Pigs crisis. The failed military invasion of cuba in 1961 supported by the u. S. Government and resulted in the capture and death of over 1,000 men. The this was recorded at books and books in corals gable, florida in 2011. Its about an hour. This evening, books books is pleased to welcome Jim Rasenberger and his new book, brilliant diaster. Jfk, castro, and americas doomed invasion of cubas bay of pigs. Mr. Ras also a wrienberger has the New York Times among other mub publications. Heres the author of high steel, the men who built the worlds greatest skyline. In this book he examines the u. S. Backed military invasion of cuba in 1961, one of the most illfated blunders in American History. He draws on long hidden cia documents and delivers as never before the vivid truth and consequences of those five pivotal days in april of 61. Here to tell us more about it, please give a warm welcome to mr. Jim rasenberger. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you for that introduction. Thank you to books book
With the american soldier goes american medicine. Backing him up, by his side, with him in his advance. In wartime and in peace, the medical department carries on, fighting disease, healing and rehabilitating the sick and wounded and constantly working and constantly working to search out disease vectors to prevent, detect, and control epidemics. Pursue this mission successfully, the medical department was backed up by a network of laboratories, stretching from north to south, east to west. Clinical, Public Health, and Research Laboratories were required everywhere. Diseases new to the army doctor were being encountered. New diagnosed procedures and treatment and control have to be developed and evaluated. Operation and combat under extreme heat and cold produce problems that were a challenge to the medical department and its laboratories. Medicalhis vast laboratory organization, which followed the army to every distant outpost on our fighting front where the many divisions and service
Reconstruction eras. American history tv this weekend every weekend on cspan three. Each week, american artifact visits museums, archives, and historic places. Up next, we travel about 45 miles west of the Nations Capital to tour a u. S. Army can indications base in warrenton, virginia, which now houses a Museum Dedicated to remembering the cold war. Is is just under an hour. Welcome, my name is francie Francis Gary Powers junior, i go by gary, i am the founder of the Cold War Museum at vince hill virginia, about 45 miles northwest of washington dc. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1996, to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history, and educate future generations about this time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to High School Students in this area, nine times out of 10, the students would not know anything about the cold war or the u2 incident. They would think the u2 incident would have something to do do with the rock band. A the cold war period. In 1996 we
Several other measures, including u. S. Partnerships with mexico and can dand naming several post offices. Later in the week in the house, two financerelated bills dealing with iran. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Ever faithful to your promises, we ask your presence with your people, now and forever. The sun grows dim and the daylight is measured, in the darkness phantoms loom. The eye the company discern as the distance cannot discern as the distance fades. Be for us light. Help the members of Congress Make clear judgments that will propel us into a blessed future. Remove any shadowy clouds so that they might follow the patterns o
The air force general in cargestarge of the u. S. Strategic command as well as air force secretary Heather Wilson and congressman mike rogers were part of a discussion of National Security in space from the Reagan National Defense Forum and the Reagan Library in simi valley. This was moderated by cbs pentagon correspondent david martin. Mr. Martin the Breakfast Panel which was moderated by our cbs colleague margaret brennan, there you saw the future of cbs news. Im what the militarywould call the legacy ystem. [laughter] the cold war ring and repurposed for the 21st century. A couple years ago, i did a story called the battle above for 60 minutes. It was about u. S. Space command. At the time, the commander was general hyten and he was one of the main characters in our story. To get ready for this panel, i went back and reread the transcript online of that story. I made the mistake of continuing on and reading some of the comments. One of the first comments i came across said, shame on