stephen ambrose started stepping into d-day. the 90's therey were plenty of examples of d-day as an american success story. that is where you get saving .rivate ryan it didn't just come out of nowhere. it came as a result of a stephen ambrose book in 1994. a screenwriter reddin said it would make a great movie. they turned it into very successful and popular movie. ambrose was not just a historian. he stepped into the circles of hollywood. he helped create this museum that we are at today. he did plenty of things that helped sell his particular this successday as of democratic heroes fighting and preserving the world for liberty. quickly, i will skip through there. you see steven spielberg filming . no cigar in his hand. to go for band of brothers in 2001. due to the success of saving private ryan, another stephen ambrose book that he turns into a miniseries. now we can see that even cable television is getting into the game. it is so popular and so successful. band of brothers, which aired the first two episodes here last in se

the sixth corps will be beheaded by ambrose wright. horacio ambrose wright is a general that most of you probably have not heard about. and he comes to the sixth corps without much background. the union army will also have within it general ambrose burnside, who will be commanding the ninth army corps. burnside is the general who headed the army of the potomac during the battle at fredericksburg. grant is now bringing him back to join the army of the potomac. because of burnside's former position, grant decides that burnside can't serve underneath mead, and instead will report directly to grant who will coordinate him with general mead. you can see of the command confusion that's going to take place, and some of that will become evident here at cold harbor. the union cavalry, most of the commanders that you historians would have been familiar with are now gone. john buford has died. general kill patrick has been exiled to the west. what grant decides to do is bring one of his generals from the west, general phil sheridan, eastward and

the sixth corps will be beheaded by ambrose wright.ose wright is a general that most of you probably have not heard about. and he comes to the sixth corps without much background. the union army will also have within it general ambrose burnside, who will be commanding the ninth army corps. burnside is the general who headed the army of the potomac during the battle at fredericksburg. grant is now bringing him back to join the army of the potomac. because of burnside's former position, grant decides that burnside can't serve underneath mead, and instead will report directly to grant who will coordinate him with general mead. you can see of the command confusion that's going to take place, and some of that will become evident here at cold harbor. the union cavalry, most of the commanders that you historians would have been familiar with are now gone. john buford has died. general kill patrick has been exiled to the west. what grant decides to do is bring one of his generals from the west, general phil sheridan, eastward and put him in ch

the sixth corps will be beheaded by ambrose wright. horacio ambrose wright is a general that most of you probably have not heard about. and he comes to the sixth corps without much background. the union army will also have within it general ambrose burnside, who will be commanding the ninth army corps. burnside is the general who headed the army of the potomac during the battle at fredericksburg. grant is now bringing him back to join the army of the potomac. because of burnside's former position, grant decides that burnside can't serve underneath mead, and instead will report directly to grant who will coordinate him with general mead. you can see of the command confusion that's going to take place, and some of that will become evident here at cold harbor. the union cavalry, most of the commanders that you historians would have been familiar with are now gone. john buford has died. general kill patrick has been exiled to the west. what grant decides to do is bring one of his generals from the west, general phil sheridan, eastward and

almond dinger takes the lead over ambrose and almond dinger holds on to win his first career sprint cupce. >>> the red skins for most part of this training camp have avoided many major injuries. it's all about making sure that the guys are ready to go. we've seen a few scares along the way. today we got one with deangelo hall, suffered a bruised back during one-on-one drills today. it happened on this play when he went up against andre roberts. he makes the catch, the two men fall to the ground. hall, it was more of a tumble for him, then he dus a forward roll. he was carted off of the field but did return. the injuries did not seem serious especially if you ask head coach jay gruden. >> andre caught a fade and went for the ball and did a somer salt and landed on his back kind of awkwardly so to speak. he got up a little sore and they carted him off just for the dramatic exit. he could have walked off. would have made it easy are for me today. >> the team's final practice is tus. >>> let's talk baseball. braves didn't start until late last night due to weather. the nats won the game. th

ambrose wright is a general that most of you probably not heard about.the sixth corp without much background. the union army will also have within it general ambrose burnside who commands the ninth army corp. general burnside, most of you probably know, is the general who headed the army of the potomac during the battle at fredericksburg and grant brings him back to join the army of the potomac and because of burnside's former position, grant decides that burnside can't serve i understand northeast meade and unstead, will report directly to gant who coordinates him with general meade so you can see the command confusion that's taking place and some of that is evident here at the cold harbor. the union calvary is in a very interesting situation. most of the calvary commanders that you're familiar with are now gone. john fwu fobuford has died, what decides to do is to bring one of his generals from the west, general phil sheraton. eastward and put him in charge of the calvary of the army of the potomac. in effect, general grant will be selecting the calvar

