, certainly not national archives. it is probably true for audio recordings. the generalization i would made is -- i would make is, most films made do not survive. most that do survive are not an regional archives. this is when it is an exciting time. that is why radio is getting more exciting. we have these metadata standards, and the ability for catalogs to talk to each other, and to be searchable in multiple ways. andan conglomerate en masse start to interpret things where fringe material coexists with its -- with important records. sometimes it is even more searchable. is an important distinction to be made. one example of the ways that overlap. at the symposium in six weeks, one of the presenters, jeff martin, on his own discovered two discs in a chicago thrift store. they appear to be identical copies of the same thing. it was 2.5 minutes recorded in 1943 of an american prisoner of war talking on live shortwave to people inish the knotted states. it was -- in the united states. it was going out over japanese prop

always valued research and archives. we have had an expertly organized audio archive going back to the beginning of "all ofngs considered" at the end may 1989. one of the first persons they hired was a researcher exclusively to help in the newsroom. having said all of that, we have never had an in-house collection npr historical items as i from our audio and meta-data about the show. if any items were saved they were saved by individuals at their own desks, probably produced by them or they inherited from someone else and kept it in their own space. relationship we have had with the archives has been with the university of maryland and they have stored some paper archives for us, papers.roduction it is unknown how many items were kept for npr during the worktime -- during their time with npr. when they left a organization, they probably took along with them. a lot of them might have been drawn away and lost forever. for let us set the theme 2012 and 2013. moved into its new location near chinatown, which some of you migh

archivally speaking. if you could talk about the archival section for your study. >> i must confess, i was mentioning to erica before the theentation, that this is first book i have written that is a synthetic work. all of my other works were based -- not "decoding corporate camouflage," that used some secret cup and he reports, but the book on zimbabwe and the two on guinea were based on materials where i went to zimbabwe, britain, france, guina, and senegal and i used there archives. nothing was digitized in those days. i conducted oral interviews. thought, when i embarked on this current book, that it is a synthetic work and was not be that difficult. i am using other people's work. they have done the hard work of looking at those archives, and much to my chagrin, it was a different task, and was perhaps not more difficult, but i had to become, what i hoped would be, somewhat of a specialist for each study, but i'm sure some specialist will quibble with what i say. i realized that it would be very hard

there was a wonderful archive in paris that is also perhaps lost. it is called the center for african research and documentation, but a very conveniently had its initials, , the political party that led the independence movement in that had been funded by a leader, and when he died they decided to ship the archives back and it arrived during the civil war in the last i heard, no one knew where it was. that did have photographs. i think that other people, many had fellowships here and you have published many of their books would have a much better idea than i do on the state of some of the archives. i know the soviet archives has been opened and they have been used in many of your scholars, and yes, mine does have more of a u.s. perspective in part because i was hoping to interest foreign policy workers and ngo workers and undergraduate students and graduate students and professors in the work so it does have a u.s. focus. : let me slip in my question before we open this up. you offer a small number of case studies. the book has not countless, but ma

i found materials in a variety of archives. i can say more about that later. let me provide just a little bit more context for the society which was established, i should explain this membership card features john birch on the left and robert welch, the founder the founder of the society, on the right. the slogan for the society was less government, more responsibility. with god's help, a better world. robert welch was a business executive for a candy company out of boston. he was quite successful and able to retire at the age of 60. he decided to get involved in politics. he however had decided not to run for political office. he actually tried that around 1949, 1950 he ran for lieutenant governor of massachusetts. he didn't do that well. he decided to set up an advocacy group that was very popular and widespread at the grassroots level. his agenda was opposition to communism and big government. they are in a sense two sides of the same coin, if you will. if you were driving around the highways of the united states, in the late 50s or early 60s, you might ver

