclear threats are growing louder. are we prepared to respond? how can you prepare yourself and your home for the apocalypse? extreme survival

kennedy: life is good, baby. reportedly an immigrant and he's being hailed as a hero. what's next? he with me now, former d.c. police detective and fox news contributor, ted williams. come to the show, he called crime stoppers on himself? >> kennedy, let me echo what mayor eric adams said, we got him good this idiot not only called the crimestoppers on himself which i'm happy he did and law enforcement officers in the area to arrest him but at the scene yesterday, he left a great deal of evidence there. he left the keys to the u-haul truck he rented in philadelphia. the truck he brought down to new york or up to new york and entered the subway. the thing is, he bought a gas mask online and had a gas mask on. think about it, 33 shots. thirty-three shots. if we don't have anybody who died, this is a blessing. this situation could have ended a lot different and i'm so happy he said with got him. kennedy: he tried to kill thousands of people. that's what he was trying to do. just because he's a bad shot and horrible pain doesn't mean he shouldn't be charged with something more serious so what charges is he facing? >> he's facing federal charges which the federal charges

that blunt but he was curious like why kennedy's speeches so celebrated, you know about ronald reagan's inaugural about william henry harrison's long inaugural versus short inaugurals. so that was the tone in tanner of a conversation president elect. he did say to me when i went to see him. tell the head of cnn that he's a you know, he's he's a curse word. he was very angry at cnn and then he said and your historian. i'm not blaming you for what they everybody's done to me, but he had a chip on his shoulder about the network that i was historian on but he did not have a chip with me. and i talked to him about sports a little bit about he was telling me he was amazed that the utah jazz and be 18 that he had misread that market that that he never thought an nba team could function in a small as market as salt lake city and he was wrong about that and i had seen a miami heat basketball game tonight before with my son johnny told him about seeing the heat. so it was it was, you know, a very congenial kind of situation. where was the meeting? mar-a-lago we sat by the swimming pool there and there were that day. he

he was curious as to why kennedy's speech was so celebrated, about ronald reagan's inaugural speech, about william henry harrison's long eggnog versus shorten audios. that was the tone and tenure of the conversation. he did say to me, when i went to see him tell the head of cnn that he used a curse word. he was very angry at cnn. he said you are a historian, i'm not blaming you for whatever one has done to me. he had a chip on his shoulder about the network that i was a historian on, but he did not have a chip with me. i talked to him about sports, a little bit about him being amazed that the utah jazz -- he had misread that market, he never thought an nba team would function in a small enough market at salt lake city. he was wrong about that. i saw the miami he paschal game the night before with my son johnny, i told him about seeing the heat. >> it was a congenial kind of situation. >> where was the meeting? >> mar-a-lago, we set by the swimming pool, and that day he had ceos of mayo clinic there, cleveland clinic, other major hospitals that he was meeting. he met when they were all in a health