Why Does Biography Matter? | Conversations with Jim Zirin Segment

Watch the full episode at Kai Bird won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inspiration for the hit movie. He tells Jim Zirin how Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, New Mexico in the 1940's, became a victim of the McCarthy era in 1954 when an ad hoc board revoked his security clearance after a deeply flawed hearing. Follow CUNY TV: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CUNYTV Twitter: https://twitter.com/cunytv Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cunytv75/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cunytv75 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cunytv/ Find more from CUNY TV at https://tv.cuny.edu Watch the full episode at https://tv.cuny.edu/show/conversationswithjimzirin/PR2012712 Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to illuminate the news by taking the time required to understand and interpret national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military. The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of two books, The Mother Court -- Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, and Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau. Watch more Conversations with Jim Zirin at http://tv.cuny.edu/show/conversations... Subscribe to the CUNY TV channel: https://bit.ly/2GmGb13 Subscribe to the Series Playlist: https://bit.ly/2RJKqKy CNJZ07001 FS