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
We see this power, this visual culture that is often written, often spoken. There is also a really important visual components. In the case of the mccarthyism, how did you document, how can you document gossip employed politically . Prof. Frost in that example Andrea Friedman found there was a journalist who wrote a piece talking about this. She would say that was one journalist. She also knows that it shaped the discussion around him. This photograph, mccarthy whispering to his assistant, that image of intimacy and whispering and gossip, that was plastered everywhere. Even if there was only one article that talks about what was his relationship, that image that didnt look up standing, it didnt look respectful. The other thing we can see is that we see gossip in the hearings when they did their investigations and a hollywood and subversion in hollywood. 1947. The House Committee on unamerican activities. 1947, and the early 1950s. They are using hearsay. It is a congressional hearing.
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
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