Vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. But those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. This afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true story about a glamorous american debutante who b
Brigade an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spy during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize that maybe he can wake up each morning, go to his desk, and look forward to the prospect of spending a day making this story come alive on the page. But those moments are just preludes to the energizing moment when he decides, i love this story, this is a book i have to write. This afternoon, what i would like to tell you is how i came to write the last good night, a true story about a glam
Good evening. Nonetheless original western regional director of United States Holocaust Memorial museum with our offices located in los angeles. First of all, i want to tell you how excited we are to be here tonight and really think our hosts, the california African American museum. Thepartnership between United States Holocaust Memorial museum and the California Africanamerican Museum has been a wonderful, wonderful experience. We have been treated so graciously and we have been very excited about the crowds of people who have come to the museum to see the exhibit. I was talking to dana who was in from washington that this will really serve as a model for the rest of the country in terms of the partnerships between and among institutions in the community. I want to thank again the illustrious board member from the california africanamerican senior staff, and just everyone we have worked with. It has been a wonderful experience. The holocaust museums traveling exhibit, politics, race a
Conference at the World War Ii Museum in new orleans. It is about 45 minutes. Our next speaker is howard blum, who brought the story you are about to hear to our local audience earlier this year while he was on his book tour. We thought so much of it and of howard that we wanted to bring him back for you all here today. One of his previous books that im sure you all know of is the brigade an epic story of vengeance, salvation, and world war ii, about a group of jewish volunteers who fought the nazis and the postwar actions of a few of them. In todays presentation, the last kiss good night, howard has found another remarkable story about a dazzling american debutante who became an allied spied during world war ii and was hailed by oss chief general wild bill donovan as the greatest unsung heroine of world war ii. Ladies and gentlemen, howard blum. [applause] howard blum for every author, there is a time when he thinks he has found a story that interests him, when he begins to realize th
Effective and could be transferred over a great distance at a far less cost. But teslas interest in a lot of other areas of physics and electricity, and eventually he comes to colorado in 1899. This ek exhibition sort of explores some of the ideas that tesla was exploring during his career, through Historical Information and reproduction of photographs. And then also through artists projects that may be mine some of this same scientific or creative territory. Thats one of the things we found interesting to explore with the exhibition, is some of the overlaps and artistic process and scientific process sort of trying to explore the creative aspects of science. There is sort of this misconception that science is totally straightforward that there is that the process of trial and error doesnt involve equalities like intuition or creativity and i think thats really been proven untrue. There is this very creative sort of intuitive piece to science. And we wanted to sort of make that a littl