Bill Whittle is the eldest son of an American hotel manager and a British BOAC stewardess. He was born in New York City, grew up in Bermuda and Florida, and was a Theatre major at the University of Florida before moving to Los Angeles, which has been his home since 1988. Bill has been employed as a planetarium writer and operator, security guard, waiter, Carbon 14 lab assistant, hotel front desk clerk, office temp, aircraft manufacturer, limousine driver, professional comedy writer, film director, television editor, glider launch director, author, political commentator, public speaker, and has provided commentary for Fox News, National Review Online, the National Rifle Association, PJTV and many others. His thousands of political videos have been seen about one hundred million times; recently, his State of the Union speech on guns was seen by thirty-five million people. In his free time Bill is an amateur historian, computer graphics artist, and pilot of experimental aircraft.