Landdeck, speaking about women contributing to the war effort during world war ii. Great to see everybody today. Appreciate you coming to our space here. Today, were going to talk about american women and world war ii. And this is obviously a huge topic, we can spend an entire semester just on this topic alone. So were going to try to break it down into three different spaces and were going to look at a lot of images to kind of fit in with the other things weve talked about. So we are going to talk about american women in three ways. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. So were going to kind of organize our ideas this way, and again were going to look at a lot of the propaganda, we have been talking about propaganda throughout this semester and watching videos and things like that. We will get a chance to talk about, everybody found that video okay . All right. Its a good one on women at work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archi
Different than duck hunting. So youve got to give the men practice. They would each get two flights before they were sent overseas as gunners but youd have women often flying these planes this is a shot of two women flying this b17 while it shoots at the target of the other plane. This is live ammunition, of course. It is no good to use fake. Live ammunition, color coded bullets. They did this with a wide variety of different planes. These women served as civilians until the 1970s when they started a Grass Roots Campaign to be recognized as veterans. Its an incredible campaign, and they finally were given veterans benefits. This is at the congress after they testified. This is 1977 when president carter finally recognized them as veterans in the United States. All of their papers are here if you want to serve as interns in the womens collection, we have that. And you can work with their papers directly. But again, we could have an entire semester on women in war and this is just a quic
Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin with this Breaking News after devin stating tornadoes rip through the Central Plains overnight with more threads on the way. Now, nearly 55 Million People from texas to michigan are under threat for Severe Weather area between dallas and kansas city is expected to get the hardest hit with tornadoes. Baseballsized hail, and flooding among the hazards at least 78 tornadoes were reported across five states on friday, with no fatalities reported. Officials credit the Warning Systems for saving lives now rescue crews are up against the clock searching flattened homes for anyone trapped before the storms intensify again we got home as fast as we could i got my babies in the basement. We covered up with a blanket. We got her dark down there all of a sudden the lights went out and we heard everything thrown around above us who is so scary those place those carried our neighbors everybody, every
Which should be over. The cases over. You heard what they said, the case should be over. But you have to make that determination and they will never allow this case to be over. In a positive way this is the most highly conflicted judge ive ever seen. Form of President Trump going over the highly conflicted judge overseeing his criminal trial as he made his way into the courtroom for the fourth day of testimony. Eighth day in total for the trial and with that so begins friday afternoon im john roberts in washington. Center we have a jampacked couple of hours. Do we do, i am sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. The court is scheduled for a lunch break right now. The testimony will resume soon inside the courtroom former publisher of the National Enquirer david pecker is back on the stand now facing the prosecutors where they say that trump was in a conspiracy with pecker but the defense is arguing there was never a coordinated plan between the two of them. John we will b
I wonder what i will be doing . Probably still living here with mom and dad. Fast reliable speeds right where you need them. Thats walltowall wifi with xfinity. Elizabeth wagmeister in la its friday, april 26, right now on cnn this morning, donald while trumps immunity claims and the hands of the Supreme Court, the justices sending some signals about how they might rule a new cnn poll, how voters feel about the former president s claim that hes being treated unfairly and propalestinian protests spreading the campuses across the country as Columbia University struggles to end, a Student Occupation 6 00 a. M. Here in washington, alive. Look at capitol hill on this friday morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with Us Institution after institution has shied away from taking donald trump on directly. His campaign rivals, the Republican House leadership the Senate Republicans, who didnt convict him he said donald john trump, be is hereby acquitted the char