macarthur questioning macarthur. i talked to a former, well, he's now deceased four-star general who went over with the chief of staff staff of the army joe collins. and they went and met with macarthur and the entire time macarthur pace back and forth and lectured to them about what had gone on and how successful this was going to be and what was going to happen and they couldn't get questions in. and finally macarthur broke the meeting off and they they started leaving this as the chief of staff of the united states army joe collins and collins tearing to general bolte and he said, you know what the problem is. he still sees us as captains because they were captains when macarthur was chief of staff of the army. and he still saw himself as their boss went in fact. that wasn't the case collins was his boss. he just didn't get it. and so he pushed farther and farther north by october. they began to see the presence of chinese. and all of a sudden they came in huge huge numbers and by november. we were struck we were

and they're now in macarthur memorial. this is headline. this is from a magazine article from around 2015 and the headline just sums up people's attitudes here in america regarding tokyo. somebody had to hang for the pacific war. maybe the man who started people were by that time told you try to kill himself accounts of the of the treatment of japanese how they treated allied pow w's was coming out and great details and newspaper and magazine articles. and people were just outraged in a sense and especially people that lost loved ones in the pacific war. um, they really wanted tojo alive the american authorities. they wanted him a lot because they had already decided going in that the emperor would not be put on trial for war crimes truman administration. felt that if they went after the emperor for war crimes that was going to make the occupation work a lot tougher and might even cause japanese people to rebel and to carry on the war. so they decided now, we're not gonna go after the emperor which elevated tojo to public

to macarthur we will. recover the military initiative and get just above the 38th parallel and call for a ceasefire and negotiations at that point. so this is the new american strategy at the same time. they endorsed the military buildup. to support the defense of europe and the ability to protect american interests more broadly. and what this involved is? quadrupling of the defense budget which is laid out in some detail in the book. an expansion of the strategic air command doubling the number of long-range bombers that we had from roughly 520. to 1082 by 1954 sending four additional divisions of troops to europe naming dwight eisenhower's a supreme allied commander in europe transforming the nato alliance. into a really functioning defensive alliance with war planning sections and commitment of forces and so forth so there's a huge buildup including a massive expansion of the cia with the largest part of the expansion going to covert operations. so it's the chinese intervention triggers the review which

then he follows macarthur to panama. macarthur is there really to form a philippine army, defense force, in preparation for the island's eventual independence. eisenhower is given the day-to-day work of building an army from scratch, again, invaluable experience. i know we need to get moving, so next slide, please. at the end of this career of really hard work and a lot of ambitious, of course culminates in his appointment as the supreme commander of the allied expeditionary force. his supreme moment of june 6, 1944, the d-day invasion, which i think think is the moment that -- at that moment people knew he was probably going to be president some day, just the respect that he had and the reputation for competence and leadership. it was pretty obvious that this guy was someone to look out for politically. here is that iconic photograph of eisenhower with the men of the 101st airborne the night before the invasion. and he kept a copy of this picture on his desk the rest of his life, whether as president or as a private cit

this happened on 5.18 and the macarthur that we have video from the scene earlier. you can see the party bus. it has multiple bullet holes in it. there's shattered glass and that's why since he was shot multiple times investigation has spanned over several different areas. so they've been trying find the casings. find out where exactly was shot. talk to people who were on the bus talk to people who are off the bus trying to figure out how this all happened. you can see that video of the scene right there. we're told this was a birthday party on the party bus. they were celebrating and again, they were shot at several times. now, this is just a very scary situation. you can only imagine police are currently surrounding the party the corners on scene here chp is apparently taking over the investigation because it did happen on 5.80 near that macarthur exit. and so they're here and there over by the freeway. they were walking up and down the freeway trying to get gather more information, more information war of the evidence and they shut it down for a long period of ti

and then he follows macarthur to panama. and macarthur's there really to form a philippine army and defense force in preparation for the islands eventual independence and their eisenhower is really given the day-to-day work of building our an army from scratch again just invaluable. experience i know we need to to get moving so next slide, please at the end of this career of really a hard work and a lot ambition, of course culminates. his appointment as the supreme commander of the allied expeditionary force. in his supreme moment. on june 6 1944 is the d-day invasion, which i really think is the moment. that at that moment you could people knew that he was probably going to be president someday. just the respect that he had and the reputation for competence and leadership. you know, it's pretty obvious that this guy was was someone to look out for politically and here's that iconic photograph. of eisenhower with the men of the 101st airborne the night before the invasion and he kept a copy of this picture on his desk the re

