Wed Aug 19 – Jim Sanders / Bill Birnes

Jim Sanders joined Seal Beach (Orange County CA) police department in 1966, straight out of college, specialized in accident investigation for the majority of my career, medically retired 1977; completed his BS degree at Christopher Newport University, VA, 1979; worked in politics 1980 – 1985, ran a primary congressional campaign against John McCain, was the first executive director of the Virginia Legislative Caucus; began investigating federal lawlessness because of a conversation he had with a Wall Street Journal columnist (1986). Soldiers of Misfortune was his first book, co-authored with Mark Sauter (1992). The Men We Left Behind (1993), The Downing of TWA Flight 800 (1997), Altered Evidence 2000, First Strike (co-author Jack Cashill) 2003, co-produced documentary with Cashill 2004. Currently working on the definitive book on TWA Flight 800 and a second book that will for the first time give the factual story of the behind the scenes war between White House extremists and a secret American military intelligence unit tracking the communist influence surrounding FDR–and the KGB’s monitoring of the Military Intelligence unit.

Bill Birnes is a New York Times bestselling author, the creator, consulting producer, writer, and lead host of History Channel’s UFO Hunters and one of the creators and guest experts on History’s Ancient Aliens. He is currently featured as a commentator on Discovery’s Unsolved NASA Files and the upcoming Reelz TV “Dr. Feelgood.” Birnes’ forthcoming books are the Life and Times of Mickey Rooney in October, Psychiatric Criminology in January, UFO Hunters Book 2 in January, and Edison’t Last Invention: The Spirit Phone this coming Spring. Birnes holds a Ph.D. and a J.D., was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and is the co-host of the Dark Matter Digital Network’s Future Theater with co-host Nancy Birnes on Monday nights at ten PM Eastern.