Which we won a successful major engagement and ford was there. He had been put aboard a ship from hawaii and taken to midway without knowing that a battle was coming. He said later that he assumed that he was there to make a documentary about life at a remeet naval outpost. When he got there he learned that a japanese attack was imminent and that the u. S. Was prepared. So, on the morning of midway, he was stationed on the roof of a powerhouse with a camera and a couple of men from his unit who also had cameras. Perfectly positioned to capture incoming japanese zeros. He was alternating shooting footage and being on the phone to the naval officers below telling them what he was seeing. He shot until a piece of shrapnel hit him in the arm and knocked the film and camera out of its sprockets. He was the first hollywood filmmaker to be wounded in action. By the end of the run because it was short it didnt show instead of hollywood features, it showed in addition to them. By the end of its run it played in three quarters of all the movies in the united states. What you should look for in this movie is the fact that it was made in color. We take that for granted now but it was shocking and unprecedented for audiences then to see real events like this in color. Color had been reserved for fantasies like the wizard of oz or gone with the wind and black and white sounded more realistic, so this was one of the first examples of color realism. When i started covering congress you had people like senator russell long howard baker, people who were giants in their own way, couple of those guys got themselves into trouble, but overall these were people who knew how they were all very intelligent. Today you just dont see that anymore. First of all i think the quality of members of congress of the house and senate in terms of intelligence and their work ethic has diminished. I mean theyre still great people and i shouldnt malone oh malign theyre wonderful people but increase will go i theyre driven by politics and own self survival and the hardest work they do is raising money and not learning the issues or crafting deals but making speeches and positioning themselves to get reelected. Investigative reporter lisa meyers is leaving washington, d. C. Behind. Find out why on cspans q a. Next author and state Department Historian james gram wilson. Russian leader the event was hosted by the wilson center. About an hour and 15 minutes. As we know this is a relatively tense time given some of the topics that i try to deal with in the book, that is the end the cold war. I think that its worth keeping some things in perspective in 2014 and i start off with an example of a telephone. He says call me again in a minute to confirm that. The assistant calls again and says, i was wrong. Its now 2200