from ken burns gettysburg gets 45 burns reached more than 40 million viewers the first time around as we've all read many times and it remains influential because it is replayed endlessly during pbs fundraising. we can we can hear it and see it. it's always there and apparently still popular or they wouldn't be using it. at least that's my suspicion. and lord joshua lawrence chamberlain's ascendancy in the popular imagination over the past 30 years also speaks to the impact of shar and burns when i came here in 1965. there wasn't even a path to the 20th main monuments. there was no signage that point you to the 20 that's main monument the booklet that the park service put out for the battle of gettysburg didn't even mention the 20th main didn't mention joshua chamberlain the hero of little round top was governor kemble warren. as we might suspect by who has a statue on little round top. oh guberner warren does and so does strong vincent and strong vincent has an ancillary marker as well. so fascinating example of how memory often deviates from what actually happened joshua lawrence ch

s. documentary maker ken burns has completed an ambitious film on the holocaust . it looks at america's response to the nazi threat and uncover some awkward truths . burns is documentaries, are hugely popular on us public television. he told d w, the holocaust related film is the most important he's ever made. here is more on his latest work. it is an epic come to taking a 3 part 6 hour series examining have the u. s. responded to the nazi threat and the holocaust at its findings are not always comfortable. we tell ourselves stories as a nation. one of the stories we tell ourselves is that we're a land of immigrants, but in moments of crisis, it becomes very hard for us to live up to those stories. the u. s. and the holocaust challenge is some of the established narrow and suggests some chilling echoes to today's world. the anxieties about urban is ation. about an lettered, untutored, relatively an educated peoples coming in in large numbers. the sense that disease was a problem. all of these worries were amalgamated into a belief that immigrants caused these proble

s. documentary maker ken burns turns his attention to the holocaust. he talks to d w about why he thinks it's the most important film he's ever made. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. a day after ukraine was hit by dozens of russian rockets, security services aren't reporting more strikes in the south and west of the country on tuesday. ukrainian authorities say at least 12 missiles of slam to 2 public facilities in the southern city of support is yep, killing at least one person explosions. set off a large fire in the area. readers are leaders of the group of 7 countries. the g 7 will hold a video called later in which they expected to reaffirm strong support for keith, including helped to rebuild ukraine's damaged infrastructure. following those latest attacks, people in keith have already made a start themselves. just hours after the missiles struck ukrainians got to work, cleaning up, determined to send a signal to russia. president phil automate. zalinski said the attacks had not a demoralized ukraine. in fact, quite the opposite was

documentary filmmaker ken burns also expressed profound respect for killer angels, something obvious and how he handled gettysburg in his overwhelmingly successful 1990 pbs erie's, the civil war. he devoted 45 minutes to gettysburg, far more than any other battle or campaign. vicksburg, in contrast, it's 11 minutes from ken verdicts. stones river or murphy years borough, of all the major battles in the war, witness the most casualties in the war, it got less than a minute from ken burns. gettysburg it's 45. burns reach more than 40 million viewers the first time around, as we've all read many times, and it remains influential because it is replayed endlessly during pbs fundraising. you can hear it and see, it it's always there. and apparently still popular, or they wouldn't be using, it at least that's my suspicion. and joshua lawrence chamberlain's ascendancy in the popular imagination over the past 30 years also speaks to the impact of char and burns. when i came here in 1965, there wasn't even a path to the 20th main monuments. there is no signage that pointed to the 20th main mon

so, the ken burns series that you mentioned is not just about the holocaust.at is what a healthy civil society does. it asked questions about the past. the putin system is a result of what you get when you don't interrogate the past, when you treat yourself as always innocent. when you don't ask about stalin, you don't ask about the alliance of hitler and stalin in 1939, when you don't ask about what the soviet union did in ukraine in the 1930's when millions of people were starve to death -- it shows how important history is because a regime like the putin regime will always insist that no matter what they do, they are innocent, because in their version of the past, they always were innocent. >> as we go forward, what are you hoping for for ukraine? what is next? >> the ukrainians have a very courageous and commonsensical reaction to the missile assault that the entire war -- they need to win. that is one of the lessons of the second world war. the right side needs to win. and the ukrainians have shown an extraordinary ways that they can bring their society t

