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
Now we kick off the day with cbs sunday morning correspondent mo rocca on his book of obituaries the features politicians, scientists, entertainers, and more. Good evening and welcome. Im david ferriero, the archivist of the trinity and please you could join for tonight program. Whether you hit in the theater or joining us on facebook or youtube. Any special welcome, welcome to our cspan audience. Before we hear from mo rocca and rita braver id like to tell you but other programs coming up in this theater. Tuesday november 12 at noon historian Richard Brooke kaiser will tell us about his new book give me liberty. Which examines americas history through 12 documents. On thursday, november 14 at 7 30 p. M. We will a veterans day tribute world war ii soldier, photographers from the u. S. Army signal corps. Photo collection at the National Archives. The authors of the new book entitled aftershock, the human toll of war will joy historians for discussion of these less wellknown images of th
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