The documentary tells the story of the early stages of the Aleutian Islands campaign during world war ii and depicts the harsh weather and Living Conditions faced by u. S. Forces. [ music playing ] Aleutian Islands are situated in the North Pacific ocean forming a chain which extends about 1,200 miles westsouthwest from Alaska Peninsula towards siberia to form the southern boundary of the bering sea. The aleutians compromised comprise four dprums and part of the territory of the alaska, usa. A volcanic origin, there are numerous cones on the chain, many of them still active. The coasts are rocky and terf rise immediately from the water in steep bold mountains the aleutians of the storm cloud of the western world, a permanent low pressure area prevails there. Cold air masses from the polar regions flow with the sheering effect against the warm, moistureladen air masses over the japanese current to form iconic disturbances. The cause of the earths rotation, these disturbances move from w
Todays presenter, mark obmascik. Mark is a native of chicago southside. Hes a graduate from the Medill School of journalism at northwestern. He started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. He was the lead writer for the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the denver post for covering the tragic Columbine High School shooting in april of 2005. He had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with some of those things. He was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law professor at the university of denver, dr. Thompson marsh who was an enthusiastic, avid ornithologist. Mark himself had always been interested in birds, but it was the birders who fascinated him. Thus he wrote a book about the people who had the time and wherewithal to spend
On may 11, 1943, about 12,500 u. S. Soldiers landed on atule island, alaska to force out a Japanese Army that had occupied the area for almost a year. Fought in the harsh climate and terrain the battle of at t u as one of the blood attu. Next, journalist mark tells the story of experiences of a japanese medic and an american officer in his book the storm on our shores, one island, two soldiers, and the forgotten attle of world war ii. He started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. He was the lead writer for the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the denver post for covering the tragic column bine in april 2005. He had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with ome of those things. He was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law p
Be more informal recollections about what it was like working in the administration for president himself and the atmosphere at the time. Each of our panelists will offer 10 to 15 minutes of prefatory comments, and then we will turn it over for q a. Especially for the historians, my fellow historians in the room, this is your time to do the expert interviews you have been wanting to do. Introducing my three panelists, the man who needs no introduction. I mean that literally, because i introduced him three hours ago. Ambassador ken adelman. For our purposes here, he served as one of president reagans ambassadors to the u. N. And was also a troubleshooter in another way. I want to talk to you about your role in putting together the iran contra. In the middle here, again, a man to those of us who here in austin and many other americans, admiral bob inman. He holds the centennial chair, a alum of thent Reagan Administration as well. He was the nsa director and was referenced by one of the
Now ina lot of different kinds f litigation. Explaining circumstances. Looking at intent. So everything from , Environmental Concerns to medical issues, Tobacco Company suits. So, for me, i think they could almost be used anywhere to help put things into perspective for what is the Voting Rights, sort of law canon we think of, explaining the totality of circumstances of why a law is passed. Host you spent26 years with the Justice Department. When did you become being used as an Expert Witness . Peyton i firstgot involved as an Expert Witness in 1980 when the Supreme Court handed down a decision in acase known as city as mobile versusbolton where the court established that minority plaintiffs challenging a lawas racially discriminatory hadto demonstrate that it was either adopted or maintained for a racially discriminatory purpose, not nearly that it had a racially this crematory effect. Effect. Since the lawin question in the mobilecase was adopted in 1911, there were not anyparticipan