. >> the site is called the hiroshima archive. you can super impose photos on a map of hiroshima today. by clicking on the icons, you can read the testimony of people who experienced the bombing in those locations in english and japanese. the site uses google either, a virtual globe based on satellite images. the hiroshima project is led by an associate professor at tokyo metropolitan university. he launched an archive about the bombing last year. it required him to launch the archive this year. >> it shows the materials to give a sense of time and space. it gives an overall picture that individual materials don't convey by themselves. >> he got here to interview survivors for stories to put in the archive. this is a second year at senior high school. she was interested in a peace movement so she was keen to be involved. >> i top the find out everything i can and have it put in the archive. here is the story. he was 4 years old and living on the island at the time of the bombing. he remembers seeing survivors being brought out. >>

they opened the archives there, the swiss archives, the red cross archives very important to my research, actually, archives in many other countries. and these archives enabled us to look deeper at what happened after '45 and how some of these people were protected by governments and intelligence agencies. so as a consequence, more and be more structures came to light, and we started to understand how these people got away from justice after 1945. and, again, this was one of the few areas that were not very well researched until the 1990s. again, until the 1990s you still had to the deal with the odessa. still to this very day whenever i talk to people about my research, they say, yeah, yeah, i know what you're writing, you're writing about the odessa. [laughter] i say, no, i'm not. and then, of course, i have to explain to them it's a fictional story, but it really stick with the people, and nowadays you have to write against the odessa myth, basically. so let me talk about my findings, how did it really work, how did -- what criminal perpetrators of the holocaust, ss members and nazis,

. >> there was a debate to archive or not to archive. what were the objections? >> if you take all look at our site -- it is handy that i have it -- let me go to it for a second. i need to bring it up a little higher. we have an ongoing blog that covers us covering ourselves. [laughter] it is a very meta experience. the archive issue is a very complicated one. there were a lot of conversations how we would archive and when we would archive and what we would are cut. archive. this is a good place for a disclaimer. on our block, the fault massachusetts supreme judicial court is to hear about the open court are cut. it is an issue that has not completely been resolved. i cannot talk about the specifics of the case because i suspect there are a few people who work in public information. you'd want to avoid something like that. the issue of archives is a key one. it is not replicating the experience of being in court at that time. it is time shifting that experience. by definition, we are not actually providing the exact same thing that happened when you come into cou

his own instead and stumbled upon his roots and started searching for more dogs in the cage of the archives until he found the tragic story of his grandfather died at the hands of stalin cyclical leaks and will became fascinated by russia and says despite his relatives having to escape from this country they still carry something a bit inside themselves to explain more on his dramatic them a story on matthew's joins us today on spotlight. it's a show thank you very much for me with. a here i want to go first of all you. spent quite a while and russia you speak fluent russian you have. from russian family and so do you consider yourself to be russian at least half russian or you prefer to observe as a foreigner and i think from a distance well i'm not sure what i would have preferred but the fact is that i was born and raised in london so. although i whispered russian with my mother and indeed i do speak excellent russian but that's i can't count it as my treatment it's because my mother told me from childhood. and although it turns out that i've now spent actually pretty much half my adult

. >> are their archives at fehr said in brookline? either archives that are available? and is a psycho for my life very or is it open to scholars or what? >> it is -- it is a place people go is a landscape architect. >> i think fehr said will no longer has the archives because it can't be kept as well as it should be. so the archives have been moved to an outside world for they can be kept, but you can still get to them. so physically i don't know where they've moved it. [inaudible] is still in the boston area. so they've moved it to an archival place where it can be those. my staff and they were doing about prospect park were allowed to go through touching things. they use spondylitis other places. would she say was your best treasure trove? >> definitely the library of congress. what we are leading to hear is the actual designs, literally the design of the park, which would've been fun for me, but given a deadline was not really the central topic. of course for a landscape architect, this is the place you want to go be able to look at literally part designs. for me wh

