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Sorry to say, with cspan, what you are do we take you live that at the lgbtq vtory institute is honoring nancy pelosi as part of anvent marking the tenth anniversary of the repeal of the dont ask, dont tell law. Also want to take a moment to thank coach price price winr blues and devoted member of this Community Also differentnd lets face it bestdressed man and ten, Jonathan Capehart for taking theime to moderate todays very impornt conversation we are so grateful to Jennifer Pritzker, founder o...

Pursuing as i got to the internment camp i knew that i had to document the experience. Which i dont ask people to bring me a camera i had no idea when id get it and i think it was a leg of putting up out of my wife then managed to smuggle a camera into the camp. And this is it a little olympus push its compact and mostly automatic. At the beginning of august each of us got 4 kilos of sugar. Many people used to make ill call the marking issue. But not me i needed that sugar answer giving out the ...

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About being a librarian in congress. I can remember that because i was surprised, i had been advising and consulting because this was an opportunity for the Library Community to weigh in basically on what would be needed for the library of Congress Going into the next few decades so my name was put forward as a person that i should talk to and that went on for a little while and then i was asked, would you consider being considered for the position yourself and it took me back a little bit and i...

Related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. Each ill present additionally and then will have questions in the chat box. I hope you enjoy the presentation, and look at our first artifact, but from april shortly after truman became president. Then were going to look at some documents from july. You can see my timeline here, the first five documents were going to show you, and then well have another five to finish off as we get into august. Even some from later that context to this topic. S...

Documents from july. You can see my timeline here, the first five documents were going to show you, and then well have another five to finish off as we get into august of 1945 and even some from later that connect to this topic, the 60s. So the first information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. This very famous letter some of you are probably familiar with, when Henry Stimson, the secretary of war, writes to truman ...

Bombs, including a white house documents, a sketch of a test explosion. We see mr. Trumans recorded announcement that the hiroshima bomb. Explained years later why he used the weapon. The Truman Library institute provided this video. What i would like to do tonight is to show you a number of artifacts, objects, photographs, three dimensional related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. Each of those are going to present to digitally. We will have questions and answers on the chat box. I h...

First is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin d. Roosevelt president ial museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum and paul has been directioning the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015 and heel ll be talk about fdr and the Manhattan Project and our second guest is Clifton Daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar where he spent quite a bit of time study bein...

And he didnt and he didnt. Less move on to our next artistic work. This is an etching by ladelbert work in 1963. Were in the second year where of the civil war. Its getting difficult to circulate battlefield heroes or triumphs and thats for one practical reason, most of the abledbodied artists were fighting in the war as soldiers. So this is an interesting thing to concept as far as sculptural monuments, there were none done at the time of the civil war, no artistic works. Tell us about the arti...

The end. I hope you enjoyed the presentation and im going to go right in and look at our first artifact which is actually not from july of 1945, but from april shortly after truman became president. Then we are going to look at some documents from july. You can see my time laying here of the first five documents we were going to show you. Then we will have another five to finish off what we get into august of 1945. Even some from later into the sixties. They connect to this topic. The first info...