kennedy, robert dallek joins us tonight from washington. good to have you on this program, sir. thanks for your time. >> a pleasure to be with you. over 40,000later, books, and still we are fascinated by the life and times of john f. kennedy. why so? >> yes, it's really a bit amazing, isn't it? you know, i think part of it has to do with the fact that he was assassinated, and he's frozen in our minds at the age of 46, so young, vibrant, witty, charming. we still capture him on the tapes from his press conferences that we have to this day. it is not just the assassination. there was a very popular president assassinated in 1901, william mckinley. he had been elected to a second term. his death, hardly anybody remembered who he was. i think television has a lot to do with it, the fact that we can still see kennedy, that he looks like one of us, that if he walked into this room now, he would be a familiar figure. you can't imagine that if he were alive, he would be 96 years old. i would say there were at least two other things that give him this hold on the public's imagination. it

but i think robert dallek is right. it seems somehow more fiting if he were killed for a great reason. >> well, he also had thought about assassinating other people. i forgot the right wing general's name -- edwin walker. >> he was shot at mass. which makes it just to make your point even more improbable that he hit the mark on november 22. because he was at closer range then. >> it was an easy shot. >> rose: it was not a hard shot. >> the limousine was turning a curve so that he was at kennedy's back. it wasn't a car going by at that point, he was basically stationary target. >> and the rain had stopped minutes earlier. so. >> rose: so the legacy of shim, richard reeves? the kennedy years? what's the legacy? >> the legacy i would say --. >> rose: of this unfinished life. >> of this unfinished life, i think among the many things he did well, the fact of the matter is the most important thing about him, because of his health, is that he did not wait his turn. he destroyed the system that would not have made him president

[laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen please join me in thanking robert dallek. [applause] >> thank you.

[laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen please join me in thanking robert dallek. [applause] >> thank you. >> you kara newman looks at how the commodities market influences what we eat and what we pay for. she says the markets have changed culinary trends for hundreds of years. ms. newman spoke at the world bank in washington d.c.. this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you to the world bank for hosting today. i do appreciate it. i do feel the need to start by saying i am not an economist. i'm a food writer. i may culinary historian. just explain a little bit about how the book came about, when i first started my career i wrote about financial topics. i worked with a small consulting company that was acquired by much larger conglomerate and i was tasked with creating content about the equities market and the one that completely changed my life the commodities market. so how did that change my life? when i started learning about commodities, of course i realized that there are certain products such as oil and gold but there are also products that fall into the agricultu

. >> presidential historian robert dallek's latest book is called "camel "camelot's court." >> a shining moment in history, camelot's court, the idea that it was something special. >> november 22nd, 1963. the day begins with an excited welcome for president kennedy outside his ft. worth, texas, hotel. oswald is going to work with a hidden rifle. he kept it in ruth and michael payne's garage. >> it looked like camping equipment. i never occurred to michael that it might be a gun. >> in less than four hours president kennedy will be dead. back inside the hotel, the fashionable mrs. kennedy makes a grand entrance at a breakfast speech. and her husband can't resist a joke. >> i was the man that accompanied her to paris. >> john kennedy was highly intelligent, witty and charming man. >> after breakfast, the kennedys fly to dallas. a stop some of his advisers thought was unfriendly territory. they land at love field for the next leg of their two-day trip. the election is 12 months away. >> as we arrive at least 5,000 people behind the line. >> secret service agent clint hill is assigned to pro

and we conclude with historian robert dallek, author of "camelot's court." it all happens next on booktv. >> now, historian martin sandler presents a collection of john f. kennedy's personal correspondences. the letters range from notes sent to his parents from boarding school to secret missives to soviet premier new kieta khrushchev during the cold war. this event from the hyannis museum in massachusetts is just over an hour. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. we want to welcome you here to the john f. kennedy hyannis museum. we're very happy to have you here this evening, and we're happy to have c-span with us as well for the author, martin sandler and rob sennett, who's a past chairman of the board of trustees of the jfk hyannis museum foundation. my name is dick neats, and i'm happy to have you with us, and we're looking forward to a wonderful program, and we thank you all again. i would give you a couple of reminders, if you would. please turn your cell phones off, since we are being recorded, i understand c-span will broadcast it within the next co

robert dallek believes part of the attraction is that kennedy died so young. >> he's frozen in our minds at the age of 46. people can't imagine that if he were alive he'd be 96 years old. so there he is still so youthful, so handsome, so charming, so witty. >> reporter: kennedy was also a very complicated human being. >> john f. kennedy was a marvelous human puzzle. you think you've solved it and suddenly something else happens. >> reporter: he was born in 1917 the second of nine children, into a legendary irish american family. his father joseph was a multimillionaire who served as ambassador great britain. in 1941, after graduating from harvard, john kennedy enlisted in the navy. as world war ii raged on, he took command of p.t.-109, a small torpedo boat that was ultimately cut in half by a japanese destroyer in the south pacific. >> he takes one of the men who was really injured, burned, takes his life belt and puts it between his teeth and swings something like a half mile to a nearby island dragging this man along with him. the. >> reporter: kennedy is hailed as a hero-- but it's on

beginning with robert dallek and authors panel. it all as part of booktv on c-span2. don't forget the book club for november want to know what books you are reading. >> torch will give an update on the dod relief efforts to the people of the philippines. you can see the final briefing before he steps down and other briefings from the pentagon at c-span.org. here is a look. >> hello. first, thank you for helping us. >> you're welcome. it's my pleasure. [laughter] >> he talked about the response to the philippines and the budget, can you talk about the cost and we have been hearing so much about how the military won't be able to do this because of the budget cutback. how much is this costing and it is this something that we won't be able to do in the future we won't be able to do currently because of budget limitations. >> this is a fast-moving train and we want to assist people in coming to the philippines. it carries costs. we are committed as a department and a government to supporting the this in the asia department world. this includes secretary panetta's troubles

eastern, with authors martin sandler, ira stoll, jeff greenfield, and robert dallek. plus an authors panel relives november 22, 1963. it is all part of book tv this weekend on c-span2. and don't forget, book tv's book club for november wants to know what kennedy books you're reading. post your thoughts in our book club chat room at booktv.org/bookclub. "washington journal" continues. host: we take a look on when saves about a recent magazine article. to date we want to go online to the atlantic web to look at this piece by philip bump, "does more campaign money actually buy more votes: an investigation." let's answer the question -- does it? guest: there is a correlation, which i suspect will not surprise a lot of people. we took a look at the house .aces in 2012 we found there was a correlation. between the amount of money that was spent and the vote total by which the person won. host: there are these charts with blue dots and red lines. can you explain this first one? it shows the trend and all of the data. explain what happened here, what you are looking at. is.st

[laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen please join me in thanking robert dallek. [applause] >> thank you. i began to really understand, i had like basically removed a lot of my case. i had to go on with my life and i had to let it go. and i was reminded of this man who called for the reinstatement of the death penalty, specifically for our case. people wanted us to be hanging from trees in central park, you know? and it was the same blood thirsty miss that i began to really connect with in understanding that had this been the '50s, had this been the '40s, had this, i mean, had this been the earlier part of the '60s they would have broke our doors down, drug us from our homes, and we would have become some of those -- they turned them into postcards and they call them picnics, but it was a picnic of the picture of black and brown folks burned at the stake with their members cut away from them. and many of them had been hung. and i began to really understand how devious the system is that we are fighting. this isn't just about say, well, you know there are some peop