Writers. The presidency looking at the policies and legacies of our nations commanders in chief. Top College Professors delving into americas past. And archival government and educational films. Cspan 3. Create bid the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. Each week American History tvs real america brings you archival films. In the second of a fivepart look at hollywood directors who made films for the u. S. Government during world war ii we feature George Stevens with the invading army 70 years ago on june 6, 1944 to document dday, he assisted in the film true glory and he also documented the horrors of nazi concentration camps creating films used as evidence during the nuremburg trials. Firs we talk to mark harris. The book is titled five came back, a story of hollywood and the second world war. And one of the directors featured by arthur mark harris is George Stevens. Each of these directors had Different Reasons for going in and for stevens who like all of the directors was old enough so that he could have gotten a civilian exemption from the war really wanted what he called a seat on the 50 yard line of history. He felt that it was a patriotic duty to go. He had been chafing in hollywood because he felt pigeon holed into making these very light movies when he had wanted to make some films with more contemporary or warrelated content. And when he wasnt able to do t at rko or columbia, he jumped at the chance to do it in the army and for the army. Interestingly, of the five directors, stevens is the only one who never made a sort of freestanding documentary during the war that was shown to civilian audiences. But his work in the war which ranged from restaging battle scenes in north africa to becoming the first major american film maker to enter the camps after they were liberateded and his films actually provided evidence for the nuremburg trials his work in the war was maybe the most wide ranging and in some ways historicically significant in terms of the camp footage of any directors during the war. Let me follow up on that point because he was a member of the u. S. Army signal corps under the leadership of then general eisenhower who was clearly responsible for the invasion of dday 70 years ago. Where was stevens during that time . Stevens was right there at dday. Just as john ford was at dday supervising the filming effort made by the navy, stevens was there overseeing the shooting done by the army and of all of the major battles and turning points in the war, dday was the one that allies film makers had the longest and best opportunity to prepare for. This was a filming effort that involved hundreds of cameras both stationary and manned and dozens of cameramen. And stevens you know as the war progressed, often his function was to coordinate some film making efforts with the allies, the particularly the british or canadians. And that was one of the things he did at drnday. Ford asked if stevens wouldnt mind working with the british to help shore up their dday film making effort. Ship believe that the that he arrived on was in fact a british ship. The enemy in this campaign was strong, resourceful and cunning. But he made a few mistakes. His greatest blunder was this. He thought he could break up our partnership. But we were welded together for fighting for one great cause. In one great team, a team in which you were an indispensible and working member. That spirit of free people working, fighting, and living together in one great cause has served us well on the western front. We in the field pray that that spirit of comradeship will persist forever among the free peoples of the united nations. Cspans new book sundays at eight include gretchen morganson. What role should the government play in Housing Finance . If you want to subsidize howsing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populous agrees that its something we should subsidize then put it on the Balance Sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much its costing. But when you deliver it through these thirdparty enterprises, fannie mae and freddie mac, when you deliver the subsidy through a Public Company with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of that subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way or subsidizing home ownership. Read more of our conversation with gretchen morganson and other featured interviews from our book notes and other programs. Now available for a fathers day gift at your Favorite Book seller. At the direction of congress, the voices and experiences from the Civil Rights Movement of the mid 20th century are being documented in an oral history project. This effort is a collaboration of the Smithsonian National museum of african American History and culture. The library of congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. From that collection, an interview with simion wright. He was present when his 14yearold cousin emet till was forcibly taken from his uncles mississippi home by white men on a summer night in 1955. Mr. Wright has written his own caubt of the events that led to his cousins brutal murder, a murder that gavel niesed the Civil Rights Movement. His book is titled simens story, an eye witness of the kid knapping the interview is 90 minutes bfmentu first a brief conversation with the direct or of the museum of mirn african American History of culture. Who is Simeon Wright . And actor one of the most horrific moment in American History, because of of and until him and hell emitt h ill. He was someone that was there when he went into the store and re f
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