fascinating stories that are full of courage that we ve never heard about. this evening he will share from his new book escape from paris , a true story of love and resistance in wartime france which is based on official american french and german documents, history, personal memoir and as well as personal interviews. it is a thrilling wartime adventure story of american aviators rescued by fighters taken to not the and hidden under the noses of gestapo. please join me welcoming stephen harding. no pressure there. i would like to personally thank you all for coming, i really appreciate it when people show up, and hope not to bore you. i want to give you some quick background on my stuff, people wonder how you military history. i was born and raised in southern california long time ago and my father and all my uncles fought in world war ii in the pacific. so i grew up hearing their stories of fighting the japanese in sealing the broad ocean and everything else. when i was 1
washington who is author of tonight s book , boss of the grips, the life of james h williams and the red caps of grand central terminal. this is part of an ongoing series of programs posted in conjunction with our series the ballad of harlem. if you ve not had a chance to look at the exhibition it will be up through the end of december. there are all these things inside the exhibition that i think you will hear about tonight and also it might feed your own historical knowledge about how the ballot for harlem examines several strands of black place making in the 20th century offering viewsof presidents and institutions dedicated to education , politicalengagements , cultural affirmation and creativity. the exhibition as i was mentioning earlier highlights includes the brotherhood of sleeping car porters which was the first union of black workers particularly plowman porters and you ll also find selections from ruby dee and aussie davises collection which we recentlyacquired .
and previous ep soats website our website, and click on the index tab at the 0 top of the page. [inaudible conversations] no one is here to talk to me or hear me. [laughter] thank you for coming out this evening to hear our favorite historian stephen ha hardy. and he s a long-term journalist and the history magazine. he s a captivating speaker, at least i always feel that way after i d heard him talk and he shares fascinating stories full of intrigue and courage that many of us have never heard about. we ll hear about his new book, escape from paris , which is based on official american, german, french documents and as well as interviews. it s a story of droup aviators, taken to nazi occupied paris and please join me in welcoming him. no pressure there. i would like to personally thank you all for coming. i really appreciate it when people show up and i hope not to bore you. i want to give you a quick background on myself because people wonder how you wind up writing h
encouraging stories that none of us have heard about. his hymnbook, escape from paris, the true story of love and resistance which is based on official american documents history and interviews with several others. it s a thrilling adventure story of american aviators. [applause] i like to thank you all for coming. i appreciate when people show up and i hope not to bore you. i want to give you a quick background on myself, people tend to wonder how you find military history. i was born and raised in socal a long time ago. my father and my uncles fought world war ii in the pacific. grew up hearing their stories fighting the japanese and the ocean and everything. when i was 19, i enlisted in the u.s. army in 1971. it was the best decision i ever made because six months later, i got run over by a personal carrier as a result, i am a disabled veteran. they are very heavy. they don t give much. i spent just over a year in hospitals in germany and the u.s. and this was way before
thank you, are there any other members of the public for general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed and we are adjourned. [gavel] good afternoon everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, april 25, 2017. mdm. clerk please call roll call thank you read present, cohen, present, farrell, present, fewer present, kim, present, paskin-jordan present, ronen present, safai present, genji present, tang present, yee present. mme. pres. all members are present. thank you ladies and gentlemen please join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] b thank you everyone. mme. clerk any communications? i have none to report colleagues any changes to the march 14, 2017 meeting minutes? seeing none, is there a motion to approve those minutes? moved by supervisor farrell. seconded by supervisor tran view. colleagues can we take that without objection? without objection those meeting minutes will be passed a