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So good afternoon, and welcome my name is tim bowman executive dean for administration and finance at the Harvard Engineering school of engineering and Applied Sciences. And in my six years of commissioner on the commission for institutes of Higher Education, and its my pleasure to welcome you to the afternoon session, and it is my honor to introduce to you our presenter and speaker for this session. Chuck im sorry already ive started off bad. Chuck door is associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor of education at Bowden College, after receiving his bachelor of arts from George Washing...

The decision made by his grandfather, president harry truman. Thank you very much for sharing of theip and your video trip with the cspan tv audience. We appreciate your video and experience. Each week, American History eel america brings you archival films. A War Department film which documents the physical effects of the bombs dropped on here or she of 1945. And argues the bombing were iroshima in hero august of 1945. And argue the bombings were justified. July 16, 1945. This is the darkness of a desert morning a group of men wait intensely, expecting work done in unprecedented secrecy. [exp...

1945. Y 16, this is the darkness of a desert morning and here in new mexico, a group of men wait expectant. Behind them is three years done in unprecedented secrecy. [roar of the explosion] three different cameras recorded from six miles away these views of the most concentrated release of explosive energy in the history of mankind. From the time of that first explosion until hiroshima shattered beneath the atomic work for the bomb pushed forward and closely guarded plants. Years,r 100 the city had never been subjected to actual bombing. Now its army headquarters, barracks and depots, shipyard...

[inaudible conversations]y herea. Details are on the screen and on the back of your program and when you finish making the contributions violates your cell phone now onto the main events i would like to introduce the cochair of the National Book festival david rubenstein. [applause]e book how many people here have read the book and are going to readad the book. How many people are going to buy the book today . [applause] thank you very much for coming. A native of middletown ohio and graduate of the middletown high school. He then went to Yale Law School. They are here somewher somewhere along...

I want to get a few points across please put your cell phone on silent. If you would like to share on social bdm ago to a book festival. Thank you. Welcome to the session on southern history and we also want to thank our sponsor for this session. I would like to introduce you to robert who will be our moderator for today. He is a member of the board of directors for the mississippi book festival as well as a director for the center at Jackson State University whereja hhes also a professor. He is also an author. Thank you and welcome. Glad to see everyone here this afternoon. Im going to go dow...