Howard Dean to Chair the DNC; LA Mayoral Candidate Bob Hertzberg; Alfred Kinsey; Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Howard Dean to Chair the DNC
Larry speaks with Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles City Council member, 13th district, who was very active in Howard Dean’s local presidential campaign; Arnold Steinberg, political consultant and writer; Lisa Garcia-Bedolla, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Chicano Studies, UC Irvine, and Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland, and former Governor of California, about Howard Dean's new position as Chair of the DNC.
LA Mayoral Candidate Bob Hertzberg
Candidate for LA Mayor Bob Hertzberg joins Larry Mantle to talk about his platform. Hertzberg is a former member of the California Assembly, serving as Speaker from 2000 to 2002.
Alfred Kinsey
Tonight, PBS American Experience will air "Kinsey," a 90-minute biography of a scientist whose personal struggles and obsessive nature propelled him to break through the silence on human sexuality, and conduct the first full-scale study of the sexual behavior of Americans. The film is the first American television documentary to be granted full access to the extensive collection of research materials at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, bringing to light a wealth of never-before-seen archival material. Larry Mantle talks with Kinsey’s producers and directors Barak Goodman (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, The Fight) and John Maggio (The Fight), about the documentary and the life of the pioneering sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams
Larry Mantle speaks with Essie Mae Washington-Williams, daughter of onetime segregationist, U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond. Essie Mae was born to her 16-year-old African American mother, who worked a maid in the Thurmond family home, when Strom Thurmond was 22. Essie Mae maintained a relationship with her father for over 60 years. He acknowledged her in private, and helped her financially. She joins Larry to talk about her father and how she reconciled his segregationist position with the man she knew in private. Mrs. Williams’ new book is called Dear Senator: A Memoir By the Daughter of Strom Thurmond (ReganBooks).