JFK and The Train

Thaine Allison

The Democratic National Convention ends today, but not without a few comparisons made between Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy.

Thaine Allison remembers the DNC when John F. Kennedy was the star. It was the summer of 1960. Thaine was 21 and working on freight trains. He was one of a small group of train operators standing near the tracks when Kennedy's train had to make an unexpected stop. The impromptu meeting with JFK was life-altering for Thaine.

• Check out Thaine's website
• See a photo of Thaine while he was in the Peace Corps
• Listen to JFK's entire 1960 DNC acceptance speech

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Who is James K. Robinson?

James K. Robinson of Alaska

The ACLU says there are over 900,000 names on the government's centralized terror watch list, though TSA says the number is much less.

James K. Robinson is on that list - and at least two men have been routinely stopped because of it.

James K. Robinson of Alaska is a former brigadier general for the Air Force, a commercial airline pilot, and is authorized to carry a firearm in the cockpit. James K. Robinson of Washington, DC has worked for the federal government and has top security clearance.

James K. Robinson of DC

They talk to guest host Aaron Henkin about the first time they were stopped in an airport, how they found out about one another, and what they've done since to try to get off the terror watch list.

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Road Rage

Greg and Paula

Incidents of road rage increase in the bumper-to-bumper traffic of the summer. Just recently in San Diego, an off-duty police officer was accused of shooting at another driver in an apparent road rage dispute.

Paula wrote in about her husband, Greg. On the way out of town for a much-needed vacation, Greg and Paula encountered an aggressive driver who nearly drove them off the road. Greg normally keeps his cool - he spends a lot of time on the road driving large loads. In this case he didn't: before too long, both cars had pulled over and Greg had the guy in a headlock.

Greg and Paula join guest host Aaron Henkin to tell the story of what happened when they got caught up in road rage.

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