Last time we were talking about world war ii photography and the ways photographers interacted with the war. And we ended last time by looking at this image right here the Mushroom Cloud that emerged after dropping the atomic bomb in 1945. In many ways this image marks the end of world war ii, but in many ways it marks the beginning of the cold war. Course new clear tread, new clearing society had hovered over the conflict of the 19 fifties and sixties even up to the 19 eighties to the end of the conflict. It is a fitting emit to begin our class today. Today rethinking a lot about photography during the cold war. Particular lee american photography. You imagine a week or two or even an entire course of the subject, you start thinking about general themes as well as case studies, but also in the meantime along the way talk about about some events and how newspapers were printing photographs during these years. He thought fdrs new deal was too big, but what fdr did well was beyond social
And Senior Writer for the american prospect, good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us on cspan, we appreciate it. My pleasure. Let me begin with the frontpage headline of the Washington Post as congress gambles to work on a stimulus deal now approaching close to 2 trillion which is an unprecedented amount for congress. Your thoughts on whats to transpire over the next couple hours and days . It is unprecedented. This is an unprecedented situation. Weve never had a situation where we basically ground the entire American Economy to a halt all the sudden. With every other recession we had there mightve been some kind of a shock that precipitated it but it still unfolded over somewhat of an extended period of time where you could see it coming. This really happened all at once. You have this huge shock to the system and that has led congress to say that we really need to do something of a scale that we havent done before. Right now the two democrats and congress through publishing
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Responding to a deadly rocket attack on a coalition base the u. S. Launches a new round of airstrikes in iraq. Asian markets have opened in freefall extending global losses on fears of a recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic it follows a day of horror for u. S. European and middle eastern markets and basters are bailing out of the travel restrictions and business shutdowns that are bringing economies to a halt italy has ramped up its lockdown closing bars restaurants and shops of france norway and ireland are among the latest countries to close schools and universities efforts to stop large gatherings and lead to severe restrictions on sporting events european football leagues an american basketball baseball and hockey leagues all suspended. So lets continue our coverage here with whats been another Tour De Force for Global Markets on wall street the Dow Jones Industrial average sank almost 10 percent its worst losses. Since black monday crash of 1987 and london the footsie 100.
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