when i went to xuzhou i did try to get into some archives, it was not possible, as you may know archives in china have become more respective not only for foreigners but for chinese as well. so i was not able to obtain any further information, but what we do know is that this incident, there was a follow-up as you suggest, as a result of this incident we also know that the chinese communist party reversed its standing order to detain and disarm any intruders. they said specifically that if any americans come into contact with your forces, treat them very carefully. treat them diplomatically. do not attempt to disarm them. basically they were saying we cannot afford to risk another burch incidents. so there was a fallout from this which i think is significant in light of delicate policies of the time. >> i can't wait to read the book. i'm glad the wilson center had a small part in it. were you able to track down how noland got a hold of the story? >> absolutely. nolan's papers at the university of california berkeley, it turns out he was informed about the incident by william miller, will

so i studied history in college and then i got the fortune to work here at the national archives and for a number of years, i was the subject area specialist for the world war i records, so i got to see the documents that were attributed to him and i got to see his writing in the margins of the directly,t he wrote so i learned a fair amount about him. so i learned about meuse-argonne and more than one million americans came to the assistance of the french. i was quick to tell this story through his words and what he wrote and what others wrote about him. out would like to start with a message where if you haven't read the book yet and if you don't know whole lot about general pershing, we will talk about him first and then we will talk about his warriors that fought under him and we will talk about the battle itself. ingeneral pershing was born leclede, missouri. he experienced his first war when guerrillas came through the town and ransacked his father's business. with the help of his parents, they got through that tragedy, but he never really considered going into the military. it

the national archives hosted this hour-long event. our guest speaker this afternoon, who just happens to be celebrating his birthday is mitchell jacob' yockleson. he is a former professor of military history at the united states naval academy, and currently teaches at norwich university. received the he is army historical foundations distinguish writing award. he is also one of america's foremost experts on the first world war and he holds a doctorate from the royal military college of science. discuss and later answer your questions about his new book, "47 days". ler notes that mitch has become a preeminent world war i historian. commenting on the book, waller has written with an absorbing narrative. 47 days brings to life that war is final and bloody offensive when general john blackjack pershing and more than one million americans and french soldiers broke the back of the mighty german army. son.se welcome mitch yockle good afternoon everybody. i'm excited to see a nice crowd come out and here a talk on a subject that doesn't get a

most of the images i'm going to show you today are from the the archives. which is in the process of being digitized. speaking of birthdays, pershing had his birthday on september 13. he turned 58. there was a time to gloat over the battle. i want to show you an image. his ownled around by personal train. he wasn't the only one. you notice some of the theyan-americans here, were actually recruited by the army. it was a full train, have an office in there. kitchen,sleeper car, a and it had maps and so on. headquarters to the department. you can still see it today. it is well marked. you can go in the building, the steps are worn out. a number of french officers going all the way to the top. they are starting to plan this battle. we are starting to figure out how we get all of these troops, french troops are. get them in line. the person who orchestrates this is one of the unsung heroes in the war. the graduate enters the service to serve as a first division. he was brought in by pershing. it was really up to marshall to do the planning. he was able to manage

that set me back a little bit, had to recalibrate, they had to go to maryland state archives and dig through there but slowly and surely needle in a haystack, found her marriage certificate, had a better idea about her age and the name she was going by at that time. her husband as part of the colored troops during the civil war, found his records and the pension file she applied after his death, and going everywhere, this is exciting for me, looking at the microfilm in the archive this had me going far and wide, the mid-atlantic coast. >> you mentioned annamarie taps, let me introduce her to the audience. how did the police get onto her? >> she is a bit of a slippery character to study. the conductor gives them this disruption of a black woman, they are able to trace her steps from when she gets off this train and it turns out she is stopped in a number of houses and it is clear she worked as a servant in one of the folks in the area. once they determine that and her name starts to circulate in a newspaper she actually goes to the town and gives an interview in the newspaper at the s

and the others from annapolis maryland where i live a deshabille learn about these newspaper archives i found the word melancholy it turns out to the history of early america their love to collect the tax reports they always call them melancholiac since fought to find them grouped together in groupings the bloodshed from accidents all over the country or around the world because they knew people wanted to read about people pulling their heads off. but these accident reports were a window the we often forget about so much of history in terms of thinking about the role of guns we think of the frontier and the revolution but what is the most endearing meeting is hapless tragedy i want to share a few melancholy accidents this evening. from the new e lead weekly journal we haven't vice that on the first instance a very melancholy accident happened. number of men one of the bullets struck upon a piece of iron to split it into. one piece of blue a considerable distance and contrary to its natural course in the forehead over temple to such a degree that he died at 9:00 that night. it was foun

