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01.24.2002

John Walker Lindh Listen Listen


John Phillip Walker Lindh, on the way to court appearance 1/24/02


Forums: What should America do with JohnWalker?

How does one get from Marin County, CA to the Taliban? That’s the question America is asking about John Walker Lindh. The answer, says tonight’s guest, Shelby Steele, is cultural liberalism. It serves up American self-hate to the young as idealism. Do you buy this theory? How do you explain John Walker Lindh’s strange odyssey?

Guest:

  • Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; author of “A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America”
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    Kelly Campbell, right and Rita Lasar, left, at the house of Abdul Mohammad in Kabul, Afghanistan

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    9-11 Families Go to Afghanistan Listen Listen

    They lost loved ones in the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Their search for solace and understanding took them thousands of miles away from home to Afghanistan. From Ground Zero to the rubble of Afghanistan, reflections on war, peace, and healing from the true moral arbiters in the War on Terror: 9-11 families.

    Guests:

  • Rita Lasar, Rita’s younger brother Abe Zelmanowitz, died in the World Trade Center
  • Kelly Campbell, Kelly’s brother-in-law Craig Amundson was killed at The Pentagon
  • Derril Bodley, Derril's daughter, Deora, was killed on United Flight 93, which crashed into a field near Pittsburgh
  • Eva Rupp, stepsister of Deora Bodley

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