A true story i mean what in the world is going on here the black and white version seems to be acceptable the color when not are there different meanings or is this a revisionist cell and why in the world would anyone want to deny that iconic photographs its like the sailor kissing the young lady on times square in victory over japan i mean what is going on here go ahead well i dont know which exactly of which were acting exactly. We mean here more likely its that i want to image or west soviet soldier which are not their advantage or rights which was basically the central issue of Central Power you know nazi germany so for gates there was no problem with a slat you know it. Emits its like that you might or american soldiers would you not a flag. In the pacific during the war with japan you would seem. Were going to cause a scandal here well basically a lot of russians are now thinking what plane or on why that discrepancy and your theory i mean general Geoffrey Robertson had just show
Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy his latest book is churchill and stalin comrades in arms during the 2nd world war right gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want the house appreciate it or i let me 1st go to demon here in moscow you know d. M. A. Here we go again this is almost like our tradition with our calling jeffrey we do this every single year commemorating victory in europe over fascism and for every single year that we do it we find ourselves in more and more in a revisionist mode here i mean as i understand as were sitting down doing our chat right now is that facebook has banned a colorized version of the of the soviet banner over europe on the very very iconic one of showing victory in europe and you know ive searched around its a true story i mean what in the world is going on here the black and white version seems to be except for the color one. Not are there different meanings or is this a revision and sell and why in the
Assumed the role as president of the United States. A. J. Baime looks at his book the accidental president. A. J. Baime is an awardwinning journalist, public speaker and occasional onscreen personality in addition to the accidental president , the subject of tonights lecture, fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war and go like hell, ford, ferrari and their battle for speed at glory and lemans. Both won the ken purdy award as best piece of writing for the year. A longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal, and articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. A. J. Has been a featured speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and has appeared on Numerous National tv stations, including cnbc, msnbc and in various documentary films and tv shows. A significant amount of research at the Truman Library, an archive, 15 million photographs there. Hes very complimentary of the Truman Library. Please look at the comments. We
To learn more about each president and the features. Order your copy today, however books and ebooks are sold. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming to our last panel, 4 00 panel. World war ii. In this will last about 25 minutes and we have about 15 minutes for q a. Responses for our panel, First Commercial Bank representatives, do we have any in the room . Lets thank them. I have the pleasure [applause] now i have the pleasure of introducing our moderator, james a peden. Not only an attorney with the Jackson Law Firm but recently retired as general, Mississippi Air National Guard. Thank you for your service. [applause] welcome, everyone to this final panel of the afternoon. We want to extend our special open to those watching us on cspan. Im not sure how i ended up being the moderator here, the owner of the bookstore whom i purchased many books on world war ii suggested i might be an appropriate moderator so i think john for this. I was born april 24, 1944 during world war two. I was b
As best piece of writing of the year. A. J. Is a longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal and his articles also have appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. He has been a speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and appeared on Numerous National tv stations including cnbc, msnbc, and various documentary films and tv shows. Now my couple of comments. This book was the result of a significant amount of research at the Truman Library. We have an archive. Weve got 15 million documents and photographs there. A cracker jakarr kieck archivalh team. He is very complimentary of the Truman Library. If you get the book please read the comments. We love all the credit and praise we can get. We are grateful to a. J. For doing that. I really liked the dedication that he put into this book and for those of us in the truman business and those of us who have photographs of portraits of harry truman in our offices kind of resonates and he dedicated this bo