Our panel will be talking about three topics. First, the thinking of the lusitania itself and how that came to happen. Second, the Propaganda Campaign spurred on by the sinking of the lusitania that helped convince americans to go to war. And third, president wilsons leadership and strategy leading up to his declaration of war on april six, 1917. We have a distinguished panel of experts. First, rear admiral samuel cox, retired, the director of navy history and heritage command and curator for the navy. He is responsible for the navys museums, art and artifact collections. The research library, 150 million pages of archives, and for collecting and interpreting u. S. Naval history throughout the world. A graduate of the us naval academy, his 37 year naval career focused on intelligence and he served as director of intelligence for the us cyber command. Professor Richard Striner, who comes to us from washington llege, he is a professor of history and author or coauthor of ten books and nu
Lusitania itself and how that came to happen. Second, the Propaganda Campaign spurred on by the sinking of the lusitania that helped convince americans to go to war. And third, president wilsons leadership and strategy leading up to his declaration of war on april six, 1917. We have a distinguished panel of experts. First, rear admiral samuel cox, retired, the director of navy history and heritage command and curator for the navy. He is responsible for the navys museums, art and artifact collections. The research library, 150 million pages of archives, and for collecting and interpreting u. S. Naval history throughout the world. A graduate of the us naval academy, his 37 year naval career focused on intelligence and he served as director of intelligence for the us cyber command. Professor Richard Striner, who comes to us from washington llege, he is a professor of history and author or coauthor of ten books and numerous articles. For this event, we should note his book, Woodrow Wilson
In the evening is when dc fire and ems crews responded to the scene. I also want you to take a look just beyond the smoke there at the door, and very top part of the building there, what youre seeing, look at that soot that is completely staying right where the smoke and flames were shooting upwards. Lets take you now to video that dc fire and ems shots when they were here on scene to also very impressive, scary. Let you know this is an underground transformer fire. Very big flames here. Theres a lot of, from what i understand be those transformers have a lot of oil in them. Thats what burns so much, when you perhaps have a corroded wire. That sparked that flame. There wasnt much dc fire could do until pepco fire got here on scene. It says about 12 56 is when they finally arrived on the scene to almost an hour past before the power was cut off before dc fire could get in there and put the flame retardant and get the fire out. We still had the smoking going on for hour upon hour after t
The director of navy history and heritage command and curator for the navy, he is responsible for the museum, art, and artifact collections, 150 million pages of archives, and for collecting and interpreting u. S. Naval history throughout the world. A graduate of the u. S. Naval academy, his 37 year career focused on intelligent. Professor richard strainer comes from Washington College where he is a professor of history and coauthor of 10 books and numerous articles. His new book how america can spend his way back to greatness comes out at the end of the month. John maxwell hamilton comes from Louisiana State university and he is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson center for international scholars. His career has taken him through journalism before academia. The book he is working on now focuses on propaganda in world war i to set the stage, we will start with you. 100 years ago a german uboat sank the luxury liner lusitania as it steamed toward port, killing nearly 1200 passengers
and ride the bull we must. plus the murdoch mess. james quits as chairman of news international. that s the newspaper division, the international one rocked by scandal. is rupert s control of news corp. in danger? all of that is straight ahead. i m sue herera with tyler mathisen. power lunch begins right now. welcome everybody. join me at the wall here as we look at red tiles on the board. q-4 gdp better than expected. the chicago pmi, a 10-month high indicating business conditions in the middle of the country are better than expected. but bernanke is still cautious on both the economy and the need for qe-3. here s how the markets are reacting to it. and the reactions have been very interesting to watch. let s look at the pulse of the markets right now. let s look especially at gold. look at gold. lower after that big runup and a rise in the dollar and the reaction to bernanke. one of the biggest down days we ve seen in quite some time in gold, 1725. it was a good yea