Active bush pilot in alaska. He drove here from alaska by himself and will be on board one of the b17s. Rear admiral Edward Whitey fatener shot down nine enemy aircraft wildcats and f6 hell cats for the navy. Today hell be flying in one of the texans that comes by early in the flyover. Al tucker flew the p38 lightning in europe during world war ii before being shot down over germany on his 22nd git gatcombat mission. He was a prisoner of the germans. Mr. Tucker will be in one of the steerman biplanes during todays flyover. Weldon briton lives in virginia, but in 1945, he was a p51 mustang pilot based in the Pacific Theater and hell be participating in the flyover as a passenger in one of our b17 flying fortresses. Also with us today on the ground are foreveterans who participated in a Discussion Forum last night at the national air and space museum. Many thanks to bud anderson for joining us last night and again here this afternoon. As grateful as we are for their bravery, sacrifice an
2027488001 for republicans. You can send an email to journal cspan. Org. All front pages have essentially the same lead story. Court calls nsa data sweep illegal. There is the l. A. Times, the new york times. Nsa collection of bulk call data is ruled illegal. In the Washington Times lead editorial big brother takes a hit. Senator Mitch Mcconnell has made it clear to his colleagues that he wants the usa patriot act including the parts of the legislation scheduled to expire at the end of june, fully extended. He seems ready to do whatever he can to get his way. The usa patriot act was enacted in the days following 9 11 when the nation trembled on the verge of panic, with little debate and little opposition in congress the usa freedom act would modify the patriot act. The freedom act is expected to pass in the house the attorney general Loretta Lynch was asked about it in testimony yesterday. Lynch section 215 has been a vital tool in our National Security arsenal, but the department has
That had polio. She told me how he had to struggle across the stage to get to the podium for talking with canes all by himself and this was an act of great courage and that was Franklin Roosevelt when he became the president and that stuck in my mind. A friend of mine came and told me a similar story. He said some about the same age when he was six or 7yearsold, he can to his mother one day and said i know what god looks like and she said is that right . How do you know and he pulled out a dime and he said it says right here in god we trust and here is his picture. And she said thats Franklin Roosevelt. He had polio. He was on the diamond, right . Because the march of dimes. Congress decided after his death in 1945 they wanted to put his face on the korean and the appropriate claim was the diamond and because the Great Campaign to piatt fight polio it was put on by the National Foundation founded by Franklin Roosevelt even before he was president. Polio was completely associated with h
The crash. It took a wing off or something and hit real hard. Needle in a haystack. Its a big sky. Two little bitty planes, the chances of them clipping each other is a freak accident. Its really sad. Reporter you could see the coast guard had helicopts in the sky, and boats in the water. Right now there are no immediate plans to call off the search. Its starting to get dark and the coast guard is about to give a news conference. Well bing you the update bring you the update as soon as possible. Cross 4 news, near san pablo bay. And game 4 of the first round of the playoffs, pivotal for both teams. Todays game a little less about basketball and a lot more about the racial remarks. We have more on the a latest on this growing controversy. Scott. Reporter we have learned an attorney for sterlings girlfriend says the voice is no doubt that of the clippers owner and now tmz sports released more of that controversial conversation. Honey, if it makes you happy, i will remove all of the black
Propaganda films rallying the nation to the war effort. In others they put their lives at risk documenting the combat itself. One of those was john ford. Assigned to the Pacific Island of midway. They stood at the pacific filming the battle. Ford himself was knocked off that roof and received shrapnel wound. He produced a documentary called the battle of midway. And in 2000, ktvus Bob Mackenzie found a former american sailor who was not part of fords film and whos heroism went unrecognized for half a century. Reporter for more than 50 years nobody knew that art lewis was a hero. That he had risked his own life to save other peoples lives in world war ii. Thats because lewis never talked about what he had done and because the men who hand out medals and write military history had overlooked him. Its time we told his story. Reporter on june 4, 1942 a naval battle that changed the course of history began near the Pacific Island of midway. An outnumbered and outgunned task force faced mili