television companies. it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. next on american history tv, historians discuss the social and political impact of several events leading up to the civil war. including the fugitive slave act and abolitionist john brown s raid on a federal armory at harper s fairy. erry. this was part of yale university s gilder lehrman center for the study of slavery, resistance, and abolition. this was the most fun to , deciding which events, which problems, which moments of the pre-civil war era would we represent. said, thisanna and is one you should moderate. speak on no, i want to it. [laughter] which is great. hook herst trying to into being moderator. the shock of events. the passage by douglas at the nation, the way he put it, not educated by theory, they are taught by events. we all know, we lived through events that no one predicts. who predicted pearl harbor? some people, sort of. who predicted the end of the cold war in 89?
, and i gotn downtown a soda, and one said you were ss ward. u.s. has u i said, yes, how did you know? 4 destroyers. we rotated duty guarding the entrance to pearl harbor. and requesting a destroyer escort on the surface to approach pearl harbor. called toentimes been general quarters when the sonar man believed he heard the cruise. the captain backed up the sonar man all the time. it was that responsibility, and we knew it, to sink any sub attempting to reach pearl harbor submerged. the and terry s supply ship was coming into pearl harbor a little before that. and touring the barge, this little too-man sub was trying to sneak into the harbor. it looked like a 50 gallon oil drum with a broomstick sticking up. course, that broomstick was the periscope, and i m sure the men on the bridge could tell there was something like your this so at the top of broomstick, they could see the periscope. it was too far away for us to know it was anything like that. we thought it might have b
this year marks the 75th anniversary of the pearl harbor attack, and the u.s. entry into world war ii. hear from survivors who were stationed at honolulu in 1941. the national park service conducted the oral history. this is about one hour. we were in the hurricane for nine days coming over from san diego. you have a rather green crew. we got into honolulu, and senator scott liberty and some of us got liberty. , and i walkedxi across the street. i ordered a soda. the lady said you are from the uss ward. she said how do you know? ship,s ward was the guard part of destroyer division 80. it consisted of four old destroyers. we rotated duty guarding the entrance channel to pearl harbor. the regulations were that on all the charts of the world with an indication that no submarine must approach pearl harbor within 100 miles without coming to the surface and requesting a destroyer effort escort on the surface to approaching closer to honolulu or pearl harbor. we had oftentimes
world war ii. up next, we will hear from survivors stationed at honolulu in 1941. the national park service conducted an oral history. this is about an hour. we re in a hurricane for 9 days coming over from san diego. you have a rather green crew, when we got into honolulu and some of us got liberty. we took a taxi into the army slash navy y. i walked across the street, i ordered a soda and the lady said, you re from the u.s.s. ward. and i said how do you know? she said you re all that delicate shade of green. the u.s.s. ward was the guardianship, part of division 80 which consisted of four old destroyers, the ward, the sly, the alan and the chew. we rotated duty guarding the entrance channel to pearl harbor. the regulations were that on all the charts of the world was an indication that no submarine must approach pearl harbor within 100 miles without coming to the surface and requesting a destroyer escort on the surface to approach any closer to honolulu or pearl harbor. w
out to the u.n. for help. we will be there live frlts gored. the american man who literally wrote the book on how to survive running the bulls finds himself on the wrong end of one at this year s festival. his television interview since that accident, thursday, july 10th, 2014. from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone, it s nice to see you on a thursday morning. we have willie, craig, thousands of our fans. we are used to seeing that crowd on a friday here. it s a thursday that, i are here to see mr. john legend. he will put on a great show on our plaza. we have been hearing him through the rehearsals all of me. his hit this morning. we will get to that. we want to get to the top stories. the investigation into that deadly shooting rampage overnight in texas as one young victim who survived fights for her life this morning. nbc s miguel almaguer is at the scene for us. good