Captioning performed by vitac its a spy story, its a humanitarian story, its a political and diplomatic story. Hoover was not very diplomatic by nature. The interesting thing is lou said later on that he was never the same after belgium. What he saw particularly the children. Remember, he was an orphan. All his life, there was something about hoover, he was not naturally gifted in social interaction. But with children, there was a different person. And belgium stamped him, for better or worse. The other remarkable thing again, building on what we said earlier, it was all voluntary. He appealed to the American People. He said, again, the American People, if you tell them what you need, they will give you their shirt off their backs. And there is a you go to west branch, the records are there. It is its a remarkable story there was one group, i think there was a kansas club of new york, who were going to build a clubhouse. And instead of building the clubhouse, they gave hoover the 500,0
Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 eastern. Lectures available as a podcast, find it where you listen to podcast podcas podcasts. On august 6thropped, an arm b29 dropped atomic bomb number two on hiroshima, japans seventh largest city. Sion] a communications, military and Industrial Center of on of considerable importance. A stunned universe now swiftly learned mann had a new weapon o shocking destructiveness, a 70,0 weapon p boarding on the absolu. In the blast thousands died instantly, 70,000 missing, 140 i enthusiastic injury. Tyhed. Of those 43,000 were badly hur. The city was unbelievably crushed. Of por and 90,000 meetings overm demolished. Remains were aptly describedge as vapor and ashes. Ned an i man had torn from nature, newfound knowledge and fashioned instrument of annihilation. Menacing implications of this r extraordinary weapon were frightening to every day people. Isnt it terrible, all those. Peoplele killed. Days later another b
Historic place toss learn about american history. General Douglas Mcauthur was a fivestar general who committed allied forces at world war ii. At memorial in norfolk, virginia we learn about his early life, service in world war i and career during interwar years. This is part one of a twopart program. Welcome to the mcarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia. Its my honor and privilege to be the director here. This is a museum and Research Center dead indicated to life and times of general of the army Douglas Mcauthur who lived from 1880 until his death at 64. We want to show you pressures from our exhibits. Lets go take a look. Were located in old Norfolk City Hall built in 1850. Given over to the memorial in 1964. City hall contains nine galleries which follow chronologically life and times of general of the army Douglas Macarthur. We begin with his family which answers the 64 dollar question, why in norfolk. The answer is mom. Let me show you a photograph of general macarthurs mother an
And a very good wednesday morning to you, everyone. Im dan kloeffler. And im brandi hitt. We begin with new details about possible u. S. Military action inside syria. President obama reportedly speaking with allies and is close to making a decision on whether to launch air strikes. We are also learning more about the homegrown terrorist who left his American Life to die alongside extremists in syria. Abcs Carolyn Costello has more on the path Douglas Mccain took from the midwest to helping a group that is being called the greatest Terror Threat since 9 11. Reporter 33yearold Douglas Mcauthur mccain grew up in minnesota, went to college in san diego, an american rapper with likes on his Facebook Page including pizza hut, the Chicago Bulls and the koran. Hardly appearing to be a dangerous terrorist, mccain, one of two americans killed in syria in the last few days reportedly fighting for the terror group isis, according to a rival syrian group. A cousin said mccain lost his way. I felt l
She was in the backseat striking an epic selfie pose and had no idea her dad was secretly filming it all. Millions are now watching and well hear from this brandnew youtube star and her sneaky dad in moments right here on gma. Good morning, america. That dad striking a blow for dads everywhere. Weve seen that. We have definitely seen that. We have a lot to get to. All eyes on the white house and that fastgrowing crisis with the isis terror group in syria. Martha raddatz and brian ross will report in a moment. We want to begin with severe conditions on both coasts. Two hurricanes spinning right now, one in the pacific, one in the atlantic with dangerous rip currents and extremely large waves set to do some damage. Ginger is here with the latest. Good morning, ginger. Good morning, everybody. You know, the colossal waves are impressive. Surfers taking note and loving it for the most part but now we know theyve turned deadly and certainly dangerous along the west coast. Thats from marie.