golding looking for archives well actually the for the historical purposes i was very fortunate in in surprise that he was but also how did all this happened in ukraine. in russia even today the f.s.b. archives are closed there was a brief period of slight liberalization in women in the early one nine hundred ninety s. but basically i could not have written a book had my grandfather be shot in russia in the last name because of the be still likes to keep its secrets in the closet and to the people in power in the kremlin preferred to close the hole in the stalls and live as part of the k.g.b. our hands they that were kept by the by the ukrainian bureau you know the link you that's still there and unlike in russia in ukraine as icicles to tional right for relatives to get the documents so fortunately it didn't require really any greater technical difficulties i just wrote to them and sure enough i got a you know a lot of back saying you know your your your copus is here and you can you can view it and it's indeed it and a terrifying document how do you know you just walk into the build

the archives have been moved to and an archive world where they can be kept but you can still get to them. i don't remember where they moved it. it is still in the boston area so they moved it to an archival place. where they're doing the research about prospect park, were allowed to go to fairinstead and things that probably shouldn't have been. you found a lot of other places. your best treasure trove. >> the library of congress. what we are alluding to is the actual designs, designs of the park which would have been fun for me given by deadline. not really the central topic. for landscape architect this is the place you would want to go to look at the park designed. what i want to look at were letters from olmstead and document, park planned and articles he had written in obscure defund magazines. places for that with the library of congress spread among five particularly -- five good archives which were the library of congress and the library of harvard and new york public library which has boxes and letters and some stuff from the united states sanitary commission. civil war med

would archive. and i'm giving you my point of you and i think i need to at least -- this is a good place for disclaimer. there is, as you can see, on our blog, the full massachusetts supreme district court is to hear about the open court archive. so clearly it's an issue that hasn't completely been resolved. and i can't talk about the specifics of the case because i suspect there's a few people who work in public information for the court that you'd want to avoid something like that. but the issue of archives is the key one because it's not replicating the experience of being in court at that time. it is time shifting that experience. so, by definition we are not actually, you know, providing the exact same thing that happened when you come into court. and that was a large, large conversation about whether we should or whether we shouldn't you.we felt either friday, by my the second we had come to a consensus that we had covered the issue of archives and we would post archives. late on friday for th

[laughter] >> now, are there archives in brookline, are there archives that are available, and is it, like, a formal library, or is it open to scholars or what? >> it is just the, it's the place that people go as a landscape architect. >> i think fairstead no longer will have the archives. they, because it can't be kept as well as it should be. so the archives have been moved to an archive world where they can be kept, but you can still get to them. so you wouldn't -- >> [inaudible] >> physically, i don't remember where they've moved it. do you know? you don't know where they are. >> [inaudible] >> it's still in the boston area. so they've moved it to an archival place where those things can be kept. my staff when they were doing the research about prospect park were allowed to go to fairstead and go through, you know, touching things that, you know, really probably shouldn't have been. but you found a lot of other places, though, and what would you say was your best treasure-trove? >> definitely the library of congress. i guess what we're alluding to here is the actual designs, liter

it features archival audio as well as interviews with living artists.e can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a li

it was -- it came from the chinese archives. >> and the photo above it? >> that's a picture of a woman who's been gang raped and she -- as you could see, she has been tied to the chair so that she could be raped whenever the soldiers were in the mood for it. and again, i mean, i have a hard time looking at these pictures. even now. >> what's the purpose of putting them in the book then? you decided in tend, what was -- the conversation like between you and the publisher? >> well, there were people in the publishing house who had problems looking at the pictures. in the end, we decided that it was important for people to see what they were capable of doing. s after the tough decision. -- it was a tough decision. i know i may well catch a lot of criticism for it, but i don't think that people will realize just how brutal the japanese were until they see these pictures. >> if i were a japanese sitting here and saw these, i would say things like what's your proof that these were caused by a japanese soldier? >> all i can say is there are thousands of pages of

it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store.n 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interestin

