ambrose was indeed a popular seriousn, and military historians are often condescending about ambrose as a popularizer. but, he is the best we have come and americans have learned a great deal that is valuable from him. his lifetime of specialization in the war, has resulted in an eminently useful work of art, for which we should all be grateful. thank you. [applause] >> interested in american history tv? visit our website, c-span.org/history. you can view our tv schedule, preview upcoming programs, watch college lectures, museum tours, archival films and more. at c-span.org/history. ♪ the c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals were. the best stopped at anchorage, alaska, asking folks what is the most important issue in alaska? >> i am jeff jesse, dean of the college of health at the university of alaska. one of the most important issues ,s access to health care especially in the rural arrest alaska, and the cost of health care is extreme high. >> the most important issue from my perspective, is job creation. the university of alaska has done remarkably in terms

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chemist ambrose was convicted of war crimes he committed at auschwitz for which he served four years in prison but after the war the chemist found no shortage of employers including dow chemical j. peter grace and the u.s. army's chemical corps before he became chairman of groan and sells board of directors in one nine hundred seventy one so we were not in seventies granito had as the chair of the board a man convicted of mass murder slavery was. a man who hired nancy war criminals like ambrose and was owner chairman versus verts was a member of the local nattie party in his hometown before the second world war a service for which he was handsomely rewarded by it like you said it was the personal lawyer for a good one thousand or herrmann verts but in december nine hundred sixty six noyes berger resigned suddenly became justice minister in the province where the trial was being held fast chief defense lawyer. ended up with a government responsibility for overseeing the conduct of the trial. to stay. away from the trial a secret deal was worked out between grown and thousand owner her

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this is president nixon with miles ambrose. miles ambrose was the commissioner of customs. and the idea of bringing treatment into the executive office seemed such a great idea that the next step was we brought law enforcement into the executive office through the creation of rodale, the office of drug abuse law enforcement. we took the commissioner of customs and made him in charge. here he is taking president nixon to the customs facilities where a lot of the drugs are coming in. a -- touring the facilities at jfk. the president has a lot of these. this is the international narcotics control cabinet senioree and it has the cabinet officer. what you make about this picture is they had recently seized heroin. presidentk behind the , where we would normally have some people seated, there's a laboratory. in front of each of the cabinet officers, we have an envelope that looks like a pound of flour, and that is heroin. this is what we do here. the word was, don't touch the envelopes, because you will pick up some of the heroin dust. there was a very impressive display. i think

history nick mueller talks about the museum's connection to the film and shares stories about stephen ambrose, a consultant on saving private ryan. he also talks about the reaction of historians and military leaders to the film and its legacy today. this event was part of a symposium held at the national world war ii museum to mark the 20th anniversary of the release. >> welcome back everybody. last but not least. early this morning we mentioned that yesterday was the 74th anniversary of d-day, a slightly lessno

and ambrose was called and he was taken to the mark win away from prying eyes he could at last stop pretendings time his wife was having to keep an impossible secret. i envied him because he did not have to talk to anyone. a few hours later, it was all over and the journalist made his remarkable comeback. the operation complete, ukraine's chico the service was quick to label it a success that had saved lives. translation: russia is using illegal methods and trying to kill his opponents on overseas soil to intimidate its opponents. russia said this was not the correct method to adopt and joined a chorus of international disapproval. the ukrainian government have done wrong. but fake murder achieve anything? the man who plotted with the sega saturn was arrested and we are told that his mobile phone revealed he had lost of future targets and messages exchanged with a co nta ct targets and messages exchanged with a contact in russia. but there has so far been no smoking gun. confused? well, so far been no smoking gun. confused ? well, you so far been no smoking gun. confused? well, you are not the

the historian and great friend of this institution, stephen ambrose, recalls that he just gave up on talking about d-day without talking about "the longest day." introducingto norman culture as coming you know, robert mitcham in "the longest day." board, --n vande indervoort as john wayne "the longest day." cornelius ryan, realized he had been on a great formula. he went on to write "the last battle." and "a bridge too far." in 1974.f cancer he sold the rights to "the last battle" which was never made and the rights to "a bridge to the oo far" whiche t was made. it came out in 1976. the multiple perspective narrative has been taken up by other writers and was also used in other forms of motion pictures. i-watching "the longest day" realized it anticipates the disaster movies of the 1970's. the idea of having multiple vignettes was a way of showing how an event happens to many people at the same time. theck and double downs on war pictures and is involved in the development of a number of classics, including patton. but he is burned by -- he puts a lot of effort into that in the film