Entering gothom city. Individuals committing countless acts of crime. Dont have to worry about consequences. Sandra in chicago, crime victims speaking out at a Field Hearing there and they say its about to get even worse as far as crime after one week under the states no cash bail law. John residents say they have had enough, speaking out at this fiery Town Hall Meeting last night. Listen here. Im hear to find and i cant ask questions . Thats not part of the format, we asked people in advance for questions. Prevention quick, its both. How do you stop crime . I have a request as a citizen prepared question [indiscernible] you are losing the room. Sandra you are losing the room. America reports starts hour two with the crime crisis. Hitting our cities and streets across america. Sandra smith in new york. John good to be with you, too, sandra. Seen it happen in other places and they repeat it. Cant figure that out. John roberts in washington. Latest chicago attack on video in an upscale n
Your next hour. Once the show. Always a pleasure to have your company. Another terrible day ahead for rishi sunak. Has there been a decent day you can even remember and you remember yesterday i was delighted to show the biggest Saint Georges flag in the land in my home city of nottingham, 62 foot, an absolute monster of a flag across the Market Square on the council house. Well, today a tory mp has floated the idea its tory mp has floated the idea wsfime tory mp has floated the idea its time for a minister for flags to protect our cherished flags. Do you agree with that . Would that get your vote . Lets me know theres new way to get in touch. You can send your views and post your comments by visiting com forward visiting gb news. Com forward slash your say get in touch. Ill read out the best before the end of the show. Keep them clean to you. But before clean over to you. But before that latest that its time for your latest news and tatiana News Headlines. And its tatiana sanchez. Mar
Downplayed wars consumption of life and limb in wars. Moving from the margins to the center of the american war story in this talk, kinder will look , at the history of american war through the eyes of five disabled veterans. What emerges is a portrait of a nation struggling and often failing to mitigate the human cost of military conflict. We welcome dr. Kinder from Oklahoma State university where he is associate professor of history and american studies. Paying withhor of their bodies, which came out two years ago. And he is currently completing a zooson the history of thi in world war ii. Please welcome Professor John kinder. [applause] professor kinder thank you. Let me just arrange this real quick. First off, i want to thank the new york academy of medicine for inviting me to speak with you this evening. This is a real pleasure and i look forward to the day im able to come back here, hopefully soon as a researcher. To use this amazing collection. I want to point out from the start
Professor, looking back 50 years to 1967 was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . Simple answer, no. I would definitely say no. It wupt a war for the United States to win or lose. Take us to the end of 1967 and politically that president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon . Lbj was there a fair amount of difficulty. The democrats had lost not control over congress but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. The war was damaging lbjs pop la la la populari popularity. I think what you see is a kindovkind of breakup that lbj depended on to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial history. You could see it was a thing of the past and that the coalition was fracturing into any number of pieces. Here on American History tv all weekend long we are focusing on the war in vietnam. For the next hour and a half we are going to focus on the state of t of the war in 1967. Our guests are professor leann hang win. Als
Professor lienhang nguyen, looking back 50 years to 1967, was it still possible at that point to the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . Simple answer, no. I would definitely say no. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it was not in the cards. Mark lawrence, take us to the end of 1967 and politically the president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon for Lyndon Johnson . Well lbj was in a fair amount of political difficulty. In the 1966 elections the democrats have lost not control over congress which is an important point, but he had lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two seats in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was certainly damages his political popularity and you could see a decline across 1967. More importantly what you see across 1967 and leading into 1968 is a breakup of that coalition that lbj depended on and been so effectively in 1964 to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial hi