Giving away what the friends of the linebacker library love to give away more than anything else and thats some books to some lucky winners so please join us at this point in welcoming from the National Archives at wiver riverside. Randy thompson and james artoon. [applause] hi, im going to introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. Ill be here for questions and answer. Just a little background about myself. I volunteered apt the after i got my b. A. In history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the National Archives at riverside and then in i got my masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the tional archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an archiv
15 million in eight years. In fact we plant less now than we did in the 80s. Hello and welcome. Im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. In the last few minutes the Federal Reserve has done something it has not done in more than a decade cut Interest Rates. Its only a quarter of a point but whys it cutting rates at all . Normally a central bank would only lower Interest Rates when an economy is faltering, not something you could say about the us economy right now. Fed officials describe it as an insurance cut, to keep the us economy on track. But the critics suggest the normally independent central bank is caving in to political pressure from the white house. The president has been very critical of the fed chairjerome powell, and has been demanding this cut since the fed put up the rates last december. Id like to see a large cut and id like to see immediately the quantitative tightening stopped. We expect the chair of the Federal Reserve to speak in the next 30 min
Please join me and welcoming these archivists. [applause] myself. L introduce y will be giving most of the presentation. I will be here for questions and answers. My banteered after i got in history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010. I started volunteering at the National Archives in riverside. In 2012, i became a student archivists. My masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san joses date university. In 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician. Two in 26 income i moved back to california and moved into my current role. I will turn it over to randy and he can give you his bio. Randy welcome everybody. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. I want to thank the friends of the North Hollywood library. For inviting us to come out here. I hope you enjoy the earlier events. I have been with the National Archives in Southern California since 1995. Filek a summer job as a clerk, pulling and
By theas deeply moved depths of her concern and her act of selfsacrifice. Ais led him to compile collection and the book was published. Story and the book were given wide publicity. This film is presented as a gift. Let us work ever harder to fulfill her last wish. Committee for the investigation of war crimes in vietnam was established in october. Last december, a team consisting theeven members was sent to republic of vietnam from japan. We arrived in hanoi on december the 21st, two days before the christmas ceasefire. The chairman of the committee of the democratic republic of vietnam for the investigation of also minister of health and hygiene. We started our on the spot survey, dividing the work between us. Our team first went down to the 17th parallel. We been carried on our investigations. We talked directly with more than 200 witnesses and collected great for righties of material evidence. The capital of this province. This is a place of total destruction. Not even the features
And joins us from on board the hornet. Reporter the festivities are just about to begin here on the uss hornet. A lot of these people have not talked about 50 years it turns out it takes a whole village to pull this off and get those astronauts to the moon its estimated at 400,000 people worked all across the country on the apollo 11 mission. Some of them right here in the bay area. To understand why nasa chose to touch down on this particular spot on the moon in a place known as the sea of tranquility and why it designed the lunar lander the way that it did, we have to go deep deep into the bowels of the nasa Research Center in Mountain View and into one of the worlds premier hyper velocity impact testing sites. Welcome to the ranger. Reporter charles is the facility manager and explains the device built in 1966 is basically a gun range on steroids. We use this gun to shoot at targets and a blue chamber. A very high speeds to simulate what happens when meteors and asteroids impact a p