In 1849 it took the clipper ship flying cloud 89 days to reach San Franciscos golden gate harbor from new york. In the spring of 1945, no point on earth was more than 40 flying hours away from San Francisco. In those 100 years, San Francisco grew larger as the world grew smaller. It developed into a vigorous and cosmopolitan center. Of commerce and culture and of industry and shipping for the war in the pacific. And for nine weeks in the spring of 1945 San Francisco was the center of mens hopes for lasting peace. Delegates representing 46 nations came to San Francisco on april 25th, 1945. Representing almost 2,000 Million People, more than 80 of humanity. All at war when the conference was begun, they came with hope born of common struggle. They came to design together machinery to end war. A curse which in 30 years killed 40 million human beings. Maimed, countless millions more, both armed and unarmed. When the conference convened, Franklin Roosevelt was missing. The man who helped we
In 1814, i know it took the clipper ship flying cloud, 89 days to reach San Franciscos golden gate harbour from new york. In the spring of 1945, no point on earth was more than 40 flying hours away from San Francisco. In those hundred years San Francisco grew larger as the world grew smaller. It developed into a vigorous and Cosmopolitan Center of culture and of industry and shipping for the war in the pacific. And for nine weeks in the spring of 1945 San Francisco was the center of mens hopes for lasting peace. Delegates representing 46 nations came to San Francisco on april 25th, 1945. Representing almost 2,000 Million People, more than 80 of humanity. All at war when the conference was begun, they came with hope born of common struggle. They came to design together machinery to end war, a curse which in 30 years had killed 40 million human beings. Maimed countless millions more, both armed and unarmed. When the conference convened, Franklin Roosevelt was missing. The man who helped
Each week, American History tv real america brings you archival films that provide Historical Context for Public Policy issues of the 21st century. In 1849, it took the clipper ship flying cloud 89 days to reach San Franciscos golden gate harbor from new york. In the spring of 1945, no point on earth was more than 40 flying hours away from San Francisco. In those hundred years San Francisco grew larger as the world grew smaller. It developed into a vigorous and Cosmopolitan Center of culture and of industry and shipping for the war in the pacific. And for nine weeks in the spring of 1945 San Francisco was the center of many hopes for lasting peace. Delegates representing 46 nations came to San Francisco on april 25th, 1945. Representing almost 2,000 Million People, more than 80 of humanity. All at war when the conference was begun, they came with hope born of common struggle. They came to design together machinery to end war, a curse which in 30 years had killed 40 million human beings
This is al jazeera these are the top stories 2 men have been found guilty over their role in a Shopping Center attack in kenya 7 years ago dozens of people were killed when a gunman besieged the Westgate Mall in nairobi a 3rd man who was charged in the kenya anti terror laws has been acquitted Catherine Sawyer was outside the court she sent us this update. The prosecution had 44 witnesses and the case was really heavily hinged on telephone conversations that the prosecution says the accused hired with the attackers were killed in that siege that took 4 days. So the prosecution saying that for example one of the sas one of the accused spoke 109 times we thought one of the attackers between june 28th and september he said the other 2 accused also interacted with with the attackers leaders of the greek far right Golden Dawn Party had been found guilty of running a criminal Organization Thousands of protesters gathered at the court to hear the verdict. To break up the demonstration. There
In 1849, it took the clipper ship flying cloud 89 days to reach San Franciscos golden gate harbor from new york. In the spring of 1945, no point on earth was more than 40 flying hours away from San Francisco. In those hundred years, San Francisco grew larger as the world grew smaller. It developed into a vigorous and Cosmopolitan Center of culture and of industry and shipping. And for nine weeks in the spring of 1945, San Francisco was the center of men possible hopes for lasting peace. Delegates representing 46 nations came to San Francisco on april 25th, 1945. Representing almost 2000 Million People. More than 80 of humanity. All at war when the conference was begun. They came with hope, born of common struggle. They came to design together machinery to end war, occurs a curse which in 30 years had killed 40 million humans beings. Maimed countless millions more, both armed and unarmed. When the conference convened, Franklin Roosevelt was missing. The man who had helped weld to the Un