And speak at the national archives. The other day, i saw a tweet about todays event, and as a historian, its kind of like having yourself name checked by beyonce. This is the mothership. Thank you so much for coming. My book, the cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco in modern america, not through the lens of big tobacco in the machinations of industry, but through the efforts of Everyday Americans to get the government to intervene on their behalf. Big tobacco is still an important part of the story, but by focusing on other actors, farmers, government officials, politicians, activists, workers and labor unions, the story of tobacco in the 20th century begins to look a lot different than if we were to understand it through the actions of tobacco alone. By taking a wide angled approach, my book suggests that far from being the product of corporate deception that was ultimately exposed by science, the cigarette was a product of government intervention. What ultimate
Important overseas American Military base in the 1950s. Produced between 1951 and 1971, the big picture was a Weekly Television report for the army and the american public. Narrator the United States army presents the big picture, an official report produced for the armed forces and the american people. A small, rocky, typhoonswept island, this is okinawa, principal link in the ryukyus chain, which stretches more than stretches over the pacific from japan to formosa. Unimportant . Perhaps at first glance. But okinawas role in todays world is out of proportion to its size. An area equal to rhode island, okinawa is a vital outpost in the free World Defense network less than 300 miles from the coast of communist china. But okinawa has not always played the Important Role it plays today. For many centuries it slept, an island off the beaten track of world affairs. Feudal lords ruled over scattered straw hut villages , where life centered around two things rice and religion. Ancestor worshi
Miles from houston here. And there were people lined up all along the tracks, all the way here. I was in a bus. We kind of followed the path of the train. And it was just amazing. You could see the people all over, all over the tracks, through conroe, places like that. And then the train ended at the university about a mile from here. And the casket was put in a hearse and brought here. Kids in the corps cadets theres a walkway on the other side of the gravesite. The cadets lined the walkway all the way here. The Funeral Service here was just family. So there was a memorial service, and at st. Martins in houston. That was a public ceremony. Then the body was brought here. Like i said, people lining the path all the way up here, and in college station, people all along the tracks. Then once the body got to the library museum, it was just family. And so it was a like mrs. Bushs service, it was just a family service. And they chose early, after the library was put here, they the gravesite
Adams, mercedes driver wins the grand prix and fernando says hes lucky to be alive after walking away from this huge case in melbourne. Turkeys entire your minister has said the suicide a to beer responsible for saturdays blast was a member of isil. Four other people were killed and dozens wounded when the bomber detonated his device on a crowded street. We have the latest from istanbul. Reporter a somber mood hangs over the street. This is the heart of istanbuls commercial lifeline. A place where locals and tourists hang out. But after a suicide bombing earlier on saturday, the avenue is overshadowed by fear. People here hold the vigil for the victims. Translator we came here right after the incident. And left red carnations to show our pain. Reporter Security Camera footage captured the moment the blast went off around noon. Witnesses say hundreds of people ran for cover when a loud explosion was heard. A day later, the Security Forces are still searching for blues. The Forensic Poli
Sarah hoye says its easy to take the choke hold too far. Im resisting, im choking, i cant breathe, im trying to tell him, i cant breathe. And a true American Hero, he sacrificed all in the bloodiest battle of the civil war. Lieutenant, lets get you to he says no, ill stay and fight or die in the attempt. The highest military honor, why it took a little old lady in wisconsin to give him his due. Why were you so interested . Because no one else was i think. And why Alonzo Cushing is still waiting. And good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen. A shooting in a National Capital building with countrys leaders just footsteps away would itself be cause for alarm but the still developing news out of canada this hour may have even more disturbing implications with serious suggestions that it might be connected to a terror plot hatched half a world away. We begin our report with a view of what happened, from america tonights Sheila Macvicar. An unprecedented chaotic scene inside canadas