7 Things You Didn't Know About the Speakers in the New Jersey Speakers Series

The former CIA director's opposition to civil rights policies in the Nixon White House inspired him to write "Bring Us Together," a tell-all book.

This neurosurgeon is not only CNN's Emmy-winning medical correspondent, but was voted one of People magazine's sexiest men of 2003.

In a commencement speech at Washington University, this award-winning documentarian advised, "Listen to jazz. A lot. It is our music."

This international activist and author from Somalia speaks six languages.

Distance swimmer Diana Nyad was expelled from college for parachuting from a dormitory window.

This con-man-turned-fraud-advisor and subject of "Catch Me If You Can" was a mystery guest on "To Tell the Truth."

The Japanese-American parents of this theoretical physicist and futurist met during their confinement at a relocation center during World War II.