A lineup of special Guest Tonight including the mother of the israeli hostage. Reporting from the ground in gaza battling a rising Death Toll for palestinians and journalists. Sir Richard Branson on the movement he is back that could provide a path to peace. Lets do it. October 7, 2023 hamas militants launched an unprecedented coordinated attack from Gaza Breaching the Security Barrier Israel had built. The targeted and massacred israeli soldiers and civilians. Mortared communities. Setting fire to homes. Killed and abducted women, men, and the children. As the Sun Rose rockets flew over the music festival. Excitement turned into terror as militants on motorcycles and trucks approached mowing down festivalgoers who try to run those who hid in bushes and ditches were shot point blank. 40 were abducted. Overall over 1200 people were killed that day. 250 taken hostage into gaza. It was the deadliest day for jewish people since the holocaust and Shock Waves of grief reverberated around the
At the Roosevelt Library, we completed a full redo of our permanent exhibit in 2013. And joining me today to discuss how these projects are done is clay bauske, the supervisory curator at the Harry S Truman president ial museum in missouri. Clay and his team are in the final stages of redoing their permanent exhibit. Where do things stand right now and what is your projected opening date for the new permanent exhibit . Clay we are probably within two months of having the new exhibits done and ready to open. The big question with all the libraries is when will the libraries actually open to the public. We are not really sure about that, but the work on our new permanent exhibits we are within two months of being done. Herman so the exhibits are being installed as we speak . Clay yes. Essentially all of the general construction in our museum we went in and had contractors literally rip out everything in the museum and start from scratch. That included installing all new walls in the exhi
Our guests are the author, a leading human rights lawyer and National Security scholar, litigate in one many highprofile cases including several of the landmark guantanamo cases and several others. Hes been working for the military Commission Defense organization. Michel paradis lectured at columbia law school, fellow at the center on National Security and hes a fordham law grad. Carol rosenberg will be talking to him about his book. She is an reporter for than york times working in collaboration with the polish privileges in. Shes been reporting in the u. S. , in the u. S. And at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened on january 11, 2002. She started with the miami herald where before that she really reporting from middle east. She moved to the new york times. She has won many awards including the robert f. Kennedy journalism award, the aba silver gavel award and part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news and 2001. Let me tell you the format. Michel an
Climb to glory and command the third corps and the commanding general of u. S. Army forces command. One accomplishment that is not in his bio and one he is very proud and he is a proud son of a marine and the picture is the Fourth Division going over the jima. At iwa general, we are proud to have you with us today. A difficult duty is coming up for you and remain neutral at this years armynavy game. We have Great Expectations for your neutrality. Thank you what you have done for our country and allies around the world. I would like to turn it around senior fell oove who will kick off the conversation about the defense challenges that you face and we face as a nation and hell conclude with questions and answers. The session is on the record today. If you have questions, send them. Edu. Nts ooth brookings over to you, mike. Mike thank you, john. And i add my personal gratitude not only for you joining us today and for the men and women in the military families and veterans who have sacri
Its a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. In a august 6th, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city of hiroshima, japan, followed by a second detonation august 9th over the city of nagasaki. Six days later japan surrendered bringing an end to the second world war. I have received this afternoon message from the japanese government and applied to the message forded to the secretary on august 11th. I deem this reply a full acceptance of the potsdam declaration which specifies the Unconditional Surrender of japan. Through the work of cspans cities tour well share stories of the people that contributed to this worldaltering event. We begin in new orleans at the National World war ii museum. Were here today on the road to tokyo exhibit which is going to take us through the war in the pacific and asia from 1941 to 19 45. So one of the interesting aspect, i thi