And we lived there for awhile. I lived there until i was probably five or six years old. Then we gradually worked our way out of the lower east side. We move north to the bronx, where i grew up mostly. For a while, we lived in a Community Called Brighton Beach in brooklyn, which is a beautiful place right on the beach in Long Island Sound that many poor russians lived in those days. I would say we were very poor. My father worked as a restaurant worker all his life. My mother worked in the garment industry, so she will take the subway downtown from the bronx every morning to work. My father worked in a cafeterias. My sister roselyn and i were left more or less alone most of our lives. I was pretty much left alone most of the time i was growing. Up that was fine, i loved it because in the bronx, we live right next to bronx park which is a wonderful place for kids to grow up. Theres the bronx zoo and the botanical gardens. I used to go there all the time. I used to sneak into the bronx a
Gentlemen, the first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library in new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program.
Events for politicians and authors, members of media, business and military leaders and more. The march 2020 closures of many businesses across our great country Dragon Foundation is bringing events online to ensure we are still delivering worldclass content even if you cant get to our hilltop to watch it in person. In this weeks center for Public Affairs Virtual Event we bring you Chris Wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. 2014 marked his 50th year in the broadcasting industry, hes participated in coverage of nearly every Major Political event and also secured highprofile interviews with dignitaries and u. S. Leaders. For the past three years Chris Wallace has broadcast a sunday morning show live from the Reagan Library air force one pavilion abChris Wallace is with us today to speak about his new book countdown 1945 the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb in the hundred 16 days change the world. An unforgettable account of the lives of the ordinary american and japanese civilians i
Hiroshima, that has more power than 28000 tons of tnt. For this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. Its an atomic bomb, its the basic power of the universe, what has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science and history. On august 6, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city of here shema japan followed by a second detonation over the city of nagasaki. Six days later japan surrendered bringing it into the second world war. I have declared the this afternoon the japanese government and the message of our government that a secondary state on august 11, i do have this reply of the top ten declaration and the unconditional. Through the work of cspan city tour, will share stories with the people that contributed to the world or altering event. We begin in new orleans as the National World war ii museum. We are here today in the road to tokyo which will take us through the were on the pacific and a
By a friend of mine who runs a company in london. I did Everything Possible to resist the offer to make this film. Because it was a complex and frightening and challenging subject. You are dealing with one of the seminal events in World History obviously. There are all kinds of cliches about the world changing. And yet what happened in my case around thoughts buzzing in my brain, did not go away. Almost reluctantly i accepted that and started to make a film. The film, really was exactly as story,cribed, a 24hour a story that starts at 8 15 in andmorning august 5, 1945 ends above a clinic in the middle of hiroshima. It took me to so many different voices and People Places and people and became an obsession, which is a dangerous thing for a filmmaker and nascent writer. I decided after that the subject was something i could not leave and i would write a book about. This is the product. I say that i remember somewhere in my research, i started a journey which took me around the world. It