Your friends so they can join, too. Tonights meet the author Event Features a great friend of the museum, someone whos become very involved with us in the last year or so, james holland, who, last week, published the second book in his trilogy on world war ii in the west, the allies strike back. Before i get to the introductions, i do want to follow a tradition we have here at the museum. I dont know if we have any world war ii veterans with us tonight that i can recognize. If not, id like to recognize veterans from all eras of service. [applause] thank you for your service and sacrifices. This evening, well have on stage together two of the biggest names and most prolific writers in the world war ii field. I was just thinking to myself this afternoon, if this was like boxing or something, this would be like a payperview match or something that we would have on this stage tonight. So we have our own senior historian, rob citino, who published his 10th book this month and hell be interv
I am the host of todays discussion. Since 2003, the director of the Hauenstein Center for president ial studies named after colonel ralph hauenstein, whom we will be speaking of. I am joined on stage by two individuals for whom world war ii is no abstraction. Two your right is the daughter of the late ambassador. Her father is remembered as the envoy who tried to negotiate peace with america while the , Japanese Military was secretly trying to attack pearl harbor. Her mother was american from new york city. After world war ii, she married an american, worked in commercial real estate, and lived much of her life in the grand rapids area. One of her greatgrandchildren , garrett, is in the audience. Is a candidate in the Cook Leadership Academy. To your farright is the youngest grandson of colonel ralph hauenstein. Brians grandfather is pressed is best known as eisenhowers u. S. Army officer who liberated paris and places of unbelievable horror. After the war, ralph discovered his vocatio
Uappland Systems Company about 30 leopard tanks alone with the purpose of repairing them and handing them over to ukraine on behalf of the German Government , the spokesman of the defense concern reported this on wednesday in odisseldorf. Let me remind you that at the end of january, germany agreed to hand over and allow other countries to reexport leopard2 tanks. Later, the German Government agreed to reexport them to ukraine. And the previous model leopard one. We will talk more about this with bohdan tsyupyn, he joins us from london. My congratulations, bohdan, here is what is known about the new package of military aid to ukraine from germany, apart from the Patriot Missile Defense System, what else is included in this package, well, actually, it is difficult to call it a new package because the German Government very peculiarly announces the provision of military aid to ukraine, in this case it is about the fact that today in the long list of aid, namely, the weapons that germany
The incoming information on this topic. We will be back on our air. Now, in addition to other events, the fsb has detained a russian who is accused of undermining Gas Pipelines in the crimea on the instructions of kiev, according to the investigation , more than a year ago in the dnepropetrovsk region. Ukraine, he was recruited by employees of the local special services. He completed a course in reconnaissance and sabotage training. After which there was sent to crimea during a search in the detainees garage, plastic explosives of foreign production, electric detonators and a homemade charge were confiscated. This is a criminal case. He wrote to me that there is again in the same place, take away the working buttons of the type there. I came to pick it up, it turned out there was a button and two more detonators, two more initiators and a package so big there, about two kilograms, they probably spent Something Like that, they all unsubscribed that i took everything. Everything lies. He
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. Forced out, San Franciscos top cop has resigned tonight after police shot and killed an unarmed black woman. Kpix5s joe vazquez is at city hall tonight. Joe, a stunning turn of events today. Just yesterday the mayor said that he had the chiefs back. What happened . Reporter yeah, ken. It was very stunning, very emotional at city hall today. You can actually hear it in the mayors voice as he announces he decided its time for a new chief. Mayor ed lee made the announcement in his office just before 5 00 hours after an officer fired into a stolen vehicle in the bayview killing a 27yearold African American woman, the latest in a series of Police Shootings prompting reforms from the mayor and chief. The progress that weve made has been meaningful, but it hasnt been fast enough. Thats why ive asked chief suhr for his resignation. Reporter the mayor named Toney Chaplin as acting police chief. Up until now the mayor had stood by sur even a