Historian john, keying writes, the Second World War is the second largest event in human history. It killed 50 million human beings and left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind and body and materially devastated. This largest single event affected life here in abilene as well as in communities around the world and where our panelists were during the war. I will begin our introductions with our abilene resident. Margin olson. She spent part of the war in exas and oklahoma as she fored her husband from post to pust. Next on our panel, doris snyder. She spent part of the war in akron, ohio. Not exactly rosie the riveter, but some type of war work. She is the mother of our museum curator, william snyder. We have made this panel into a Family Affair as you will see in a moment. Skipping down to the end of the table pause this is the way i rangered my remarks, bob went to oklahoma a m, now Oklahoma State university, where he studied journalism. Bob while he was there met press la,
The four koch brothers. Culminates in a boardroom showdown that charles ends up boarding. Some ofederick, and shareholders were essentially trying to expand the size of the board. It could have ended up deposing charles as chairman and they would have taken a greater role in the direction of the company. The end result is bill is tossed out of the company. By his brothers. By his brothers. There is a really dramatic moments in the book where the board has to sit down and decide if bill stays. Wichita author Daniel Schulman sunday night at 8 p. M. Eastern on q a. Hill insit prospect jackson. Hill was founded by a revolutionary war veteran from south carolina. When he realized he was going to die and the slaves would end up being sold or would become common slaves, he wrote in his will that at the time of his daughters death, the plantation would be sold and the money be used to pay the way for them to emigrate to liberia where a freed slave colony had been established. They call it repa
One sniper bullet i would be shaking in fear, i guess i finally got another tank, and we had to get another crew because of the four tanks crewmen. Three were killed five of us survive survived we had to get another tank crew, and it was about two weeks. Massive count ererattack. We all got out of that one safely. Not safely, i got burned and hit on the arm with a piece of shrapn shrapnel. Another question from the audience . Another question. Thank you all for attending, thank you especially to our veteran veterans. American history tv in prime time continues in a moment. Coming up, the wives and children of soldiers discuss their memories of world war ii including pearl harbor, dday and president roosevelts death thats followed on the invasion of sicily and the Italian Campaign to the liberation of europe. Cspans latest book, sundays at eight. A collection of stories from some of the most influential people over the last 25 years i decided to take it, because whether its an illusion
In his book, john keegan writes, a Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across Six Continents and all its oceans. It left hundreds of millions wounded, killed 100 18 million human beings, and materially devastated much of the heartland of human civilization. This affected life here in abilene as well as in communities around the world where our panelists were during the war. I will begin our introductions with march olson. Marge spent the war, part of the war in texas and oklahoma. She followed her husband from post to post. They spent time in our relic, texas, that i know we will talk about. Next on our panel we have doris snyder. Doris is the mother of our museum curator, william snyder. That has made the panel a real Family Affair as you will see in a moment. Skipping down to the end of the table, bob was a boy in western oklahoma. Went on to oklahoma a m, now of course Oklahoma State university, where he studied journalism. He met his wife and they
Avoid as much as humanly possible the casualties of which you just heard. These are heroic tales. I make observations frequently and try to put them into the context of which the gentleman just spoke. He was within the french legion of honor. That is the highest decoration that france can bestowe. And im honored to be sitting next to this gentleman. [ applause ] the abstract observation thinks this is a generous and deserved gift of the french government that our liaison was not all that smooth. Now, one of the things we were informed of, is that when the invasion was to come about, that we would use intelligence, a prearranged signal for the french underground, so that they could be inserted into the invasion effort. And i still remember the slogan that we used. It was a line from a poem of rambo. [ speaking Foreign Language ] which has nothing to do with warfare at all. Now, also about french german, french american relations. There was, you know, general de gall had organized some o