Welcome to the battles of memorial here at historic pearl harbor. It is 9 02 am, the moment 75 years ago when the ceremony began on the ship. My name is michael carr, im the president and chief executive officer of the uss missouri memorial organization. It is an honor to serve in that capacity and to be your mc for todays ceremony as we commemorate a huge milestone, the 75th anniversary of one of the most significant events in history the ending of world war ii. First and foremost, i have the honor of welcoming our special guests, world war ii veterans who are with us here today. I will name them individually and ask that you stand if you are able as your name its called and remain standing. Please hold your applause until the end so that we honor them collectively for their service, their courage, and for their sacrifice. Victor area, omsk are, its all called iran, walter chi, jack detour, paul newman, when bill newman, theodore richardson, author shaq, lumbered wise, and joseph youn
The aha is a membershipsupported organization, just a reminder. One has to say these things, anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type of content, membership links are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. I want to give an especially grateful thankful to History Channel for their generous sponsorship of this webinar. Lets get started. It is an honor to introduce todays panelists, Annette Gordonreed, professor of law and history at harvard university. And david blight, professor of history and director of the lehrman center for the study of slavery, abolition and resistance at yale university. The professors are Pulitzer Prize winning historians and they have won lots of other prizes as well. They have written and spoken frequently and insightfully on issues relating to monuments, history, memory and our nations continued failure to fully confront the implica
Human rights has appeared in your times the wall street journal and Foreign Affairs also featured on a radio ad and three reasons why we still havent gotten rid of malaria an author of several those books went off in the negative responses that provokes and politicians may claim that is a Destructive Force she says migration is a lifesaving response hello everyone thank you for joining us tonight i wish i could see the person saute about the background of how he came to write this book my last book was called pandemic before i had written other books about malaria and other aspects of Global Health focusing on contagion. Right around the time of the migrant crisis on the mediterranean were all these people were leaving syria and afghanistan running away from bombings and beheadings and trying to get into europe and many of them are getting stuck in the mediterranean there were drownings and refugee camps and Detention Centers closing one at a time like a domino effect. Having written a
Group everybody together as the same and what america forgets about is at the rugged individualism, its very difficult for us to look at the case, lets just say in minneapolis were george floyd died and Law Enforcement, the first thing we think about we think about, he was a black guy, it was a white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this took place. What happens is when you try to make it an issue that an individual died was black and the person whos responsible for it was white, you eliminate other human beings who should also have the same moral outrage, too much of our time today is spent on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the person thats the fact that this individual died in a very gruesome and brutal way for no reason at all because what happens is that individual dies it takes away some of our humanity and who we
[background noise] the university of massachusetts amherst announced the acquisition of papers of Daniel Ellsberg, which will be available to the public. In an event marking the acquisition, pentagon papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg talks about the proper problem with Nuclear Weapons. His recent book the doomsday machine, confessions of a Nuclear War Planner details his three pentagon papers work as a teacher analyst for the Rand Corporation strategic analyst for the Rand Corporation. He talks about the role of whistleblowers in the 21st century. All right, good evening, good afternoon, good evening. Thetings and welcome to 21st annual friends of the Umass Librarys fall recession. I am the dean of libraries here. Today i have the honor of welcoming you to a special program, planning to celebrate the acquisition of daniel bysbergs personal archive the university. This represents an important addition to the Umass Library archives and the university. The Library Special collections a