Bill Meyer Guest Info, Show blog for 3/2 to 3/6/26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 03/02/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info

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 6:20 State Senator Noah Robinson – the next votes – final week of the session, what can we expect?

6:35 John O’Connor, attorney and former Federal Prosecutor – author of POSTGATE:

Bill Clinton’s Epstein deposition set for Friday as Hillary said “you’ll have to ask my husband”

Read more below:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/youll-have-to-ask-my-husband-house-republicans-say-hillary-clinton-punted-questions-on-epstein-00802742

John O’Connor, is author of Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern California representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases.

 

Deep Throat’s lawyer discovers the Washington Post betrayed his client—while covering up the real truth about the Watergate scandal.   BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Postgate-Washington-Betrayed-Watergate-Journalism/dp/1642932590 BIO: John O’Connor is an experienced trial lawyer, practicing law in San Francisco since 1972.  He has tried cases in state and federal court throughout the country. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern California from 1974-1979, representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases. Among his interesting assignments have been representation of the government during the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s; writing Fifth Amendment and “state of mind” briefs for the prosecution in United States v. Patricia Hearst; representing the FDIC, FSLC and RTC during the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s; representing California Attorney General Dan Lungren in campaign-related litigation; defending R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in significant smoking and health litigation; representing Coach Don Nelson in litigation with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban; and representing W. Mark Felt regarding the revelation of his identity as Deep Throat. WEBSITE https://www.postgatebook.com

7:10 Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com with today’s Outdoor Report

7:35 Sam Dorman, editor with the Epoch Times – 703-409-7958 focuses on legal issues, including supreme court – any problem with legal and the attack??

 8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers with today’s “Where Past Meets Present” www.DennisPowersBooks.com

Bill Patton: A “Guiding Light” at OSF

By Dennis Powers

 

Bill Patton was born in Medford in 1927 and was drawn into drama while at Medford High School. After graduating from Stanford University, he served two years in the U.S. Army, worked at CBS radio in Hollywood, and did promotions for the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco.

 

He began working for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (“OSF”) as a part-time lighting designer in 1948, but he did a variety of jobs for the tiny festival, including as a wardrobe assistant. Along with other acting roles, he played Count Paris in “Romeo and Juliet” (1949) and Prince John in “Henry IV–Part One” (1950). OSF”s founder, Angus Bowmer, appointed Bill as its general manager in 1953 and its first full-time employee.

 

Another Stanford graduate in theatre, Shirley Douglass (Patton) came to Ashland in 1958 to act with the OSF in whatever parts were available. She met her husband, Bill Patton, only minutes after she got off the bus. As she walked up the hill behind the Ashland library looking for the building she would stay in, two men came beside her in an old truck with a mattress in the bed. “The man driving the truck looked rather concerned that I was carrying those suitcases, but he was clearly torn between that and whatever task he had at hand,” Shirley said.

 

As she approached the house she would share with other young actresses in the company, the two men also stopped and lifted out the mattress. “It’s been fumigated,” the younger man said, she recounted. That man was Bill Patton, the general manager of the company. They were married six months later.

 

Among the people Patton lured to Ashland was his friend Richard Hay, who became OSF’s senior scenic and theatre designer, with near six-decades of working for it. The team of Patton and Hay brought about much of what is now seen at OSF. They designed and oversaw construction of the present Elizabethan Theatre in 1958 and the Angus Bowmer Theatre, which opened in 1970. They opened the Black Swan in 1977 and the Pavilion surrounding the Elizabethan Stage in 1991.

 

In 1981, his title was changed to executive director, and he had led the festival as a “guiding light” from 1953 to 1995 when he retired. The OSF under Patton’s helm grew from 29 performances and an annual audience of 15,000 to 800 performances and an audience of 400,000. Taking the tiny festival to where it became one of the largest regional theatres was an achievement. He remained a highly visible presence in Southern Oregon afterwards, attending play openings at the OSF and elsewhere with his wife, Shirley, and supporting live theater and the arts.

 

Bill Patton passed away at age 83 in 2011. The OSF dedicated the entire 2011 season, its 76th, to him in honor of his leadership. Shirley and Bill had three children and seven grandchildren during their 52 years of marriage.

 

Afterwards, Shirley carried on. She celebrated 60 years of service with the Tudor Guild in 2019 and was in her 75th year of acting, much of it with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The legacy of her husband, Bill, also continues on as a “great man of the theatre and of Oregon.”

 

Sources: Bill Varble, “OSF’s Bill Patton dies at age 83,” Mail Tribune, January 14, 2011; Caitlin Fowlkes, “OSF legend (Shirley Patton) celebrates 60 years,” Mail Tribune, January 16, 2019.