75th here on our 75th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. Next, we look at one of the oral histories produced by the National Park service. As we prepared to get the church,ready to go to we looked up over the sky. There were planes flying around. I did not know what the devil a on the ship, i thought it was just a stunt, and somebody said the japanese are coming. It was bouncing off the still work, and the next thing we know we hear the words all hands, manual battle stations. Boat crew, report to the duty officer. They told us your heavy ammunition would endanger the people of while or the islands around there. So, we were restricted. Your thing could fire is a 20 millimeter and machine guns. Told me that this kid davis, who i had spent all of these schooldays worth was in the navy and was on the arizona. We were parked on the arizona. I went over to the arizona. There was what we call a gang plank. It went down so you could go a short. There, at the deck, and this tradition i
Important event in our history. Ian toll, the hour has gone by too fast. The book is pacific crucible war at sea in the pacific 1941 to 1942. Ian toll, once again thank you. Bill, thanks for having me on the program. Youre looking at pictures of survivor of the pearl harbor attack from the 75th Anniversary Ceremony out in hawaii this past sense, december 7th. According to the National Park Service Figures quoted in the wall street journal there were about 100 survivors on hand for wednesdays event. By the way, you can watch the full ceremony in its entirety tonight at 6 00 p. M. And 11 00 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan 3. We are going to continue to take your calls for about another 50 minutes or so. We have three ways for you to join the conversation, we also welcome our cspan radio listeners. The phone lines for you this morning 2027488900 for those of you in the eastern rand central time zones, mountain and pacific time zones 2027488901 and for world war ii veter
Authorities. According to that report, police got a call from someone who knows Garcia Martinez on february 9th. They aranged to speak with garciamartinez and noticed the same van witnesses had been describing sitting in his driveway. During the interview Garcia Martinez said it was a dark colored car which hit 2year old evelyn green. He said that car sped away and he stopped, in his van, to help the little girl and her family. He eventually changed his story in another interview with police, saying while the dark car hit evelyn first, he might have accidently ran her over after not being able to swerve. He said he didnt Contact Police because he was scared. Soon as i heard the screaming, you know, thats when it happened. I seen the mother picking her up from there, running in here. There was no other car behind there, if there was a car behind him it wouldve been going real fast. I didnt see no vehicle. Neighbors say they didnt see a dark car, but North Las Vegas police say they cant
Timmons is facing multiple charges. Including resisting a public officer with a firearm. Attacking a Police Animal. And damaging and destroying state property. Mistreating a Police Animal is a felony and is punishable with prison time and up to ten thousand dollars in fines. Two weeks ago today the Emergency Call Center for Las Vegas Metro police failed and today its still not known what caused it. Callers endured dropped calls and long wait times. And this failure comes just two months after a multi million upgrade to the 911 system. Fox 5s Cyndi Lundeberg has more on how the department is trying to prevent this from happening again. Metro says they dont know exactly what caused the six hour crash but believe it had to do with a surge of data which flooded their system and metro forwarded calls to North Las Vegas and henderson during the outage. Today we asked metro if there had been any complaints because of the failure they said there werent any that they were of. They did say with
Report shows garciamartinez is cooperating with authorities. According to that report, police got a call from someone who knows Garcia Martinez on february 9th. They aranged to speak with Garcia Martinez and noticed the same van witnesses had been describing sitting in his driveway. During the interview Garcia Martinez said it was a dark colored car which hit 2yearold evelyn green. He said that car sped away and he stopped, in his van, to help the little girl and her family. He eventually changed his story in another interview with police, saying while the dark car hit evelyn first, he might have accidently ran her over after n t being able to swerve. He said he didnt Contact Police because he was scared. Soon as i heard the screaming, you know, thats when it happened. I seen the mother picking her up from there, running in here. There was no other car behind there, if there was a car behind him it wouldve been going real fast. I didnt see no vehicle. Neighbors say they didnt see a dar