In 1849 it took the clipper ship flying cloud 89 days to reach San Franciscos golden gate harbor from new york. In the spring of 1945, no point on earth was more than 40 flying hours away from San Francisco. In those 100 years, San Francisco grew larger as the world grew smaller. It developed into a vigorous and k k cosmopolitan center. For nine weeks in the spring of 1945, San Francisco was the center of mens hopes for lasting peace. De delegates came to San Francisco on april 25th, 1945 respecting almost 2,000 Million People all at war when the conference was begun. They came with hope, born of common struggle. They dime design together machinery to end a war. A curse that in 30 years killed 40 million human beings. Countless millions more, armed and unarmed were maimed. When the conference convened, Franklin Roosevelt was missing. The man that helped weld the United Nations together as a team, and helped to keep them united died before he could see him dream come true. But his words
Captioning performed by vitac captioning performed by vitac whp when we are divided we ourselves. Whr when we join our has and build our families and community and country, america always wins. What we need to do is to do the work of america the way we seek to do the work of raising our children and doing our work and supporting our religious institutions and community institutions. If we would simply be americans, the way we seek to live in all of our other roles, there is no stopping america. Our best days are still ahead. So when we look into our hearts and ask whats right for our children, set aside differences and build on shared values of faith and family and work, when we roll up our sleeves, america always wins. My fellow americans, america is going to keep winning these next four years. Let me say as all of you here from my native state know, ive lived this. Theres no person in america who has been given more gifts than i have. There is no person in america tonight who feels m
The next to last session, a tribute to the secretary of state, americas delegation and organizer of the successful nineweek meeting. He has now been named the United States representative to the new International Organization, is presented with a scroll in recognition of his efforts. And a history making moment as they have a standing board on the approval of a charter of an International Organization and the delegations rise. The vote is unanimous. As a session adjourns, delegates burst into applause. Arriving in San Francisco for the final conference session is president harry s. Truman. He is met with the u. S. Delegates and the chiefs of the 49 other delegations. Among them theo marshall, premier of south africa, and the Prime Minister of canada, mr. Mckenzie king. President truman leaves for a brief tour through San Francisco. Half a million turn out to witness his motorcade. As mr. Truman arrives, 63 days of effort are climaxed by the signing of the United Nations charter. First
Next, we travel about 15 miles northwest of washington, d. C. To Great Falls Tavern Visitors Center where well take a boat ride to learn about the history of the chesapeake and ohio canal. I would like to introduce myself. My name is cassandra and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think were going to cast off here shortly, but well go ahead and start to give you a brief history of here on the canal. So it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but definitely doesnt reach the Chesapeake Bay or doesnt go all the way up to the ohio river, which is your intention of the canal when we first started building it july 4th of 1828. We wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay, and so what we did was we started building this canal. We tried earlier, it was George Washingtons dream to actually use the Potomac Riv
Croft rock shelter has been the site of extensive arcology work since 1973, after university of pittsburgh students removed layer of layer of sediment, evidence of human activity as long as 19,000 years ago was revealed. We visit to learn the story from james adovasio, who has been leading Archeology Research there for almost 50 years. We are currently 46 kilometers southwest of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, in washington county, on the north bank of cross creek, which is a small tributary of the ohio river. In 1972 there was a vacancy in the Anthropology Department at the university of pittsburgh. I joined the faculty there. One of the parameters of which job was to set up an archeological Training Program that would train not only graduate and undergraduate students in the protocols of modern excavation, but also to train people in ancillary fields, geeolojists. Because i didnt have the opportunity to search for a location for the Field Operation due to research commitments in the easter