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Host Alex Chadwick talks to Armando Alonzo, professor of history at Texas A&M about the verdict of a jury in Brownville, Texas. Six decades after a New York lawyer bought Padre Island from a Mexican-American family, the jury determined that he had swindled the family's impoverished descendants out of 1.1 million-dollars in oil and gas royalties.

NPR's Renee Montagne will speak tomorrow with Thomas Lynch -- a writer who is also a funeral director. Today we'll hear an excerpt from that interview. The name of the book mentioned Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch is published by W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393049272

Co-host Madeleine Brand introduces a montage of vendors hawking their wares at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Russell Lewis of member station KPBS reports hot temperatures across California have led to soaring electricity demand and cost. In San Diego, the cost has forced some businesses to close and caused some experts to question the effectiveness of the state's utility deregulation.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports from McCall, Idaho that there are dozens of major fires burning in 10 western states. US Army soldiers, are preparing to join regular firefighters in an effort to contain the wildfire in the Payette National Forest. Groups of soldiers are receiving training from members of elite firefighting teams.

NICHOLAS KRISTOF continued.Satirist HARRY SHEARER, the host of "Le Show," and the voice behind several characters on "The Simpsons". SHEARER is also the author of "It's the Stupidity, Stupid: Why (Some) People hate Clinton and Why the Rest of Us Have to Watch." This week he is in Philadelphia as part of the "Shadow Convention" an alternative to the Republican and Democratic conventions, which covers the issues it says the other conventions won't touch like campaign finance reform, poverty in the midst of prosperity, and the drug war. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE END OF THE SHOW).12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . . as George W. Bush makes his way to the Republican convention. . .a look at his life before he was a public figure. A talk with NICHOLAS KRISTOF of the New York Times, who has profiled the candidate in a series of articles. Also satirist HARRY SHEARER gives us his take on the convention. That and more coming up on the next Fresh Air.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the Congressional voting record of Senator Joseph Lieberman, Al Gore's choice as his Vice Presidential running mate. Republicans plan to emphasize disagreements between Lieberman and Gore on various policies of the Clinton administration.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on Senator Joseph Lieberman's identity as an Orthodox Jew and how it might affect Al Gore's prospects for winning the Presidency. Lieberman is known for his morality and moderation. He was the first Democrat in the Senate to denounce President Clinton's sexual behavior as immoral. And he's been highly critical of violence and sex on television and in popular music.

One of the last surviving members of Britain's greatest generation of actors has died. Sir Alec Guinness the man of a thousand faces, died at the age of 86 after a career that spanned more than 60 years.

In the first part of a series on female vocalists, NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg profiles singer Stacey Kent. Kent's, new album was inspired by the singing and dancing of Fred Astaire. It's called, Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire. (6:42) Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire by Stacey Kent is available on Candid-Navarre; ASIN: B0000