MF Blog on John Rothmann show KGO (San Fran)
On June 5, 2005, I will be a guest for an hour on the John Rothmann radio show on KGO radio in San Francisco, CA. The show airs at the possibly difficult hour of 5:00 a.m. pacific time, Sunday morning. However, that's also 8:00 a.m. eastern time for east coast listeners.
John is a fan of my novel about Robert F. Kennedy surviving 1968. He asked me to join him on his show for the commemoration of the 37th anniversary of RFK being shot while campaigning for president in 1968. I am looking forward to being on John's program. Ironically, through modern communications, I will be speaking with John from NYC, where I will be at the Book Expo along with my publisher, Seven Locks Press. The Book Expo will be fun, too!
If you live in the Bay Area of California, KGO is 810 on the AM dial. It also has a strong, clear signal that may be heard up and down most of the Pacific coast down to Los Angeles and up to Alaska.
And, through the wonders of the Internet, the rest of the nation and the world will be able to listen live on the web here. The KGO web site, unlike many other radio web sites, not only allows one to hear the station through Real Player and MP3, but also Quicktime for the Mac contingent. Impressive.
Final note: I have heard and seen John Rothmann speak over the years, and he is very impressive. I think we might disagree about a couple or even a few things, which should make our discussion even more interesting...
posted by Mitchell J. Freedman @ 10:30 PM
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2 Comments:
Hello Mitchell,
I sketched out a novel in which Robert Kennedy survived the assassination too.I'm glad I didn't progress with it now,particularly in the light of what you do for a day job!I was interested in what impact it would have culturally - for example,whether an earlier withdrawal from Vietnam,which I believe Bobby was proposing,would have prevented the conservative backlash in the Eighties by taking the sting out of the liberals in the Seventies and not giving rise to the archetypal images of surrender when Saigon fell (helicopters airlifting people out with great crowds around clamouring to leave etc etc), which must have been tremendously damaging to the American psyche,at least for those of a more conservative persuasion.My theory was that it would have changed things dramatically,but I don't know.I didn't progress with it anyway because all the possibilities and the political nuances (I'm not American,after all) defeated me and I went back to poetry! Oh,and blogging.Visit mine,if you have the urge to investigate something
Thank you Bruce for your comment.
Yes, the withdrawal from Vietnam does have dramatic consequences in my novel. It is also not easy (despite a couple of commenters at Amazon.com who read my book as saying it was easy). Your point about how the culture reacts is a profound one and is one people who have read the novel have found fascinating--and sometimes also finding quite funny (I mean, particularly, how does Gloria Steinhem end up supporting the Republicans, for example?).
Anyway, thank you for writing. I'll check out your blog, too!
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