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History. Its a pleasure, sir. Lets begin kind of not at the beginning because there is a beginning before this but april, 1959. It was one of the happiest days of my life. That was a day that was congregated officially as the u. S. First Astronaut Group and previous that is the day we first showed up officially as the first astronauts in the United States at Langley Field, virginia. It had become nasa in a hurried turnaround as you recall and astronaut selection and training basically was run by...

U. S. First Astronaut Group and previous that is the day we first showed up officially as the first astronauts in the United States at Langley Field, virginia. It had become nasa in a hurried turnaround as you recall and astronaut selection and training basically was run by the people that work from langley. We all reported under washington and that is where the initiation and the introduction, the preselection, all that sort of routine went on and then as you know, we had a physicals elsewhere ...

Here with you to do this oral history. Its a pleasure, sir. Lets begin kind of not at the beginning because there is a beginning before this but april, 1959. It was one of the happiest days of my life. That was a day that was congregated officially as the u. S. First Astronaut Group and previous that is the day we first showed up officially as the first astronauts in the United States at Langley Field, virginia. It had become nasa in a hurried turnaround as you recall and astronaut selection and...

I was 24 years old. While most of my friends spent their summer at the jersey shore, i sat in a shot, steamy courtroom and watched in horror and disbelief as the man who murdered my husband tried to turn the courtroom into a political stage where he could spew his hate and contempt for this country and our justice system. At the moment my husbands bloodstained shirt was displayed by the evidence handler, Mumia Abujamal smirked at me, demonstrating his contempt for Law Enforcement. Thankfully a r...

I am the editor and chief of the atlantic. Im joined today by Caitlyn Dickerson superstar reporter for the atlantic. An author of this months cover story. Many of you who are to subscribers at home will see this in the mail shortly. It is a magnificent comprehensive investigation of the trumpar administration famiy separation policy. Child separation policy. It is an interesting story on a number of levels for us. It is the longest piece i have published in my time as editor. It might be the lon...

Cspan 3 created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable and satellite proprovider much watch us on hd. Follow us on twitter. In the weeks after the june 6th, 1944 dday invasion of normandy france allied troops faced difficult terrain and german fortifications in towns surrounding the beaches. Next military historian John Macmanus talks about what happened in the days and weeks after. What follows from june 7th on ward is an absolute bloody slog that ultimately leads deep into ger...

Months and they wouldnt touch rice either. As far as the mess hall, we didnt have a lot of rice there. We didnt have very good food. It was not too tasty. I came bam from other there and was working in chicago and the Office Manager where i worked was a japanese girl and wound up marrying her and eating rice the rest of my life. [ applause ] lets go back over here. My question concerned which pilot flew the hump first, was it the air commandos or the pilots of the 14th air force . I think it was...

And recover the place and rebuild it. It takes the better part of the summer. Sherborg wont be running that much for the allies until about september 1944. By then its far away from the front lines that are, you know, in eastern france. Its a bit anticlimatic. Supplies coming from then. Well of course the most famous answer to that question is mulberry harbor. Thats the code name for artificial harbors at lies created through remarkable ingenious manufacturing. Basically create your own artifici...

He was followed by fred bremmer the bombadeer and myself. I was wondering what it was like on base just day to day when you werent out on missions . Are you talking about for the air commandos there . Yeah. Okay. Pat, do you want to take that. Well id like to accept it might not come as a surprise to you people that all three of us have hearing aides plugged in our ears. Unfortunately the day before i came up here the right one went on the fritz and i sent it in for repair. I dont know what the ...

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