general macarthur is using many of his reinforcements from the south.st wave hits the beach. because of the 30-foot tide poll, landing craft in the first waves must be run assure in a period of one hour before high tide and two hours after. the first troops landing here will have to stick it out alone until the next tide, 11 hours later. a bulldozer smothers a red dugout. >> a fire fight begins. all the reds haven't been driven off by the bombardment. captives are stripped to pre

so that anytime there's a question or issue that he can go and really work between macarthur and and kazan and help. build up the philippine army as they're trying to prepare to become an independent nation. and frankly his skills of diplomacy are honed quite well while serving under macarthur who was probably not the easiest of bosses to work with. world war ii rolls around it's already been by the time the united states invades north africa on november 8th 1942. it's already been a roller coaster for fried. he's gone from being a colonel just two years prior to being in a general in charge of a major offensive. and the difficulties are set right off. when they land they're not landing as an army of occupation. they're landing saying as once who are trying to free. the french people in colonies so that they can join the allied effort. and this difficult is it arises from the military head of the vichy french government? that's admiral. gene. francis are long. every eisenhower's had brought a french general general girod. they removed it had him removed from france and put him with t

with field commanders macarthur maps to drive to cut japanese communications north of their strongholds on late day. the enemy puts up a bitter fight to hold on without the combined and closely integrated operations of both army and navy in the philippines. the enemy might have succeeded in his desperate attempt to throw our forces back. here but now it is too late here guarding operations in the philippines a vast american naval force battleships carriers cruisers destroyers submarines and swarms of planes patrols thousands of square miles of pacific waters. the navy awaits the enemy hoping that japanese sea power will come out of hiding for the first time in nearly two years. aiding the actual landings in the philippines here is the seventh united states fleet commanded by admiral thomas kinkade. to the north is admiral halsey's third fleet. warning comes the japanese formations are approaching kincaid prepares to attack in two directions. halsey who has been harassing the enemy in formosa now sends down a task force from the north. navy planes wing into the attack while halsey engage

law actually was general douglas macarthur who said that this was the greatest military achievement in all of history the russian defeat of the nasties i mean they played a central role that was acknowledged 'd at the time and i consider myself primarily a pacifist but there are some wars that are justified and standing up to nazi ism is one of them and i attended the victory parade several years ago in moscow was a wonderful experience it wasn't an over the top celebration of militarism it was a celebration of russian standing up for russia and against nancy tyranny so maybe we should exalt them for actually doing this and i think anybody who has a sense of history would probably agree that we do and should thank the soviet army for what they did. still do you them is it a little weird the orders to have a lot of people look at them going oh my god that's just a bit much seems aggressive to all those soldiers on the streets all those tents inside iraq. i could see them thinking that because they don't understand what russia where it went through during world war 2 1st of all honest he

too many americans were thanking the russians you know douglas macarthur saying this the greatest military chief in history f.d.r. gave speeches praising the russians even james james so you know this is just a rewriting of history to meet the present moment where there is this attempt to drum up patriot against russia and to pick everything negative you know so see everything russia is being negative and not to give them credit for anything positive it was acknowledgement that it comes down to just part of this when you don't towards a cold wars or suggesting you know i was going to say it just comes down to a convenient enemy a convenient enemy and not only are some hawks in the u.s. government add by the way some in russia as well playing that game it gets more difficult more complicated and maybe more dangerous when the media steps in and cheerlead that type of narrative gentlemen we're out of time my thanks to you for joining us on this day and for helping us through this conversation we appreciate it. yeah and there is something going on once again in that clash between the palestini

