Our coverage of the ceremony honoring the life of Justice Ginsburg today you can find, if you go to our website, cspan. Org. Our capitol hill producer also notes today that joe biden had chaired the Senate Judiciary committee in 1993 during the confirmation process during Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will pay his respks along with Kamala Harris this morning in the capitol where the Late Supreme Court justice will lie in National Statuary hall. We want to get your thoughts on Justice Ginsburg today f you live in the eastern is entrat partly of the country. 20 did shall 7488,000. Mountain pacific, 4788001. Usa today has a piece on front page this morning write written by sarah, maria, and veronica, the associate susstiss lies in state today, the first woman so honored. She changed womens lives in america, they write. For 27 years on the Supreme Court. Act as a voice for women and men in countlets ways from education to workplace discrimination. She was a lawyer at the aclu and brought and argued
You are watching American History tv, covering history cspan style, with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, archival films, lectures, and college visits to museums and historic places. All weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Bidens record is a shameful roll call of the most catastrophic the trails and blunders in our lifetime. He has spent his entire career on the wrong side of history. Our current president has failed in his most basic duty to the nation. He has failed to protect us. He has failed to protect america, and my fellow americans, that is unforgivable. The first president ial debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President joe biden is tuesday september 29th at 9 pm eastern. Watch live coverage on cspan. Watch Live Streaming and on demand at cspan. Org, or listened live on the free cspan radio app. 75 years ago in the summer of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on japan. One was on hiroshima on august 6th and the other on nagasaki on august 9
Wilmington, delaware. My family had a Construction Business there, which was quite old. It is still in business. And i went to school in delaware, i went to the university of delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps. Which they let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. So you would go back to school and you would start again wherever you left off. I went to try to enlist, but i was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army. But i was restricted in what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. I spent 16 weeks in texas. They sent me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. And unfortunat
My family had a Construction Business there, which was quite old. It is still in business. And i went to school in delaware, i went to the university of delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps. They let College Students go into it with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. So you would go back to school and you would start again wherever you left off. I went to try to enlist, but i was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army. But i was restricted in what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. I spent 16 weeks in texas. They sent me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. And unfortunately, when i got to the un
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 did you say you were married already at that point or no . No. I got married at the end of the war when i got back. Thats how i got back. I talked general foul into letting me come back and get married in berkeley, california. Tell me a little bit more, what was it like at loss alamo with everybody there and nobody can talk about what theyre doing. Los alamos, first place, it sat up on top of a mountain. It was a boys school at one time, a very exclusive boys school, so to get there you had to drive up a road that went up the side of the mountain. I mean if you wept off the side of that road you had a nice roll down a hill. Then when you got to a guard gate, they stopped you and got your identity and so forth. From there you go in and the first thing you came to was the technical area, the beginning of the technical area. Now it was up on the level part of the property and thats where a drug store was and a Grocery Store and so for