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The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
The author of The Dangerous Book for Boys offers invaluable advice for the young at heart--from how to build a treehouse, to how to hold your own at stickball. Plus, Vincent Bugliosi (best known as the Charles Manson prosecutor) explains why he believes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK.

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