cemetery. martha, harold hayden was 19 years old when he shipped out to the pacific with the marines during world war ii never to be seen from again. he was lost and killed in action. his body was just identified last year. he was buried at arlington national cemetery with full military honors. the story begins with a battle in november 1943. harold hayden of ohio was among the 18,000 marines that stormed the beaches in a group of islands in the central pacific in world war ii. the marines pushed ashore inch by inch. their mission to defeat the japanese 8,000 miles from tokyo. hayden and his fellow marines captured a base to launch air strikes to japan. victory came at a high cost. 1,000 marines killed including hayden on the final day. half the marines killed were
translator: one of the documents was from poland documenting a single transport to auschwitz in november, 1943. and it has a list of numbers of those who arrived, those who were sent to the camps, those sent to the crematoriums. i realized my number is part of that list. 161135. so i look at them and i said, you need not look elsewhere, the proof is here because i was part of that transport. the number is still on my arm. reporter: the eichmann trial served dual purposes. first to bring the nazis chief architect of the holocaust to justice. second, to highlight in detail what had happened to the jewish people through firsthand eyewitness testimony of survivors, people who turned the statistical six million figure into personal stories of horror that the world would be unable to forget. there was a witness, he was
several months. they went through thousands upon thousands of documents, piecing together the horrific events and building a volume of evidence that they hoped could prove eichmann s role beyond a shadow of a doubt. translator: one of the documents was from poland documenting a single transport to auschwitz in november 1943. and it has a list of numbers of those who arrived. those who were sent to the camps, those sent to the crematoriums. i realized my number is part of that list. 161135. so i look at them and i said, you need not look elsewhere, the proof is here. because i was part of that transport. the number is still on my arm. reporter: the eichmann trial served dual purposes. first, to bring the nazis chief architect of the holocaust to justice. second, to highlight in detail what had happened to the jewish
together of the horrific events and building a volume of evidence that they hoped could prove aikman s role beyond a shadow of a doubt. one of the documents was from poland, november 1943, it had a list of numbers of those who arrived. those who were sent to the camps and the crematory. i realized my number was part of that list, i look at that and i said you need not to look elsewhere. the proof is here because i was part of that transport. the number is still on my arm. how did theless on soft the trial resonates now? no doubt it s an enormous part of our collective history. but, it s also living history.
not getting a lot of points in the democratic party. just logistics, you have to get on ballots and those deadlines are coming up shortly. it is interesting to see this new york times piece. john kerry s name mentioned, i don t know if john kerry leaked that to the new york times but i think there s a lot of worry about joe biden as a front runner and you are seeing mayor pete move up the polls in iowa. the question is an alternative to elizabeth warren is what the democrats are possibly going to look for. shannon: i want to talk about your book, three days at the brink i m not done with it yet. so many untold stories about what could have happened in world war ii and what did end up happening. if the allies really could have lost world war ii and we forget that, looking back in history. at this moment november 1943,