. >>> next, archival coverage of presidential races, including the 1960 democratic primary debate int virginia, the 1980 texas republican primary debate, the 1984 democratic candidates debate, and a promotional film which aired in new hampshire by the richard nixon campaign. >>> each week until the 2016 election, road to the white house rewind brings you archival coverage of presidential races. next from the 1960 campaign, a west virginia, democratic primary debate between senators john f. kennedy of massachusetts and hubert humphrey of minnesota. this was only the second televised presidential primary debate in history. it took place at the wchs tv studios in charleston. five weeks before the primary polls showed senator kennedy trailing by 20 points. with west virginia voters expressing concerns about his roman catholic religion. but senator kennedy was able to make the race about religious tolerance and the separation of church and state and he won with 60% of the votes on his way to securing the nomination. he went on to defeat vice president richard nixon in the general election

aren't fortunate enough to live near the archives. thousands of people witnessed what went on on 10th street in washington on the night of the assassination. there were 1700 patrons inside ford's theater when john wilkes booth shot the president. when the wounded president was carried across the street to the abouton house there were 24 people in the death room there. people in the parlor and the hallways. hundreds of people in the street. waiting for word on that long. too many of their stories are lost to us now. the eightod home was miles from the lindbergh kidnapping. the trial was long over when i was growing up. there were dozens of people who would witnessed some small part of that trial. there was a man who dug ditches. i meant to ensure further lindbergh. man who had chauffeured mrs. lindbergh. overbooked theo new york news men were paying for cots in the hallways. each one of those neighbors witnessed slivers of history that nobody recorded any of it. today ist-forward to there a caterer or campaign worker who was witnessing

yes, definitely, look at oppositional archives. they are very important. moving on to give out the dusty code -- to quixote soldiers, it's a history of the movement. and there is a companion journal of me hanging out with the guys. there were two different voices into different methods involved. in any case, the language that i have used in anglos and mexicans i found was insufficient when i was at the ground level. anglos and mexicans covered 150 years of a vast swath of land in texas. and now here in quixote soldiers, it is one community. it was not only inadequate to capture those kind of dynamics at the neighborhood level, now i was dealing with matters of self-identity. the course of the writ themselves into greater degradations of poverty. the poor choose finer distinctions among themselves and the youth are organized by neighborhood. it was natural that the berets, working with the berets, to be drawn to the gang literature. i have to take gang identities and not dismiss it as ecological or in some other way. gang studies, the social work literature

. >>> archival newscaster: still another american invasion in the pacific.ring of island fortresses protecting japan 300 miles away. >> anthony: on april 1, 1945 a u.s. invasion fleet of nearly 1,500 ships. a landing force of 182,000 people. that's 75,000 more than normandy, approached okinawa. what came next was what okinawans called a "typhoon of steel." ♪ ♪ having island hopped across the pacific, allied forces saw okinawa as a key base for fleet anchorage, troop staging, and air operations for the final push into the japanese mainland and victory. the fighting was brutal for both sides. the cost in lives and resources for the allied forces was tremendous. and when it was over, military planners looked at the mainland, looked at what okinawa had cost them, and projected even more appalling losses. what came next, we all know. what is not widely known is that more people died during the battle of okinawa than all those killed during the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. >> anthony: right. >> masahide: so that they had to keep the u.s. military for

the national archives hosted this hour-long event. our guest speaker this afternoon, who just happens to be celebrating his birthday is mitchell jacob' yockleson. he is a former professor of military history at the united states naval academy, and curry

