Tour of castle spaces not open to the public with steve berry and curator Richard Stamm. Much of mr. Berrys latest work took place here. Richard stamm is the author of the castle. The illustrated history of the building. We met our tour guide in the crypt. This is about 40 minutes. I am steve berry. I am here with Richard Stamm Richard Stamm. Steve berry he has a cool job, he looks after this stuff in the building. This is a really interesting place where it all started. The smithsonian was started by a man named james smithson. He was just a guy who had an interest in science at the time. But he died and he had 500,000 when he died and he left it to his nephew. If his nephew had been married and had kids, life would be great, he would have kept the money. But he died childless. The provision said the money would go to washington, d. C. To found at the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. That is what the language says. Here is the really neat part. The
Possessed a skill much needed by the army, fighting a war required Reliable Communications network but more than two and a half years of war had devastated the french telephone system. General john pershing, commander in chief of the American Expeditionary forces called on the expertise of women telephone operators. More than 1700 women applied and just over 200 serve the with the army. The services are documented in their personnel files now in the National Archives at st. Louis. A collection of archival personnel civilian records. After the war they were not deemed el visible for military benefits. It took until the 1970s for the girls to finally receive the benefits due them as the First Female Army veterans. In both the military and civilian Personnel Records Center we preserve records of millions of men and women who have served our country. Throughout the centennial observance, the National Archives is showcasing its unparalleled war holdings and the stories contained in them, in
Possessed a skill much needed by the army, fighting a war required Reliable Communications network but more than two and a half years of war had devastated the french telephone system. General john pershing, commander in chief of the American Expeditionary forces called on the expertise of women telephone operators. More than 1700 women applied and just over 200 serve the with the army. The services are documented in their personnel files now in the National Archives at st. Louis. A collection of archival personnel civilian records. After the war they were not deemed el visible for military benefits. It took until the 1970s for the girls to finally receive the benefits due them as the First Female Army veterans. In both the military and civilian Personnel Records Center we preserve records of millions of men and women who have served our country. Throughout the centennial observance, the National Archives is showcasing its unparalleled war holdings and the stories contained in them, in
Steve berry he has a cool job, he looks after this stuff in the building. It is really neat. A really interesting place, kind of where it started. The smithsonian was started by a man named james smithson. He was an innocuous british chemist. He was just a guy who had an interest in science at the time. He died at he had 500,000 when he died and he left it to his nephew. His nephew had been married and had kids, life would be great, he would have cap the money, but he died childless. The provision said the money would go to washington, d. C. To found the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. That is what the language says. Here is the neat part. He had never set foot in america. Why did he leave a half Million Dollars to place he never set a foot in . To this day, nobody knows. The guess is he was somewhat bitter. , soas an illegitimate son for the 30 years of his life, he first was known as james lewis macey. Because he was illegitimate, he was never all
Night, kennedy and lincoln are sort of bookends, where i soon i assume everyone knows about who lincoln was and who kennedy was. I wont talk much about kennedy and did not talk about lincoln. I assume most people dont know much about garfield and mckinley, so we will talk more about garfield and mckinley more than the actual assassinations. The assassination of lincoln by john wilkes booze and of kennedy by lee harvey oswald, we were in they were able to get away from the scene of the murder all sorts of conspiracy theories cropped up. Who did it, did they get away and did we get the right guy . In the cases of garfield and mckinley, they caught the guy right away. There was no question. Charles the toe was was captured right after shooting garfield and leon was grabbed immediately after shooting mckinley. They both freely admitted they did it, so there was no question about that. Today, we will look at William Mckinley. Mckinley is a figure who is neglected in american history. Garfie