1st Hour Stanton Friedman

Nuclear Physicist-Lecturer Stanton T. Friedman received his BSc. and MSc. Degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. He was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist by such companies as GE, GM, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell Douglas working in such highly advanced, classified, eventually cancelled programs as nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and various compact nuclear powerplants for space and terrestrial applications.

2nd Hour Paul Davids

Paul Jeffrey Davids (B. A. in Psychology, Princeton University) is a noted producer, writer and director in Los Angeles, mainly of television films that have been released by Showtime (“Roswell: The UFO Cover-up”) and NBC Universal International. He has also written books, including An Atheist in Heaven: The Ultimate Evidence for Life After Death? (2016). Paul is from Bethesda, Maryland, the son of a famous Georgetown University professor of American History, Dr. Jules Davids, who worked extensively with John F. Kennedy on the writing of Profiles in Courage (for which his father is credited in the Preface) and who was a professor to Jacqueline Kennedy and later to Georgetown undergraduate Bill Clinton. At Princeton, Paul won numerous awards in writing, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Prize for Short Story Writing. His ‘misadventures’ working at the New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute while he was a student at Princeton are fully documented in the book Blowing America’s Mind: A True Story of Princeton, CIA Mind Control, LSD and Zen (2018). After graduating from Princeton in 1969, Paul moved from Bethesda, Maryland to Los Angeles to attend the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies in Beverly Hills. He was in the first class of fifteen Fellows at AFI and studied producing and directing alongside Terrence

Malick, Paul Schrader, David Lynch and Jeremy Kagan, and master cinematographer Caleb Deschanel was in his class too. In the mid-1970’s, Paul’s first assignment in the entertainment business was as a script analyst for agent Paul Kohner (where he read all the submissions for Charles Bronson, John Huston and William Wyler). His career in film and television took off when he got his ‘first break’ as production coordinator (and a writer) of the original “Transformers” animated TV show for Marvel Productions. He performed production chores on 79 episodes. At that time, in the late 1970’s, he also co-wrote (with Hollace Davids) his first book: The Fires of Pele: Mark Twain’s Legendary Lost Journal , and the husband and wife team co-wrote six “Star Wars” sequel novels (1992-1993) for Lucasfilm and Bantam Books, including the award-winning Mission From Mount Yoda , plus The Glove of Darth Vader, The Lost City of the Jedi, Zorba the Hutt’s Revenge, Queen of the Empire and Prophets of the Dark Side . The books sold millions of copies and were published in many languages.