the archives is dated 1850 -- not kerry member. 1855 i think. but it refers to several letters that come before. so early 1850s, fanny is writing -- or cecelia is writing from canada. she settled in toronto when she left niagara, almost to toronto directly within a year. so she is writing back to fanny from canada sending those letters. so it took a while, took several years for her to feel secure enough that she could venture for the right to fanny, to know where she was. so if you let them know where you are, they might send someone after you. >> she was writing -- she's really has a subtext of all cecelia's letters are as my mother still in your household? how wishy? she really wants to establish contact with her mother. and fanny is the vehicle through which she has to do that. and it is interesting because fanny is replying to cecelia's letters. you can get the gist of cecelia's letters from fanny. she said you ask about your mother and she tells her. but her letters are very chatty, talking about the different people in her life and then s

>> it's hard to tell from the archive, but i think from other sources and other things we know, you know that that would attenuate that relationship and make it change the tone of it. for one thing it would separate cecilia more and more from her mother who was still in the household, but as a household slave, she would have still been kind of under the control somewhat of her mother but once she becomes fanny's personal made it moves her away from her mother and into fanny's realm and it is going to drive home the contradiction of slavery to cecilia a lot more. fanny is free to court who she wants and cecilia is not that she is probably going to have a role in getting the fanny dressed and passing messages back-and-forth from different households about who's interested in who she likes, and she doesn't like and what such and such as wearing in all this stuff and it's going to drive home the difference really profoundly between what a slave's life is like and a free person's life is like and i think that is going to drive a wedge between any two people, and then there's always cecilia's

those documents i located in the atomic energy commission archives. i even located photographs, but it didn't look to me like anyone else had looked at them, and i actually had a really difficult time trying to find them, but once i was able to find someone who had knowledge of that and knew it had been declassified, i was able to talk freely about him with that program, and he was able to give me some key words that allowed me to look up the program and access it. the program is called project 57, but everything was classified under 57 project. i mean, organized. so all of the programs that i talk about except for the program in the end have actually been declassified. it's just that a lot of them are kind of hidden or perhaps people were not interested in them, in and of themselves. i think part of what makes my book interesting is that i try to give you the whole landscape of area 51 and its nearest neighbors and what was going on there. >> another one about the aliens who were, according to your source not aliens at all. were there autopsy done on

he had some archives from the soviet period no one used in their research or their work. he brings a passion and a level of detail and spoke to this story that we think is unique. it is quite an effort getting the book like this together but absolutely worth while and we are thrilled it is going to the reading public in july. >> two books in the media that are coming out. deals from hell and inside the new york times. >> the deal from hell is a story about the chicago tribune and what has happened to media businesses from an insider. he was a longtime reporter at the chicago tribune. he became editor of the new york times so we had groundwork as a reporter and management experience -- in the decisionmaking meetings. it is the full story of what happened to media business in america by focusing on the story of the tribune company. page 1 is a book in conjunction with media like waiting for superman. this is their new film called page 1. inside the new york times. we have done a book with an npr and media reporter that is a collection of essays by many contributors writing

other desired action now and apparently there could be important data right these are in e-mail archives there could be government secrets because if you look at everybody that was attacked here they are government agencies defense contractors you have also various non-profits corporations even a media organization that does tell you that nobody's safe anymore these days but i think it's it's what's what's particularly difficult on the basis of this report is to know what take it and in fact sometimes even organizations that get hit by this kind of attack don't know what was taken and so there's the possibility that a great deal of sensitive information was lost there's also the possibility that i think was lost it's very difficult to know without doing a more thorough analysis of the networks that were penetrated themselves is that why nobody found out about a person to be perf i do years and that's just what they think they think that it could have been going on for longer and apparently they didn't even discover this until two thousand and nine how could nobody know it it seems. crazy

using archival images and artifacts, had designed 16 intricately woven tapestries that are inviting ofignificant events that shaped the hospital and the community over time. a >> it attracts a lot of visitors, and they are all and all - -in aw -- in awe over the variety of mediums used. >> i think we have given the city of san francisco and the residents

