you will hear from annie jacobson annie jacobson talking about her book "phenomena," jeff quinn talking about the road to james town. that is coming up in half an hour. we pleased to be joined by journalist and author gary younge. here is his book called "another day in the death of america: a chronicle of ten short lives." mr. younge, november 23rd, 2013 why is that date significant? >> its not. that is the whole point. it is the day after the 50th anniversary of jfk's assassination but it was a day i chose to make the statistic real and that is on average seven teens and children are killed every day in the united states. i wanted to pick a random day and find out who these kids were, who they wanted to be, in what circumstances did they die and that was the day i chose. >> you picked it out of a hat or did you have a system? >> guest: well, in order for the bock to work there had to be seven fataties that day. if i wanted a higher number i would have gone for the summer. summer is when more children die because they are out. this was the weekend before thanksgiving and the first day

noon,e today at investigative journalist and best-selling author annie jacobson is our guest on in depth. >> from these documents what is clear is that it is moving humans in the military environment toward being comfortable with the idea of merging man and machine. >> she's known for her writings on war, weapons and government secrets and will discuss her four books, " area 51," "the pentagon's brain," and " phenomena." join our live three hour conversations live today at noon eastern on in depth on c-span 2. 1994, george mitchell announced the end of efforts to pass a health care bill that year. press conference followed a year and a half long effort by the clinton administration and members of congress. up next on american is your tv, senator mitchell's press conference followed by reaction from republican leader robert dold. e. it is about an hour. sen. mitchell: at the beginning of this congress, i said the

annie jacobson, are you able to get any dollar figures on how much is spent at area 51? how much is spent on researching psychoki psychokinesis? and darpa? >> guest: almost all of them are called special access programs. they exist in these very secret classification protocols that are far above normal classified protocols. it is almost impossible to accurately say what the budgets are. one of the budgets i can give you is the darpa budget. darpa spends three billion a year. an extroidinary amount of money for a 120 program manager. but that is only the public figure. so all of the programs are dealing with black budgets which means the money is unknowable. i believe give you one fascinating detail. in area 51, one of the creators of area 51 if you would was richard bithal, deputy director of the cia. the way in which he became involved in area 51, if you back up a couple years he got a call from allen dausz at the cia and said listen, bithal, bithel sin charge of the marshall plan, the plan to rebuild europe after world war ii. douglas said and i am paraphrasing and nis

. >> host: don, houston, texas, annie jacobson is your guest. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i was in the air force for eight years. i was ad vandburg for five years. i worked with nasa and the 22nd quarter. i met paul sagin, and the person over blue book. i saw a number of officers landing on a private aircraft. we were told they were majestic 12 people. and early afternoon three ufos passed over our base and all the power went out. we were not a nuclear armed missile base but they test fired missiles that would be used if we did go to war with russia. >> host: don, did you see the ufos yourself? >> caller: yes, i was at dog site when they passed over and my work partner was outside the silo and other people were standing in the area. they came to a stop and i remember i looked at him and he looked at me and he said am i seeing what i am seeing or what? he kind of laughed and he said i am not sure but he said, you know,i don't think we have anything in our industry that can do these kinds of thinks, burke. and i said i think you are right and they angled off to the right at

you will hear from jeff quinn, annie jacobson, and douglas preston talking about their books. here it is. >> good afternoon and welcome to the panel. i am gary glastner the author of seven non fiction books myself including the culture of fear, why americans are afraid of the wrong things. i am delighted to host and moderate today's discussion with these three highly accomplished authors each of whose current book i highly recommend to you, by the way. here is how it will work. after i introduce the panelists, i ask a couple questions of each of them and then one question for the entire panel and then we will take questions from the audience. so, to allow maximum time for conversation i have asked our three authors to answer their each questions and i will ask those of you who ask questions if you are with us in the audience to keep your questions short. first, let me introduce your three authors. jeff quinn is an award-winning investigative journalist. she is the best sell authors -- he -- whose books include go down together; the true untold story of bonnie and collide. and

. >> live today at noon eastern, annie jacobson is our guest on book tv's "in depth." >> from the pentagon document what is is clear is that it's moving humans in the military environment toward being comfortable with this idea of merging man and machine. >> ms. jay scob -- ms. jacobson is known for her writings on ar, and secrets. she'll be discuss -- discussing her book "area 51 ats and her most recent, "phenomena." join us today live at noon eastern on book tv's "in depth" on c-span2. >> we continue our look at chico's history. come inside as we tour the home f city founder john bidwell. prof. bankhurst: it's hard to grasp how important john bidwell was to our state's history from founding the city in 1860 to delivering the news of kale' inception into the country in october of 1850 in san francisco. his legacy and his footprints can be seen throughout alifornia. mr. lopez: here at widwell mansion, we are home to 5.2

