Here at the National Archives, the archivist of the united states, please you could join us in the theater. A special welcome to the cspan audience, two other programs coming up here in this theater. On tuesday november 12th at noon, historian Richard Broke kaiser will tell us about his new book give me liberty, history of americas exceptional idea, americas history to 12 documents. On tuesday november 14th at 7 30 we will host a veterans day tribute, world war ii soldier, photographers on the signal corps, photo collection at the National Archives. The authors of the new book entitled aftershock, the human toll of war, join historians for a these less wellknown images of the wars end. Keep informed about these events and others to check our website, archives. Gov and sign up outside the theater, and other National Archives and activities. Become a member of the National Archives foundation, supports education and outreach activities and other members of the board of the National Archi
Redeeming and welcome to the National Archives im david i am the archivist of the United States and im least that you are joining us for tonights program whether youre here in the theater or joining us on facebook over youtube and a special welcome to our cspan audience. Before we hear from mo rocca i would like to hear you about two other programs coming appear in the theater. On tuesday november 12 at noon Richard Brooke kaiser will tell us about his new book give me liberty, the history of americas exceptional idea. Which examines 12 documents. On thursday november 14 at 730 we will host a veterans tribute world war ii soldier, photograph or target first with the u. S. Army signal corps, photo collection at the National Archives, offer of the new book with aftershock of the human toll of war and will join historians for discussion of the wellknown images of the war and to keep informed about these events and others throughout the year check our website, archives. Gov or sign up to t
He has written 3 previous books before homewrecker is, how america lost iraq. And washingtons battle against americans, veterans and the thing is. What he has done is looking at veterans, looking at war, because of his reporting, fewer us military veterans face long lines waiting for disability compensation. He has sparked, his journalism sparked federal legislation, congressional hearings. What he does leads to a response by government and maybe we will see the same hedge fund magnates, shady banks and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American Dream. He is a peabody award winner, Journalism Award winner, twice nominated for National Emmy for his work on pbs news hour. He is really good at what he does. We are very fortunate to have Dorothy Brown from Emory University school of law, nationally recognized scholar and tax policy, race, class. And and she was excited because she was eager to read his book. And lets join me in welcoming. Please we
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Great to have you all here. Welcome to the museum news eums theater. We are partners with the fbi for wes special program as celebrate one hundred years of African American special agents. We will honor their history, their service, and looked toward the future. Seum has enjoyed working with the fbi. Exhibit today examines how the bureau is riding terror and cybercrime fighting terror and cybercrime. I want to give a warm welcome to many current and former fbi agents in the room and as always, i very warm welcome to our visitors and our members. Thank you for your support. Introduceleasure to the fbi associate director paul bate. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. What an amazing day. Thank you, john, and to the newseum, for hosting this event. And thank you for the fbi up us vias office of inclusion to organize thishelp event today. Its a privilege to be one small part of the 100th Year Anniversary of the hiring and entry on duty of the first af
National Archives Foundation which supports her education and outreach activities and there is a gaggle of members of the board of the national Archives Foundation in the theater. Nice to see you. Check out Archives Foundation. Org and to join them on line. A littleknown secret i tell everyone no one has ever been turned down for membership from the national Archives Foundation. Some of you think of archives as a place for dead people. Writers who have not spent much time and fall back on adjectives like dusty musty, or crumbling much to the education of archivists and preservationists. Some say the riches are buried. Can study and of lifeless remnants of history, archives are filled with many lives, billions of pages contain stories of payments of ordinary people who intersected with recorded history. Mo rocca tells a story of hidden records and send them into the world. With mobituaries great lives worth reliving he looks at the lives of men and women, those wellknown and those now f