>> the archives -- you're dead in the water if you can't get into archives.and for jonas salk, his archives are at the university of california san diego. they're absolutely extensive. he kept everything and lived to be 80 years old. he would keep things such as a draft of all of his letters. so jonas had great -- in the first travel you's see him angry and using some very inflammatory language and by the time he got to his tenth draft of it, it was a very short and kind. but i originally did not get access to those archives, and without them i never could have written the book. although they are in a library, at uc san diego, they were under lock and key. and one only had access through the family. the three sons. and they made it difficult -- i had to convince them that i could write. i had to convince them that i was serious, even though i had academic credentials and already published a biography. and i had to go and interview with them and all of that would give me sixths or less and then i'd have to start the whole process over. they wanted to see sampl

>> i went to berlin, to the newspaper archives that i had been told previously did not exist.ery excited to find portraits my father published in the newspaper. >> it's miriam's first big discovery -- a vast spread of her father's sketches, from the 1920s to early '30s, of luminaries including politicians, sports personalities, and musicians. and what did finding the newspaper clipping do for you? >> it showed me that i could find more. it would help me find evidence of the lost work that the nazis did not destroy. >> and miriam's strange inheritance is about to lead to more evidence -- kept by the nazis themselves -- that will resurrect some of friedman's early paintings and shed new light on his darkest works. this is a particularly disturbing drawing for me -- electrocution by choice. why do you think your father didn't make that choice? that's next. >> here's another quiz question for you. the answer in a moment. >> it's "b." in 1939, museum director jacques jaujard smuggled it out of the louvre in an ambulance to the french countryside. >> like an impressionist painting t

until the election, road to the white house rewind brings you archival coverage of presidential races. next the 1980 campaign of gary hart. we begin with the former colorado senator announcing his campaign in a 10 minute speech. he finished a close second to 1984r mondale in the nomination and was considered by many to be the front runner for 1988. within weeks of this announcement, senator hart faced allegations of an extramarital affair which led him to withdraw from the race. michael dukakis won the nomination but lost decidedly to george h.w. bush in the general election. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. for out-of-town friends, welcome to colorado. if you don't like the weather, it will change in a few minutes. [laughter] i want to say thank you to tim morris and all the elected officials and leaders of our community and state here on this platform. i want to take the opportunity to introduce the best daughter hart. ever had, andrea [applause] i was tempted to introduce the next first lady of the united states but i will simply say the bes

anything that happened before is really part of an archive the very few have had an opportunity to investigate which is part of why it is important to me as well as for those of you have not read the book, and those of you who have that you raise your hand. awesome. so the book tries to understand for former stages , the liberation movement which has to do with something that seems fundamentally antithetical sally got together along the lines of identity to form community and safeguards that would allow them to thrive in ways that otherwise would not have. connecting people for the internet age in a way that gets them close and interested in politics in a way that right now because of information that is part of a political problem right now. third was the question of how it was in particular we really had that termination in terms of my belief in various costs. i know none of you were born in the 70s, but think through how the police were getting together and engaging for commerce, for love in aa culture that fundamentally denies the right to be together. and the 4th component that i would li

some of the collections discussed and closed the in your historical archives, vox pop radio, and televisionecordings, native american radio broadcasts and orphaned , meaning nonmainstream productions discarded by their owners. this part of the national conference hosted by the library of congress in conjunction with the radio preservation task force. it is about one hour -- 1.5 hours. >> i think we are ready to start. good morning. at thefaculty member university of virginia and i will chair this panel. keeping everybody more or less on time although we are starting a little bit late.