[inaudible] >> friday night a book tv we will bring you author, annie jacobson on in-depth. she is the author for books, area 51, operation paperclip, the pentagon sprang, most recently, phenomenon. that is at 8:00 p.m. eastern. at 11, pulitzer prize winning columnist and author of over 30 bucks, dave barry talks about his career most recent book, best state ever. book to be in prime time, friday night on c-span2. >> saturday and sunday book tv is why from the 22nd annual los angeles times festival of books. beginning saturday at 1:30 p.m. eastern, our programming schedule includes a panel discussion on biographies. with authors blanche, lisa natalie, and susan quinn. at 3:00 p.m. eastern, a discussion on the republican party with authors hugh hewitt, corey fields, and perr peggy gr. at 4:00 p.m. jones with his book, when we rise. my life in the movement. at 5:30 p.m., rebecca sold author of the mother of all questions, further reports from the feminist revolution. at 7:00 p.m. easter, corey fields and his book "black elephants in the room". live sunday beginning at 1:30 p.m

. >> now, book tvs monthly in depth program with author and investigative journalist, annie jacobson. ms. jacobson is the author for books including "area 51" the pentagon's brain". >> let's start with definitions, what is area 51? >> that is the secret base out in nevada where all kinds of mysterious things happen. that you and i can talk about and maybe we know it's going ou1 out there, maybe we don't. >> why is it called area 51? >> i believe because of the original project that went on. out there in 1951. infoio

[inaudible conversations] >> live sunday at noon eastern, investigative journal annie jacobson is our guest on booktv's " in depth." >> what is clear is that it's mo

on april 4 the government secret experience with esp, with journalist, annie jacobson. april 18, npr krista tippett. april 19, the former president of mexico. may 3, caitlyn jenner, and ma may 23, the annual political lecture. that is a members only event, it is always a lot of fun. there are question cards on your seats for p.j. o'rourke. these will be collected throughout the program and brought to our moderator. copies of the book "what the hell happened" are for sale and he will be signing copies in the fireside room after the program. thank you for being here and supporting the commonwealth club. now, please welcome to the stage, p.j. o'rourke and melissa kane. [applause] >> hello everyone. thank you for being here. i'm melissa kane, i'm i went to amazon.com and read some of the book reviews one said i recommend this book to everyone who wakes up in the morning not knowing whether to laugh or cry. maybe some of you are in the audience today. you are in the right place. the way this will work is that i will give an introduction to mrt need one. you'll get one. he wi

you're on with author annie jacobson on booktv. >> caller: hi, beater, great to talk to you again. i'm interested in annie's book. i got up to chapter 11 eye. interested in a couple of threat threads in there one this early research done in psychedelics and the other thing is the degree which there was something on an arms race between russians and the americans in terms of trying to figure out how to explore the military uses of remote viewing, psychic research. used to live in california in and met russell targen and was fast mated with -- fascinated with him and did you interview him? and then another thing i'll leave you with. since you have didn't investigative reporting with darn to, you mentioned easterly idea that edward teller has his feet in so many different -- there's a new thing ear merging in terms of geoengineering and it was edward teller that came up with the first concept of geoengineeringing in terms of mitigating the effect of emp with the aerosols in atmosphere which now being taught touted a possibly mitigating global warming. >> guest: so your question is sup

jacobson is known for her writing on government secrets and will discuss her 4 recent books. join our live three-hour conversation with annie jacob sen, live sunday on noon eastern on book tv's in depth. &a.sunday night on a >> it was everywhere in decline. nationalist were raising up. should itestion was support britain against the nationalist or tried to create a new order by mediating between the nationalist and britain's? >> michael dell ran on his book suarezgamble" about the crisis. >> what you try to present is undermining the british and taking control of the oil of the middle east. we hear about the oil because it was one which percent of oil from the middle east. we wanted to make sure we had regimes to keep the soviet union out is the goal. announcer: sunday night on "q&a ." announcer: the house and senate approved a bill that would repeal fcc regulations prohibiting internet service providers from selling customers' personal information. it includes health records, financial information, web browsing history, social security numbers and content of communication. p

[applause] >> live sunday at noon eastern, investigative journalist and best selling author a annie is our guest on booktv indepght. >> from pentagon document what is is clear is that it is moving humans in the military environment toward being comfortable with this idea of merging man and machine. >> jacobson known for weapon and governmeec

featured authors include annie jacobson, hugh hewitt, adam hochschild and lisa lucas. that's a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the pluck. look for -- to the public. roar for them to air in the -- look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span 2. >> we were flying down with president obama on air force one, then-president obama, to selma, alabama. and i had asked him a question about, quote-unquote, postracial versus post-obama era. and he said i would not equate my election with seminal moments like the emancipation proclamation or the passage of the civil rights act, the voting rights act. those were mass you have changes in legal status that represented fundamental breaks in america's tragic history and were the pillars, the 13th amendment, 14th amendment and 15th amendment of civil rights acts of the '60s. those were, those represented the dismantling of formal discrimination in this country. there's nothing that's going to compare to that. moving forward, our work is to build on that work,