Thank you very much, glenn richmonds. [applause] [inaudible conversations] welcome to booktv on cspan2 2. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. This weekend, the cias former Legal Counsel discusses his 30 years at the agency. Watch Ishmael Bea Sos his followup book to a long way gone and watch programs on reconstruction the relationship between the pope and mussolini. All this and more on cspan 2 this weekend. The full schedule is available at booktv. Org. Richard breitman is next on booktv. He examines the historical debate over whether president Franklin D Roosevelt was indifferent to or defender on the jews in europe during world war ii. This an hour and 15 minutes. Thank you, paul, for that generous introduction, too generous, and im grateful to the center for advanceed holocaust studies for the invitation and the preparation work done by krista and nicole. Fdr and the jews was published in march of last year, and has generated a good deal of response since then.
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John Edward O Hara, 99.9 years old, passed away on Friday, March 12, 2021 at his home in Narragansett, RI.
John was born March 20, 1921 in Reddish, Stockport, England, the son of John O’Hara and Clara “Worthington” O’Hara. The family immigrated to America when John was 2 years old, moving to Riverside, RI before settling in North Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, John lived through The Great Depression. During John’s teenage years, he became a graduate of La Salle Academy before joining the Civilian Conservation Corps (the CCC), Unit- S 51, Charlestown, RI @ Burlingame’s road building crew.
In 1942, John enlisted in the U.S. Navy immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack leading to WWII. John bravely served in the three major theatres of WWII: the European Theatre, the Pacific Theatre, and the Mediterranean- African & Middle East Theatre. It was during “Operation Torch”, the invasion of North Africa; that he served w