there was programming for 30 days and this will be a similar program, but this is annie alley and ambroseierce and mission. and they worked to make it more and so we have them here, and so if he is with a lot of support letters and a ton of out reach and just establishing this area. and he can tell you more about it. >> okay. >> president tan and commissioners, thank you for our proposal, and the annie alley plaza is part of the larger street wise plan with the development through a community design initiative two years ago and one of the goals what in the ways in the neighborhood, which has a lot of super blocks that are busy, but the alleys tend to be under utilized but in this case, a small section of the alley seemed to fit the criteria to try some of our street light plans and goals and there was a lot of community interest from the friends of annie alley and rick smith is here and i think that he will comment on that. and so this is the first alley that we have focused on but we are really interested in creating an active pedestrian an plaza that has two to three events a week and w

personnel of the 506th parachute infantry, which famous the band of brothers mini-series and steven ambrose's book. he was originally part of easy company. shortly after his training and his basic training he was transferred to the headquarters and headquarters company of the second battalion 506th parachute infantry. and these particular trousers he wore during d-day on his, during the jump during the d-day invasion. which are particularly exciting for us. d-day and normandy artifacts are relatively rare, certainly a well-known event, but finding, being able to receive this collection was quite a joy. we have a number of other materials in the collection, which is certainly one of our primary missions. it contains three dimensional artifacts, photographs, archival documents, letters, diaries i believe. so it's really a rich collection that will aid our ability to tell the story of world war ii and specifically normandy and the d-day invasion. the army comes from civilian population, and if the civilians don't understand or cannot learn what the army and military as a whole has done for them,

while the 48th pennsylvania infantry dug the mine, ambrose burnside crafted a battle plan. three weeks ahead of the assault, he informed edward ferrero, you see there, commanding division of u.s. color troops of his plan to use those men first. burnside expected 12,000 pounds of gun powder to explode somewhere around daybreak or at least by 5:00 a.m. then the black soldiers would be massed in double columns all ready to pass through the gap in the enemy's line. lead regiment of the brigade was to be perpendicular to the confederate line and execute this by maneuvering to the north, the right of the explosion site, and the brigade on the left was to do the same but in reverse. the remaining regiments were to move as quickly as possible to the crest in front as rapidly as possible, as burnside wrote. then the white troops of burnside's corps and others would soon follow. ferrero was directed to drill his enthusiastic troops but not veterans for this attack. however, this is an issue we still don't know all the details of, were the u.s. color troops trained, were they not trai

ambrose. >>> ktvu channel 2 news starts right now. with breaking news. >>> breaking news from val crowhere this fire truck rolled twice, responding to a fire call and as you can see it's badly damaged and so is the suv it landed on. good evening, i'm ken wayne. >> hello everyone i'm heather holmes. that accident happened on sonoma boulevard, and york street. a chaotic scene that involves multiple vehicles and the fire truck the we have more on the breaking news from ktvu's debora villalon, live at the intersection, where several firefighter as well as a driver were all injured. >> reporter: now four hours later it's still a surreal sight. it's not often that you see something this big, a full ladder truck on its side, mangled after rolling on a city street and next to it, it you can see the wreckage of an suv that rolled on top of it. that drier was trapped in his gmc yukon for at least half an hour as first police and then firefighters tried to free him. witnesses tell us he was awake and talking and moving his arms and legs before h

it's going to be based on this wealth of information that's come out since steven ambrose did some work in the 1990s. the final white house tape only came out last august. nixon's testimony before the grand jury came out the year before that. so there's lots of new stuff to factor into the story of richard nixon. but it's a biography. it's about a man. very little attention i think is portrayed to the story of this extraordinary man. host: it will focus on his early years as well. as we look at richard nixon 40 years after he stepped down from the presidency. caller: i was ten years old when i watched president nixon resign, but i'm wondering, mr. farrell, do you believe, having written a biography on this man that his abilities or maybe his -- i'm getting insecurities from watching his speech and all the coverage and things that have been written about him -- do you think that affected how people now look at the presidency and even his presidency 40 years later overall? host: thank you catherine, for the fall. guest: he had a good side and a dark side. and the dark side was very viciou

