Of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives of in a five americans and colonial peoples for those meetings. I have an image that is a painting from 1903 that is depicted a treaty. And it is not something that they know much about, but he was an irish immigrant that came to america and settled on the fron teen in the 1740s and became very friendly with the indians who were his neighbors. Ultimately he gain add great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as an agent to the iroquois neighbors. Think about the reading you did for today. This is providing you with a mental image of that. It was a mansion that still stands today. You can get off of the new york state freeway and you can visit this sight and another kwun of his homes, that are preserved as state Historic Sites and tell a really interesting story about how they came together on the frontier not to fight, but to talk about the difference
Our country. This memorial day does come though in the context of a rolling national tragedy, with more than 97,000 dead from coronavirus. As captured by a striking front page of todays new york times, the newspaper paying tribute to some of the people who have died of the coronavirus, writing, they were not simply names on a list. They were us. In black and white the times listing 1,000 names, about 1 of the death toll, and a short line from their obituary. Also this morning, the head of the Wuhan Institute of virology is denying claims by the Trump Administration that the coronavirus leaked from its lab in the city where this Global Pandemic originated. The director calling the charge a pure fabrication. More on that in a moment. And nbc news has learned that the nba and disney are in talks for the league to restart play without fans this summer at walt Disney Resort in florida. We will have live reports with more on those stories just ahead. And later in our sunday spotlight, six fe
Was the us involved in the attempt to venezuela washington says it wasnt even those detained suspects seem to claim otherwise but the u. S. And most of latin america want Nicolas Maduro out of power does that mean venezuela this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program now on the 3rd of may the venezuelan government announced it had detained a group of what it called mercenaries trying to reach venezuela on speedboats along with several dozen colombians the group reportedly numbered around 50 at least 8 people were killed in the incident as the venezuelans in effect ambushed the group having apparently waited for them on shore the mission according to the government was to kill venezuelas president Nicolas Maduro and then spark a coup in caracas but others claim the plan was to adopt mr mo doro and then take him nobody knows where a florida based Security Company has claimed responsibility for the operation which was coordinated reportedly with venezuelas opposition led by one
Minute event. Well, thank you for coming out what i want to try to do is look at the cold war it is worth baring in mind that there were actually periods of time that caused your fore bearers more anxiety and in some cases with much greater reason to do so. And won the 1952 and 1956 election. And these are the years that represent a high point. Thinking about the cold war and the United States its worth bear in mind that the legacy and the history of the cold war was one of much of americas 20th century. And the forces in the soviet union was not during the period that you tend to think is the cold war which is from 19464748 and and much of eisenhowers much of the people in the army who served with him are being framed by the fact that america is one of the coalition of powers that went to war with the communists in the russian civil war. The idea that russia represented an ideological challenge to the United States begins there. The cold war is at its hottest between the United States
Surges to its highest level since the Great Depression more than 20000000 americans lose their jobs the outbreak freezes the economy. And germany declares a new coronavirus hotspot as more than 100. 00 workers test positive at a Meat Processing plant. As welcome to the program commemorations have been taking place to mark the end of the hostilities in europe in the 2nd world war on this day 75 years ago the alliance accepted germanys Unconditional Surrender the nazi tyrant he had come to an end ceremonies have been scaled back because of the current Global Health emergency all the same it has been a day of remembrance and high emotions starting right here in berlin. The bell rang out across berlin to mark the moment. Germanys president frank. And chancellor Angela Merkel maintained a suitable distance from each other and the country central memorial to the victims of war. Time i said germanys neighbors had needed time to trust the country again and accepting german as required an emoti