Chineseamericans who served in the u. S. Armed forces during World War ii. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us this evening. Thanks for having us. I want to begin by talking to samantha. Samantha, how did your work on the stories of chineseamerican veterans begin . This actually started this stems from a documentary i did on the Mississippi Delta chinese and i needed to find the right hook to tell the story of the chineseamericans in the Mississippi Delta. Chineseamerican history is not sexy, so it took me almost 20 years to find the right way to tell the story compelling enough to bring in a full audience. And i had the good fortune of Meeting Dr. Gong, who had done a tremendous amount of research on the veterans, the service personnel from the Mississippi Delta. And from there, we discussed and talked about how to create a Threepart Series that aired on pbs on the chinese in the Mississippi Delta and that got me interested in the World War ii veterans. So Honor And Duty is re
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Saturday september 26 on booktv. Welcome to into h lincoln the Online Public program surgeries, a living memorial to the holocaust. My name at samantha shokin, manager of programs and today will be exploring the story of Witold Pilecki, the polish resistance leader who is a subject of the new book the auschwitz volunteer beyond bravery. Out now with harpercollins. We are joined today by author Jack Fairweather a former one report in iraq and afghanistan and the office of a war of choice and the good worker he has served as the Daily Telegraph Baghdad Bureau chief and is a video journalist for the Washington Post in afghanistan. Interviewing jack today is Robert Robert jan van pelt. From 199798 he presided over the team that developed a master plan to preserve visit auschwid participate as an Expert Witness in the famous case against the British Historic author david irving, holocaust tonight. Robert has published widely, serve as a struggle advisor and cultured the Evidence Room which
Author Jack Fairweather a former war reporter in iraq and afghanistan author of the good work. Served as the Daily Telegraph chief and video journalist for the Washington Post in afghanistan. Interviewing him today is doctor robert young one of the main authorities on the history of auschwitz. 1997 through 98 to develop the master plan and was an Expert Witness against the author of david ernie irving of holocaust deniers. The first if you click house coping on housekeeping note we will have about 15 minutes for audience q a at the end of the program. Make sure to hold your questions for the end we will get as many as possible. Please note the program is being recorded and will be available on the Youtube Channel within the next few days and i will follow up with that email tomorrow related to jacks book for purchase in a link to the video recording today. That is it for me so i will turn it over to jack and robert youn young. I will be interviewing jack today the first with a presenta
History on the red planet we asked alan stern who is leading the 1st ever mission to explore pluto about how high the stakes are when it comes to space all this more coming up in this lockdown edition of going underground but 1st lets go to portland to Gregory Mchale hes the vice chair of the Oregon Democrats black caucus gregory what on earth is going on in portland were seeing images all over the internet of tear gas of warfare not seen even in even in countries where are the u. N. Is imposed sanctions on. Yeah its really appalling to see in the streets of berlin its right downtown in the heart of our city and every night appears to look like a war zone we have troops in camouflage police deploying tear gas and flash bangs and its absolute chaos down town portland and its hard to see in a city that i love so much now you know the child was the boss of the department of Homeland Security says youre all violent and i casts on the streets of poland apparently theyre using george w. Bush