Went on strike. That was the day when a police car opened fire and began the battle. After that, it seems the french flag was hanging from every women. The flags were made from curtains, everything it didnt matter. Four days later we heard shouting coming. As we ran, the french army had arrived. I kissed my husband. We began to realize how unhappy we had been for four years and how lucky we were to be alive. Mary Louise Roberts is a history professor at the university of wisconsin madison joining us here on American History tv in our focus on d day to talk about her book d day through french eyes normandy 1944. Professor roberts, we just showed some video from the liberation of paris later that summer. Take us back to before the invasion. What was normandy like on june 5. What were the citizens of normandy like . Well, the french had been under German Occupation since 1940. In normandy the food situation was better than the rest of france because it was the dairyland of france. I tell
Hearse corporation newsreel. He created a traveling film and lecture program, the National Archives restored the film together with a recording of his original narration. This is 45 minutes. The one place that intrigued me was my first trip to london, and the house of parliament and big ben. Now these pictures you must remember are more than a quarter of a century old. The thing that amused and entertained our boys who were stationed all over england was westminster abbey, and there were quite a few americans who came there to see the sites and see westminster abbey, and these are the scenes that i wanted to photograph on one sunday afternoon. Another area that intrigued me was marble arch. The marble arch on one sunday afternoon was full of people. You must remember that london was being bombed almost every night in this particular time, and i was photographing these speakers that were addressing the crowds. Every speaker was speaking on a different assumptiosubject, but police stood
A reenactor with the world war ii living history group, and we are here at Army Heritage days at the u. S. Army heritage and Education Center in carlisle, pennsylvania, and at this event, it is a major complex. Were here on the Army Heritage trail, and one can find reenactors or living historians from all different time periods ranging from the 17th surgecentp to the present. My group, though, is here this weekend to discuss the 75th anniversary of the normandy invasion, which is taking place this summer, and we thought it certainly fitting to commemorate that event and us putting on these old uniforms, wearing old equipment, it certainly gives us a better perspective and appreciation of what the greatest generation went through. And if we can impart even a small inkling of that to passers by and families who come visit this place, then we feel that weve done a fairly good job. The unit that we portray is the Fourth Infantry Division, and its a unit thats sometimes overshadowed in the
Test. Captioning performed by vitac other questions . Yes, sir. My name is zumerisan, the executive director of Public Health for harris county. I just flew in from houston so i missed almost the entire day. Anything i say, if its completely off, i completely apologize. Just wanted to say that up front. I actually have a question for you. Im also associated with the National Association of county and city house authorities which represents close to 3,000 local Health Departments across the u. S. And we are very much interested in really this really Global Learning that really impacts domestic local Public Health, domestic Public Health practice here in the u. S. As were going through this process were learning that a lot of organizations that were getting to are very much very interested in the Global Health space, so they are doing Global Health work, but not interested in Domestic Health, or theyre doing Domestic Health work and not interested in the Global Health aspects. So as we t
Im peter erwin at the new york times, also author of the new book how to win in a winner take all world. Im presiding over todays discussion. Its a great honor to have jerome h. Powell with us today. He joins us today at a fraught moment for the World Economy and for the fed. Previously, he was a fed governor. Before that, he worked for the bipartisan policy center, carlisle group, and the u. S. Treasury department. Well begin with a few prepared remarks by chairman powell. [ applause ] thank you, neil, and good afternoon. Its a pleasure to be here today. So im going to begin with a Progress Report on the broad public review my Federal Reserve colleagues and i are conducting of the strategy, tools, and communication practices we used to achieve the objectives that congress has assigned to us by law. Maximum employment and price stability. The dual mn datmandate. Then i will discuss the outlook for the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy. I look forward to our discussion that will follow.