A while just to bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to you. Down to 0. Hello and welcome again to rewind im dating. Back in 2006 when we launched aljazeera english we set out to make the kind of documentaries other channels just wouldnt do and here on rewind were revisiting some of the best of them to find out how they came about on the story behind the story today were rewinding to 2008 and a disturbing film about one of the most shocking atrocities of the vietnam war the midline massacre it was a major war crime and once it came to light the story sparked International Outrage adding to the growing pressure in america and around the world to bring an end to the war in vietnam in march 1968 Charlie Company a platoon of american infantry landed by helicopter on the edge of the village of me lie near the northern coast of South Vietnam the platoon believed vietcong forces were in the area but they faced no resistance yet 504. 00 innocents women children and old men were b
Artists. Made fun of almost everything including himself. Pope benedict personally complained about this ironic selfportrait called 1st the feet. The beer mugs a reference to keeping heavy drinking. Sculptures title translates as street light drunks. The artist wears a sign around his neck reading please dont. Is an artist whose own story is always present his broken fragile personality all of that plays a big role in his. Perspective of germanys. Contains around 300 50 ready works by the prolific artist. I suffer this one. Painting belongs to the series. Other selfportrait with souvenirs from communist east germany. d d d started it was popular to say that painting was dead he made fun of that notion and of conceptual art in this footage from 1970 s. West berlin. Some people talk i love to talk more than painting painting takes too long so i gave it up talks better when i got to do with art i dont know this is. The artist tried his hand at everything including the punk band. No matter
Right. He was a us attorney representing that district in new york. That means he was the most important Law Enforcement officer in the entire region. And he was also the mayor of the city of new york. And now hes not even allowed to practice law in that region. And hes also reportedly broke, which may explain why, according to accusations made by his own assistant. He was going around looking for anybody who needed a president ial pardon from trump, and then he would get it for them if they simply forked over 2000000. 00. Oh, thats all. Heres part of the complaint from miss dunphy, who secretly recorded her boss, mister juliani. There was a lot of pressure to be reduced. Girlfriends as well as his staff are now the idea that somebody would sell a president ial, pardon, seems questionable at best. Right. But then again i a president ial pardons. Even a thing. In fact, the constitution does give us president s as if they were kings nearly on federal power to power, and people are spring
Military policy towards Southern Civilians. After he wrote that book, i first met him. He came to the chicago civil war roundtable, where i was a member, and talked about the book. He maintains the war historians website, focusing on military history and National Security affairs, winning the 2015 cleopatra award for the best individual blog, for his wonderfully titled blog then out of the stone age. In other words, grimsley is an awardwinning historian in three media. His books ono civil war topics which are listed in your program, mark has written an taught more generally on military history. An sae wrote for his coedited book, civilians in the path of war, is his talk today. Im sured redskins, you can get your answer answer by dr. Grimsley. Military conduct, a comparative perspective. He is no stranger to the museum programs. He spoke in this auditorium, as a matter of fact, 12 years ago as a part of the evening series lectures on hard war. We are very pleased to welcome back to the
We are very pleased to welcome back to this stage dr. Mark grimsley. [applause] it is a pleasure to be here this afternoon. I am looking forward to talking with you. Lets get this up on the screen. We are talking today about the and about the final wars on native americans. I am neither a civil war historian or a military historian. I still know a lot about the civil war. [laughter] but i dont identify as a military historian. And the way i actually came to the subject of my first book, which i will be talking about some today, actually was by way of the interest in moral judgment in war. The kind of moral judgments that we often make in wartime. And as an historian, the kind of judgments that we do make. And that was the genesis of the book that became interesting in the moral judgments that Union Officers and soldiers made towards Southern Civilians in the path of war during the American Civil War. So that is where that came from. However, having written that book, i have formed an a