Youre watching live in depth on booktv. December 7, 194,a day of infamiliary. Even as japanese diplomats were con ferring on peace measures, japanese plains were swooping down on pearl harbor. They dropped their death on the air base, civil homes and schools. A hundred japanese planes and midget sub marines took part. The arizona was completely destroyed and four others severely damaged. Three other battleships and three cruisers suffered damage. Nearly 200 planes were destroyed and that sunday morning the Pacific Fleet appeared to be completely immobilized by this sneak attack. Nearly 3,000 casualties added to the catastrophe. Its been 75 years since over 2400 american sailors and soldiers were killed in the japanese attack on pearl harbor, december 7, 1941. Starting now on booktv, on cspan2, a threehour discussion of that day, what led up to it and its aftermath. We have three authors joining he did you ask the question why did japan attacked the you want negative to United States qu
Time, she was 11 and it was in the middle of a massive heat wave. It was at least 100 degrees, people had died in the city for lack of having airconditioning. No airconditioning in their home so all the lights were off, trying to keep the home cool. She is standing in the middle of her living room in the dark sweating, and i asked her could you tell me about your familys egyptian two years ago . She closes her eyes. This is the story she told me and it is important to say when children tell stories it is important for journalists to fact check them and verify some stuff because childrens memories are not necessarily always the most factual and every single one of her details checked out. It was probably the most powerful telling that i heard throughout reporting this entire book. The police were at the door running footsteps on the stairs and martha biggs, this is big as. Then Gemayel Biggs remembered the founding of this followed by the deliberate side of a battering ram. She and her
Online discussion of the biography of stoically, michael. Look for the booktv tab at booktv. Org. One thing that is interesting about politics and movements in the 60s in a way that i think is different from our contemporary society is activism was something that in a large manor was considered it had an impact on popular culture. This is something we take for granted in the sense carmichael is not a rock star. Not to diminish him but a context of what happens when somebody who has that look, this activist where the cameras are all over, who was on the cover of every magazine in essence, all these different magazines, time, life, all these covers, very enormously charismatic, was married to this beautiful woman. How do they proceed in the black community but internationally . An iconography of the e way. Black panther party. Not just a Political Party but a party that images are seductive and attractive. When we think about all of that it is wrapped up in there. Not only a formidable a
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