you re at the jersey shore, summer is is here. jellyfish are back and one man is in the hospital because of it. what he got. tiny surprises have hit some of new jersey beach towns and they are not cute and they re not cuddly. rather they can be very dangerous and sometimes deadly if left untreated. they are small but they pack a good punch. i m talking jellyfish. not the ones you and i are familiar with. these are tiny dime size jellyfish called clinging jellyfish. they are a long way of home and usually spotted in the pacific ocean. there s a theory as to how their here. they are breeding in this area. it s quite scary. i am near this river and one was found near point pleasant about a week ago. they did not want one of their employees to be stung by the jellyfish. i don t know if you ve ever been [inaudible] i m a chaser so i got a water and rolled my pant legs up. i can t say that i am safe from one of them. i would probably be scabbing from the hospital. there
the republican party has been beat in the 1892 election. grover cleveland has come into office, mcclellan has been the governor of ohio. the republicans think that the election of 1896 is going to be dares and he wants to be the nominee, but is not the front runner. he s not the favor of the party bosses. .. next, artist joel iskowitz tells the stories behind designing a congressional gold medal. he spoke at the museum of american finance in new york city, for just over an hour. good afternoon, everyone. welcome, welcome to our friends from the c-span audience and what that means for our audience is during the q&a period please wait for the microphone sorry one can hear. i am david cowan, president of museum of american finance and i m joined by the founder in the audience today. i will show you one of our most cherished items in this is a bond from about 220 years ago signed by the father of our country, george washington. this is george washington s bond and then about
owitz talked about how they were designed and awarded. welcome toernoon, our friends from the c-span audience. what that means for our audience, during the question-and-answer period, please wait for your question until the microphone gets the read so everyone can hear. david callan, i m president of the museum of american finance. i am joined by the chair, john herzog. 220 is a bond from about years ago, signed by none other than the father of our country, george washington. this is george washington s bond. about 60 years ago, this document is a share certificate in rko owned by howard hughes, signed right. here. what thosent today, two men have in common/ and the answer. is that both received the congressional gold manner. edal. today we will hear from joel iskowitz, who has designed them. including one design for the apollo 11 mission, the original moon landing mission. joel has a voluminous volume of work. you have seen it coins, journals, stamps. he has designed over 20
so against this backdrop of racial injustice, where there are family and friends incarcerated in internment camps, these men served in the mountains and save the lost battalion at great cost, at reat cost. and incidentally, they served with more military distinction and recognition than any unit in american military history. this is the honoring the 442nd regimental combat team. the 100th infantry battalion and he military intelligence service. that is why there are only three stars appearing, indicating and the medically, the three branches. those are subtleties that go nto the thought process. incidentally, in terms of the thought process, before i ever left a pencil up, if i m doing my job correctly, especially since my narratives, the task orders that come to us come with an attachment, and the attachment determines what is needed in terms of the design, it is the congressional law that has been passed. and so that is the essence. i want to do my first research, i read co
and restorers and artists and whoptors and archivists took it upon themselves, they were in very comfortable lifestyles and had no need to be impressed into service. but in order to save these great cultural treasures of the world, they put life and limit risk limb at risk to save great treasures for posterity. i apologize. this was originally going to be the final piece of my running narrative, but we had just returned from this very moving ceremony, but it has been filling my mind and my heart right now. presentationslide sounds very formal, but in atlity, when i took a look the seven or so congressional gold medals that i intend to speak to you about this afternoon, i realized that each complexy story was so contentsuch elaborate and connection to so much history that it was be literally impossible in the small amount of time we have this afternoon, allowing for some questions and answers at the end, to get into too much detail about everyone. with that, my disclaimer is