I want you also to note that at the end of the session 10 or 15 minutes before the end we will be taking questions from the audience. There is a microphone set up in one of the isles and if you are immobile reach her hand and we the mic to you. Let me start with myra macpherson. She is an author and a veteran journalist. She has had many years of the Washington Post writing for the papers legendary style section. She has interviewed serial killers, celebrities, International Leaders like Cubas Fidel Castro and when she was in and then she interviewed president kennedy. I was four. She wrote for the post on Vietnam Veterans and led her to write her groundbreaking book groundbreaking book long time passing vietnam and the junta generation one of the first books about the first to examine the insidious problem of ptsd. In 2006 she wrote all governments lie, the life and times of rebel journalist i have stoned and she has also delved into intimate topics and she came to live out loud and i
Thank you for joining us. Great crowd. Hello, everybody. Its an honor to be here with you. I heard there was a new book coming out. Kind of neat to read i think im actually selling more kindle copies than hard cover. I was going to ask you to autograph this. There you go. It was got some questions lined up. I do remember it was in this very room not long ago we talk about intel for the documentary. For cbs. And as we were talking and watching, you point out there was arthur rock standing right next to gordon moore, having a conversation, and i. Taking a shaking, horrible iphone photo of that historic moment. That had to be an inspiration to see them together. Yes, and perhaps the last time. A sense that history was turning that night. I should say, you and i could literally swap seats here. I had the interview show on pbs and you cover Silicon Valley every day and knows what is going on. Maybe halfway threw well switch rauls. Host i do cover and it we have had this discussion before an
Awe. Armine as Prime Minister says, dozens of soldiers have been killed after a fighting with as the by john. Ah, no, im fully back to boy watching al jazeera alive from doha. Also coming up kenyas way is in its new leader. William roto becomes a nations 5th president after a narrow election, which is the last 8 for people in scotland to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. She is lying at rest in edinburgh before being flown to london. And where in pakistan, where communities at cleaning up after major floods, but some say age is yet to reach. Ah, thank you for joining us. We start with a developing story this. Our armenian Prime Minister says 49 of his countrys soldiers have been killed in violence with us by john. The fighting began along the border early on tuesday, or media says he as a by johnny ami began shelling military positions of on 3 cities. But as a by john says, it was responding to a buildup of armenian land mines and weapons leaders. Void king tis tab allys,
Too controversial. So now theres more education about it, but it is still a hard conflict to streamline and get people talking about. So if this is one way to do that, madame nhu is a very polarizing figure and i i think it needs to be explored, and all. Did your personal feelings for her change over time . I dont know if you started the project is a blackandwhite figure politically and historically. I dont know whether you take became from that kind of a physician, but did she become much more personalizes you in the process of working on about quick when i started i thought this is a woman whos been stereotyped and i was going to rescue her and all this stuff. But she really didnt need to be rescued. She was good in that. She was complicated. I think my initial i am going to do this world a Great Service was quickly changed when i started learning all the facts. But i have the up most respect for her. I mean, she was a strong woman anytime in place that it was not okay to be a strong
Out is that the germans at salerno used experimental glider bombers, Remote Control glider bombers and that almost caused the operation to be a failure for the United States. Yeah. And so did the german do you know if the germans used those same tactics in any other phase of the war . The germans were fiendish in coming up with new gadgets and one that they used against us for the first time was a glide bomb called the fritz x. And it was a bomb that was dropped from an airplane and then it was guided by the pilot with a little joy stick. And he could guide the bomb very similar to the way bombs some bombs are guided today, actually guided before the new technologies allowed you to use gps systems. But in the persian gulf war for example, very similar. You use a little joy stick and you guide the bomb. It has little rockets on the back to cause it go this way or that way. Guide it down to the target it. Had first been used against the italian battleship roma when it was trying to get a