Good evening and welcome. Im ken ken weinstein, president and ceo of Hudson Institute. I apologize for the condition of my voice this evening. I really, really wanted to be here for the book form for Melanie Kirkpatricks new new book, the holiday at the heart of the american experience. I want to thank our friends at the historic Explorers Club in manhattan, especially the executive director and our good friend judas and i also want to thank the viewing audience on cspans book tv. Hudson institute is a policy organization that is based in washington, d. C. We promote International Leadership for the sake of security, prosperity, and freedom. Most of our work is in the Public Policy space. We do a lot of work on the future of security in asia, we look at fighting isis, talk about trying to overcome the challenges of the iran deal and so this book is an outlier of the product, will be thankful for many things as thanksgiving approaches like many of our its extraordinarily timely coming a
The vehicle that they might have used. They are hoping that someone might have home Surveillance Video or information, if you you do contact police, meanwhile Tredyffrin Police say their advice is relatively simple, lock your car, take your valuables out and also, keep that vehicle until a well lighted a area if you can. Live from tredyffrin township chester county, im walt hunter, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Police shoot and kill a suspect who stabbed five people, on a College Campus in california. All of the victims attacked the at the university of california, and they were conscious when paramedics reached them. Three were treated on campus, two were flown to the hospital. It is really shocking to have this happen on our campus and, first thing in the morning, it is just shocking. No word on the identity of that suspect, police say they have no motive for the attack. Developing right now an active shooter situation is unfolding in san diego. Authorities there say a suspect opened fire on
The tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the United States military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. We have a society, we are 501c3 organization and part of the bylaws is is we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talk to School Groups, and its appalling to me how little they know. Its not their fault. We have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. And i will get off my soap box. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups probono, this is my 81st speech this year. In 2015. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. Im speaking pretty much nonstop from the first
Biggest costliest and most significant yet fought in vietnam. Up next on real america, a cbs news special report on the broadcastginally november 30, 1965. Three months ago, the first fromry division set out charleston. Notd, sure of themselves tested in battle. There are destined for the high country of central vietnam. Last week, some of them came home. The price ofere victory in the battle of yard rang valley. Cbs news correspondent morley safer was there. On the night of october 19, 11 00 p. M. , the first mortar rounds fell. At the beginning it was simply another attack by a few americans and 350 strikers. But then command decisions were made that turned the battle into the campaign for not only the highlands, but perhaps all of vietnam. The battle of ia drang valley. A cbs news special report by morley safer and the team in vietnam with a special introduction by walter cronkite. Good evening. Six days ago, the people of america were jolted by an announcement. A single week that e
Test. Test. It was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. So he was one of the engineers on the Washington Monument. Another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848 was George Washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. That looks like the Washington Monument. This is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. Randolphs were very prominent in virginia. Her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. Her cuss cousin was the wife of George Washington custis and she was buried there. Born april 30, 1781, and died in 1857. From his death until the union troops came a