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now a look at west point s oral history center. lieutenant colonel david siri teaches history at the u.s. military academy at west point and also is the director of west point s oral history center. how long has the oral history center been associated with the academy? it s been associated with the academy since about 2007. i ve been the director since 2015, january. what is the value of an oral history? well, for us, we try to make it accessible to the cadets say s.o. they can use it for their research, but, really, all of our videos, all of our interviews are open sourced so anyone in america can get online, look at our interviews and hopefully learn something about our history from them. well, as a historian, as a professional historian, what s the place that oral histories hold in the overall study of history? well, oral histories help add a lot of detail. for example, if you re writing a paper, a book about something, and you find some oral histories, t ....
anniversary of the tett offensive, which is if you re a milli millennial, i ll explain it to you. a coordinated offensive between the vietcong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns and cities and american and south vietnamese facilities. it began on the night of january 30th, 1968, and i remember it well because i was an intelligence clerk with mack v. at the time. our new exhibit showcases the work of john olson, who like me was a young army draftee. john was a photographer for stars and stripes, the military s daily newspaper, and he spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue in what turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. this innovative exhibit features 20 large format photographs and ten tactile versions of these photos with touch activated sensors that trigger audio interviews. this enables blind and low-vision visitors to experience the images through touch and sound and the museum is the first m ....
good evening, everyone. welcome to the newseum s theater. i m chair of the moo newseum. we re here to mark the marines in tet, the battle that changed the vietnam war. this is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet offensive, which, if you re a millennial, i ll explain it to you, was a coordinated offensive by vietcong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns, cities and american and south vietnamese military facilities. it began on the night of january 30th, 1968. and i remember it well, because i was an intelligence clerk with mac fee at the time. our exhibit showcases the work of john olson who, like me, was a young army draftee. he was a photographer for stars & stripes, the military s daily newspaper. and he spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue, in what turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. this innovative exhibit features 20 large format photographs and ten tactile versions of these photos ....
mark: welcome to surveillance, i m mark barton in london. the stoxx 600 is up by 0.9%, rising for the fourth day in five, contract for the best week since december, 2016. the european gains surging 2.8%. year, coming.s. 10 down today, breaking below 2.9%, % is where we are today. we closed above 2.9 percent yesterday, the highest level since december 2014. today, export and import data. spot indexrg dollar is lower today by about 0.25%. sincee lowest level december 2014. a growing number of economists forecast the fed will step up the pace of rate increases. the u.s. twin deficit becoming a likely catalyst for a new wave of dollars selling after a brief respite, i say a brief respite in february. this is coming up on surveillance today. we talk with the chief executive of metro bank. withr, we talk the 10 year ylagos. mateos taylor riggs joins us from new york. reporter: the u.s. senate has blocked four immigration proposals, leaving a bitter impasse over how to pro ....
choice. today we celebrate the victory of democracy but for tomorrow come altogether, we continue and will complete our national effort on exiting the crisis. our strong ally is the great people s belief in its own strength and justification that we are in the right. vonnie: the leaders of germany and britain france and france will get together to discuss the crisis. greece may run out of cash within an hour unless the ecb extends another lifeline. there was a big drop in the shanghai composite. bennett rose because of oil. the chinese government has suspended ipo s and boosted cell purchases by state run financial firms. the index is down 27% since june, 2012. secretary of state john kerry has expectations that a nuclear deal from iran is imminent. he said negotiators are not where they should be on most difficult issues. the talks have run on for nine straight days of u.s. says it will only agree to a deal that restricts the iranian ability to make nuclear weapons ....