And previous ep soats website our website, and click on the index tab at the 0 top of the page. [inaudible conversations] no one is here to talk to me or hear me. [laughter] thank you for coming out this evening to hear our favorite historian stephen ha hardy. And hes a longterm journalist and the history magazine. Hes a captivating speaker, at least i always feel that way after id heard him talk and he shares fascinating stories full of intrigue and courage that many of us have never heard about. Well hear about his new book, escape from paris, which is based on official american, german, french documents and as well as interviews. Its a story of droup aviators, taken to nazi occupied paris and please join me in welcoming him. No pressure there. I would like to personally thank you all for coming. I really appreciate it when people show up and i hope not to bore you. I want to give you a quick background on myself because people wonder how you wind up writing history. I was born in ca
He wanted to open a museum and his honor, here in the declined the offer, in 1965 every even the agreed long as the museum was made about the men and women who served under him and not about him. Sadly, he died. We have the flag that draped his coffin during his funeral. Almost one year after his death, the Museum Opened here in fredericksburg. Now we are going to go to the george w. Bush gallery and look at some artifacts that show we are true to the mission of making this about the men and women who served under admiral nimitz and not just about admiral nimitz. Welcome to the National Museum of the pacific war in fredericksburg, texas, the only museum in the continental United States dedicated to telling the human story of the war in the pacific. In here, we tell the story of world war ii in the pacific through the eyes of the men and women who fought that war. When america was attacked at pearl harbor, america was not prepared for war. Behind me, you will see a photo of pearl harbor
Suburban homes with their nuclear families. Homes i like ike, its so simple and k it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth and its a political is construction. The 1950a s in fact was a time wroughtth with racial discrimination, conflicts, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It wasimpose a time in which anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently anticommunists took away civil liberties. And these are all different areas of political pressures in. Terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against and those that we will look at next week. But i like ike as a political construct shifted attention awa from those divisions and it and created a sense of consensus. In many ways again this is political construction. Co at the root of it was a very innovative and transformative Marketing Campaign that transformed a military hero
Of d day, eric chardin. And you landed on gold beach you were 19 years old that day, youre 94 now. As you eventually realised this was it and you were on your way, what did that feel like . I think we had tried to convince ourselves that we had Something Special to do even if we didnt have any idea how to do it. And whats your first memory of the moment you realised you were about to land, and this was about to happen . Well, i mean, it was all going then. We got ourselves together and still ourselves. We still got soaking wet. We clambered off and made for the beach. I think its fair to say that the worst of the opposition had probably passed by the time we landed you know, the earlier assault troops had probably cleared the beaches, anyhow. But there was still a lot of gunfire. And sadly, the first time in our lives, there were dead bodies all over the place, which is a very sad sight a very shocking site to us, i suppose. You were on gold beach, one of the three british beaches. You
Our speaker is smith. She has worked since november 2 thousand. Previous work experience, festivity Document Department supervisor at university of denver and archiver for u. S. Forest service in montana. Masters in history from Colorado State university. And mlis from university of denver. Taught workshops on ethics and copyright law. With society of Rocky Mountain archivists. And it has been president of the society, secretary of the academy of archivists, and collected great photos and videos and audio files to share with us from hoovers Funeral Services in 1964. He died october 20, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Brad. Also want to make note this marks the second year of the third thursdays im happy to be parts of launching what will be next year. Also a note this coming october 27, is world day for audio visual heritage, a Key Initiative of coordinating counsel of audio visual archives. In that spirit, was able to putua together a very video, visual, production of what happen