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Peoria Gets a C-SPAN Close-Up

Tanya Koonce
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Peoria Public Radio

A team from C-SPAN’s ‘2016 Cities Tour’ is in Peoria this week gathering interviews and video for BookTV and American History TV.

Debbie Lamb is the coordinating producer for C-SPAN’s Cities Tour Team. She says they are doing a kick-off event Tuesday at Peoria City Hall and everyone is invited to come out.

Credit Tanya Koonce / Peoria Public Radio
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C-SPAN Coordinating Producer Debbie Lamb talking with Bradley University Sociologist, Dr Jackie Hogan about her book 'Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America.'

  “It’s at 12:15 in Council Chambers It gives us an opportunity to thank the city of Peoria for hosting us in their town and thank our cable partners, Comcast and share the stories that we are going to be covering while we are here.”

The production team for the C-SPAN 2016 Cities Tour initiative is planning about 6 segments on local nonfiction authors for BookTV and another 6 for American History TV, with the pieces to air Oct 15 th and 16th.