he did participate in the ken burns documentary, joined the ken burns clubhouse. and i was very convinced, for example, that shelby foote accent and cadence so mesmerize people that even those of us who knew better were convinced by him. now, i'm a relative newcomer to texas, but i find that the entangled of storytelling with history embellishment, exaggeration, colorful observations as part of an oral tradition which may influence the texas born ute educated oates. in any case, he did begin writing on topics, but turned to a broader canvas to expand palette in questions. yes, learn about military operations sandboxes. but we certainly wanted to more about flesh and blood behind the bronze and marble. and when ken burns was looking for voices to bring this important to light. oates was only a handful of voices that he incorporated into his nine episode series during the 1990. also learned about the wars engulfing totally focusing on every of the communities scattered across the land a little more than villages in upper wisconsin, losing 50% of their male populatio

the person that you just put on air has aired seminal fascist police for years. >> as we watch the ken burnshat it was not -- the extermination was not limited to not see germany. russia and the soviet union did its own mass murders of juice. and so, this russian military is directly linked in its history to this kind of thing. >> very broadly, i think one of the things that distinguishes democracies that work from systems like the russian system is that we interrogate our own past. so, they can burn serious that you mentioned is not just about the holocaust. it is about the failure of americans to react to it. that is what a healthy civil society does. it asked questions about the past. the putin system is a result of what you get when you don't interrogate the cast, when you treat yourself as always innocent. when you don't ask about stalin, you don't ask about the alliance of hitler and stalin in 1939, when you don't ask about what the soviet union did when millions of people were starve to death -- it shows how important history is because a regime like the putin regime will always insis

tom: what i like about the ken burns series is that they're very, very good at telling a sad story.'t just go to vietnam and not laugh, right? there'laughter in vietnam. even in the war. there is friendship that lasts forever and good times and things you remember fondly. mike: the original bar at the tip of manhattan, where this incredible story of loyalty began, is long gone, but not the memories of the local boys from this neighborhood who were killed in vietnam. their names are memorialized in this church garden. it includes the name of marine lieutenant richard reynolds jr., who was killed before chickie could get him his beer. rick: first of all, this was uncharted territory for the most part. there weren't a lot of military installations that far north, and we were setting up and digging foxholes and so on and so forth. and then i get a message on the radio that i have to come back into the main perimeter. i walk in and there is a sergeant and i said, you called me back in? he said, i didn't call you back in, this guy did. ricky, how are you? what the hell are you doing here?

that's ken burns used that as one of the titles for his great series on prohibition a few years ago. it was just a tradition of really heavy drinking. it owreally began with when th pilgrims began on the mayflower . they got blown off course and were supposed to go to virginia and wound up in massachusetts and the reason they stayed on sure is they were running out of beer and they said we got to start growing something so we can make some beer to drink and it was a bad decision. probably influenced by alcohol. but anyway then you get things are going along and nk you think about washington and his men. they didn't always have food at valley forge but they almost always had run. and one of my favorite heroes of the revolutionary war is a man named francis marion on the low country of south carolina which is here near charleston. he was a continental army officer and the british had already captured savanna and were headed to charleston and he went to a dinner party that was hosted by someone else, some other officers in the army and the tradition of the time was if you had a dinner p

happened. >> if ken burns would like to say that to my face, i'd be more than happy to punch him out. >> we should've had him on this panel. >> i agree with peter. one of jackie's biographers also made that assertion. but i was told, not only by peter but others, i think that definitely a gesture like that occurred at least three stadiums. one of them would cincinnati. >> why would rex barney tell me that law sorry if it didn't happen? you asked can do that, will you? >> i think we should calm and have him on this panel like, now. jackie didn't mention it in his autobiography. you would think that he had mentioned it. >> jackie, i don't know if he took the kindness is for granted but he didn't congratulate white people for being nice to him. that's not who jackie was. you >> write, he told roger khan that after all the abuse he took he would come to his stanford home and go to the backyard and use a golf ball. because golf of our white. and he whacked it all around the place. that's how he laid out his aggression. because he was unable to really, unless there is one exception when he

