Until his death on april 121945. We present nigel regan from the final volume in fdr war and peace fdrs final odyssey. Using the documents, hamilton rewrites the famous account of world war ii strategy is i eveny Winston Churchill in his memoirs. 75 years after, we finally get to see closeup and in dramatic detail who was responsible for rescuing and insisting upon the great invasion of france in june of 1944. As the trial turns to personal tragedy we watched with heartbreaking compassion the course of the disease and how they attempted to prepare the United Nations for an american backed postcold war era. Now we know that even on his deathbed he was the wars great visionary. Douglas brinkley says war and peace is a masterful reevaluation of dday, the demise and the conference and the pulitzer prizewinning coauthor of american war and peace are stunning achievements. Hamilton commands the talent both as a meticulous military historian and a seasoned biographer and the result is an inti
And is a historian who has contributed a couple of great books but lincolns last trial if you wonder why im interested in having him. [laughter] but he has written a book that fdr called my fifth cousin by blood and set it at the very trial that dan abrams has written about in this extraordinary book of a littleknown episode in Theodore Roosevelts life and that is an extraordinary legal episode at the defense of a charge of liable argued here in new york state. Welcome. Its great to be here and always honored to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. Its better when we dont talk about lincoln. This is all new. I promise. It will be considered new to everybody else. So start with the obvious why this book and case . In the context of working on the lincoln book with his last trial we used this transcript arguing from nine months before he got the nomination and david fisher my coauthor brought me this and set a fascinating transcript only discovered 1989 know it has written abou
Good evening. Im Howard Walter and i have the honor of serving as director at roosevelt house and we are thrilled to have you here for what we think will be a special evening as we welcome our guest who as you know provides regular legal analysis to abc news and on the a e network constantly including this evening. And is a historian who has contributed a couple of great books but lincolns last trial if you wonder why im interested in having him. [laughter] but he has written a book that fdr called my fifth cousin by blood and set it at the very trial that dan abrams has written about in this extraordinary book of a littleknown episode in Theodore Roosevelts life and that is an extraordinary legal episode at the defense of a charge of liable argued here in new york state. Welcome. Its great to be here and always honored to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. Its better when we dont talk about lincoln. This is all new. I promise. It will be considered new to everybody else. S
Congress and hollywood filmmakers. Tv,ext on American History blacklist survivors, family members read testimonies and statements from those subpoenaed during the testimony. The Writers Guild foundation and hollywood progressives host this event. Onthe record will show that october 27, 1947, the subcommittee of the House Unamerican Activities Committee at with the chairman, dishonorable jail time is providing desperate siding. The House Unamerican Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. [laughter] there are not even subpoenas im going to speak anyway. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. [applause] i am a child of the blacklist. My parents were not in show business, but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 2 eighteen st in bayside queens and every house on that block was either a communist or socialist. If you had not fought hitlers and had not gone to the Abraham Lincoln brigade, you better have a dam good reason. [applause] when i was a young boy, i irn
The record will show that on october 27th, 1947, a subcommittee of the house on American Activities Committee met with the chairman, dishonorable Parnell Thomas presiding. The house on American Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. You, sir, are not even subpoenaed to testify here. Yeah, im going to speak anyway. Very well, mr. Dreyfuss. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. And im a child of the blacklist. I was not my parents were not in show business but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 218 street in bay side, queens and every house on that block was lived in by a communist or a socialist. And if you have not fought hitler twice and not gone to the Abraham Lincoln brigade, you better have a dam good reason. When i was a young boy i turned to my mom and i said im the luckiest kid in the world and she said why . I said because im white, jewish and american. And she said its time you came into the meetings. And when i was about 10, i turned to a frie