Of angst, especially if you came for medical or health reasons. I think today we forget there is this connection to how we developed in the country or in texas in particular. If it were not for the gulf andt and the transportation viability of bringing ships and so forth, we wouldnt exist. Galveston, you really have to think of it being the point of creation for texas for what we see as the modern state and the modern part of the country. Our next part of the galveston tour is the uss uss cavalla. [klaxon sounds] announcer in 1917, the submarine force was battling Public Opinion as well as the enemy. Both saw submarines as im chivalrous, that and chivalrous nonchivalrous, that war under the sea was unfair and inhuman. If we paid much attention to these protests, we would not have had that tough s boat and the longrange fleet that made up our small submarine force in 1941. When all the training of 25 useful years was suddenly put to the test. [explosion] a small submarine force based in
You had europeans, mainly germans coming into the port of galveston and as a group settling a different parts of the state of texas. If you had been here in the 1850s german was the most common language spoken in galveston. On the streets, that is what people were talking in. We have a number of groups you can see in galveston today if you go to the garden, you can see what became the center for german entertainment and social life. You can go to st. Joseph church the first German Catholic Church in texas. You can see where they worshiped and where they were educated and how they spent their lives in galveston. But the height of immigration with the late 19th century and early 20th. And it continued up to 1954 when it was no longer a point of interest for immigrants. But the story of that is the backandforth between the state of texas managing immigration and eventually the federal government doing immigration. But it became a place where there want they wanted to push immigrants away
Party to the 1938 agreement, americans would access over munich from that day to the present. For over seven decades, munich and appeasement would be among the dirtiest words in the american political lexicon. They are really political four letter words. To americans, the terms are synonymous with weakness implying a craven willingness to barter away a nation possible vital interests for empty promises. But certainly, in the minds of most historians, munich was a major mistake. Even one that, in the context of its time, had a certain logic. There has been a swing in historical interpretations in this regard, at least to some degree, looking at the context and the poor set of choices that chamberlain in particular had. Still, the take away for most later observers and historians was that appeasement of a highly wound up and heavily armed totalitarian state, in the context of a relatively firm and articulated continual equilibrium of power, was likely to upset the balance and make furthe
Under a minute you would only last about 45 minutes. They sank 1,178 japanese merchant ships. 214 japanese combat vessels. Twothirds of their merchant fleet. Onethird of their navy. Were in the forward torpedo room. Youll see a couple of torpedo tubes in front of me. Theres two down below in the deck. During the war there was two on top. So originally she had six torpedo tubes but after the reconfiguration to make this vessel a hunter killer, they had to remove the top two tubes so they could install on the exterior of that bulkhead hydrophones to include more sonar equipment to make it one that is capable of listening further distances one of the interesting factors about submarine life is the forward crew and after crew would compete who could reload a torpedo faster. It was back in those days they had a theyre mechanical advantage was block and tackle which now days we have hydraulic system s systems so the guy had to be strong to move these torpedoes. This is not live now, this is
Ktvu channel 2 news. Now to new information of the the tragic accident that killed a 12yearold boy as he was riegsd his reminding his bicycle to school. The accident happened about 7 45 this morning. And investigators say the mother u who had just taken her own kids to school was driving the suv that hit and killed the boy. Live in byron tonight, with word the boy was well known in the community. Ken . Frank, let me try to explain to you, what happened here. As you said, the mother had dropped her kids off at this school, and was just leaving. She had come out the gate, and going to make a righthand lane turn here on the highway, as he made the righthand lane turn, she was looking left, and not seeing the 12yearold boy, and made the turn, and felt the impact. The boy was on his way to the same school, and a school isid he have at a timed. A boy twisted under the black suv. This is what he saw on his way to work. Its horrible. He said he knew the boy who died. Students said on social me