Countdown to Dallas

An award-winning independent member of the White House press corps and its most followed member on Twitter, Paul Brandus founded West Wing Reports in 2009 and provides reports for television, radio, and print outlets in the United States and overseas. A frequent speaker on presidential leadership and history and a columnist for MarketWatch, his career spans network television, Wall Street, and several years in Moscow, where he covered the collapse of the Soviet Union and its aftermath for NBC Radio, National Public Radio, and Public Radio International's Marketplace. He has traveled to fifty-three countries on five continents and has reported from, among other places, Iraq, Chechnya, China, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is a member of the White House Correspondents Association and a former board member of the Overseas Press Club of America.

David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, performing coast-to-coast in lead roles of plays by a variety of playwrights, from Shakespeare to Sam Shepard to Steve Martin. He has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years, during which time he has read the works of such authors as Jules Verne, Henry Adams, John Irving, Michael Chabon, and John Lescroart. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included in Best of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. David was a resident actor/director with the Cleveland Play House for eight years and has been artistic director of the Hope Summer Rep Theater since 1992. He currently lives in New York with his wife, narrator and actress Susan Ericksen, and his children, Mario and Elena.