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Up next, mark maloy describes the events of 1861 when federal guns opened fire on ft. Sumpter. Welcome back to the emerging civilian virtual symposium. Our next speaker today comes to us from our sister site, emerging revolutionary war. Mark is a historian with the National Park service and hes, like, what can i do thats revolutionary war . Im like, this is the civil war. Hes like whoa. We decided we would let him talk about ft. Sumpter because its as close we can get to the war. Mark is a delig...

Defense Contract Group. Good morning and thank you everyone for being here today. It is my pleasure to introduce Territorial Defense lloyd austin roman 3rd, and general of the joint chiefs of staff general charles brown, jr. We will have time to dig a few questions. I will moderate these questions and, and journalists and due to time constraints, we ask that the site, plan to limit their questions to give your call is a chance to answer questions. My first question for you is, who pulled the fir...

Ukrainian president zelenskiy and members of the Ukraine Defense Contract Group. Good morning and thank you everyone for being here today. It is my pleasure to introduce Territorial Defense lloyd austin roman 3rd, and general of the joint chiefs of staff general charles brown, jr. We will have time to dig a few questions. I will moderate these questions and, and journalists and due to time constraints, we ask that the site, plan to limit their questions to give your call is a chance to answer qu...

Powered by cable. U. S. Defense secretary general lloyd austin announced an additional 6 million security assistant package through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and called it the largest security assistant package the u. S. Has committed today. He made that announcement to reporters at the pentagon after he and the joint chiefs of staff tarek met privately with ukrainian president zelenskiy and members of the Ukraine Defense Contract Group. Good morning and thank you everyone for b...

excitement actually at that point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. >> they think war is a glorious thing and lets go and do it. >> but in the spring lincolns overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team, would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from t...

point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. >> they think war is a glorious thing and lets go and do it. >> but in the spring, lincolns overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from the top of a hotel. and ellsw...

excitement actually at that point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. >> they think war is a glorious thing and lets go and do it. >> but in the spring, lincolns overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from t...

The people couldnt take refuge in their homes. Then they also had to secure food water communications. Literally the city had to resurrect itself from the bottom up. Every year, about september especially september 8 the Houston Television stations will show footage taken from the aftermath of the 1900 storm. Then they show photos. The newspapers may do interviews. But certainly the potential for destruction from future storms is always kept in mind. Certainly the 1900 storm was one of the gatew...

Cell phones and other devices should be turned off. That would be very much appreciated. Tonight is the sole event so tonight there is one event. If i could just ask everyone to pull fold up their chairs at the end of the event that would be greatly appreciated. Last thing, the q a session, if i can ask you to step to the side, to my left we have a microphone and we do record this and cspan is here as well. If we could get this all on recording, that would be wonderful. Thank you. Without furthe...

Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you, thank you. John alpert was often the first reporter last reporter out while documents war around the global but perhaps his magnum opu is the documentary cuba and the cameraman which is 45 years in the making, featuring unprecedented access to the cuban leader, fidel castro. Film premiers november 24th near a a year after castros death. Now a clip from cuba and the cameraman. Fidel, i broke the blockade, brought you the be...