debuted a unique film collection, and joining us on the phone to talk about is library director paul sparrow. what is the missy lehand film collection? paul: missy lehand was an assistant to franklin roosevelt starting in 1920 and was with him for more than 20 years and was a close friend of the family as well. she actually lived in the white house when he was president. she became intrigued with film cameras. she had a film camera, and she would film a number of these informal picnics, events, and lunches, and then also part of this collection were films from other people who gave home movies to her that were included in her collection. she had a stroke in 1941 and left the white house and took a lot of her possessions with her and died several years later, so they did not become an initial collection when the library when the library was created. her grand-nieces made the decision to donate the films, and this is the first time you put the whole sort of collection of films online for people to review. >> how many films are in the collection? paul: there were 11 different films, but they we

. >> paul sparrow, thank you for your time today. paul: i appreciate it. >> up next, "american history tv" was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in sacramento, california, where we spoke with historian carolee klimchock, about the role of coach drivers during the gilded age. she explores how relationships between coachmen and their passengers resulted in public scandals. this is about 15 minutes. steve: carolee klimchock, an independent scholar, graduate of yale university, living in texas, in your panel today, an interestin

residential library did your a unique film collection and joining us on the phone is library director paul sparrow. -- was an assistant to franco roosevelt starting in 1920 and was with him for more than 20 years and was a close friend of the family as well. she lived in the white house when he was president and she became intrigued with film cameras. she would film a number of these at formal pictures and events and luncheons. -- picnics and events and luncheons. movies to herme included in her collection. she had a stroke in 1941 and left the white house and took possessions with her and died several years later it did not become part of the initial library collects with the library was created. her grand nieces decided to donate these films to a library last year and since then we have been going back to the original film, had them transferred and restored and now we are starting to make them available to the public and so this is the first time we have put this whole collection of films online for people to review. >> how many films are in the collection? >> there were 11 different films that

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i think we're all grateful to paul sparrow, the presidential library and museum. in close loud for organizing this wonderful roosevelt reading festival. [cheers and [applause] i would like to begin with a little story about escaping. in 1939, president franklin roosevelt proposed a two-year experiment. he wanted to move the date of thanksgiving up one week from the customary force thursday november to the goal was to extend the lucrative shopping season between thanksgiving and christmas and thereby give a boost to business. most states agreed to try the experiment, but the six new england states and 11 others decline. the mayor of plymouth, massachusetts, where pilgrims celebrated the first things giving in 1621 we -- in plymouth, massachusetts on the fourth thursday in november, 1940, 3000 men, women and children put on pilgrim costumes and poured into memorial hall to commemorate the first thanksgiving. some of them played the parts of governor william bradford, military advisor miles standish in the indian leader massasoit and they reenacted scenes from the pa

. >> paul sparrow, thank you for your time today. paul: i appreciate it. >> up next, "american history tv" was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in sacramento, california, where we spoke with historian carolee klimchock, about the role of coach drivers during the gilded age. she explores how relationships between coachmen and their passengers resulted in public scandals. this is about 15 minutes. steve: carolee klimchock, an independent scholar, graduate of yale university, living in texas, in your panel today, an interesting title. "romance, reverence and renegades: scandals in the gilded age of history." so explain what this is all about. carolee: well, it was writing different scandals. one of them that connected well to mine was one that had to do with a reverend scandal area mine was heiresses and coachmen, but it is not just -- we were like, why study scandals? what do we see? it is not just what you think of the moment of immorality or something people are outraged by. but actually i sort of think of sca

debuted a unique film collection, and joining us on the phone to talk about is library director paul sparrow. what is the missy lehand film collection? paul: missy lehand was an assistant to franklin roosevelt starting in 1920 and was with him for more than 20 years and was a close friend of the family as well. she actually lived in the white house when he was president. she became intrigued with film cameras. she had a film camera, and she would film a numbe t

. >> paul sparrow, thank you for your time today. paul: i appreciate it. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] presidency,"the tammy talks about harry and bess truman. she reads from their love letters and discusses their 53 year marriage. the truman library hosted this event. it is 45 and it. -- it is 45 minutes. special guest is our hardest to tammy williams. she has been with us for many years. if started as an intern, so your kids need something to do next summer, encourage them to look into our internship program. tammy is going to share with you the story of the trumans' love and devotion to one another, using their love letters back and forth to share that story. without further ado, i will welcome kelly williams -- tammy williams to the stage. tammy? [applause] around. joke i am the person who gets to talk about this because i am the chick on the staff. [laughter] tammy: i have a very close affi

. >> paul sparrow, thank you for your time today. thank you for e today. >> i appreciate it. in 1898, marie curie discovered a new element. 47 years later, the atomic bomb named little boy was dropped on hiroshima, japan. on august 6, 1945. diana preston talks about her book before the fallout from marie curie to hiroshima, and which she investigates the scientific discoveries that led to the development of the atomic bomb. at thes recorded national archives and washington, d.c. in 2005. it is 50 minutes. [applause] we thank you very much, indeed, and i would like to say what a pleasure it is to be back here at the national archives, and i would like to acknowledge that the arts have been a considerable help that i had from the archives in writing this book. the destructive flash which seared hiroshima into history was really the culmination of 50 years of scientific creativity and more than 50 years of political and military turmoil. generations of scientists had contributed to that moment in physics. yet, when they first began to tease out the sequence of matter, not even f

collection, and joining us on the phone to talk about is -- talk about it is library director paul sparrow. what is the missy lehand film collection? paul: missy lehand was an assistant to franklin roosevelt starting in 1920 and was with him for more than 20 years and was a close friend of the family as well. she actually lived in the white house when he was president. she became intrigued with film cameras. she had a film camera, and she would film a number of these informal picnics, events, and

my name is paul sparrow. the director here at the franklin roosevelt presidential library museum. welcome to the 15th annual roosevelt reading festival. it's been a great day so far. [applause] i wanted thank you all for coming. how many of your members, raise your hand. ok

sparrow." >> how do you know you pay your debts? >> reporter: 29-year-old maria butina portrayed as a femme fatale, accused of being a russian agent using sex or access. and targeting this man, paule of a testing of public character. >> reporter: a longtime conservative political operative and nra insider, almost twice her age. butina's activism and access drew the attention of the fbi and they started tracking her in 2016. here she is at a political conference called freedom fest. a year later. >> but i have a right to buy arms. >> reporter: butina now sits behind bars. the u.s. government saying she infiltrated the nra and powerfut and despite photos and videos showing them as a couple some are speculating that erickson was just a pawn. >> so in no way, shape or form has maria butina used sex for influence? >> no. not at all. >> or access. >> reporter: her attorney tells us the feds have it all wrong. she isn't a secret agent and this isn't a spy thriller, he says. it's more like a romantic disney musical. ♪ tale as old as time ♪ true as it can be >> reporter: butina and erickson singing "beauty and the beast" in this never before seen video. >> so "beauty and the beast". >> i

. >> paul sparrow, thank you for your time today. paul: i appreciate it. which is -- [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]