well if ken burns, yeah to my face, i'd be more than happy to punch him out. yeah, we should have we should have all this down. that would i i agree with peter. and one of jackie's biographers also made that assertion, but i was told not only by peter but others i think that definitely a gesture of that occurred at least three stadiums. and one of them was cincinnati, why would rex barney tell me that story if it didn't happen you asked us. can you ask kenny that would you please and i will in fact, i think we should have we should have called him and had him on this panel like now because you know because it is to mean jackie didn't mention it in his autobiography. you would think that he would have mentioned that jackie jackie. i don't know if he took the kindnesses for granted, but he he didn't congratulate white people for being nice to him. that's not who jackie was. right, right. he he told roger khan that when he after all the abuse, he took he would come to his stanford home. go to the backyard and use a golf ball because golf balls are white and whack

service to learn more about the situation on the ground. answers to williams were working at the ken burns spirit, ensuring the safety of civilians and preventing the entry of sabotaging reconnaissance groups. for the most part, we work on preserving the lives and livelihoods of the local population. the spirit is strategically important at the moment. if there is any entry by ukrainian troops, they will be able to quickly relocate here and enter our combat positions. and our task is to prevent this. i think that the ukranian troops are working to intimidate us and shoot certain objects to calibrate our locations. however, we are also working on their positions, showing that we have the means to prevent them from entering here. there has been a hidden ukrainian cell in the village that is under our control and we recently arrested the participants and found explosives. they seek to provide a constant transfer of information from here. and we try to prevent this. we work with the local population. most of whom are loyal to us because we are engaged not only a defense, but also in humanitari

the original if it survives versus what was on the ken burns show. yeah, i'm not sure what the current thinking is on that either honestly. but i think is a problem. we all contend with it, especially with you know, we've talked about family archives. there's obviously that incentive to and you know, romanticize the memories of the relatives who fought in the war or any kind of relative for that matter and sometimes it's obvious. sometimes it's very subtle, but i think it's always an issue in these family archives and when you're dealing with memory the farther away, of course you get from the event the more carefully you've got to be dr. green. i'm curious. have you found anything in the pension files? oh because they often had to get somebody to write in a test or their service. yes. so the pensions been good. also the very records others whose children are taken or the civil war because they have to one go to the freeman's bureau office in virginia. they had to have affidavits by white members of their community. before the freeman's real even acc

worn new perfectly well that all likelihood what ken burns said the other night on television in a documentary about the treatment of the jews, that hitler's said -- hitler said in the 1930's, americans are complaining about the way we treat the jews? has anyone toward the south of the united states and seen how they treat black people? huh. well, the world knew that. people around the country began to know that, they understood that. you see it shift. my explanation in part, for a shift in the nature of the court not to relieve judicial restraint, but emphasizing basic human rights, emphasizing the need for a degree, perhaps more, of equality. now, the question is, you put it well. you have no appointments and is there going to be another -- what i call, a paradigm shift. i think the truthful answer, in my mind, as to whether there is going to be a big paradigm shift is, i do not know. some favorite, some are against it. you are there on that court for a while. the first five years you think, how am i going to do this? jesus, it is one thing to be on the court -- want to be on the court, and

and your piece in "the times," you quoted ken burn and other documentarians who said i can't just docross the wide range of human existence, another great documentary. but i mug u must say i agree completely with you. i saw the documentary after i heard about the controversy, and i must say the first 30 minutes i was uncomfortable as a person who supported the war on terror. i was uncomfortable going, wait a second, are these guys telling the truth? is this anti-american propaganda? did this really happen? we're letting these alleged terrorists, you know, run down the united states. and then you go to the -- and so i say that actually as a positive thing for the documentary because, like, great docs you get into the world view of everybody. and you go through this entire process. so i thought, like you and like many others, the attacks would come from the right, when, in fact, they make a lot of these guys i think far more sympathetic than most americans have ever seen since 9/11, since the gitmo controversies. >> oh, i very much agree. it's kind of fascinating that way, right. and y

