Baltimore to see the exhibit mars in the war of 1812. On display is a manuscript of Francis Scott keys star spangled banner. The war of 1812 is a very important subject for the Maryland Historical society. When it was created in 1844 the defenders of baltimore as they called themselves, the old defenders were very interested in remembering what had happened and letting the country know that this was probably an important event that they felt actually saved the union in 1814. We were very rich in resources to tell that story from 1812 to 1815. The gallery has hundreds of objects and documents and what we basically tell is a story of baltimore as sort of the epicenter of this story for the state of maryland, a growing, bustling port of 50,000 people and a lot of immigrants who didnt like the british very much and then it goes on to the reasons why the war happened and the command central area of everything in those days where the taverns and the newspapers were being developed and this w
What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decisions could not agree on what he said and as for eisenhower he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteriously he wrote five different versions of the statement in a 1964 article commemorating the 20th anniversary of dday. To put those words, whatever they might have be
That happened. And we focus on this one dude Donald Sterling all we want. But we can look at what we accomplish when we all come together as one. That is what i think we should do. That is my closing comment. [applause] roland will close us out with a final thought. I sat on the set of cnn that night then when i was shedding tears, folks asked me why. I said it is not because of this election. I did not do it because i saw him. I saw the u. S. Soldiers who were hanging from trees and lynched in their uniforms. That was the image they came to my mind. But what ties in with sports is that i recognize that the inauguration parade is over. And if you have not read dr. Kings chaos or community, you should. What we are talking about today, he wrote in 1967 when we were grappling with riots across the country. He said it did not cost america much to allow us to sit at the same lunch counter or to be in the same hotel. He said now the question is the real cost is about to be tabulated, and is
Would drop their careers and go off to film overseas for three or four years. You know, all of the men i write about have their flaws as people and their complicated personal issues, but we understand in many ways what world war ii looked like and felt like because of the work they did. It was all worked they had never done before. It was an extraordinary leap of effort and sacrifice and thought for every single one of them and is a legacy ofus world war ii on film that has deeply informed everything about world war ii that has been filmed and much that has been written. Mark harris is a columnist for energy met weekly Entertainment Weekly and his book is titled five came back a story of hollywood and the second world war. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. This year, cspan is touring cities across the country exploring American History. A look at our recent visit to st. Louis, missouri. You are watching American History tv. St. Louis is celebrating 250 years of history. The museu
He had high dollar vehicles. He had four of them. He had built an addition on his house. And there was a photo of one of my agents driving one of these high dollar vehicles out of the driveway, and he said, eric see that picture . I said, yeah. Do you know what happened when i drove it down the street . I said, no. He said, the neighborhood came out on the street and they were clapping. This is a high volume drug dealer. Thats the kind of people we represent. Thats when the agent drove down the street . He took the corvette out of the driveway, and they were lined up clapping. We represent some of the most vulnerable people, the poor, the elderly, the young, the addicted, and they have no voice. They have no way to sell their home and move away when a drug dealer sets up shop in a neighborhood and the Property Values drop. So, quite frankly, i am personally offended when i hear charges of racism. The laws are race neutral. We go where the battle is hottest. We represent people who are