For those watching on zoom some housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight, that means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest by writing your question in the q and a box. The moderator will be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonights program and to introduce the moderator it is my pleasure to pass the program over to doctor robert citino. Doctor robert citino, Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in louisiana, we have a special guest with us tonight. A friend of the museum. My friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll, one of those people who doesnt need an introduction as we like to say. The introduction, he is extremely accomplished scholar and writer. He is the author of the epic story of the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacic war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight twilight of th
We have a special guest with us tonight my friend and a wonderful writer and author. Ian toll doesnt really need an introduction it should be very long and to be extremely accomplished the author of six books as well the pacific war the third volume has been released 19441945 from the naval of the United States will writing the writers award so those anymore Samuel Eliot Morrison was out there that thank you so much with the twilight of the gods. Its my pleasure. I am struck by the book this is a big story of the western pacific but you began this book in an interesting way of looking at fdr and douglas macarthur. I will expand on my question. Military history there is the expectation and in this case almost 100 pages into the book. And the unconventional way to begin work of military history i thought it had a little bit of latitude in the case that they are committed to read it or not and with that observation with the pacific war there is a lot of literature and i went to say there
James bond novels written by ian fleming. I have pictured him with his brother, robert kennedy, because the brothers together had great influence on u. S. Intelligence. Theres a lot to say about u. S. Intelligence under kennedy, even though he serves less than a full term because, of course, he was assassinated by a procuban american leftist, a disturbed former marine named lee harvey oswald. At the end, ill have some reflections about the assassination. Before we get to the main intelligence events of this administration, i want to mention a couple of other developments that are not as spectacular but still they deserve to be remembered as important milestones in u. S. Intelligence history, and they leave a legacy to this day. One of them is the president s daily brief. Which was created for kennedy as the president s intelligence checklist. When i first came to cia in 1990, i was i learned that one of the nicknames that insiders used was the pickle factory. They never used the compan
Seek meaning and transformation. It alienates them in certain ways. So, bell is writing in 1960 that theres this ongoing problem of alienation, of a lack of full illment. And the parameters there, when we move from the realm of formal politics, political parties, political philosophy into the world of personal politics and personal experience, i think will also be reflected in our discussions in the second half of the semester. Sound good . All right. Well, i look forward to those conversations in a couple of weeks. Have a good spring break. Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3, explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Weeknights this month, were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan3. Tonight, San Diego State University Professor lectures on the vietnam war. He looks at the conflict from u. S. M
Cspan3. Every july for the past 25 years, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has hosted a civil war battle reenactment and living history village depicting camp life. Next, we visit a union army surgeon and embalmer and talk to reenactors about medical practices during the war. During the very beginning of the war, like i said, maybe around 1860, when there were a lot of quack surgeons in the union army, dr. Letterman in 1862 at an teem took over the medical corps. Now he created an ambulance corps where we could get the men off the battlefield quicker and faster. He also went and had to give tests to surgeons to be army qualified surgeons. Thats where it got better and better in the service. 3 million fought, 600,000 died in it. 700,000 carry wounds off that battlefield. So what happens there is what i was dealing with at that time was really, boy, the musket went in like a finger and came out like a fist. It shattered that bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it whatsoever.