. >> each week until the 2016 election, road to the white house rewind rings you archival coverage of residential races. -- of presidential races. next, the 1988 presidential campaign of gary hart. the formerth colorado senator announcing his campaign in a 10 minute speech. senator hart finished a close second to walter mondale for the 1984 nomination and was considered by many observers to be the front-runner going into 1988. but within weeks of this announcement, senator hart faced allegations of a extramarital affair, which led him to withdraw from the race. massachusetts governor michael dukakis won the nomination but lost decidedly to vice president george h.w. bush in the general election. ♪ sen. hart: thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] sen. hart: thank you very much. our out-of-town friends, welcome the colorado. if you don't like the weather, it will change in a few minutes. [laughter] sen. hart: i want to say thanks to my good friends tim wirth and federico pena and all the elected officials and leaders of our community and state here on this plat

but online, just as with your archives, we now have something like 35 million visitors to our web site alone, and then through social media-- facebook, twitter, instagram-- we're reaching tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands more. and i think that it's a very exciting moment because we're all-- i think everyone in the museum industry, the cultural industry, we're realizing that now we have a global audience and how can we meaningfully engage them. it's an exciting moment. >> rose: in writing about you, calvin tompkins said in choosing campbell the trustees were banking on his clear-headed vision on how to balance the met's scholarly interkt its fund-raising needs, and its obligations to a vast and rapidly chag audience. they were also empressed by his quiet self-confidence. does that ring true to you? >> i was a scholar, and probably other people have to say the rest. i mean, i went to-- i came to the met in '95 because my predecessor, philippe, had built it up into this engine of scholarship. it had the funding. it had the spaces. critically it had the sophisticated audiences that

. >> each week until the 2016 election road to the white house rewind rings you our archival coverage of presidential races. oft, the 1988 campaign democratic candidate gary hart. we begin with the former colorado center -- senator announcing his campaign and a speech in denver. a close second to walter mondale for the race for the 1984 democratic nomination and was considered by many observers to be the front runner going into 1988. but within weeks of this announcement senator hart face allegations of a next her marital affair which led him to withdraw from the race. massachusetts governor michael dukakis won the nomination but lost decidedly to vice president george h.w. bush in a general election. ♪ senator hart: thank you very much. ♪ senator hart: thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. welcome the colorado. if you don't like the weather, it will change in a few minutes. [laughter] i want to say thanks to my good friends tim wirth and frederico pena and all the elected officials and leaders of our community and state on this platform. i want to take this opportunity

each week leading up to the 2016 presidential election american history tv brings you archival coverage of presidential races. next a 1980 debate between governor ronald reagan and former cia director george h.w. in houstontook place before the texas primary. governor reagan went on to win the primary. bush asicked mr. his running mate. they won 44 states in the 1980 general election defeating jimmy carter and walter mondale. our coverage is courtesy of the league of women voters. >> good evening. i'm the national president of the league of women voters. ,elcome to the houston forum the third event in

. >> each week until the 2016 election, road to the white house rewind brings you archival coverage of presidential races. next, a look at the 1992 campaign of independent candidate ross perot. he finished third in the general election with 19% of the vote. democrat bill clinton won the presidency that year, defeating republican incumbent president george h w bush. with mr. perot and austin, texas in may of 1992. earlier in the year, he said he would run for president if supporters got his name on the ballot in all 50 states. announced he, he had exceeded the number of signatures needed to place his name on the ballot in his home state. this is about 10 minutes. [chanting] >> thank you. you are so enthusiastic. it is wonderful. we had a memento here from the grassroots movement of texas that we would like to present to mr. perot on the half of all of you who have worked so hard. let me read the inscription to him and to those of you who have not had a chance to see this. texas, joinle of the millions of fellow americans who buy our volunteer efforts have secured an overwhelming number

the suffrages in newsrooms for which they pursued the ideals which shouldn't be relegated to the archives and history. you shouldn't be behind glass cases because the story they are fighting is our story. i want young girls and young boys to come here 10, 20, 100 years from now to know that women flocked for equality. it was not just given to them that i want them to come here and be astonished if there was ever a time when women could not vote. i want them to be astonished there was ever a time when women are less than men for doing the same work. i want them to be astonished that there was ever a time when women were vastly outnumbered in congress. that there was ever a time when a woman had never sat in the oval office terry. [applause] i don't know how long it will take to get there but i know we are getting closer to that day because of the work of generations of active committed citizens. one of the interesting things when i was looking through some of the rooms they were susan b. anthony's desk and elizabeth cady stanton's chair and you realize those early suffrages had receded ali

