1963. One of the joys of my position is there is a heritage to president ial libraries, and all of the prior directors of the jfk president ial library and museum have been mentors to me as i have taken on the role, and we have announced to the Community Just a couple of days ago the passing of dan fenn, the very first director of the jfk library, and he was a member of the Kennedy Administration. And its a special pride that he would share. It would just glow in him in his advocacy for the importance of the Kennedy Administration and the many treasures that we had inside our building. And i love this photograph of the building. Its a nighttime vision. For those who have not yet come to see us, i believe that the library is inspirational in and of itself and fitting for the life and times and ideas of an inspirational president , the 35th president , president kennedy. And if youre able to come and visit us, you will see this building, were right out on Columbia Point facing out toward
The island to american and Japanese Forces during world war ii. The Abraham Lincoln president ial Library Museum hosted this event and provided the video. Its a pleasure to be here to talk about this important subject. I did a presentation about a year ago on dday and it went over very well, i think. But i got several comments, hey, how come you never talk about the Pacific Theatre . I got that comment from some marines, in fact, and a couple of them are here tonight. So i hope they appreciate the effort. It isnt by accident that were doing this presentation on the 13th of august. On the 14th of august was the official surrender of the japanese, and so the war ended and all the celebrations back in the United States were on that date. And on the 2nd of september was the official signing ceremony of the uss missouri, and so thats the reason for the timing for the okinawa battles of the war. And because of of a picture that were going to be talking about here in a little bit, it captured
As best piece of writing of the year. A. J. Is a longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal and his articles also have appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. He has been a speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and appeared on Numerous National tv stations including cnbc, msnbc, and various documentary films and tv shows. Now my couple of comments. This book was the result of a significant amount of research at the Truman Library. We have an archive. Weve got 15 million documents and photographs there. A cracker jakarr kieck archivalh team. He is very complimentary of the Truman Library. If you get the book please read the comments. We love all the credit and praise we can get. We are grateful to a. J. For doing that. I really liked the dedication that he put into this book and for those of us in the truman business and those of us who have photographs of portraits of harry truman in our offices kind of resonates and he dedicated this bo
normandy, france tuesday good afternoon everybody in martha maccallum and missus the story live from the american cemetery in normandy france where tomorrow we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of operation overlord, d-day, was in 150,000 allied forces landed on the beaches here to turn back the nazi hold on to europe. later this hour, another cure of world war ii. 96-year-old ronald roll do, i just 16 he found a way around the navies age requirement, bravely fighting and surviving injuries as a teenage boy. he says you comes to normandy because of the friends that he lost and also because of some of the nightmares he still has about his fallen hero buddies. people might think you re squarely when you talk about of the guys to back up from the grave but it s realistic to me and i m just lucky. a lot of the guys were not as lucky as i was. and i appreciate every day of it and i honor all the guys in the pacific theatre, m. just honored my brothers over here. martha: