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amazon they say they have confidence that when they make in order to parcels will show up up. they don't necessarily treat -- trust them to treat employees well produces the first thing i'd like you to think about what we are talking about trust keep in mind and our own minds when we talk about institutions and leaders and individuals that trust is highly contextual. can trust me to write an article article. did not get in the car with me because i'm a terrible driver. [applause] [applause]
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>> hi everyone. i'm jackie leventhal the content officer and it's great to welcome you all here tonight. by show of hands how many of you are here for the first time tonight? olive view. that's amazing. well, welcome. i will offer you a little history where you are sitting tonight because building opened in 1908 at the turn of the 20 century. this neighborhood was the heart of the jewish community with synagogues at sixth and i and fifth and i and a few blocks away. as german jewish immigrants came to the u.s. because of the
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anti-semitism in europe. after practicing at the synagogue are 45 years this building became home to an african methodist episcopal church for the next six years and when the church relocated and they put the building up for sale was the highest bid was for someone who wanted to turn it into a nightclub. it would have made a great nightclub but it was saved within 24 hours by three zero real estate developers who had a new vision for cultural and jewish life in d.c.. today sixth and eye is a center for arts entertainment and ideas as well as the synagogue that we imagined how religion ag committee can enhance our everyday lives. immigrants who were worshiped in this building back in the early 1900s. the pain of leaving home working tirelessly to make a new life for the promise of a better future starting a family with limited means and dealing with unwarranted hatred from people who forget that we are all
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immigrants. thinking about her on staff at sixth and i would come from families who immigrated to the u.s. from around the world including lithuania austria ghana poland hungary germany cuba and ukraine. tonight is my pleasure to introduce emmy award-winning journalist and anchor jorge ramos and welcome them back to six and i to speak about his new book "stranger" pick the book is dedicated to the nearly 800,000 dreamers. ramos has been referred to as the walter cronkite of latin america and uses the experience of being thrown out of a press conference in iowa in 2015 when then candidate donald trump took forward his own biography and to answer questions about our current political moment including what does it mean to be an american. after more than 35 years of living in this country ramos
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feels like a stranger care has too many immigrants today. there's a jewish value that translates from hebrew to english this is love the stranger as yourself. with that in mind please join me in giving a well -- warm welcome to jorge ramos. [applause] [applause] >> i used to have a friend that was so dutiful that when she emigrated to the united states she was incredibly happy. amanda was beautiful but she didn't speak a word of english just like me and then she thought thanksgiving was really a festivity about a thing called
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thank giving that would give turkeys for free. and that is beautiful because for two or three years she thought thanksgiving was every november in chic celebrating this thing that never existed but it existed in her mind. what was she doing? she brought all of her things and at some point she needed to understand the something was changing. there was no thanksgiving but thanksgiving was happening here and it was kind of strange because it had nothing to do with religion. something like that, there's a wonderful writer who told me for
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hay you are an avian and she is absolutely right. sometimes they speak in english with an accent and then i talked to my son nicholas in spanish and sometimes chicano from california who embrace me when i got here and it would be easier if i could tell you that i'm just mexican or american. it is not that simple. when i think of my son he is cuban and mexican-american.
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that is where we are going. the way we look here that's how the united states is going to look in the future. this is the future so in the next 20 minutes what i want to do is to talk to you about how i see the future and some of the obstacles that i'm seeing. these are not normal times. 10 or 15 years from now we will be talking about the trump era and we will know that was not normal. what we are seeing is not normal. it is not normal to have a president who makes a racist sexist and seen the soap -- xenophobic remarks. that is not normal. today was doing an interview with the bbc and we had a great conversation and at some point they were asking me about trump's remarks and i told them
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how would you feel if your prime minister would say, what would be the reaction? they couldn't even imagine that. these are the times that we are living in right now. for me, look, i have then living in this country for 35 years. my son and daughter were born here. it gave me an opportunity that my country of origin couldn't give me. i was a reporter in mexico and i started very young. i worked in radio and at some point i did a report on mexican politics. i wrote it and i was very happy. my boss told me are you crazy, what are you doing?
