Many of us felt we never would get a chance to really fight. I could not go in, which i did not realize at the time, because of the color of my skin. Americarica, may god the story of africanamericans in world war legacy ofed a patriotism and valor. In 1941, americans looked at their world and saw war everywhere. Across the atlantic, adolf hitlers german troops occupied nearly every inch of europe from france to russia, to the baltic sea and north africa. In the pacific, the Japanese Army and navy already captured parts of china, manchuria, korea and a number of nearby islands. Rl harbor would soon monday morning, the first thing i did was go down to the Army Recruiting station and enlist in the service of my country. As told you have to remember this country was very discriminatory, segregated and there was no change. First of all, black sailors as were noter se permitted into the navy. Given the fact that i was in the segregated army, that made no difference. I joined the army to fig
Artifacts, the United States holocaust memories museum, historical daniel green, gave us a tour of the exhibit he curated. Americans and the holocaust. Part one focused on the 1930s, and the leadup to world war ii. Part, terrell we learn about the american first movement, and how the United States responded to nazi persecution and murder of jews, as some of the atrocities became public knowledge. This is about 45 minutes. In 1939, september 1st, germany invades poland and world war ii breaks out, that week. Whats on americas mind in 1939 is staying out of lauren. And you see, in this section of the exhibition, deep concern in the United States about spies, nazi spies in the United States. At the time called a fifth column. Americans are asked by gallup, do you believe that the americans are organizing a fifth column on this, country and 71 or meghan say yes. And you start to see this fear of spies play out in a popular culture, and in a political culture. The First American movie, big
Stuffing and Everything Else going. Good morning emily and jason. Emily good Morning Griff and jason. Happy thanksgiving for you both. Im so thankful to be here filling in for ainsley and happy to be here with you two. We have a great morning in store for you. Jason this is fun. I love turkey day. I dont know if you think i delayed my start to turkey day. I have already had a little stuffing and the cranberries. I dont wait until 5 00 in the afternoon. You dont get a belly like mine by waiting for, you know, the starting bell. You sneak into the kitchen and grab what you can, especially at 2 15 in the morning my wife was just going to bed. I was just getting up and, you know,. Griff fair point, jason, i bought four pies for my family and at least one of them is half gone. I think you win that conversation. Send us your by the way, send us your what you are doing. Jason has already got things started. Emily, you have got to tell us what you have already done its friends foxnews. Com. We
Offer Virtual Events at this time and to hear about the king of confidence a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an american monarch if it wasnt for you showing up, so thank you for doing that. We do ask you keep your video feed disabled. If you do enable it, if you enable the second time we appreciate your cooperation. I want to go over our format. We will have a reading by miles harvey to start us confidence a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an american monarch which was published last tuesday and donovan hahn reads from another book published in june we will hear an extended conversation from 30 to 35 minutes and have a few here and there with supplemental images and once we are done with that we will wrap things up with audience q and a, feel free to send them my way. I will be fielding and screening those. I will read some bios and get the reading underway. Mil
Because most of. What i do use today has the future. Dot com to go see if. You. Could turn. The covert 19 pandemic has put the spotlight on virologists well right now but their star status has also made them the target of public anger even death threats. And people because of their lack of trust in authority would not want to take. Want to shut the country down anthony found she has gained a huge following but not everyone. Wants to listen dr saltz much of this in. Germany too has spawned its science superstars like. His podcast is one of the most popular in the country. Xander kick ali is a regular guest on german talk shows. With politicians over their bias response at the beginning of the crisis. But as social media memes feed the echo chamber are these new celebrities serving to further polarize scientific debate. Well different views are vital in the world of science asking questions is key at the end of the day people believe what they want to believe but should we trust science