Season Lecture Series

 

 

Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the most intimate and untold stories of his decades at America's most iconic news show — 60 Minutes, all a part of his new book Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60- Minutes. Based on decades of access and experience, in his book, Ira Rosen takes readers behind closed doors to offer an inclusive look at the show that invented TV investigative journalism. 

 

 

 

Director of the Palm Beach County Education Commission and Florida Historical Society. Harvey E. Oyer III is a fifth-generation Floridian whose descendants were here before the 1878 Spanish brig Providencia ran aground off Palm Beach-- he's the great-great-grandson of Captain Hannibal Dillingham Pierce, great-grandson of Lillie Pierce Voss, and son of a former Boynton Beach mayor, Oyer is a Pioneer in his own right. He is the author of the bestselling book, The Adventures of Charlie Pierce.

 

 

Journey into this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees with film critic and professor Dan Hudak. Hudak will show clips of nominated films and lead a discussion of the Academy's voting habits in part to lend perspective to choosing the likely winner. You won't want to miss this insightful and fun lecture!

 

 

 

 

With the entertainment department of NBC, Kasoff worked on the long-running sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live" along with various soap operas, game shows, and specials produced by the network. 

 

 

 

Meyer Lansky was known as the "Mob's Accountant", he was an American organized crime figure who was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States. Many believe that if he had not been a gangster, he probably would have wound up running General Motors. Oh Really?