L. Douglas Keeney. AUTHOR. SPEAKER.

"Keeney’s passion is to unearth the lost voices of American history -- stories of unselfish sacrifice, as he calls them -- and through those voices bring out the character of the nation we live in today."

L. Douglas Keeney holds a Masters degree from the University of Southern California and is the founder of The Military Channel/American Heroes, now part of Discovery Communications. He is the bestselling author of 22 books on American and world history and has appeared on Fox TV and other networks as a subject matter expert. Keeney has interviewed astronauts, celebrities, soldiers, politicians, entrepreneurs, sports stars, and many others. His books have been well reviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, salon, Newsweek, Gannet newspapers, and others. He is a frequent speaker at universities, corporate events, and on cruise ships. He draws on his books and his extensive travels to entertain his audiences with his numerous talks.

Keeney’s books include D-Day: Day of Destiny and This is Guadalcanal from William Morrow, John F. Kennedy: Commander-in-Chief, 15 Minutes (The Cold War), The Eleventh Hour: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (Wiley), Lights of Mankind: Earth At Night As Seen From Space (with NASA), and The Lives They Saved: 9.11. He is published by Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and St. Martin’s Press.

Keeney is a pilot, ham radio operator, and scuba diver. He is involved with the visually impaired and learning disabled.

Keeney has been well reviewed by The New York Times, Bloomberg, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Newsweek Magazine, Slate, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications.

Keeney received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Southern California and was a sponsored post-graduate student at the Institute of Advanced Advertising Studies in New York City. During his years in marketing he was the runner-up for the Arthur Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and is the former Chairman of the License Exempt Alliance of the Wireless Communication Association.

Keeney is a regular speaker at colleges, universities and association. His most recent engagements include appearances as a keynoter or panelist on Oceania Cruises, Fred.Olsen, Celebrity, the University of Nevada/Las Vegas, the University of Virginia, Xavier University, the University of Rhode Island, several EAA Chapters, and the Air Force Association.

In 1992, Keeney cofounded The Military Channel with two other partners.

Preparing to be interviewed for Bret Baier’s show on Fox. 2020 — Preparing to be interviewed for Bret Baier’s show on Fox.

Keeney is a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer. He uses a combination of video and photographic images in his 35-45 minute keynotes. His speeches include:

Keynote. Stage bottom left. The 2023 Daedalion dinner at the National Naval Aviation Museum.
**(Below) Keeney with Markus Wolf, former head of East Germany's spy agency, Stasi. Seen in Prenden, East Germany, just after the Berlin Wall came down.**

Orbit! Human Space Travel Today. Sequel to Lights of Mankind. The state of human space travel with current updates and profiles of the space ambitions of Musk, Bezos and Branson'.

Vanished: Pan Am, Malaysia 370, And The Unfinished History Of Transoceanic Air Travel. A history of the early aviation pioneers, Pan Am, and the evolution of technologies and airplanes from the first days of transoceanic flight. Based in his book Lost in the Pacific. See online video clips. Includes ML 370 and other flights that disappeared.

Lights of Mankind. Earth At Night As Seen From Space. His most popular lecture. Keeney speaks on the status of the ISS and what astronauts see from space at night. Based on the book by the same title.

Pearl Harbor: The Day Of. The Day After. A complete history of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The planning, the execution and why America was so unprepared. Includes video clips and animations made for this lecture. .

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