Throughout the summer months of 2015, the Hoover Institution in Washington, D.C. will host a rooftop series dedicated to Firing Line, one of the most significant and lively broadcasts in television history. The Hoover Institution summer series will celebrate the lasting achievement of Firing Line by screening significant episodes, followed by speakers who will discuss the legacy of the show and the issues discussed by William F. Buckley, Jr. and his on-air guests. Attendees of the summer series are invited to enjoy dinner and drinks while watching Buckley’s ingenious interviews and discussing the diverse topics they raise. 

On May 20, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives hosted a special event featuring Gregg Bemis, a Stanford graduate (class of 1950) and current owner of the famed wreck of the British luxury liner RMS Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. Bemis, a retired businessman, nautical history buff, and deep-sea diving enthusiast who, at the age of seventy-six, visited the underwater wreck in 2004, delivered a talk explaining his longtime fascination with the story of the famous ship