. ♪ >> each week, american history tv's real america brings archival films that help provide contexto today's public affair issues. ♪ >> this is the face of vietnam. [gunshots] [helicopters] war, 25 25 years of years of continuous terror, ,amine, pestilence, and death many of the living and the dead -- the dead no longer suffer. dreamsy others, dead our , hopes, and trust of years gone by. ♪ going,e thing keeps many hope. you are a marine on patrol, headed for some village whose name you don't remember. -- this is a region under control of the viet cong. somewhere out there, and the dense jungle, they may be hiding. at any moment you may come across them. viet cong, or refugees. if viet cong, you know what to do. if refugees, what? what do you do with these people who want out? refugees who have had enough of the enemy from within. your job, when you encounter them, the take care of these -- take care of these refugees, bring them a place where they can be safe and believe in life again. there are more than 500,000 refugees here. nearly a million and a half in all of vietnam. each we

. ♪ each week, american history tv -- railamerica brings you archival films that help provide contextday's public affairs issues. >> after 25 years of war, 25 years of continuous terror, many of theeath, living and the dead, the dead no longer suffer. for many others, dead our dreams, hopes, and trust of years gone by. -- dead are dreams, hopes, and trust of years gone by. only one thing keeps many going -- hope. you are a marine patrol headed , a name youlage don't remember. a region under the control of the viet cong. somewhere out there in the dense jungle, they may be hiding. at any moment, you may come across them. viet cong or refugees? if viet cong, you know what to do. but if refugees, what? what do you do with these people who want out? refugees who have had enough of the enemy from within. your job when you encounter them refugees.e of these to bring them to a place where they can be safe, where they can learn to believe in life again. there are more than 500,000 refugees. 1.5 million in total. ♪ five northern provinces of south vietnam are called the eye-core. seekeds of pe

. >> each week until the 2016 election road to the white house rewind rings you our archival coverage of presidential races. oft, the 1988 campaign democratic candidate gary hart. we begin with the former colorado center -- senator announcing his campaign and a

>> i haven't done a complete survey of the archive of slavery. i took particular moments to see some reverberations in our contemporary moment. but if you think of the story of harriette jacobs' narratives where she hid in her grandmother's garrett for about seven years, what she called loophole of retreat, a debilitating space. one of the ingenious things she would do during this time, write letters in this basically attic and have them, many of you know the story but address them as if she was in new york or boston and have them mailed and her so-called owner would send people to look for her in those spaces. but you know, the idea that loo loosely. lips sink ships, some people knew she was there. at the time, ready to make her flight to the north, it was because there were too many people in the know, and someone might have revealed that she was there. she became so sick in this place that in this -- in this loophole of retreat, think of the idea of not being able to move, this was a place three feet high and would slant and her muscles became

the other thing which i got to do was go to the national evangelical association archives and sift through some of the papers of evangelical women who fought against the era. it is completely different to hear historical interpretations of those pieces of evidence then to actually see the evidence with your own eyes. and to form your own interpretations. sometimes, my interpretations were copacetic with the old interpretations and historiography, and sometimes, they were brand-new based on the context i was reading them in. it was a blast. thank you griffis, very much. >> the church committee, 40 years later. beginning next weekend on american history tv, we will show extended segments of the 1975 hearings that investigated fbi, irs, and nsa intelligence activities. next weekend saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern time, only on american history tv. >> this sunday night on "q&a," historian run sure no talks about the broadway musical "hamilton" based on his biography of alexander hamilton. >> he said, ron, i was reading your book in mexico and as i was the musical started