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forget about democracy. this was the 1980s and they told me you cannot say that. how come i cannot say that? he wanted need to write it and i didn't and i quit. i quit. 24 had no possibility of getting another job. i had no money and the only country that opened the possibility for me was the united states. this country gave me the opportunity to be an uncensored journalist. that's what i wanted to do. the ucla extension offered me help and because of that possibility i'm here. my only goal for is the immigrant who came after me but be treated with the same
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generosity with which i was. that incredibly thankful for the things i'm doing that i can remember when i started working some of my fellow journalists were criticizing ronald reagan and i was expecting them to say no you cannot say that that nothing happened, nothing. that's beautiful and that idea of a country open to immigrants and opportunity, that's how i always felt that america was going to be. then came donald trump. it's not only donald trump. it started well before that. but for me it was when coming down the escalator at trump tower during a campaign june of
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2016 he said mexican immigrants are national tv. i am the mexican immigrants and what he is saying is not true. i said mr. trump what you're saying is a lie. i did what any other journalist would have done. >> nobody would dunn so i wrote a letter to donald trump and then we send it to trump tower. the next day i was in my office and somebody came to my office
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and my phone started ringing. i started getting taxed and i thought something was wrong with the phone or the phone company. somebody told me trump published your cell phone number on instagram, my cell phone number. and many things happened. first i had to change my number which by the way i love my number. 1212 was so easy and when you're an immigrant like me whenever you call the phone company or the gas company or the water company or the cable company first you say jorge and it's a problem. if you are jorge you are in trouble because no one can pronounce it. or worse. i ended up being george and then
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after you go through these explanations that you are really jorge you end up with 1212. that number i really loved it and i got hundreds of tax and messages. some of them offending me and telling me to go back to my country and others asking, sending me songs and poems and asking for a job. all kinds of things so was not really that bad but the fact is i had to change my number. then we made a plan. my good friend was an executive producer for a show that i was doing on fusion and now he's
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working at abc and it's going to be my boss one day again. he came to my office and he told me you have to go to iowa. what are you talking about? you have to go to dubuque, iowa. i had to change my cell phone number but still we had many questions because we needed to confront him. he didn't want to talk to me but i wanted to talk to him. television doesn't happen. you create it. that's exactly what we did. we planned on going to dubuque iowa where president trump is going to be speaking not to new york because it would have been impossible to ask questions of the press conference in new york york. we thought dubuque iowa it would
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be a good place and we were right. we showed up two hours before and then we made a plan. i was going to be wearing and mike are phone so my voice would be at the same level as his and then the lighting was right. i had seen how he interrupted everyone asking them questions. they would never finish their questions so my plan was to finish my question at the end that also something that had to do with body language. if i waited and asked my question sitting down he would be ahead of me and there would be this imbalance that would be almost impossible to maneuver so i decided to ask my question at the end of that change
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absolutely everything. i did what any journalist would do, you never wake for a candidate to announce your turn. i noticed there was a pause and i said mr. trump i have a question about immigration. he knew what was going on. he didn't look at me. he said next question but i was right there. i knew exactly what to do per day kept asking my question and then he said go back to univision and let me show you what happened and i will explain to you what happened afterwards. ♪ >> i have a question about immigration. >> next, please.
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said downed. >> i have a right to ask a question. >> no you don't. you have a thing called. >> i have a right to ask a question. you cannot deport 11 million people. you cannot build a 1900-mile wall. you cannot deny citizenship to children in this country. >> said down. >> i have the right to ask a question. i have the right to ask a question. i have the right to ask a question. >> you are very rude. it's not about you. get out of my country. get out. univision, it's not about you. >> it's about the united states. >> so that's what happened.
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[applause] we planned everything. we never expected that a candidate would call a bodyguard to throw a reporter out of a press conference when he wanted to ask a question. i want to point out when he said go back to univision. let me think about it. what he was really saying is go back to mexico. go back to your country. that's exactly what he was saying. there was a funny moment, i don't know if you know this. he did his mouth like that.
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that was the signal to the bodyguard to kick me out. of course you never give your cell phone number. the second one is -- the bodyguard is coming after you. look what happened. hate is contagious. we have a candidate who is telling you go back to your country and a few seconds later when of the followers outside of the press conference was telling me get out of my country. do you think that person would have said the same thing if donald trump had not said go back to univision before? i don't think so. i think hate is contagious and that's the example that i'm seeing of the effect that trump has nowadays.
