But in the days or years following, some in the political circles decided to substitute for a twofisted warning to creatures who made their threats by crashing airliners loaded. Ith innocent americans happened. Ted what has and i was encouraged again to hear the president of the United States last evening and again this morning to say in effect,. E are going to get them they are not going to get by with it. 1941was the attitude in and iranklin roosevelt am the only one present in the senate to hear him say it. This is a day that will live in infamy. Day that would better live in infamy. Host september 12, 2001. You were both in the United States capitol that day and we have to remind viewers that there was a time in which people in the buildings understood them to be targets. What was the atmosphere . The surprising thing was we came to work. Most of the city was shut down. It was a ghost town. I had to come into work because the senate wanted to be in session. It was a very emotional
Center. He experience a talented writer. Gregs project is ambitious. As he spent a quarter of a century reconstructing the life and times of 10 airmen aboard the between four liberator which disappeared over austria on october 1. As we will hear, he has a personal connection to this story and he has traced the lives of the fallen servicemen, situated them within a larger andy of combat in europe has reflected on his own personal journeys to the village in southern austria where the man disappeared. Willis the research we hear about today and it will inform his forthcoming book on the subject. Greg jones has been a Foreign Correspondent and investigative journalist for more than 30 years. He is the author of honor in the dust. Received stand, which a marine corps green junior award and red revolution which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Foras been a staff writer the los angeles times, dallas morning news, and the atlantic journal and constitution. He is covered the philippines a
Picture of this general being a assassinated on the streets ofey the be a nominee say that that was unfair to him, that he was a good friend and a good name. Before i express my own opinion, i can tell today that even the one that took the think picture in the interview, again, they expressed some kind of regret it. Didnt because he didnt know what happened before. Ken . Cspan what year was that so ure taken . Guest [inaudible] book cspan heres a picture that you have in the book. Didnt he just i also . He was here in town. Guest he was here in washington about two years ago. And he comes here with help from their family and he said that this is too small. T. And you chose that and as is the chief of police, he made very s. Powerful money. Cspan chief of police in y chf saigon . Guy guest yes, national and come chief of ways. Ere are cspan there are a million pygmies people in the United States. Is this hard . Guest almost 2 million. Cspan really . Guest yes. Cspan it was hard for you,
Book almost that entire time she is we have known each other. She started screenwriting at nyu and discovered this story. Root this amazing screenplay about it that get made into a short film as one of the awards for the contest which she won which you can you on my youtube page. I think it is amazing and a hint of what an amazing movie. But after she won the screenplay award she did not give up on the story. It is one of the longest times ive ever known any of my friends to work on a project, and the culmination of it is so amazing. So far it has won several awards and people are just raving about it. I am so proud of her. Cristin okeefe aptowicz, everyone. [applause] thanks, everybody. So welcome to the dr. Mutter event here at polk people buried am so thrilled to be here. I move toward a finish writing this book because i got a grant to support writing this book. Live in new york city, and 25,000 does not pay anything in new york city, but it does in austin. Thank you for your cheap
Huge amounts of material. The newspapers, the source material is incredibly rich so that means if you want to get into it although its rich its not overwhelming. One problem with American History and why would never go into this are beyond 1775 when you get in the period of the revolution itself beyond that in the 19th century the source material becomes overwhelming especially through the war which is a lifetimes work in and of itself. In this particular come in britain you feel like a perimeter around it and you can get to grips with these people not the least because the decisionmaking is done by rather small group. Its not going to overwhelm you and the material is not going to becomes overwhelming but thats essentially my point is to reinvest myself in the primary material. [applause] a collection of her wide range of projects which includes the Vietnam Veterans memorial in washington d. C. This hourlong program is next on booktv. Cspan maya lin, what is boundaries about . Guest b