visit ncicap.org] >> each week, american history tv's reel america brings you archival films. ♪ >> thisthe face of vietnam. [gunshots] [helicopters] >> after 25 years of war, 25 years of continuous terror, famine, pestilence, and death, many of the living and the dead, -- envy dead, for the dead no longer suffer. for many others, dead our dreams, hopes, and trust of years gone by. only one thing keeps many going, hope. you are a marine on patrol, headed for some village whose name you don't even remember. this is vc country -- a region under control of the viet cong. somewhere out there, in the dense jungle growth they may be hiding. at any moment, you may come across them. viet cong, or refugees. if viet cong, you know what to do. but if you refugees -- but if refugees, what? what do you do with these people who want out? refugees who have had enough of the enemy from within. your job when you encounter them, where possible to take care of these refugees, to bring them to a place where they can be safe, where they can learn to believe in life again. there are more than 500,000 refugees

other thing i got to do, which was incredibly fun was go to the national association of evangelical archives and sift through some of the papers of evangelical women who fought against the e.r.a. it is completely different to hear historical interpretations of those pieces of evidence that to actually see the evidence with your own eyes, right? and to bring forth your own interpretation, and sometimes my interpretation was copacetic with the old interpretations, and sometimes they were brand-new based on the context that i was reading them in. it was a blast, an absolute blast. >> thank you very much. ms. griffis: thank you. >> beginning next weekend we show it spend that expanded ofments of the 1975 hearings intelligence activity. the church committee, 40 years later. next weekend, saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern time, only on american history tv on c-span3. i am a history back. i do enjoy seeing the fabric of workountry and how things and how they are made. >> it's a fantastic show. >> it gives you that perspective. >> madam secretary, we've rapidly give 72 by delega

i supplemented that are documentary research going through the national archives, the cia remarkablely has declassified millions of documents especially from the era before the 1980s that make reperance to how the daily briefing was planned and used and the reception and the meetings the officers went to. this gave great insight into how the document has evolved over the years. >> we hear people say, and i will not cite sources, but i didn't hear anything more than i read in the new york times this morning. the purpose isn't to reflect what is in the new york times but give the president the latest intelligence. from time to time it may correspond with something in the new york times. >> sometimes the best intelligence comes from open sources. different presidents have treated their book differently and we will talk about that as we go on. but one asspect is how much needs to be secret and how much is news about going on around the world. the president's daily briefing might be mostly about open sources. if you are talking about decision making in a place like north korea the chances o

please welcome james traub to the national archives.applause] >> thank you very much for that introduction. when i was coming here this morning and i was taking a taxi to penn station in new york, every bus i passed had a giant sign on the side that said hamilton. naturally i thought what if lynn manual, producer and writer and star of the show came to me and said i have done that hamilton hip-hop thing, what do you have with john quincy adams? this is the first book event i have done so i will tell you the story that i would tell him if he ever came to me to ask so on saturday, january 21, 1842, john quincy adams who was 74 years old, former president of the united states, former secretary of state, senator and diplomat and a member of the house of representatives in massachusetts decided to provoke a confrontation for the slaveholders who dominated the conference. for the previous seven years adams waged a solitary struggle to protect the right of citizens to petition congress to an end to slavery or the slave trade, that right guaran

to the presidential library to read through the files that has been declassified by the national archives as well. the california has declassified millions of documents from the era before the ethics severance how the pdb was used in the reception into the meetings that the officers went to. and how the document has evolved and developed over the years. >> host: periodically we have heard from the white house i didn't hear anything more than i read in "the new york times" this morning but it gives the president very vegas intelligence statute which correspond with something from "the new york times". >> we will talk about different aspects but how much is a few -- a full view what is going on in the world? chances are the press is pretty good. therefore a the the president's dailt briefing if you talk about north korea looking at open source is jim. so that is one of the great period mrs. . but those who have president -- read it several did tell me it was a much better than "the new york times". or "the new york times" was better i'll not deny their interpretation but you will not see in

