Hosted this 35 minute talk. Good afternoon and welcome to the gettysburg Heritage Center. This is our second in the series for today. Ive the pleasure of introducing the next speaker, james rada. He is a historian and an author. He has written many works of fiction and nonfiction history. They include popular books such as battlefield angels, the charity work of civil war nurses. He lives in gettysburg where he is a freelance writer. He has received numerous awards from the maryland delaware d. C. Press association, the associated press, the maryland state teachers association, society of professional journalists, and computed hash Community Newspapers holding, inc. , for his newspaper writing. Without any further introduction, i will introduce to you james rada. James good afternoon. Today we are going to talk about a book that myself and a coauthor wrote called the last to fall. It is about the marine march in 1922 that saved the marine corps. The marines had proved themselves a Form
Hampshire state of flags. The building first began building on september 24, 1816. Our first cornerstone was laid and made out of granite by 1819. The statehouse opened its doors in this room during this time was a historic hall. The only thing in the room were large wooden columns. As time went on it was a cooling , area for it legislators to come downstairs. It was a place where people would come and together and meet when they were coming to the statehouse for business. Then came the civil war. 1861, New Hampshire men answered the call to arms. They left their homes and many came to this building. They enlisted. They were given brand new flags and what they hoped would be a short conflict. The flags that are in the case here are the flags that were brought back by our men. 1865, when the war ended, what was left of the flags came back here to this building. We have 88 civil battle were civil war battle flags. The flags have been in these cases for well over 100 years. Every one of t
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Upstairs and weve got to keep it that way. Lights burning, children asleep, and peace and security everywhere. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. We are live in charleston, west virginia, for the next stop on the 50 capitals tour. The governor and Lieutenant Governor will be our guests on the bus during washington journal. And join darryl photographed a dozen american president s beginning with president eisenhower. Next in interview with him about his career working for United Press International and u. S. News and world reports. He photographed president kennedy minutes before his assassination, and the signing of the camp david accords. The Briscoe Center for American History at the university of texas at austin recorded this 40 minute interview and archived his photos along with others and nationally recognized photographers. We will talk to a little bit about some of the photos from your colle
On november 22. Can you tell me about that photo . Ride theen a dallas cops were lenient. We could go any place we wanted to. I positioned myself at the corner of main and harwood because the limo would have to turn. So it gives you a different per spec of and driving straight down the street. Turn off ofthe hardwood on to maine. Across the street from harwood and maintenance dallas city hall, which i would return to later that night. I was set up and there was a woman who had a caricature across the street all the way with jfk had caricature. I talked with her and told her when the motorcade came by, be sure to have it straight up and hide. I arranged myself so that when they got there i waited until that caricature fitted in. I only made like to frameless because it was too far and afterwards they were passed it. Thes about six blocks from blocks from the dallas time. I started running in the street to get there to get the picture out. I had gone about half a block and this motorcycl