by luck, i landed a job with ken burns. luck.t be morge than " i had gone to the brooklyn historical society. a had a job posting and wanted the job so bad. it was low paying. they said, we hope you are unemployed and six months because we have a freeze. but i looked nice and i had my bag and i was depressed. i went to an art gallery event right after. was my maind cheese motivation. in the corner, and before i had the wine by the way, wre two men talking about films and i went i thought and i said the filmmakers were geeks, it occurred to me, and i ask them if they were involved in the film business and they said yes, and not in a friendly way. how about documentary filmmaking? yes. historical documentary filmmaking? and one of them said yes. i said i need two minutes of your time. i gave them my story that i was looking for jobs and thinking about filmmaking. he gave me his card and he's a senior producer for ken burns. i had already sent my resume. he said i might be able to help you. why don't you give me your resume an

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there was an interest in the 1890s, certainly we saw a resurgent interest with the ken burns' series, and there's no shortage of histories coming out about lincoln and the civil war and so on. i think that waves of it come along. in the case of world war ii, of course, we're 70 years more or less after the fact. i believe that what we're seeing now of the 16.1 million who were in uniform, about 1.be 3 million -- 1.3 million american veterans are still alive. and they're dying at the rate of about 800 a day. next year, 2014, the number will slip below a million for the first time. ten years later in 2024, the number will be below 100,000. so the generation, inevitably as generations do, is slipping away. they're passing over. and i think we're finding children, grandchildren, even great grandchildren now who are keen to understand what their fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers did in part because it's part of their heritage. it's part of the patrimony. and it's part of understanding who we are, where we came from. world war ii imprints us in very profound ways to this day. it imp

in the civil war, resurgent interest in the 1890s, certainly we saw a resurgent interest with the ken burnsshortage of history's coming got about lincoln and the civil war and so on. i think waves of it come along. in the case of world war ii, 70 years more or less after the fact, a i believe what we are seeing now of the 16.1 million who are in uniform about 1.3 million american veterans are still alive and they are dying at a rate of 800 day. next year 2014, the number will be 1 million for the first time, ten years later in 2020 for the number will be below 100,000 so that generation as generations zoo is slipping away. they are passing over. we are finding children, grandchildren, even great grandchildren who are keen to understand what their fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers did in part because it is part of their heritage, part of the patrimony and part of understanding who we are, where we came from. world war ii in prince us in very profound ways to the stake, in prince the way we think about gender. we have been talking about it at the military academy, the way we think abo

. >> how is history channel civil war week going to be different than ken burns, slow moving and photographs thank you for asking. this is dynamic. history channel put together best content in all sorts of ways. we have an app, civil war today, 99 cents to download that. civil war interactives with maps and games, places where people from all ages and knowledge can come and learn new things. we have short form video, talking about different things. hungry history. what did soldiers eat? what was being eaten on the home front? what about women's daily lives during the war. all sorts of topics addressed in exciting, engaging ways. >> it's beautifully shot, too. i didn't realize they had helicopters. >> you forgot about that, it's a secret. >> lets go back to gettysburg. why was that so important that the confederate army comes up into the north? >> okay. generally it's proving to the world that the confederate rats are going to win this war. he goes in to pennsylvania and as big victory he can head up to harrisburg, take over that capital. anything is possible. he's also looking for support fr

nobody was hit directly but three of them were ken to e hospital for feeling tingling and burning sensations. >> we could not get them out because the storm was still significant and it lasted another 15 to 20 minutes. >> the children were around 17 years old and they were there for leadership training. >>> police say they raped and imprisoned a 15-year-old girl. they are accused of repeatedly raping her and keeping her inside a metal box. it's not clear how long they kept her. they found a high powered sniper along with body armor and other military gear. it is one of the largest collections of weapons they have ever seen. >>> actor jim kerry says his new movie is too violent for kids. he made the movie kicker two and he can't support that level of violence. kerry is an outspoken supporter of gun control and his movie is out in august. >>> they could hand down a ruling on california's ban same- sex marriage. outside with more on what the mood is like there today, kyla? >> reporter: the scene hear is different than yesterday and if you look over my shoulder, you will see there is no line on

burn. good evening, i'm ken wayne. >> i'm heather holmes. >> fire in east oakland quickly grew to three-alarms and started in one business, causing the roof of that building to collapse and then fueled by strong winds, the flames spread to two more structures. crews battled the intense blaze at 73rd avenue between garland and bancroft avenue, debora villalon is live with now firefighters managed to get a handle on the fire, deb. >> reporter: it wasn't easy and it did blow up on them a bit, spreading to a structure nearby. this red building where it started, on the inside, it's gutted. the palm tree started to burn like the torch, they knew the party was over. >> we ran outside, and we started alerting the neighbors. >> reporter: running from their backyard birthday party, where some 40 guests were midway through their meal. what was spreading was a fire one street over in a building that was a private school for a dozen year that more recently became a thrift shop, as firefighters tried to knock down the flames, strong winds flew embers all over. >> the neighbor's trees and fences caught on fi

ken bastida. >> and i'm elizabeth cook. the crash was so violent it split the car in half. candles are burning at the spot where a toddler was thrown from the vehicle and killed. the crushed car was towed from the scene just a couple hours ago. as you can see here, the backseat where the child was sitting is gone. witnesses told linda yee the impact was horrific. the front half of the honda sits on the street. the back half came to rest in the front yard on a home. mike sanchez was riding his bike when he said the driver sped past him. >> it looked like they were going 95 to 100. they were speeding by me. >> the driver hit a tree. the impact was so hard, a toddler still strapped to a car seat was thrown on to the lawn. the driver was on the street. >> the guy in the street and driver was yelling for help, find my baby, find my baby. we lifted up the fence and found the baby under the fence. one of us checked the pulse. >> thed the toddler did not survive. >> a female passenger sitting in the front was trapped and had to be cut out of the wreckage by fire rescue crews. >> the front passenger fe

burns' series, your face is on there a lot. how many hours did they tape? >> guest: it was kind of strange. i had two sessions at my house with ken and his crew, and i took them to shiloh and i took them to vicksburg and we did a little filming at shiloh and a little at vicksburg, but most of it was done right there in the sitting room at my house. i think he had maybe four hours of tape out of which he took what he wanted. c-span: how has that changed your public persona? >> guest: well, that's what it did change is my public thing. it vaulted me into the public attention, which had been minuscule before that, and i had all kind of reactions to that happening. but it sold books, and that's the glorious thing about it. the war stayed in hardcover but it also came out in vintage, which is a soft back subsidiary of random, and it took off like a skyrocket after this television program. c-span: up until that program, do you know how many copies were sold? >> guest: it sold rather well. it did well and it got good reviews, all three volumes, and was selling well. but it really took off after the television series. c-span: any idea ho