Texas Standard For December 15, 2017
The U.N. and Amnesty International are among the groups warning of a new move to green -ight the militarization of Mexico. We’ll have the latest. And: NASA celebrating the discovery of a new planet in a solar system that looks not entirely unlike our own. But it’s how the discovery was made that’s a breakthrough unto itself. We’ll hear why. Also: On a fateful November day in Dallas, 1963, a Secret Service agent threw himself on top of the first lady to shield her from bullets. For years blamed himself for the death of a president. Today, that agent, Clint Hill, joins us. Those stories and so much more today on the Texas Standard:

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