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of the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978, which we know as fisa. two former staff members are with us and will be with us to help provide some historical context and understand the significance of the 40-year-old video that you were about to that you are about to see. from new york city, frederick schwarz who was the committees chief counsel is with us. here in our studio in washington in washington d.c. is elliot , maxwell who was counsel to the committee as a his designee in pennsylvania. thank you for joining us. in this installment of our series of connected work 40 years ago of the church committee into the work of u.s. intelligence agencies, we will focus on the committee s investigation into the national security agency and the fourth amendment rights of american citizens and where they come into conflict. to get us started, let s watch a clip from october 29, 1979. sen. church: this morning, the committee begins public hearings on the national se ....
angeles, salt lake and san pedro railroad. they bought a ranch from a woman named helen stewart and decided they were going to lay owe town out here. people would say hey, i want to buy a lot on lot 22. the original plan had las vegas divided into 40 blocks. they need aid place for what they called vice the classic wild west vice, drinking, gamblingnd add prostitution. here s the thing. las vegas was going 0000 to be a respectable town. so you couldn t have it on fremont street. that was the main street. so it was a little bit away from the trainization station and one block off fremont. if you walked down a block, turned left and walked down another block from the train station, that s right where it is. so if a man comes to las vegas with his family they could stay on fremont street and have a wholesome time and if he comes by himself not and wants to see a little bit of the world, he can make a lift left and walk down there and see have an interesting tim ....
[chatter] [video] [gunfire] they are now firing back. could you tell us what is happening here and what the situation is? i think this is the second or third day i was in vietnam. this is the special landing force? they were trying to get to the ridgeline. just before you go to the high ridge over there. move, ias they began to caught the crossfire and this young marine was hit badly. they needed help getting him out. and naturally i helped. it doesn t take much imagination to know what i was thinking. we need some help over here. i will give you a hand. mr. rather: i see this young man cut down. and you say to yourself my god, , this is somebody s son, brother, husband. when you are there if you let your emotions for a second out of you, then you will not be able to do what you need to do. dan rather, cbs news. mr. rather: very few people in a lifetime get to see this as an observer. we are inside the main pagoda now. a tank just popped his head around ....
plentiful, and it was accessible to southern california, and here was all of this money waiting for them to make it. announcer: first, we take you to be university of las vegas gambling hear how the industry here evolved over the years. there is a lot of different thoughts about why gambling is so polarizing. if you read the writings of someone like jackson lee years, there is the antithesis of the managerial work ethic and working hard and getting ahead. who winay that people money gambling did not earn it. it is polarizing. of course, you can lose a lot of money doing it, so it can be very dangerous. gambling in las vegas goes back to the very beginnings of las vegas. las vegas was established by what was the union pacific railroad, and that it was the salt lake, los angeles, and san pedro railroad, and they bought a branch from a woman by the name of helen stewart, and they decided they were going to lay a town out there, and this is a map from the original auction ....
we are actually in the normandy landings gallery. it s a very special gallery for us here. our museum was originally founded in the 1990 s as the national d-day museum by a congressional charter. we were charged with telling the story of the entire american experience in world war ii. in this gallery we get to the big moment where united states and allies had to win this particular day. d-day june 6, 1944. behind me is our film narratedded narrated by tom brokaw. which gives our visitors the overarching story of d-day at normandy. is a very on the left special exhibit. case to thexhibit long thin line of anguish column. beachpyle s walked the where the american forces landed everything left by troops who had been killed coming ashore. what we have in this case is sand fromifact and utah and omaha beaches. you can see he talks about shoe polish, showing bibles and hand grenades. he particularly singled out in his column writing paper. he talks about how the young men ....