They just opened up an exhibit on the vietnam war. We are here with a former helicopter pilot. Tell us how you ended up in the vietnam . I received word i was going to be drafted so i went and joined the army. They had a program for flight school. Vie970, i was in route to tnam. Can you talk to us about your role in a helicopter like this . A huey is an aircraft being used to haul combat troops in and out of the field. This is set up as a medevac aircraft. Junglenown as the penetrator. 200 feet,p that down strap the patient down and taken to the hospital. You would have two medics, a crew chief and two pilots. If it was hauling combat troops haul a titotalcould of 12 people. The troops averaged 150 pounds with an additional hundred pounds of cargo on their backs. This helicopter gives you about 2. 5 hours of fuel. What is it like when you are transporting cargo or treat into an area or troops into an area . Did you often come under fire . We would get our Mission Every morning when we
Grant. She argues that grant through the agreed terms begin the agreement of reconstruction. This talk was at the annual lincoln symposium. It is just under one hour. [applause] good morning. Welcome to the first session of the 21st annual Lincoln Forum symposium. It is always wonderful to come back to meet again with old friends and meet new people who are about to become friends. Introduceleasure to our first speaker. Ofrofessor and vice chair ucla department of history. She is the author of several monographs or it among them the awardwinning american hero. War andry of the civil american culture. War within a war, controversy on the american civil war. The work,ly published the american war. This came out this year in 2016. Her scholarship has been recognized in the following awards. Award, the 2010 choice the Jefferson Davis award in 2009. Award for excellence in civil war biography. Publication has that one cannot produce great scholarship without 14 great excellence in teaching.
Introduced us to three women with true grit and boundless courage, amanda berry, gina dejesus, michelle knight. They survived a decade in a make shift prison in a cleveland neighborhood. Tonight they have the news that the man who held them captive has taken his own life, hanging himself in his tiny prison cell. Abcs alex perez is on the ground in cleveland with the very latest. Reporter for 10 miserable years they survived. Three young women, summoning every ounce of strength in that house of horrors. But ariel castro lasted just one month and one day in prison before apparently taking his own life. So you understand that you will be in prison for life . Reporter castro spent his final days in an eight by 12 foot cell with a bed, sink, urinal, shower and a surface to write on. He was in protective custody, alone 23 hours a day with guards checking on him every 30 minutes. At 9 20 last night, Prison Guards found castro hanging in his cell, a bed sheet around his neck. Authorities say t
Following stories. Talk of the town a belgian designer makes a splash at paris fashion week. On the road again an iconic french car makes a comeback in a wood. And design classic an italian storage unit turns fifty. A paris is the city of fashion on any given day but this past week more than ever as the press reports a shows showcase the trends for next spring and summer and one show in particular was eagerly awaited that of the french fashion label why a project had designer glen mottos is a protege of the one and only a goatee which certainly shows in his creations which are like a hybrid of street where and elegant and we caught up with him backstage. With barely an hour to go before his latest creations if the catwalk thirty three year old glenn martin splits around backstage nipping and talking and making sure everything fits perfectly right to the last second. I even used to put on sunglasses because id been so nervous about the show i didnt want anyone to see my eyes and realize
A stylistic tour in a wooden french cycle. We start our journey in switzerland as a Remarkable Hotel to swiss started to strip down their holiday home to the bad minimum the socalled zero star hotel is comprised of a bed and well thats really it apart from a wonderful view of the alps its a chance to detox from all things digital. Thats a good see peak near gone to an in switzerland and twelve hundred meters above sea level two artists have set up a bid. The walls and roof are absent. From the hotel with no stars was dreamed up by Twin Brothers frank and Patrick Franklin by motional to get us into something the interesting thing about the hotel is that many people dont know what it is is that our Tourism Integration even most exciting thing about it is that we make people a bit uncertain. Forget wallpapered the scenery around this bed is the draw for visitors from all over the world. This is designed this is built and opened up shop and its been no vacancies ever since. He turned the t