And speak at the national archives. The other day, i saw a tweet about todays event, and as a historian, its kind of like having yourself name checked by beyonce. This is the mothership. Thank you so much for coming. My book, the cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco in modern america, not through the lens of big tobacco in the machinations of industry, but through the efforts of Everyday Americans to get the government to intervene on their behalf. Big tobacco is still an important part of the story, but by focusing on other actors, farmers, government officials, politicians, activists, workers and labor unions, the story of tobacco in the 20th century begins to look a lot different than if we were to understand it through the actions of tobacco alone. By taking a wide angled approach, my book suggests that far from being the product of corporate deception that was ultimately exposed by science, the cigarette was a product of government intervention. What ultimate
Podcasts. Eleanor roosevelt began the long trip home. Slowly the long, black funeral train pulls up then down the pennsylvania avenue to the beat of muffled drums the president was born for the last time to the executive mansion that for 12 years had been his official home. The passing of f. D. R. From the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. People wept openly, unashamed of their grief. Drawn by six white horses, the flag draped casson was brought to the white house and carried into the great east room where 80 years before almost to the day the body of Abraham Lincoln also laid in state. At hyde park his ancestral home in duchess county, new york the guns of west point cadets rang down the final curtain on the man of destiny known around the world as f. D. R. To measure something of his greatness we turn back the clock to Franklin Roosevelt as a young man making his First Political campaign. To the time when only 28 years of age he was elected new york state senator
Important overseas American Military base in the 1950s. Produced between 1951 and 1971, the big picture was a Weekly Television report for the army and the american public. Narrator the United States army presents the big picture, an official report produced for the armed forces and the american people. A small, rocky, typhoonswept island, this is okinawa, principal link in the ryukyus chain, which stretches more than stretches over the pacific from japan to formosa. Unimportant . Perhaps at first glance. But okinawas role in todays world is out of proportion to its size. An area equal to rhode island, okinawa is a vital outpost in the free World Defense network less than 300 miles from the coast of communist china. But okinawa has not always played the Important Role it plays today. For many centuries it slept, an island off the beaten track of world affairs. Feudal lords ruled over scattered straw hut villages , where life centered around two things rice and religion. Ancestor worshi
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Workers produced a live training , program from Oklahoma City. Next, on reel america, managing terrorism events the oklahoma experience. Five leading First Responders describe what happened after the bombing, how the response was organized, successes and problems, and Lessons Learned. This Program Comes to us courtesy of the National Emergency Training Center library in emittsburg, maryland. Be advised to that. Proceeding, basically there are four elements that i have to receive information regarding everybody look down here now. Watch the electricity [sirens blaring] the murrah Federal Building has been blown up. Holy cow. [sirens blaring] welcome to the Emergency Education network. Tonight, live from Oklahoma City, managing terrorism events the oklahoma experience. And now, your host, ken hines. Ken good evening and welcome to the Emergency Education network. Im ken hines, your host for this broadcast which is coming to you live from the Firefighters Memorial museum in Oklahoma City,