Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much. Rainy day books and the National World war i Museum Museum and memorial are pleased to welcome Andrew Carroll, Andrew Carroll this editor of several New York Times best sellers including war letters, letters of na pigs and bind he lines am drown also edit an pro bono basis, homecoming which inspired the film of the same name. In 1998, andrew founded the legacy project, an allvolunteer initiative that honors veterans and active duty troop biz preserving their wartime correspondence, he has traveled to all 50 states and more than 40 country, including iraq and afghanistan and has collected today an estimated 100,000 previously unpublished letters and emails. Andrew donated the massive Collection Free of charge to chatman university which. The legacy project has been renamed the center for american war letters, and is now part of chapman university. Andrew serves as the centers director. Andrew is currently embarking on the Million Letters Campai
[inaudible discussion] good evening, everyone. Thank you so much. Rainy day books and the National World war i Museum Museum and memorial are pleased to welcome Andrew Carroll, Andrew Carroll this editor of several New York Times best sellers including war letters, letters of na pigs and bind he lines am drown also edit an pro bono basis, homecoming which inspired the film of the same name. In 1998, andrew founded the legacy project, an allvolunteer initiative that honors veterans and active duty troop biz preserving their wartime correspondence, he has traveled to all 50 states and more than 40 country, including iraq and afghanistan and has collected today an estimated 100,000 previously unpublished letters and emails. Andrew donated the massive Collection Free of charge to chatman university which. The legacy project has been renamed the center for american war letters, and is now part of chapman university. Andrew serves as the centers director. Andrew is currently embarking on the
That is a few of the upcoming live programs on cspan2s book tv. The between 1942 and 46, general Leslie Groves and the Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapon tests in japan. Working closely with groves was j Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicists often called the father of the atomic bomb. Up next, several scholars discuss the importance of growth and oppenheimer in the race to create an atomic bomb. They are joined by oppenheimers grandson, and general growths granddaughter. They share their memories of their grandparents. This hourlong program was hosted by the atomic heritage foundation. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] ok. It is now time. We are delighted you are having such a good time. Here is another interesting session. It is a session again at the leadership of growth and oppenheimer, who are very different people. A
This was also from the atomic heritage foundation. Its an hour. I promised on time delivery and it is now time. We are delighted youre having such a good time. Heres another really interesting session. It is a session again, to look at the leadership of groves and oppenheimer, who were very different people but both in their own way well, ill let you decide which was indispensable. First we have as a repeat performer, robert norris, the biographer of the definitive biographer of general groves. Then we have the coauthors of the definitive biographer of oppenheimer that came out and won a pull it sder. Were going to hear from the grandchildren of oppenheimer and as a plus we have a niece granddaughter of general groves. So i dont know, how should we set this up . Let them decide or let you decide. Well let the audience decide. Listen closely now. The decision is which man was the indispensable man of the Manhattan Project . Take it away. I guess ill start. Thats part of the title of my
Other programs that will be taking place at this location in the near future. Tomorrow evening on thursday, march 30th at 7 30 p. M. , the state of alaska is sponsoring a performance of the Alaska Chamber group, wild shores new music as the state celebrates its purchase of the russiaamerica, and on thursday, april 13th at 7 00 p. M. Will be presenting a panel discussion, 100 years world war i and weight of sacrifice where the discussion is centered around the new National World war i memorial thats to be built at persing park in washington, d. C. To find out more about these and other programs, you can take one of our monthly event calendars in the theater lobby or visit our website at www. Archives. Gov calendar. Our topic for today is president ial libraries as performance, curating president s, and dr. Jodi kanter is from the department of theater and dance, arts and sciences at George Washington university, and she has served as trauma for productions at Washington Area theaters, a