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there's something bigger and money put into context. , there's a huge demographic -- taking place in this country. on july 1 to 2016 more than half of all the babies under one year of age in the united states were a member of a minority already and by 2044 if i'm lucky enough to be here by 2044 everyone in this country, everyone's latinos and native americans, everyone is going to be a minority. there's a huge change happening in this country and many people and i think donald trump and many of his followers believe that, many want to change what
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is happening. they have a nostalgic view of the united states. they want to go back to 1965 for almost 85% in this country were not hispanic. we cannot go back to that day. 85% of the population were non-hispanic whites in right now it's 2%. in 30 years it will be less than 50%. for many people in this country that's what they understand. their country is being transformed. it has to do with trying to change the way we the united states. with that kind of negotiation at
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some point there's a possibility to take the daca or the trey. as i've said many times undocumented immigrants who come here come with a visa. it doesn't matter how tall you have it or why it had that you have that they come bite plane. it's really a stupid wall. the new toy that you want for christmas and we were going to get the trey before that. many people were willing to do that but then he added something else. donald trump wanted to end what he called chain migration. family ratification is very simple. do you enjoy spending time with your family? i'm sure you do.
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that is exactly what has happened since 1965. a wonderful book in 1958 about immigrants and that those ideas congress changed the law since 1985. family ratification has been very good. almost 40% of the founders of fortune 500 companies in this country are either immigrants or sons and daughters of immigrants. i don't see anything wrong with that but donald trump wants to change migration. there is the problem. melania's parents according to "the news york times" and the "washington post" reported that
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the launius parents got their green cards and during the process coming to u.s. citizens. i think it's beautiful. i think the son of president trump -- i really do but then how come chain migration is okay for the trump's the chain migration and family reunification is not okay for the rest of america? i don't get that. at the end there is no re-met with daca. the court of appeals presented the case and the supreme court but the sense of urgency is not there. by including chain migration and
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some of his advisers wanted to change the essence. a diverse tolerant multiethnic multicultural country. but then we have a president that for the first time defending and attacking minorities. this is not normal. every once in a while i get invited to go to the show and i accept. do you know why they do it? it starts a conversation with you but most of all it conveys that immigrants are good for this country. we need to open the discussion to those who don't agree with us. i know when hannity and laura
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ingraham i know they are going to -- but i know at some point i will tell them these ideas and tell them it is possible to be inclusive, that i am not a criminal. three days ago i was with laura ingraham and she showed me a picture of a dreamer who had committed a crime. then she wanted to and for that all the other dreamers were exactly the same. it would be absurd if i would say all of the people, white people are like stephen paddock or adam lanza the kid who killed 20 kids. you cannot do that.
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they constantly criminalize what we do. i want to talk to them because otherwise the conversation is going to end and maybe donald trump is watching and maybe some of his followers are watching. again these are not normal times for greater want to show you a picture which i put together. some other racist remarks made by president trump. here's a president making racist remarks and then we'll talk. ♪ >> they are bringing drugs. they are bringing crime. they are rapist. donald j. trump is calling for the total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united
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states. i think there is blame on both sides. look at those sites. i think there is blame on both sides. the grandmother in kenya is on her saying he was born in kenya. we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahontas. i have a judge who is a hater of donald trump. gonzalo curiel. the judge who happens to be we believe mexican which is great but i think that's fine. i'm going to ask quote why are we having all people from bleep zero countries come here to the president talking about why can we bring people here from norway norway? >> build that wall. build that wall. >> let me tried to be very honest with you. i don't know of donald trump is a racist but i know what's
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coming out of his mouth and this is what is coming out of his mouth. these are not normal times so here's a question for each one of you. for each one of you. what should we do? what should we do and we have a candidate making these remarks and how can we respond? my responsibility as a journalist is to report reality not as they wish it would be. if 17 people die i would say 17. that's a basic responsibility and you read what i write that means you kind of trust what i'm saying.
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that's the only way to survive as a journalist but there's another more important responsibility, the social responsibility that we have this journalist. to give voice to the voices. if we don't do that who is going to doing it? it is our responsibility. i have been criticized. some people say that i'm an activist and some people say i have a political agenda. my answer is very simple. sometimes you have to put it aside as a journalist. this controversial. i believe a journalist when you are dealing with racism, discrimination, corruption,
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dictatorship and the violation of human rights you have to take a stand because otherwise -- [applause] you have to do it because otherwise if you stay silent you are complicit. if we stay silent in front of this we are complicit. you have to do it in a nonviolent way. you cannot remain silent. it is so important because these are our times and we have to respond to that. i'm not the only one here. each one of you have that responsibility. in private conversations with your kids at work and at school that's your responsibility. i was talking with another person today and he feels the
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same way. it is our responsibility to do that and let me just finish with this. everything that i'm saying to you tonight i have learned it from the dreamers. the dreamers you remember in 2010 when four of them walked away from washington d.c.. i thought they are going to arrest him and deport him. after talking with him many, many times they taught me the best lesson. first of all we have to recognize they are real. after that you have to conquer the fear. they have been incredible.