eastern booktv airs a program from our archives that coincides with a significant occasion that happened that week in history. for more history programming, check out american history television on c-span3 or visit c-span.org/history. ah tv features 48 hours of people and events that help document the american story. >> coming up next, another program from be our archives. august 13, 2011, marks the 50th anniversary of the building of the berlin wall. w.r. smyser discusses the berlin crisis of 1961 to 1963. he recounts the meetings between president kennedy andny key the that -- nikita khrushchev and the political fallout from the construction of the berlin wall. this is about an hour and a half. >> well, welcome, everybody, to the woodrow wilson center for the book launch of "kennedy and the berlin wall: a hell of a lot better than a war" by william smyser. it's one of the, certainly, readable books ever written on the history of the berlin wall and this major confrontation between kennedy and khrushchev, between the united states and the soviet union during the late '50s and the early

as any researcher knows, what you do a lot of when you're at an archive is sit around waiting for boxes to be brought to you. it's true that the folks at the roosevelt libraries quite speedy in this. still you spend a lot of time ordering boxes and waiting for them to be brought. i was waiting for my boxes to come, and i started puttering around the research room to distract myself, and i came across a set of finding aids for writing by franklin roosevelt. i never thought of fdr as much of writer, not compared to the doctor roosevelt or woodrow wilson or various world leaders, such as winston churchill or lenin. before i could think more about the question, there came my boxes, and so i put away the thought in the back of my health but fast forward several months. in the meantime, i dropped my dissertation, taken a leave of absence from school and started work at the legal assistance as a law firm. at one point the editor0s a journal, invited know write an article about franklin roosevelt for the journal. i didn't want to use my abandoned disdissertation and had little time for research

i think the next clerk and the city will be much informed with having our process and having our archives to look too. >> and that is how san francisco government worked out the kinks, twists and turns, bombs in the road, to select its new interim mayor, ed lee. san francisco's first asian- american mayor. >> this has been an unprecedented and historic transition of power here in san francisco. i am so happy the board of supervisors came together to select an outstanding choice along many outstanding candidates to lead us over the next several years. >> over the past several months when this issue has come up, it had been agonizing. the board has been put into a difficult situation. there are a lot of differences of opinion on how to run the city, how to mass make a decision, who should be in place, 11 people to agree on that is a challenging thing. i think we have done the best we can do in the process, considering the difference of opinions. >> the people of san francisco can now choose their mayor, the direction they want to go. that is why this decision was so appropriate. >> the othe

i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v. station. one night while voluntarily were sleeping in their home shown shot them with his stepfather scum. he has always claimed that he committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force. and. when the teenager was arrested he admitted the double murder and confessed to another crime. six months before he walked into a convenience store with an accomplice and shot dead a cashier. he was only fifteen at the time. his accomplice in the convenience store shooting was also arrested richard was shawn's friend and both boys were obsessed with satanism. the two teenagers would tell the police that they killed the grocer just to see what it would feel like. richard accepted to testify against shown in exchange for a lighter sentence. when mrs evidence even shown sellars own confession everything was in place for a trial but the legal system was hesitant should this teenager be judged as an adult fully conscious of his acts. sean's court appointed lawyer presented as evidence psycho

i found some archive footage on this tragedy at the local t.v. station. one night while vonda and lee were sleeping in their home shown showed them with his stepfather scum. he committed this crime while under the power of an uncontrollable force. when the teenager was arrested. and confessed to another crime. six months before he walked into a convenience store with an accomplice and shot dead a cashier he was only fifteen at the time. his accomplice in the convenience store shooting. richard. would tell the police that they killed just to see what it would feel like. richard accepted to testify in exchange for a lighter sentence. as evidence even. everything was in place for a trial but the legal system was hesitant. appointed lawyer presented as evidence psychological evaluations that diagnosed severe personality disorders in the defendant. but the prosecutor was adamant in demanding the death sentence. tragedy. in one thousand nine hundred seven sean sellers was sentenced to death and first became the youngest person condemned to death in the united s