Desert Town Hall - Indian Wells
The Desert Town Hall of Indian Wells and Youth Town Hall Lecture Series are among the desert's most thought-provoking events. Held each winter, the 2007 season featured Carly Fiorina (January 12), Tom Friedman (February 28), Malcolm Gladwell (March 29), and General Colin Powell, Ret. (April 13).
Previous series speakers have included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, William Cohen, John Walsh, Bernard Shaw, Prime Minister John Major, James A. Baker, III, David and Julie Eisenhower, Dr. Robert Ballard, Helen Thomas and Mike McCurry, HM Queen
Noor of Jordan, Senator Bob Dole, President George Bush, Lady Margaret Thatcher, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cokie Roberts, Henry Kissinger, Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Beverly Sills, Stuart Varney, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf (Ret.), Vince Bugliosi and William F. Buckley, Jr., the McLaughlin Group, Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Former CIA Director George Tenet, Benazir Bhutto, Ken Burns, General Richard Meyers, Ret., and Bob Dole and Tom Daschle.
The Desert Town Hall series is sponsored in part by the City of Indian Wells, the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, and the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians. Lectures are held at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa. The Youth Town Hall is also sponsored by the City of Indian Wells and is open to local students of participating schools.
For more information, call (760) 416-3400 or click www.deserttownhall.org.
