{"id":52226,"date":"2010-11-15T02:44:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T08:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=52226"},"modified":"2010-11-16T02:34:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T08:34:54","slug":"oliver-north-at-tyler-book-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=52226","title":{"rendered":"Oliver North at Tyler Book Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=52227\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52227\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/11\/Oliver-North-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Oliver North\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-52227\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; East Texans got a chance on Sunday to meet Oliver North. A member of the National Security Council staff during the Reagan administration, North received national attention for his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair in the 80&#8217;s. He currently can be seen on the Fox News Channel where he hosts the documentary series &#8220;War Stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> North was at Barnes and Noble in Tyler to sign copies of his new book, &#8220;American Heroes in Special Operations.&#8221; KETK-TV reports North said a nation without heroes couldn&#8217;t stay around very long.<\/p>\n<p>According to North, &#8220;The classical definition of a hero is a person not wearing spandex, suit and cape &#8211; TV show or a movie. A classical definition of a hero is someone who puts themselves at risk for the benefit of others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North was asked some of the unfavorable views of the military published on sites like Wiki-Leaks, North was quick to defend his country. &#8220;I find it to be interesting that Wiki-Leaks only has bad things to say about our military.  Well if nothing else, this is a counterpoise to all that crap that&#8217;s out there, and that&#8217;s why I write these books,&#8221; North said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; East Texans got a chance on Sunday to meet Oliver North. A member of the National Security Council staff during the Reagan administration, North received national attention for his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair in the 80&#8217;s. He currently can be seen on the Fox News Channel where he hosts the documentary series &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=52226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oliver North at Tyler Book Signing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 16:19:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52226"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52456,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52226\/revisions\/52456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}