I am the chief curator here at the b endo railroad museum, the baltimore and ohio. This is one of the premier Railroad Museums in the United States. Its also the birthplace of american railroading. Railroading began in 1827. The b and all was in Continuous Operation until 1986 and is a legacy now. Its track is basically formed with csx today. The museum is 40 acres and five buildings. The roundhouse is the jewel. Inside around house are some of the most significant pieces in our collection. We have a Rolling Stock locomotive collection of approximately 180 pieces. The roundhouse is filled with some of the most unique, worldclass, oneofakind locomotives you are ever going to find anywhere. A railroading began in the United States in maryland, the baltimore and ohio was the first common carrier, the first to carry passengers and freight on a regular schedule. The baltimore and ohio was basically formed because of the canal craze in the 1820s. The success of the erie canal lead people in
Officers and soldiers they covered. Among the speakers were former abc news nightline anchor ted koppel and yasutsune hirashiki, author of on the frontlines of the Television War a legendary war cameraman in vietnam. This event at the National Archives in washington is about 90 minutes. Now it is time to introduce our moderator terribly irving terry irving. He went into a career in television news, spending for decades covering wartime and political disasters throughout the United States. E has one and number of awards ladies and gentlemen, please welcome terrier thing in our distinguished panelists. Terry irving and our distinguished panelists. [applause] terry good evening. I should explain that none of these people are terry irving, but i am. [laughter] younow, we have here see, this is what you come prepared with everything you have ever written. We have barry who reported on virtually every Major International event, wars, policies of seven u. S. President s. Barry covered the fal
Documentary about world war i Harlem Health fighters, an allblack unit earned distinction serving with the french are many the french army. They are assigned to the french army because they needed men and because Many American soldiers besided to serve black men. It seems that we had listened posts. Dont know what that was in that time of warfare, this is nothing like the korean or vietnam. When the troops were holding a trench, every night they had a post set maybe 200, 300 feet from the main body. Every night they put two men out there just to listen and warn if there would be a sneak attack. Of course, the germans were doing the same thing. On this particular night, henry johnson, one of the greater , was there when these germans attacked the listen post. Approximately 24 germans attacked. Johnson fought them off. He shot and swung his rifle around and defeated the 24 germans, all of them wounded or killed. He had 21 wounds in his body, but refused to die. When we finally got out th
Documentary about world war i Harlem Health fighters, an allblack unit earned distinction serving with the french are many the french army. They are assigned to the french army because they needed men and because Many American soldiers besided to serve black men. It seems that we had listened posts. Dont know what that was in that time of warfare, this is nothing like the korean or vietnam. When the troops were holding a trench, every night they had a post set maybe 200, 300 feet from the main body. Every night they put two men out there just to listen and warn if there would be a sneak attack. Of course, the germans were doing the same thing. On this particular night, henry johnson, one of the greater , was there when these germans attacked the listen post. Approximately 24 germans attacked. Johnson fought them off. He shot and swung his rifle around and defeated the 24 germans, all of them wounded or killed. He had 21 wounds in his body, but refused to die. When we finally got out th
Documentary about world war i Harlem Health fighters, an allblack unit earned distinction serving with the french are many the french army. They are assigned to the french army because they needed men and because Many American soldiers besided to serve black men. It seems that we had listened posts. Dont know what that was in that time of warfare, this is nothing like the korean or vietnam. When the troops were holding a trench, every night they had a post set maybe 200, 300 feet from the main body. Every night they put two men out there just to listen and warn if there would be a sneak attack. Of course, the germans were doing the same thing. On this particular night, henry johnson, one of the greater , was there when these germans attacked the listen post. Approximately 24 germans attacked. Johnson fought them off. He shot and swung his rifle around and defeated the 24 germans, all of them wounded or killed. He had 21 wounds in his body, but refused to die. When we finally got out th