Ii. In addition to his writing and speaking, he has served as a consultant to nbc news during their coverage of the dday commemoration and also the history channel. Of course, in abilene, we study the Second World War on an almost daily basis but the role of women in the war has not always have the coverage or does not get the coverage that it deserves. So tonight, dominique is here to share the story of women in world war ii and the way they have been remembered, rightly or wrongly, by the public, by historians. Please welcome dominique fracois. [applause] mr. Francois ladies and gentlemen, first of all, i would like to apologize for my very poor english. I will probably make a lot of mistakes in pronunciation, so i apologize for that. I would like to thank the Kansas City Public Library in the eisenhower library, who welcomed me tonight. Also my friend albert klein, who assist me assists me today. Tonight, i will try to give you another view of the story of the allied countries women
Wake up with the sheriff knocking at the door. Court cases have played a part in popular movies. Listen to cspan radio at 90. 1 fm in the washington dc area. Online at cspan. Org. Download our cspan radio app. Herhe cspan cities to visits literary and Historic Sites across the nation every other weekend on cspan2s book tv and cspan3s American History tv. This month with congress on its summer resource summer recess, the city tour is on pan each day at 6 00 a. M. P. M. Eastern. Welcome to austin on American History tv. With help from our car mourner Time Warner Cable partners, we will explore the city of the capital of texas. Austin is referred to as the live music capital of the world because of the venues in the city. It has a population just under one million. Ofe a behind the scenes tour the president ial suite at the Lyndon Johnson president ial library and museum. Didsuite looks just as it with the former president roamed its halls. The space is really a living, breathing artifact
On the battles of normandy. He is currently working on the 17th book, he tells me, about american gliders in world war ii. In addition to his writing and speaking, he has served as a consultant to nbc news during their coverage of the dday commemoration and also the history channel. Of course, in abilene, we study the Second World War on an almost daily basis, but the role of women in the war has not always have the coverage or does not get the coverage that it deserves. So tonight, dominique is here to share the story of women in world war ii and the way they have been remembered, rightly or wrongly, by the public, by historians. Please welcome dominique fracois. [applause] mr. Francois ladies and gentlemen, first of all, i would like to apologize for my very poor english. I will probably make a lot of mistakes in pronunciation, so i apologize for that. I would like to thank the Kansas City Public Library in the eisenhower library, who welcomed me tonight. Also my friend albert klein,
Kind of figure. He has this attention to detail. He pushes his workers hard. I tend to lean more to the edison idea. What i have taken away is he is a guy who gets thousands of engineers, the brightest of the bright, and these very hardworking individuals and is able to get products out of them that can be commercialized and change industry. He hashe is the guy combined software and hardware in a way nobody else has. Monday night on the communicators on cspan2. Coming up next, author and French Military historian Dominique Francois explores the role of women during world war ii. From britain, france, and the United States, he argues women were a vital support of the successes of the war by participating in womens Armed Forces Organizations and manufacturing war supplies. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this 50minute event. Im pleased to welcome our speaker, Dominique Francois, back to the american heartland. Dominique was in abilene as we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the
Partners. Visit cspan. Org citiestour. It is texass official state history museum. 2001. N we are charged with telling the story of texas. We had three floors of exhibition space where we feature around 500 original artifacts that tell the story of texas. We also have temporary exhibitions, including fly girls , which is what we are standing in right now and to theaters that show films regularly. [video clip] this is texas. And out of those are stepping girls. Girls give a new angle to the air force story. Womens air force service pilots. Victoria the fly girls exhibition is very important to us, and it is an exhibition we opened on veterans day, and to tell the story of these world war ii female pilots and share that with the public was, we thought, and important texas story, but also an important story that connects texas with the nation. When world war ii broke out in 1938 and 1939, one of the women pilots of america, her name was jacqueline, and she was a Business Owner and entrepr