some debate about how authentic the sullivan blue letter is, the original versus what was on the ken burnsshow. >> i'm not sure what the current thinking is on that either, honestly. i think it's a problem we all contend with. we talked about family archives. there's obviously that incentive to romanticize the family. >> when you're dealing with memories, the farther away you get from the event, the more careful you've got to be. dr. green, i'm curious have you found anything in the pension files for black troops, because they often had to get someone to write in and attest to their service. >> they have to go to the freeman office of virginia. they have to have affidavits by white members of their community and then they have to navigate the return to find them. they start seeing the pensions. a lot of these women, their children live until the mid '60s and '70s. as a result, some of these pensions are at the veterans affairs. i have had horror stories trying to get my own family's civil war pensions because they died in the '60s. it's not in the archives. it's the other ones who did not

so ken burns was nice enough to be interviewed for my book and he said in june of 2020 he had an optimistic take on transitions. he basically said that in the 233 years between, the time when washington handed the reins to adams and whomever, the successor to trump would be no arms had been raised. those shots had been fired. and there had been peaceful transition of power. all of that occurred this year. and so what we did in preparation for this transition, potential transition, we obviously didn't know who would the election was. we looked at history to figure out what lessons learned we could take from history to apply them to prepare for the potential of the most challenging transitions since lincoln took office. so we learned from ted that a lot can change in the country during the political interregnum. we learned as highlighted from the 2020 transition to 20 transition, that day counts. bush had 35 days compared to 7778. in a typical transition. and as josh said, that impeded his ability to get people into their seats. so eight months after bush took 911 occurred and that moment bus

ken wayne reports. >> when somebody dies that they donate their body to science, that they donate their organs. we might use their skin for, you know, skin graft surgery with burns. we might use their corneas for corneal transplants or their or their tendons. and nobody has ever harvested an aerialist before. so it's so exciting. doctor karen horton has been in the business of cancer reconstruction for well over a decade. the traditional techniques involve either a three-dimensional tattoo or folding the skin on top of itself to try to recreate the. now she's one of a handful of doctors in the country studying whether they can reconstruct a. >> using that once belonged to another woman. the aerial a complex crafter and they see graph is different. it's a female and areola. >> they process it. so all of the dna has removed. all the cells are removed. so there's no chance of rejection because there's no other immune system cells from another person. it's not an animal products. it's not made in a lab. and the more time a woman spends with her new them or her body will adapt over time. doctor horton says blood vessels and nerves will grow into the graft. >> meaning

ken wayne has the story. >> when somebody dies that they donate their body to science, that they donate their organs. we might use their skin for, you know, skin graft surgery with burns. we might use their corneas for corneal transplants or their or their tendons. and nobody has ever harvested nichols an aerialist before. so it's so exciting. doctor karen horton has been in the business of cancer reconstruction for well over a decade. the traditional techniques involve either a three-dimensional tattoo or folding the skin on top of itself to try to recreate the. now she's one of a handful of doctors in the country studying whether they can reconstruct a. >> using that once belonged to another woman. the aerial a complex crafter and they see graph is different. it's a female and areola. >> they process it. so all of the dna has removed. all the cells are removed. so there's no chance of rejection because there's no other immune system cells from another person. it's not an animal products. it's not made in a lab. and the more time a woman spends with her new them or her body will adapt over time. doctor horton says blood vessels and nerves will grow into the graft. >>

