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World war ii service in a b24 liberator, was promoted in 1959 to Brigadier General in the u. S. Air force reserve, and flew a 1966 vietnam bombing mission. This is about 24 minutes. James good evening. I hope you will excuse all of this, but i have been taking time off from my job to look into something that concerns all of us. That seems to be pretty well confused. What i mean is missiles, highperformance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Why do we need both . Where are we going with all of t...

Welcome everyone to the final event of whats been a terrific three days. You start to plan these things and you think well have this person and that person. There was this moment when we started to put the program on to paper and said they have 36 different speakers on this thing and it became exceeded our expectations certainly and so thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. So thanks, very much. And this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are g...

Will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile and edit a new volume in our William F Cody series on the history and culture of the american press. So all of the presenters are invited as they know to submit their work for consideration for this volume and all the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. So stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights key note speaker. Paul andrew hutten is an american cultural historian. Hes an A...

And this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile and edit a new volume in our William F Cody series on the history and culture of the american press. So all of the presenters are invited as they know to submit their work for consideration for this volume and all the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. So stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights key note speaker. Paul andrew hutten is an america...

Hampering efforts. And the fires are threatening more shlgs and homes. Evacuate oergss have expanded. More people are hurrying to get away from the flames. And an evacuation is underway for the entire city of calistoga. Officials telling people to get out now. Huge lines of people waiting to get out. Reporter definitely. This place is like a ghost town. Were here along the main street here in calistoga. You can see the cafe. Normally busy, open. Closed right now. They were planning a hoe down ba...

Now, earlier today, we got our first real look from the air at the devastation of the fires. These pictures are from santa rosa. Also, there are some staggering new numbers tonight. 21 people have now died. 185 are injured. And 560 people are still missing in Sonoma County alone. At least 3500 buildings have been destroyed. Thousands of homes are still threatened. And 4500 people are in shelters. For a short time, we were trying to get people back in a their houses to get medication and urgent t...

John d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. Additional support is provided by the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. The park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. The heisingsimons foundation, unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and possibil...

John d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. Additional support is provided by the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. The park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust, supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. The heisingsimons foundation, unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and possibil...

Hello and welcome to this aljazeera news hour live from doha im laughing that is coming up in the next sixty minutes Iraqi Government troops completes the seizure of kirkuk from the kurds after fierce fighting. Attacks on mosques in afghanistan killed scores of people it and then a deadly week for civilians in which hundreds have died. Or is morphing going to see more actions in africa and less. A shift in u. S. Counterterrorism strategy after the deaths of four american soldiers in the air plus...

Call it the thud or the lead sled. It was the f105 thunder chief, and during the veietnam war, it was a workhorse. Im oliver north and this is war stories. Between 1961 and 73, over 3,000 aircraft like this one were shot down or destroyed in southeast asia. 1968, the last year of Rolling Thunder and 652 men piloting these planes lost their lives. From march of 65 to october of 68, air force navy and marine airmen dropped nearly a half million tons of bombs. Rolling thunder was far from a triumph...