other thing i got to do, which was incredibly fun was go to the national association of evangelical archives and sift through some of the papers of evangelical women who fought against the e.r.a.. it is completely different to hear historical interpretations of those pieces of evidence that to actually see the evidence with your own eyes, right? and to bring forth your own interpretation, and sometimes my interpretation was copacetic interpretations, and sometimes they were brand-new based on the context that i was reading them in. it was a blast, an absolute blast. >> thank you very much. ms. griffis: thank you. website,nnouncer: visit our c-span.org/history to see her upcoming schedule or watch a recent program. american artifacts, wrote to the white house, lectures and history and more on c-span.org/history. monday night on the communicators, the safety and security of the u.s. electric grid is a topic of a new book by ted koppel. this examines the potential for cyber attack on the u.s. electric grid. it looks how vulnerable the electric grid is to attack in which government agencies and

we go to the archives next. >>> plus, how san francisco is getting ready for this year's 420 smoke out to make sure it's safe. >>> searching for the best baby strollers, we have the >>> m mentor. the influence helped shape the tech here in the valley. eric schmidt tweets bill was instrumental as a mentor for me, for google and for all valley entrepreneurs. apple ceo tim cook says campbell believed in apple when few people did. cook tweets we'll miss his wisdom, friendship, humor and love for his life. and venture capitalist wrote he was our super coach, colorful, confident and mentor. bill campbell was 75 years old. >>> we've been reporting about today's 110th anniversary of the great san francisco earthquake in 1906. all of the known survivors have passed away, but their stories liv live on through the archive. >> reporter: the before the quake san francisco was known as the queen of the west. it was the city on the west coast of 400,000 people. >> i kissed my mother good night and she said say your prayers. little did i know at that moment that i'd never see my family again. >> repor

for most american presidents, i have been to the archives, worked in the presidential papers.or franklin roosevelt at hyde park, eisenhower -- for other presidents. i feel more comfortable, not only if i, but a lot of other colleagues, a number of journalists have been to the papers of the more recent presidents. that has not been possible yet. it will be very soon. jeff: you need at least? years, probably, before you have a chance to sort this out. with fdr, it was a little different, because he created the first presidential library. he died in 1945. by 1950, people like myself were already there. most of the other archives have open, and it has not been possible to get that kind of long-range perspective. jeff: are you still tempted to revisit fdr? i know you have a project underway covering the first hundred some odd years. you have written so much about fdr in such fascinating ways. is there more you want to explore? is there more you can explore? william: oh, yes, i think so. it was the hardest chapter to write in the book. said, written, i think i eight books were edite

>> archival worker 2: you don't call that work, you are.> anthony: no one excels more at deflating the pompous, making fun of self-importance, turning even the darkest tragedy into comedy than the glaswegians. >> man: bit of ballet, fellas? >> anthony: that's if you can understand the bastards. >> man: [ inaudible ] >> anthony: this can be a challenge. particularly after a few pints of heavy or a couple of bottles of buckfast. >> man with guitar: what a show-off you are! >> anthony: glasgow has a reputation as a hard-drinking, two-fisted town. >> janey: yeah. >> anthony: i've always found it to be this funny, very funny town. >> janey: very funny. >> anthony: i mean, just -- everybody's a natural born comic. >> janey: we are. we have a very dark humor. if you say in america, "my father's died," people immediately are so sympathetic. in glasgow, if you say, "my father's died," glaswegians say, "what size was his shoes?" we have that. >> anthony: janey godley grew up in the east end, married into an organized crime dynasty, worked as a barten

we use computers to watch visual materials, and that includes the films and archive footage stored at our center. visitors are welcome to use these facilities free of charge. and browse at their leisure. >> the center was set up in 2006, three audio visual materials, including films, audio recordings from cambodia's history. the first facility of its kind in the country. >> translator: this is a propaganda film from the pol pot era. as you the films from this period were silent. this particular film is called damn of may 20th. and it traces the construction of a dam. it looks like everybody is enjoying their work. but that's not how it was at all. >> the center was founded by cambodian film director, rithy panh, who won a price at the film festival in 2013. the film combines footage of the pol pot era with his own experiences through the use of figurines. the figurines were made from cambodian clay, in memory of those who lost their lives under the pol pot regime. this scene depicts the making of a movie, something he often witnessed first hand during his childhood. he was born here i