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This is a look off of homes from monticello road. You can see the truck sitting in feet of water. They rose up past the windows. Sadly, images like we were where the normal. Were going to examine the ongoing Recovery Process i am Darcy Strickland along with jim gandy who is going to take us through the events of this historic flood. Jim, we were first here on that first day when the rain started it makes sense that we are wrapping this up this year together. Its interesting because it took an amount of extraordinary circumstances to produce the rainfall that we saw. Let me carry you through wh...

July 27th, the journey was ended. They were home again. [ applause ] ahead lay three weeks of isolation, medical tests and mission debriefings. Then visits to major cities of america and abroad. The details of their unique mission would be relived and reremembered so others might learn what they had learned and that future travellers in space might build upon their experience. The rock and soil samples brought back would be examined and analyzed by scientists in many lands. They would reveal new insights in to the origin and age and the composition of the moon. And perhaps new knowledge of the...

Welcomed sight. Later the three men would share their reflections on this adventure with the world. I believe that from the early space flight we demonstrated potential to carry out this type of a mission and, again, it was a matter of time before this was accomplished. Its a technical triumph for this country to said what it was going to do a number of years ago and then by golly do it. The relative ease which we were able to carry out our mission which, of course, came after a very efficient and logical sequence of flights, i think this demonstrated that we were certainly on the right track ...

Already experiments left on the moon were sending back revealing new information. The mission was successfully completed. The eagle had landed the first men on the moon and columbia had returned them safely to the earth. Whatever mans journey tomorrow across the ocean of universe history will remind him that apollo 11 was mankinds First Encounter with a new world. Up next on American History tv the story of the construction of the hoover dam. That will be fold by a 1960 interview with Herbert Hoover who discusses his life beyond presidency. And later u. S. Army captain William Johnston on his ...

The u. S. Government began this construction on hoover dam in 1931. The project employed over 21,000 workers. It was completed two years ahead of schedule. In 1955 department of the interior film about the planning and the building of hoover dam. The story explains the engineering feat necessary for construction and promotes economic and recreational benefits provided by the structure. Build a dam in the wilderness and the world will beat a path to it. For many centuries, this was a lonely canyon unseen and untouched by man, scorched by a desert sun, scolded by an angry river slashing its way ...