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they are radical and they are in your face which is a very different strategy. at some point they need to be invisible and silent. guess what? back then in the 80s and the 90s if you are very open and you would he arrested and deported and punishments to be invisible. they might be a generation that will be silent. i hope not. that was the way to do it but then came the dreamers. they are america. they grew up speaking english and some of the conversations of the dreamers why didn't she speak up and why did he say
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anything? it was not the right thing to do. now the dreamers have a completely different strategy and with that strategy they are changing the united states and they are changing our immigration policy and they are changing the country. i live about 45 minutes away from parkland florida. i have been speaking with many of the students and they are doing exactly the same thing as the dreamers. they are not taking no for an answer. they are not patient requesting a change. they are demanding a change and they are doing everything that is affecting the political climate and they are going to be in your face and look what's happening right now. we have the dreamers changing the conversation in this country
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which is immigration and gun control. so for me they know what to do and that is the new way to communicate and the new way to change the united states because again they understood the dreamers understood if we stay silent we are complicit, we are responsible. ..
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[applause] >> we have a few minutes if you want to make comments or questions and then i will stay to sign some of your copies. and i had extra joy with your father and conversations but for our generation so i am wondering if you could take to us those people that you look up to and those that were inspirational since you were a pioneer.
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>> and two great journalist there was a massacre by the mexican army but then they went to the local and from the survivors of that massacre. we know what happened in those days. and the vitality and journalist in the regime at the end of the career she became too radical for me but those journalists that i
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dedicate to the dreamers because to be in that situation would have been that or even better. >> thanks for coming out. [applause] >> the question that i have is i view donald trump what you talk about the large cultural over the past 20 or 30 years so any time these large demographics with race or power or money usually the group in power like it was in
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the 50s that there could be violence and political turmoil -- turmoil we see that with the backlash of trump do you anticipate things getting worse before they get better? and if you do and then to reduce the trials what are some things to help reduce that? >> i am getting ready for another three years. i am getting ready for that. the republican party seems to be getting closer and to be isolated and he has created a hostile environment for many immigrants.
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from operation what back when the mexicans were deported. and then let's never forget he would repeal daca so i think things will get worse. and also to resist the most important maybe we don't have the alternative. >> the outward idea but not trump's idea.
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>> also think usa immigrant was nationalized what about most importantly how do you keep your wits? >> the big difference nowadays and in many different ways. i have been having this discussion in the newsroom with those survivors. and what happened with columbine. because the students were as
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rebellious and to give those opportunities. >> because then we talk about children and in this case in social media with the tools we did not have in the past and you are the first generation that know how to use these tools much better and the others knew better. and i was doing on -- working with senator cory booker i had two options to do an interview with him and maybe two or 3 million people would watch it or we could do it on facebook and twitter and up to
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1 million people would watch. and then i didn't have to wait for the newscast then you watch it tonight. that is a big difference. you know that much better than i do. >> i love your perspective how has the everyday person that we continue to engage with that dialogue with people we don't agree with to have use that is crazy and insane. >> and that is just to show the needs we are not talking
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about illegal aliens. and to put real faces and then follow their examples. don't sit down, stand up and speak up. and sometimes we become annoying. but sometimes it is the right time to say no and speak up. some people make racist jokes and to have that opportunity and is the responsibility to do something about it.
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>> i was listening to your audiobook and i related how she lived here but then moved. and for those dreamers what kind of recommendations? i listen to eight hours worth of stories and they were very inspiring so what recommendation do you have for dreamers to write? >> tap the microphone. like i have been thinking about this and to share my story but none of that would
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be possible. whether you grew up or undocumented we know how much work our parents have put in. so just to trust yourself what the others want to hear. and then starting to do that. and then to block the fear out. so we have it in us. focus on the stories i think a lot of hope can be feigned found in the pain but the
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vision. [applause] >> and they disobeyed. and there are times it is very important. >> my question for you is the vision of the future.
