Good evening, everyone. Im robert citino, executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World War Ii Museum. Thank you. Thank you to the museum for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks i appreciate it. Im also the samuel Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest boast. Welcome to another installment of our meet the authors heres here at the museum where we bring you the best new world war ii literature and the men and women who write and create it. For i have just two nights, a man who needs no introduction, let me carry out the tradition of the National World War Ii Museum at all all of public programming. Are there by any chance any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in the audience tonight . There we go. All right. I knew there were two right up front. [applause] and to say we thank you for your service is an understatement of the century. In the veterans of any other service or any other era please sta
Here. I have really been looking forward to this talk tonight because Rufus Youngblood, ive known the name, ive known who he is for a very long time. And im just delighted that we can have his family here. Weve got members of Rufus Youngbloods family here. We appreciate that. We also have tom johnson who was an aide to Lyndon Johnson who is the man that Rufus Youngblood protected and we are really glad you are here as well, tom. He knew Rufus Youngblood very well. Rufus was a secret service agent. Hes known for his actions on november 22, 1963, when shots rang out in dallas, texas, and he leaped over the seat and protected Lyndon Johnson. And continued to protect him. Johnson was one of five president s that Rufus Johnson helped protect. After graduating from georgia tech here in atlanta with a degree in Industrial Engineering, he joined the secret service back in 1951, and he protected president s truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, and nixon, during his 20 year tenure with the secr
And im just delighted that we can have his family here. Weve got members of Rufus Youngbloods family here. We appreciate that. We also have tom johnson who was an aide to Lyndon Johnson who is the man that Rufus Youngblood protected and we are really glad you are here as well, tom. He knew Rufus Youngblood very well. Rufus was a secret service agent. Hes known for his actions on november 22, 1963, when shots rang out in dallas, texas, and he leaped over the seat and protected Lyndon Johnson. And continued to protect him. Johnson was one of five president s that Rufus Johnson helped protect. After graduating from georgia tech here in atlanta with a degree in Industrial Engineering, he joined the secret service back in 1951, and he protected president s truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, and nixon, during his 20 year tenure with the secret service. He retired in 1971 as the agencys Deputy Director. At that time, he wrote his memoir, 20 years with the secret service. It didnt get the a
A hung jury leads to a mistrial. Jurors said they were deadlock on his fate. Ive been up with my complaint be client. Hes less distressed than i, we look forward to the next trial and the next trial well do better. The jury acquitted max harris of all 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. This isnt a time to talk about the two years that my innocent client spent in jail. This is a time to thank the community. The decision came after months of testimony and a shakeup in the panel the judge thanks the jury for their service. Service. Police are searching for the vandals who target today church in downtown san jose. Investigator say they painted antisemitic and satanic messages on the walls on the cathedral. The pictures of the hate messages were taken before they were painted over. Church leaders say the San Jose Community will not tolerate any acts of hate. St. Josephs was built in 1885 and serves as the cathedral for the Roman Catholic diocese of san jose. Groups are fighting the high
A lot of criticism of the commission they have taken relatively easy lines on the knee of the witnesses that have appeared you know the process that has gone relatively slowly but that the zoomer appearance of all those on the commission was fascinating you know the general consensus rightly so was a lot of what he said was completely sort of you know out of kilter with reality and with the truth of whats happened in south africa but actually his purpose of appearing there was ultimately political and was focused within the a. N. C. And on those terms actually i think he was quite successful in terms of driving a wedge was his desire inside the party and so i think you have to treat him very carefully and ultimately a lot of this stuff is internally focused within the a. N. C. And that internal focus means that they can be distractions from dealing with some of the big issues the structural forms yes so easy great to talk to pieces many thanks for being with us and counting the cost. O