[inaudible] youre watching American History tv. Like in the conversation us on facebook. In American Hats history tv, today were bringing you live coverage of world war one. Good morning everybody. To the macarthur memorial. For the last 14 months it has be the honor to director here at macarthur memorial. In a ld like to stand special welcome to our audience that is watching around the world in American History tv. In a mission 1964 use general macarthurs words to look for the future based on the past. That is why we are gathered here today. In many ways helped shape his future. Todays event will mark the of the first ial world war. Building next ial to us, the general is buried next to his wife. You can explore the museum while you are here. And this time i want to thank to put this helped symposium, without them we would not be here today. The city of norfolk, southern bank, hampton rd. , museum. You to all partners. [applause] before we get going. First of all, please silence your
The runup to the war with daniels being in the peace camp, and maker outside of it. Daniels was probably the loudest voice in the east camp. The the peace camp. No one else in the admins nation was going to get along with him on this front, because he voted against war until the very last moment. Thank you. [applause] our second speaker is nimrod frazier. He is the sound of a world war i veteran who served in company e one 67th of a treat. Infantry. This is the division in which Douglas Macarthur will serve chief of staff and Brigade Commander during the american offenses of world war i. Fraziers father received a purple heart for wounds received at the battle. Mr. Frazer himself as a silver star veteran of the korean war, businessof harvard school, and a member of the alabama business hall of fame. Author of a history of the 167th infantry regiment. Mr. Frazer also serves as treasurer of the board of directors of that foundation. He will share some of his research from his unit histor
P. M. Central standard time. Some 38 minutes ago. America remembers a dark day in dallas. 50 years ago the nation lost its 35th president. John f. Kennedy was struck down by an assassins bullet. Thousands of people will visit where it happened dealy plaza in dallas. Wild weather across the country. In southern california, intense rainfall caused flash flooding for miles. Several people were caught off guard and were airlifted to safety. This was the scene in the denver suburbs. Wind gusts of up to 80 Miles Per Hour slammed central utah. Really an amazing day. History being made once again on wall street. The dow closing above 16,000 for the first time ever. Wont this come back to bite you when youre in the minority . Democrats unleash what has been dubbed the Nuclear Option. Now it only takes a simple majority vote to break a filibuster on executive and judicial nominees. My friends on the other side of the aisle, youll regret this, and you may regret it a lot sooner than you think. Ai
Across the country people pause to remember one of americas darkest moments. 50 years ago today president john f. Kennedy was assassinated in dallas. People invested kennedys grate side where the eternal flame burns. And the city where kennedy died held its first ever memorial on this anniversary. We watch the nightmareish reality that in our front yard our president had been taken from us. Taken from his family, taken from the world. Heidi zhou castro joins us with details. Tell us what it was like to be there at the plaza on this day . Reporter sure, tony, it was grim with the rain and cold weather, despite that, 5,000 people gathered at the plaza just steps away from where president john f. Kennedy was gunned down in 1963, and in the shadows of the depository to my right. Now that building is where the sniper Lee Harry Oswald sat in the sixth floor window there and took the life of john f. Kenne kennedy. The Catholic Bishop of dallas gave the opening invocation. Take a listen. You l
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