Of japaneseamerican citizens who were in japan during world war ii. Down on your screen is Clifton Truman daniel, eldest grandson of president truman. Our viewers are about to go on a video tour on a trip you took this summer to hiroshima and nagasaki. How did this trip come back . Its a long time and coming. 14 years ago my son, wesley, he was in fourth grade at the time. He brought home a book about a real little girl living in hiroshima who was 2 years old when the bomb exploded. She survived the bombing but contracted radiationinduced leukemia nine years later. If you fold 1,000 origami paper cranes, you were granted a wish. She wished to live. Unfortunately it did not work. She died in 1955. I mentioned it in an article to a japanese journalist a couple of years later. It was read in japan. And i got a phone call from sodakos older brother who said he had seen the article. And we talked through an interpreter over the phone for a little while. And he said he would like to meet som
Of japaneseamerican citizens who were in japan during world war ii. Down on your screen is Clifton Truman daniel, eldest grandson of president truman. Our viewers are about to go on a video tour on a trip you took this summer to hiroshima and nagasaki. How did this trip come back . Its a long time and coming. 14 years ago my son, wesley, he was in fourth grade at the time. He brought home a book about a real little girl living in hiroshima who was 2 years old when the bomb exploded. She survived the bombing but contracted radiationinduced leukemia nine years later. If you fold 1,000 origami paper cranes, you were granted a wish. She wished to live. Unfortunately it did not work. She died in 1955. I mentioned it in an article to a japanese journalist a couple of years later. It was read in japan. And i got a phone call from sodakos older brother who said he had seen the article. And we talked through an interpreter over the phone for a little while. And he said he would like to meet som
Of japaneseamerican citizens who were in japan during world war ii. Down on your screen is Clifton Truman daniel, eldest grandson of president truman. Our viewers are about to go on a video tour on a trip you took this summer to hiroshima and nagasaki. How did this trip come back . Its a long time and coming. 14 years ago my son, wesley, he was in fourth grade at the time. He brought home a book about a real little girl living in hiroshima who was 2 years old when the bomb exploded. She survived the bombing but contracted radiationinduced leukemia nine years later. If you fold 1,000 origami paper cranes, you were granted a wish. She wished to live. Unfortunately it did not work. She died in 1955. I mentioned it in an article to a japanese journalist a couple of years later. It was read in japan. And i got a phone call from sodakos older brother who said he had seen the article. And we talked through an interpreter over the phone for a little while. And he said he would like to meet som
Internal history they had written of the u2 spy plane program, written back in the 1970s if i recall correctly. One of the findings was they had gone back and correlated domestic ufo reports with then classified u2 flights and discovered there was an extremely high correlation. [laughter] this is actually true. A lot of the ufos that people were seeing was the sun glinting off u2s but could not the explained at the time. It is a real pleasure to be here. I am flattered by the introduction and by the turnout today. Thank you so much to the Truman Library is to do. Today, we will talk about intelligence. American intelligence history has been dominated by the history of the cia, and the cia is an agency whose creation truman oversaw, but it has dominated history to the point where you will hear people who should know better say nothing important happened in american intelligence prior to the cia or its immediate predecessor. This is actually drivel, of course, and nothing many of the mai
World was saudi arabia. In this vast desert without rivers, streams, they were far apart. It was built more than 1000 years ago on a caravan from baghdad. Since those days, they eked out a meager existence in a lost world. On the same desert through the summer and winter of 1947, motor caravans appeared. Camps were set up, the sorts never seen here before. Airplanes on a Reconnaissance Mission roared overhead. They were carrying arabs and americans, surveying the route for a great pipeline, a pipeline along western europe, the middle east, and the stability of the world. Oil is scarce in many areas today. The cause is they lack of economical distribution. The logical source of oil for u. S. Is the middle east. Here are more crude and readily accessible reserves than in all of north and south america together. The region is rapidly being developed. In eastern saudi arabia, the Arabian American Oil Company Discovered five major fields during the decade after the first commercial producin