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and what you tell your grandchildren. and what is that story to be sharing? cesar chavez. and then looking to the future. and that is the future that i see from this country. and that in the future and with that inclusive tolerant future. and then with donald trump. he is very difficult at this moment and then to be
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incredibly hopeful. then to see what's happening. that gives me so much hope and inspiration. >> that would be great if i could walk. >> can you comment on the upcoming presidential election? and with those abnormal times. and as that relationship might change with the new administration.
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>> that is to say mexico will pay for the wall left mac. >> to have a weak president. and then to have the courage to say mr. trump we will not pay for the wall and he did not do that. but then the same story to say the elections were stolen from him and then to remain the same.
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it is incredibly corrupt in mexico. with a 7 million-dollar home. with that 7 million-dollar home from that government from a government contractor. so just imagine what would happen. also in mexico a new generation using social media to make announcements and hopefully and with those consequences of mexico the anti- trump president.
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and it is quite likely and it speaks for themselves it is simply a matter of dignity so at the end of the candidate would be on the next election. >> a couple more questions. we were wondering if you have words for china to do this work? >> can you help me?
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with immigration. >> but we have to have good attorneys to protect clients and have advocates working with communicators and organizers so where in the map can we advance right and defend our communities? so what is important when you are representing the community is to be real what is possible and what is impossible so when i was younger looking for hope i remember talking to attorneys and say yes you can do this. then you give a lot of money and people put themselves in the system and then have no
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pathway. and then to plug-in where you can with that representation is a campaign to be a part of as everybody surely knows we are under attack it away we have never seen. there are a lot of advocates in this room who put in a lot of work to monitor what is happening but there isn't what is actually happening on a daily basis. whether a student are in the workforce how to show up we have daca right now and nationwide injunction that they don't know at this moment they can apply for renewable one -- renewal. and also they need help. make sure they don't have anything in their background
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to jeopardize them or make them vulnerable. or go to a clinic with those applications. there is so much work to do if you talk to anybody in this roo room, there are a lot of people in this room who need more bodies and minds and there are people not doing this work right now to say have you thought about this revolutionary idea that could help ten people. you have it in you to lead and also to find new ways. [applause] >> i just want to say at the
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world bank as a consultant and working with migrants and refugees so a lot of the questions. then to focus the question and less than facial is him that has driven this presidency or how you see the role of journalist and how do you that feels the hate. but to report and be an advocate. but you have other journalist in our position that making it hard as well. and you make that acceptable. >> but then again but what you
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see on cable news that is not the enemy. i come from universe of fake news. i come from mexico left mac when i was young they i think there were six or 700 cases and wanted 100% of the vote. that everybody showed up and everybody voted for him. this is nothing. in comparison to what i believe it is nothing.
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but at the end journalism comes down to credibility. we had several hurricanes recently in miami and i chose personally to people from the weather to follow and a few websites. i chose them because i needed to know what would happen to my family and to my house. that is what we should do. if you choose who to follow you need a trusted journalist. even when we are surrounded with fake news.
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>> it was really great and my wife is a huge fan saying something like i am an immigrant i will always be an immigrant and it is more complicated than i can it is true. so there is a lot of intersecting things that we always try to do. so how can we work together when the hate is so easily unified with the oppression to push things away but for the rest of us we will persist and challenge we tend to get defined very quickly so what i see is when they show up to scatter around and social media is great to expose a lot
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of things that like with the daca issues and immigrant community the situation is different. it doesn't even reach the hispanic community. and it is very difficult with a meaningful coalition. . . . . >> i do understand that hatred divides.
