Gardening is one of my greatest delights. This weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Veteran norman about his time serving as a cameraman for the last norman hatch talked about his time later he discusses serving as part of the allied occupation force of japan and seeing the devastation caused by the atomic bomb on nagasaki. The World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2013 for its oral history collection. This is the second of a twopart interview. Nobody but a few men had been in combat before. My main job was to teach the photographers that were there as a division protrump section how to operate. When i reported in, i had a meor and a captain senior to. I was at that time a master sergeant. So i had applied for the warrant officer set up, but i didnt know whether i would be approved for it. People did not look on photography even in those later days so to speak of the war as being anything really important. You had to force your way into things to get what you wanted done
Weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war he collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today he is a ph. D. Earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in fort worth texas, what year was that . It was a while ago. He is an expert so if you get an opportunity to take a class with him take a class so we are going to continue to discuss the civil war thankfully for doctor kine or we get to look at the aspect of weaponry and its impact on the war so without further ado i will hand the close over to doctor kin or a center. Thank you. The theme for todays lecture is going to be about technology of warfare. A lot of our classes we deal with the politics of warfare and just the historical record of warfare but in a lot of it comes down to the individual whos in the field and the weapons that they were issued because that is what you need for warfare. But one thing that i found fascinating in research was looking at the early 19th century, 1800 up ti
Accuracy. All right, guys. How are we all doing today . Welcome to class. Today, as i talked about earlier this week, we have a special lecturer here. Dr. Jeff kinard. You may have a class with him. He is the chair of our history and Political Science program here at ghoul forward Technical Community college. What you may not know about dr. Kinard is that he is a military historian. Hes an expert in military history. He is published at least four books on anything from weaponry, weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war, he collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today. He is a ph. D. He earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in fort worth, texas. What year was that . It was a while ago. But hes an expert. So if you get an opportunity to take a class with him, take a class. So were going to continue to discuss the civil war, thankfully for dr. Kinard we get to look at the aspect of weaponry and its impact on the war. So without furthe
A firm grip on power in egypt for 3 decades. Until finally in 2011 the people had enough millions took to the streets hundreds of killed but after 18 days this. President Mohamed Hosni mubarak has the cited wave the office of the president of the republic. The crowds reacted as they heard the news that brought the man with an iron fist down. The military council took the reins of power but it was from the bullet train the mubarak had originally risen to power. A former chief in 1973 he led an air campaign the regain the Sinai Peninsula from israel it has been a humiliating loss in the 967 war president anwar sadats made him vice president. Mubarak was just meters away from sadat when he was shot dead in 1990. 8 days later. Became president almost immediately he implemented emergency laws giving the state sweeping powers of arrest and cousin basic freedoms that would remain in place for his entire presidency there were a number of assassination attempts like this one during a visit to e
Challenges hes faced there and plans for the future. Its the second Largest Government Department with more than 250,000 employees. The Heritage Foundation hosted the 50minute event. Welcome. I serve as president of the i want to welcome everyone today. My name is brian rogers. I serve as president of the Jesse Helms Center foundation. Were located in North Carolina just outside of charlotte. The purpose of the helms center, a Nonprofit Organization that houses the senators archives. We focus on youth programming for on Free Enterprise as well as hosting lectures with our partner here at the Heritage Foundation and other lectures we do throughout the state and our country. So why the helm center lecture . Jesse helms served in the United States senate for 30 years. In 1994, he became chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee becoming the second north carolinian to do so besides nathanial macon. He was a leader, top leader, in a modern conservative movement. He along with Margaret