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Guest: Howard Burson
Author of “Report From Nurenberg-The International War Crimes Trial”
Website: http://www.burson-marsteller.com/leaderships/harold-burson-founding-chairman/

Described by PRWeek as "the century's most influential PR figure," Harold Burson has spent more than fifty years serving as counselor to and confidante of corporate CEOs, government leaders and heads of public sector institutions. As winner of numerous industry honors; a generous supporter of organizations and charities; a mentor to many; and of course, co-founder of the largest public relations agency in the world today, Burson-Marsteller, Harold is a truly singular figure in the world of public relations.

THE BOOK: “Report From Nurenberg-The International War Crimes Trial”

After WWII came to a close in 1945, a young GI named Harold Burson was transferred to Paris to serve at the American Forces Network, a station responsible for bringing U.S. style broadcasts to the millions of soldiers stationed in Europe. Burson was an on the hour news writer, and after just a few months he was re-assigned once more, this time to Nuremberg, to cover the upcoming War Crimes Tribunal. He was twenty-four.

From November 1945 to March 1946, Burson spent each day in the courtroom, taking copious notes, landing important interviews, and at the sound of the last gavel he traveled back to his room to write the news commentary for that evening’s broadcast. According to Burson himself—who, it should be mentioned, is still alive and kicking in his early nineties and running the world’s largest public relations agency—he “didn’t have either the right voice or the right accent to go on air,” and so he wrote the copy, while a succession of “voices” read his words over the airwaves each night.

For more than six decades, Burson saved these scripts, and it’s possible that they might have stayed in obscurity forever were it not for New York Times reporter Joe Nocera, who happened to learn of these scripts and Burson’s stint at Nuremberg during a social call. Nocera wrote an article on the subject to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Trials, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the news caused quite a stir.

An audiobook version of these scripts, complete with an introduction from Mr. Nocera and an exclusive interview with Mr. Burson himself, is now a reality (Available Nov. 19, Audible.com). The resulting work—narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, John Rubinstein, Robert Forster, Richard McGonagle, Jim Meskimen, Kristoffer Tabori, Arthur Morey, and Christian Rummel—is incredibly powerful and like nothing else we’ve heard. Of course the historical context brings with it such import, but the actual writing is so wonderfully detailed, so alive, that it truly has what Mr. Nocera called a “you-are-there quality.”

Guest: Philip Shenon
Author of “A Cruel and Shocking Act”
Website: www.philipshenon.com

Philip Shenon, the bestselling author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, was a reporter for the New York Times for more than twenty years. As a Washington correspondent for the Times, he covered the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the State Department. As a foreign correspondent for the paper, he reported from more than sixty countries and several warzones. He lives in Washington, DC.

THE BOOK: “A Cruel and Shocking Act”

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation

The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963?

Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The New York Times, finally provides many of the answers. Though A Cruel and Shocking Act began as Shenon's attempt to write the first insider's history of the Warren Commission, it quickly became something much larger and more important when he discovered startling information that was withheld from the Warren Commission by the CIA, FBI and others in power in Washington. Shenon shows how the commission's ten-month investigation was doomed to fail because the man leading it – Chief Justice Earl Warren – was more committed to protecting the Kennedy family than getting to the full truth about what happened on that tragic day. A taut, page-turning narrative, Shenon's book features some of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century—Bobby Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Chief Justice Warren, CIA spymasters Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, as well as the CIA's treacherous “molehunter,” James Jesus Angleton.

Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to the surviving commission staffers and many other key players, Philip Shenon's authoritative, scrupulously researched book will forever change the way we think about the Kennedy assassination and about the deeply flawed investigation that followed.

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Guest: Howard Burson
Author of “Report From Nurenberg-The International War Crimes Trial”
Website: http://www.burson-marsteller.com/leaderships/harold-burson-founding-chairman/

Guest: Philip Shenon
Author of “A Cruel and Shocking Act”
Website: www.philipshenon.com

Jack Girardi
Co-Host
Website: www.girardikeese.com

Steve Murphy
Executive Producer and Host
Website: www.lbishow.com