But because ive never been able to speak with my grandparents i didnt know well and the information i was due for my father and my aunt turned out to be incorrect. Here you can see the arrival of americans with a movie camera in 1938 and it was big news, especially with the younger generation. My grandfather and his traveling companion. And one of the things that were so meaningful about the film is how densely packed with information that is. As i began to search it wasnt always the faces that turned out to be the most important thing. Faces are the choice we difficult to identify with so little documentation. But often it was the architecture were other details that were visible and captured accidentally. But the more extraordinary thing is that two thirds are in color. [inaudible] and that sign over the door became very significant. [inaudible] there is a lot of shoving that goes on in a. [laughter] and so even without learning the information it still would have been an important f
Welcome everyone. We are live on cspan tv and im asking you to turn off your cell phone. Taking your questions, i am mark steiner and its great to have you here, lets introduce the panel. Sitting to my immediate right is a man that we all know, martin goldsmith. We will be talking about it today. Next to him Eric Lichtblau is Sarah Wildman. She has one the Pulitzer Prize many of the places and sitting next to her a Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter and investigative journalist for his work on covering the nsa. And we have glenn kurtz who wrote the book three minutes in poland. We will have each of the authors present two minutes to outline their then we will have a discussion and bring eric and to talk about the nazis next door and then we will talk about that question. So lets start with three minutes in poland. First of all, its an honor to be here with the panel. Thank you. Very much the highlights of this story, in 2009 you can see visuals for you. This was taken by my grandparents. T