passes marcos ambrose.the checkered flag, the first sprint cup victory. >>> over to the gridiron, the san francisco 49ers have spent the last two days in suburban baltimore. john harbaugh, by all accounts, the joint practices were a huge success. >> yeah, we thought it was going to be a bunch of fights, baa uz in the past when we would scrimmage or practice against the oakland raiders, it was always a fight. but we were fortunate enough to be able to come out here and get some good work in. and just play some good football. >> we're going against different offense and our offense runs likewise for their defense. we're going against different players. they may have a few more speed receivers. so it's good to go against that speed, the running game is different. it's good to go against that. i've done over 20 of these joint practices in my days and they're always very good and very beneficial. >> how about golf before we're out of here. pga championship final round, play suspended early due to heavy rain. del

it is going to be based on this wealth of information that has come out since stephen ambrose did the standard work, a three volume set in the 1990's. the final white house tape only came out last august. there will be revisions on that. as nixon's testimony before the grand jury that cannot be your before that. there is lots of new factor ---new stuff to factor into the story of richard nixon. that is what i will try to do. the biography is about a man. i think most written from the perspective of the polarization of the vietnam era, nixon as a sman, andn and stateme very little focus on this extraordinary man. >> it will focus on his early years as well as we look at richard nixon 40 years after his step down from the presidency. we welcome our listeners on c-span radio. catherine is joining us from gardnerville, new york. go ahead. >> i was 10 years old when i watched president nixon resigned. , do you believe, having written a biography on this man,, that his abilities -- i'm getting insecurities we watching his speech and all of the coverage and things written about him. affected

the greatest enthusiasm was from brigadier general potter and ambrose burnside.8th pennsylvania infantry began ex ka kating the mine the 25th of june. for whatever reason people remember it started at 12:00 noon. if you are detail oriented, they left it for us. the work was performed night and day. seven days a week, even in the intense summer heat which often exceeded 105 degrees. the concerns about ventilating the mine were addressed, kind of represented in the images here. fresh air entered an eight-inch square wooden duct and circulated through and fire was created which would send the bad air out. a canvas door was placed over the entry to keep fresh air in and allow miners to get in and out of the shaft. the wooden duct system was extended and by the 17th of july the mine would reach the 510.8 feet that pleasants had first proposed. two galleries are going to be extended which is represented in this image at the top underneath the confederate position in which the gun powder is supposed to be packed. . while the 48th pennsylvania infantry dug the mine, burn

before long, reporters from other papers joint price in front of the executive mansion, greatth them, ambrose the , fresh from his communion with the burning bush -- talking about talking to the president. riding in the 1930's. from his viewpoint, it was price who started everything and everybody else followed along with him. , you can it apart' see that is really not the case. , whose view of clark was he was a passive actor, that price stood waiting for news to come to him by being at the gate. if you look today at the white house, one of the things you , when you are walking up to the west wing, on are a lot ofere television cameras and right in front of the west wing to the side is an area of microphones. that is known as the stake out. in effect what price was doing was working a stake out where if people like nancy pelosi or harry reid come to see the president, they come out of the west wing, and then they come and talk to the microphones, and then will talk to reporters. this is, in a sense, what price was doing at that time, but he was doing a lot more. price was not just a passive r

the charge of general ambrose burnside's 9th corps, including four divisions, one made up entirely of united states color troops, was poorly executed and while not doomed to failure, it certainly quickly unwound. the timely arrival of confederate brigadier general william mahone's division, including a brigade made up of virginias raised in part in the petersburg area, helped to secure victory by early afternoon. by then, hundreds of dead and wounded lay in an area not more than 150 yards long and 100 yards wide. confederate colonel william h. stewart described the crater as, quote, a veritable inferno filled with sounds of suffering and paved with the rigid dead. a delay in agreeing to a truce left survivors abandoned on a field that hovered around 100 degrees. the official report identified 361 confederates killed, 727 wounded and 403 missing out of the force of roughly 10,000 engaged. union casualties numbered 504 killed, 1,881 wounded and 1,441 missing. compared to other civil war battles the casualty count is relatively small. but if we look more closely, we can begin to discern