Before the womens march last year that said this was the boldest most intersectional platform that is ever come out of any march historically, and that was one, the moment i was most proud. After words airs every saturday at 10 p. M. Eastern and sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern and pacific. Founded in 1747, its one of the oldest libraries in the country. This building is essentially the first purpose built Library Structure in america. We often talk about franklin and his Library Company of philadelphia where, we are a freestanding purpose built librarystructure so thats important. Unlike any of the others, we are still operating as a lending library. People have been coming for that building 270 years. I have said and ill say it here that besides a church, the library is the single oldest Cultural Institution that is unbroken to the colonial period so when you walk inthat door and you borrow book, youre doing it as theyve been doing it for nearly 3 centuries. Newport was of course one of the
Shipping and handling. For the next hour, a book tv exclusive, our citys four views new poor, rhode island. We have traveled the u. S. Cities ringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our tours tiestour. Org ci we are here at the library in newport, rhode island. We have been here since 1747. We were founded and the library was built in 1750. We have a correction ranging from the earliest period up to donations from of rare books from the present about 16,000 volumes. My coworker and i have pulled up some of the treasures of the Redwood Library and aetheneum, from our oldest holdings into our original founding collection. Variousumenting at the foundation of the redwood abraham redwood, the founder, asked for books to be brought back from england that were useful in everyday life and would be useful to the members, in addition to adjust being intellectually stimulating. Sterling,at 500 pound the agents for the library were sent to london with a list of books that the
About flag day and then we realized that in fact there were three flags being stored here and one in the collection of the museum of the American Revolution, two that are the property of an anonymous, very generous owner and lender, who has consented to have them on display for this afternoon. So this is an extraordinary opportunity. Im not sure there is anywhere else on the planet why you can stand in the room and be in the presence of three banners of liberty from the American Revolution. So congratulations to all of you for not going to the beach this weekend or not mowing the grass in the hot weather and choosing to come and sit in the dark with me for about an hour. I would like to start actually with an exercise to get you to think about the role that flags play and the images you have in your minds eye about the American Revolution. And so actually im going to close your eyes for a minute. Because were going to think about how poets and painters have painted the vision we have o
Did the cia ever try or contemplate getting into recruit others to spot as well . Imac thank you very well. Didnt see a contemplate having and recruit others speak was no, never. He was such a valuable agent. Ending up these faults and filing cabinets. Hey good morning to kill anyone else. Again i remind you we had these wonderful satellites that could fly over the soviet union and send back realtime images. We now take this for granted in our communications age, but in 1977 it was wonder what to do this. It gave us a great advantage. And about it for a minute. A satellite cannot see into anybodys filing cabinet. Satellite cannot seem to the minds of men pics satellites have a lot of limitations. This one man, adolph tolkachev, provided enormous amount of information that could not be gotten with the satellite. Thats why we still need people like this. It were going to defend our system in a dangerous world, what have you think about the history of the cia or the things youve heard in
Were deployed to vietnam marking the beginning of the u. S. Ground war. By the end of 1965, almost 200,000 americans were in the country. When the war ended in 1975, nearly 3 million americans had served in the conflict and more than 58,000 lost their lives. Up next, the screaming eagles in ves nam, a u. S. Army the big picture episode documenting the activities of the 101st Airborne Division from its arrival in the spring of 1965 through january of 1967. Okay. Move out. From out of the skies over vietnam come the screaming eagles, the heroic pair troopers of the 101st Airborne Division. Their fabled exploits during world war ii can never be forgotten. In december 1944 outnumbered and surrounded by the germans at bastogne, the men of the 101st courageously fought on. When the germans ordered them to surrender or be annihilated, their acting commander gave the historic reply, nuts and they stood until the germans were defeated. It is in this same tradition that the men of the screaming