ken wayne with the story. >> when somebody dies, if they donate their body to science, that they donate their organs, we might use their skin for, you know, skin graft surgery with burns. we might use their corneas for corneal transplants or their or their tendons. and nobody has ever harvested nichols an aerialist before. so it's so exciting. doctor karen horton has been in the business of cancer reconstruction for well over a decade. the traditional techniques involve either a three-dimensional tattoo or folding the skin on top of itself to try to recreate the. now she's one of a handful of doctors in the country studying whether they can reconstruct a. >> using that once belonged to another woman. the aerial a complex crafter and they see graph is different. it's a female and areola. >> they process it. so all of the dna has removed. all the cells are removed. so there's no chance of rejection because there's no other immune system cells from another person. it's not an animal products. it's not made in a lab. and the more time a woman spends with her new them or her body will adapt over time. doctor horton says blood vessels and nerves will grow into the graft. >>

ken wayne shows us how that works. >> when somebody dies that they donate their body to science, that they donate their organs. we might use their skin for, you know, skin graft surgery with burnsheir corneas for corneal transplants or their or their tendons. and nobody has ever harvested an aerialist before. so it's so exciting. doctor karen horton has been in the business of cancer reconstruction for well over a decade. the traditional techniques involve either a three-dimensional tattoo or folding the skin on top of itself to try to recreate the. now she's one of a handful of doctors in the country studying whether they can reconstruct a. >> using that once belonged to complex crafter and they see - graph is different. it's a female and areola. >> they process it. so all of the dna has removed. all the cells are removed. so there's no chance of rejection because there's no other immune system cells from another person. it's not an animal products. it's not made in a lab. and the more time a woman spends with her new them or her body will adapt over time. doctor horton says blood vessels and nerves will grow into the graft. >> many of the patients natural color could return a

ken wayne shows us how it works. >> when somebody dies that they donate their body to science, that they donate their organs. we might use their skin for, you know, skin graft surgery with burns. we might use their corneas for corneal transplants or their or their tendons. and nobody has ever harvested nichols an aerialist before. so it's so exciting. doctor karen horton has been in the business of cancer reconstruction for well over a decade. the traditional techniques involve either a three-dimensional tattoo or folding the skin on top of itself to try to recreate the. now she's one of a handful of doctors in the country studying whether they can reconstruct a. >> using that once belonged to another woman. the aerial a complex crafter and they see graph is different. it's a female and areola. >> they process it. so all of the dna has removed. all the cells are removed. so there's no chance of rejection because there's no other immune system cells from another person. it's not an animal products. it's not made in a lab. and the more time a woman spends with her new them or her body will adapt over time. doctor horton says blood vessels and nerves will grow into the graft. >>

ken wayne shows us how that works. >> when somebody dies, if they donate their body to science, that they donate their organs, we might use their skin for, you know, skin graft surgery with burnseen in the business of cancer reconstruction for well over a decade. the traditional techniques involve either a three-dimensional tattoo or folding the skin on top of itself to try to recreate the now she's one of a handful of doctors in the country studying whether they can reconstruct a using that once belonged to another woman. the aerial a complex crafter and they see graph is different. it's a female and areola. they process it. so all of the dna has removed. all the cells are removed. so there's no chance of rejection because there's no other immune system cells from another person. it's not an animal products. it's not made in a lab. and the more time a woman spends with her new them or her body will adapt over time. doctor horton says blood vessels and nerves will grow into the graft. many of the patients natural color could return and even feeling, even though it's it was not the original nickel. it's possible that some of the connections between the, if it is an raj in his o

professor and colleague in the classroom, in his books, and as a contributor to documentaries like ken burns civil war. professor oates was, dedicated to bringing first rate historical scholarship to a broad public outside the academy. and he inspired many of his students pursue careers themselves as professors and writers. and now it is my great pleasure and honor to introduce the chancellor, the university of massachusetts amherst, kumble subbaswamy or swami, as he is known, became the 30th leader of the university massachusetts amherst in july 2012. a physicist by training swami is an elected fellow of the american physical society and the american academy of arts and sciences and has spent almost entire professional life at public research universities over the past ten years. under his leadership, the university has moved up significantly in national rankings, making umass amherst one of the fastest rising tier public universities in the research universities in the country. during my quarter century on the faculty of umass amherst, there been six chancellors and swami is both the longe