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And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 1962. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. A stunt. But, it really became more personal when gore went on the David Suskind show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a characters. He sort of made the rirght a the right a respectable place to be. Gore dismissed it and demanded equal time. Brian you knew gore vidal, did you know bill buckley at all . Morgan i did not. He was the revelation to me, i was familiar with gore, but i ...

Trying to make this a broader human story. This one is titled floating lantern. We participate in the evening of august 6 and the floating lantern ceremony. So many of the people jumped in the river to try to escape the flames or cool their bodies that have been badly burned. Many of them died. These descriptions of the river that night, a sea of floating corpses. What people did to commemorate they hold the lantern ceremony every year. It is no longer restricted to the families of the victims. You make a paper lantern, put a candle inside and on the lantern, you write a message and you go dow...

When i went, yoyo ma was playing. This is a depiction of the lanterns floating in the river. We continue now with our look back at the august 1945 atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, japan. Recently American History tv was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in st. Louis, missouri. We spoke with professors and graduate students about the research. This interview is about 20 minutes. You are an assistant professor at Michigan State university. Please tell us about your research. Sure. I am doing the historical investigation of japaneseamericans and a handful of kore...

The institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the in only gay enola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the Smithsonian Institution but got canceled. This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequence of the atomic bombing. This was in 1995, the 50th anniversary. The smithsonian a civic got canceled. Exhibit got canceled. The museum in hiroshima and nagasaki asked to bring some of those artifacts to American University and do an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. That was the first time th...

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