Join American History tv on saturday, november 7th, for tours and live interviews from the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. Well explore the road to berlin and the African American story, and well take your questions for historians joining us throughout the day. World war ii, 70 years later live from the National World War Ii Museum saturday, november 7th, on cspan3. Thursday night, American History tv in primetime will feature archival films featured on our program real america. Youll see seeds of destiny, a 1946 academyaward winning short film about the refugee crisis in europe at the end of world war ii. A 1963 film about the king and queen of afghanistans visit to the u. S. , and a 1975 film about the Energy Crisis looking at efficiency and alternative fuels. Tune in thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Up next on American History tv, historian john robert green chronicles the 1952 president ial election between Dwight Eisenhower and adley stevenson. He examines the myth tha
7th, on cspan3. Thursday night, American History tv in primetime will feature archival films featured on our program real america. Youll see seeds of destiny, a 1946 academyaward winning short film about the refugee crisis in europe at the end of world war ii. A 1963 film about the king and queen of afghanistans visit to the u. S. , and a 1975 film about the Energy Crisis looking at efficiency and alternative fuels. Tune in thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Up next on American History tv, historian john robert green chronicles the 1952 president ial election between Dwight Eisenhower and adley stevenson. He examines the myth that they ran for president against their own wishes. Mr. Green also talks about the introduction of political tv ads and how they changed president ial campaigns. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event. Its a little over an hour. [ applause ] so, good evening, welcome to the Kansas City Public Library. Im henry fortuneado, former director of public affairs
You who served in world war ii who are with us here this evening, and i have to tell youa that i have some sense of what it was like to have a ut his relationship with your supreme o commander. After we put his body on the train that went from washington out to abilene, kansas, and mary and anne can tell each tell their own story on this, the thing i remember most is that we stopped in every little town along the way and at about 2 00 in the morning, because, you ju know, we couldnt sleep at all. I looked out the window and just as we were passing there was a sole, solitary figure standing next to the train as the train went past. Saluting. And i never forgot that. G the i never forgot during the day, even in the most barren of country sides, they were thee were just crowds on both sides of the tracks, and people were holding up signs saying we like ike, and ill never forget thatl that and there was a political cartoon, too, and this one ill take with me. But it was soldiers on the bea
First historian to perform the first scholarly study of the fort administration. He First Edition of his book was published some 19 years ago by the University Press of kansas. It is still in print. Report, on its fourth printing. Of course, being a pioneer has its disadvantages. In the earlyhat days, he was often asked if his interest in the ford presidency was a function of the fact that all the more interesting president s had been taken. Thoughts of this nature do a disservice to bobs scholarship. While ford is generally remembered as a genuinely honest man who did his best to heal the country after the travails of watergate, bob argues theres a lot more to the 38th president than a likable guy who performed a credible job as a national. Aretaker locally, we should also recall that he was here in kansas city in 1976. Somehow, i have a feeling well be commemorating that in about tito years. The librarys good friend, who was in the audience tonight with a young city then councilmembe
And a half from washington d. C. Its one of the, i think you go back in the 50s and 60s when these publishers had their own manufacturing sites they wantedded to find a spot out in the country where they had some farm people. They always viewed the farmers as people that would have mechanical aptitude and that they could, you know draw them into the factories which was kind of the mindb set of, you know doubleday. To biographies of prominent political figures like laura bush and joseph kennedy. Dr. Ronald kessler is the secret Service System broken . Guest this system is broken at the Management Level not necessarily the agency. The agents themselves eidetic faded, they will take a bullet for the president but there is a management culture of retaliating against those to point out problems or threats, punishing agents who question any thing, promoting agents and to management who preached and the secret service is in vulnerable so it is a corrupt culture. You saw an example of that whe