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it is very difficult for me to understand the 29% of latinos for the for donald trump. but that's what happened. i respect that. that means that even within the hispanic community there are huge divisions. people who are immigrant her sons and daughters of immigrant at some point decided to turn their back on immigrants coming after them. it is real and happening. my live recommendation is to get involved and do something. >> my question is that i understand your point of view when you talk about neutral go do something. i can understand your obsession with president chavez. is the donald trump era can you
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compare and doing what you did with chavez? >> it is difficult to compare i was going to say thank god but i'm agnostics this is not the right place to say that. [laughter] i hope i'm wrong. i wish i could know that fisher something is going to happen after we die. i really hope there is a heaven and i can see my father again. i really do, but i don't know. thank god that we have the supreme court. thank god we have congress and healthy media and social media and i've been thinking about
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that, donald trump and other countries that have known would be terrible because it they would be deciding absolutely everything. it's unfair because of the economic circumstances to compare venezuela to the united states. but what happens when one person takes over i saw what happened in cuba since 1959 they still have just the same two brothers. that's a dictatorship. same thing in venezuela happening now with chavez and now with the brother. i'm hopeful and inspired by what's happening in this country. by seeing all of you here. were not accepting what they telling us to do. there is a possibility of change. thank you for being here. [applause]
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[applause] [applause] >> thank you so much. and thank you for joining us. i hope you'll come back. we have additional copies of the book for sale the lobby where you enter. if you're headed out you can use the lobby. if you want your book signed please stay in for a few minutes and will call you up [inaudible]
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life and birth and growth of the movement. on afterwards economist brian kaplan argues against college for everyone. this weekend, former usa today editor-in-chief will look at improving workplaces through gender equality. >> i was on a plane and on my way to des moines sitting next to a businessman i where having the nicest conversation. his tell me about his house and children and he said why are you going to des moines? i said i'm going to speak at a women's leadership conference. certainly this lovely man get said to in the headlights look and says sorry i'm a man. and proceeded to tell him he had entered diversity training and he felt like it was a couple of days worth of being beaten over the head and put the corner call
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to the principal's office. the message she took away was, it's all your fault. those words stuck with me because that's the opposite message we should be giving to men. we should be talking about how do we bring men and not alienate them. the next and i was speaking to a board woman against women about serious issues we must fight for. i'm seeing the rueful female heads not a recognition and i stopped and i said you know what, we know this, we need men in this room taken this as well. >> afterwards airs at 10:00 p.m. me 10:00 p.m. eastern and no previous programs are available online on the website a booktv.org. >> until recently the new drones
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the last two years have changed kind of thing the air force thought they had at the beginning of world war ii. >> it still the case that there's a lot of collateral damage and you don't know who to a map. plus the current situation. back then it took a while to realize that when they were flying this high altitude against aircraft and heavy wind coming it took great courage and many crews were killed. they were not hitting what they were aiming at. there is nothing much you could hit except whole sections of cities. it couldn't get a corner of a factory when they're flying in arizona with no windsor into aircraft.
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your dying and losing your crew. >> you had to do it during the day. >> were more we did with the british had done earlier which was flat night or clouds using radar which was not precise. and using incendiaries what the british had started and 42 which was aiming at built-up areas because their houses were closer together. firewood spread better. or if you drop to an explosive bomb it would hit something down there in the first or air force called british baby killers civilian killers this was were crime and terrible.
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we train more more to do that, to him. in japan but we discovered with the jetstream that made it impossible to hit anything accurately. they decided to adopt fully the ability to cause a firestorm is demonstrated in hamburg by the british ridge a widespread fire that simultaneously all at the same time by dropping the so the air would rise very fast crating pressure in that area bringing in words from all around. like a bellows and a fellow price furnace. the temperature would not rise to extremely high temperatures.
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people being this fixated with it in the shelters or if you came out of slaughterhouse five people's bodies shrunken the shelters like gingerbread people he. but in tokyo were this was put to great effect on the night of march 9 and tenth of 1945. how many people here and it's a well-informed audience. how many know what i'm talking about, the night of march 9 and tenth. how many to not? they caused a firestorm you come up with all these temperatures and people who came out of the
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shelters would be caught in the enormous winds that caused hurricane winds on site for these details but i put it in the book because i felt it had to be understood. many people reported babies being smashed out of the arms of mothers. tokyo has crisscrossed with canals so people who got out ran toward with their families into the canals to escape from the fire. but the canals were boiling and tens of thousands -- the winds, the drafts were bouncing the
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aircraft almost tripping them over in some cases. the crews had to put on their oxygen masks to escape the burning flesh those making them sick. it was the greatest man-made killing and death in the history of the world. >> you can watch this and other programs on booktv.org. >> here's a look at books being published this week. in the perilous path, director of the equal justice initiative a formal -- debate the climate
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of racial justice in america. strategic communications consultant looks at how the truth is managed in "truth". tomorrow will be different, the sarah mcbride reflects on her work in the lgbtq community. robert kaplan offers his thoughts unless 20 years of american diplomacy and for diplomacy. journalist elaine weiss recalls the women's suffrage movement to promote the ratification of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920 in, the women's hour. and, the infernal library they
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look at political dictators. for these titles the bookstores this coming week and watch her authors in the near future book tv c-span2. >> it evening. my name is madison and i misstatement ambassador. on behalf of the faculty, staff, students at the new hampshire school politics i'd like to welcome you and thank you for joining us for this event. the mission is to educate, engage in power citizens of all ages

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