About the Current Crisis on the border. Also tonight california nearly tapped out. Why so many are in deep denial about the drought and what the state plans to do to shut off the taps. And on a crisis still developing at this hour, a brief pause in the action, but no sign of full ceasefire as the middle east conflict continues to rage. And helping us understood the roots of the conflict, Sheila Mc Victor maps out the crisis and how tensions exploded, and why its so difficult to end it. Good evening, and thanks for sho joining us, im joie chen. Reserveservessists at the gaza border. Despite the threat of the Ground Invasion, a slight break after nine days of airstrikes israel announces a sixhour pause to allow humanitarian aid into gaza. Among the dead, four more palestinian children were killed by israeli navy shelling. Al jazeeras Stephanie Decker is on the ground in gaza city, and she joins us now. Stephanie, weve heard quite a bit here about the airstrikes. But what you witnessed ea
Quality her entire life. She shares about their personal relationship during on q a. Final years aided u. S. Government cuban parents in sending their children to the u. S. To escape the rise of the castro regime. Next on American History tv, author and professor Anita Casavantes Bradford discusses the legacy of the mission known as operation pedro pan. She explains the differing interpretations of the childrens exodus to the u. S. From cuba and how the 2000 custody battle over Elian Gonzalez reignited debate over operation pedro pan. After her talk, several audience members who came to the u. S. As part of the operation took part in the discussion. Florida International University hosted this 45minute event. [applause] thank you so much. Before i begin, i would like to ask if there are any pedro panists in the room. A special thank you for coming. I want to acknowledge pedro pan is not strictly or even primarily a topic for academic analysis and that you are the experts in this histor
Is not strictly or even primarily a topic for academic analysis and that you are the experts in this history. It is with that recognition that i will share a few thoughts with you today, but i do so with humility and appreciation for the opportunity to be with you today. Between the fall of 1960 and october of 1962, the parents of more than 14,000 cuban children made the heartbreaking decision to send their children alone to the United States where they were cared for by friends, relatives, foster parents, as well as in camps and orphanages. The reasons why parents did this were varied. Many feared for the spiritual wellbeing of their catholic children after an increasingly radicalized cuban revolution began to oppress religious expression, close schools, expel priests and religious orders from the island. Others feared growing interventions into family life and panicked after rumors that castro intended to deprive parents of Legal Authority over their children began to circulate. They
Loathing lincoln is his first book, and he has started a blog. He updates weekly. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. I highly recommend that to all of you. The book has received a lot of good attention, a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries of what the book must be about. One is by our old friend marco. He said, paradoxically americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. As John Mckee Barr shows in his meticulous survey, detractors of the rail splitter have been a variegated crowd of strange bedfellows. Libertarians, neoconservatives white supremacists, black panthers. States rights advocates, and antiimperialist, among others. The arguments that have overlooked the confederacys central aim the right to own, exploit, and rape africanamericans and their descendents forever. Here is another comment i find particularly amusing, from an unnamed critic. From bitter, defeated critics after appomattox, and academics in our
Expression, close schools, expel priests and religious orders from the island. Others feared growing interventions into family life and panicked after rumors that castro intended to deprive parents of Legal Authority over their children began to circulate. Parents also sought to protect their children from communist indoctrination. Revolutionary schools. With the help of james baker, an American School headmaster in havana, the support of a Clandestine Group of anticastro cubans, in miami a young miami young irish immigrant priest, along with the support of the u. S. State department and most likely the Central Intelligence agency, cuban parents began spiriting their children off the island and into the care of the Catholic Church in the United States. They believed their separation would be temporary since few believed the United States would allow castros increasingly leftleaning revolution to survive. After the failure of the bay of pigs invasion in april 1961 and the october 1962 m