Paris by allied forces 75 years ago in august, 1944. Narrator the heart of european civilization is beating strong again. Paris is free. Four years of courage of hope have been answered, and a tide and a flood tide of jubilation has burst forth. The people of paris, always great performers in historys drama, rose to meet their liberators. Once more, france held high her head. Unswerving victory marched proudly along the champselysees. In the weeks preceding, the nazis had paid a frightful price. Senne have the become a vast slaughterhouse of German Military power. 40 days of attacks by the allied forces had torn the best of hitlers arm to shreds. Nothing emerged but days of wounded prisoners. First they appeared singly, then in small groups. And finally in great masses of beaten nazis. With fatal justice, they found themselves in a prison camp of their own making, one intended for french men. Some cannot hide their happy relief at coming through alive. Others are stunned and bewildered
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Topics include the roots of the modern Health Care System, the medical bills transformation into a business, and disparities in insurance coverage. The Natural History Center Hosted the event. I think we will try to start the event on time. My name is dane kennedy, director of the National History center. I want to welcome you all to this briefing of the history of u. S. Health care and health care policy. This is a briefing sponsored by the National History center, which is affiliated with the american historical association, and is part of a series of briefings that we offer that provide historical perspectives are issues that are currently confronting congress. We will have another one at the end of next month which would be a history of u. S. Iranian relations. I should stress that these events are strictly nonpartisan, they are not intended to offer any kind of policy recommendations or agendas, they are simply met to give greater insight to how we got to where we are, which we be
Its a campus of structures that sit on about 40 acres, and it is a village setting in many respects. But within that village, every structure houses an amazing collection. In 1947, amassed an amazing collection that the Shelburne Museum houses amongst 39 buildings. Its a plethora of objects and collections within collections, from impressionist art to weathervanes to Cigar Store Indians and one of the largest objects she collected, which was steamboat, which applied the waters of Lake Champlain from 19 61953. As i said, int, 1906, which you can look at as the cost or the changeover from spe steam era the cu from the steam era to the internal combustion engine. She was one of 29 steamers built on the lake and she was the last one. She basically operated on Lake Champlain as a day boat. Long,ke is over 125 miles but the ticonderoga ran from the vermont shoreline to the new new yorkne shoreline. Her homeport was burlington, vermont. The passages were about an hour or an hour and a half, b
Fly. , and navy how to many guys never even saw an airplane, coming from the farms and anywhere you could think of, and the first airplane they saw was this one. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Each week, American History reel america brings Archival Context archival films that provide context for todays issue. Huey newton founded the black Panther Party for selfdefense, later known simply as the black Panther Party. The film black panther produced by the San Francisco newsreel features an interview with Party Founder huey noon when he was on murder charges in prison, cofounder bobby seal reciting the panthers 10point program. In america, black people are treated very much like the vietnamese people or any other colonized people. The police occupy our community as a group of troops occupies , not for our welfare, for our security, for our safety, but they are there to contain us, to brutalize and murderous because they have just likers to do so they hav