too many americans were thanking the russians for you know douglas macarthur saying this the greatest military chief in history f.d.r. gave speeches praising the russians even james james so you know this is just a rewriting of history to meet the present moment where there is this attempt to draw a patriot against russia and to pick everything negative you know so see everything russia is being negative and not to give them credit for anything positive it was acknowledged and it comes down to just part of this money went towards the cold wars or suggesting you know i was going to say it just comes down to a convenient enemy a convenient enemy and not only are some hawks in the u.s. government and by the way some in russia as well playing that game it gets more difficult more complicated and maybe more dangerous when the media steps in and cheerlead that type of narrative gentlemen we're out of time my thanks to you for joining us on this day and for helping us through this conversation we appreciate it. yeah and there is something going on once again in that clash between the palesti

too many americans were thanking the russians from you know douglas macarthur saying this the greatest military chief in history and our gave speeches praising the russians even janse chains you know this is just a rewriting of history to meet the present moment where there is this attempt to german patriot against russia and to pick everything negative you know so see everything russia's being negative and not to give them credit for anything positive it was acknowledgement that it comes down to just part of this when you don't get towards a cold war as are suggesting you know i was going to say it just comes down to a convenient enemy a convenient enemy and not only are some hawks in the u.s. government and by the way some in russia as well playing that game it gets more difficult more complicated and maybe more dangerous when the media steps in and cheer leads that type of narrative gentlemen we're out of time my thanks to you for joining us on this day and for helping us through this conversation we appreciate it. yeah and there is something going on once again in that clash betwee

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the firing of macarthur the the good things that macarthur did there that truman was supportive of ultimately he overreached we tell that story from a soldiers point of view. we have a couple of really marvelous collections, but truman decides early on in that second term in 1950. he writes a note to himself saying i'm not going to run again. he could have run again. he he was grandfathered into the you know, the the limitation that was during his term. but he had decided not to run and it's probably just as well. he wouldn't have won. anyway, most likely by the end of that term. he was pretty unpopular because of the korean war. he i think my can you i'm sorry, i think my screen has gone a little wonky here. can you see? just the screen. we can still hear you and you can still see just say okay my somehow my my email has come into interview in a way that i didn't necessary want to make that part of your experience. i apologize for that little snafu there but moving on if as he goes through the war, you know, people are very critical of it and and it becomes a problem in that. you know, you'v

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macarthur refused to admit they might enter the war.omehow there was a big intelligence failure and they did enter the war. they came in the nighttime. the chinese crossed the river, surrounded the u.n. troops, and proceeded to defeat them. they basically got the shit kicked out of us and north korea. host: on the idea of intelligence failure has there been a teaching failure when it comes to teaching the history and the lessons of the korean war? do you think enough americans know the history you went through when it comes to the korean war? caller: americans don't know the history. they don't realize we basically got defeated over there. after the china landing the north korea army was pretty much finished. when the chinese entered the war it was 300,000 men army on the other set of the river. macarthur -- he thought there was no chance the chinese would enter the war. host: thank you for the call. a few comments from social media from viewers. michael saying it was the first war under the nuclear umbrella where there was no desire to

working on macarthur's staff, he basically becomes the point of contact for the philippine president and any time can g there's -- heo actually has an office right next to the b president so that any time macat there's a question or issue that he can go and work between and kazon and help build up the philippine army as they're trying to prepare to qi become an independent nation. and, frank lishgs his skillsrouy honed while serving under invad macarthur who were probably not the easiest of bosses. already world war ii rolls around. rolle by the time the united states invades north africa on novembes 8, 1942, it's already been a roller coaster for ike.n he's gone from being a colonel just two years prior to being as general in charge of a major offensive.s an a the difficulties are set right off. as when they land, they're not landing as an army of occupation. people they're landing as ones who ares trying to free the french people in colonies so they can join the allied effort. this difficulty arises from the military head of the vici frencn government.leet sosenhower had brought a

general macarthur said this about the battle in moscow. effort market as the greatest military achievement in all of history. this is what people can do. in a dark hour, the will to victory found. the fighting unity of china, england, the united states, the soviet union, all the other free peoples must, can, will ensure final victory. the restoration of world liberation. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] >> you can watch archival on our weekly series real america saturday at 10:00 and sunday at 4:00 eastern. here on american history tv. ♪ >> this week, we are looking back to this date in history. >> it was all most two years ago in june 1972 that five men broke into the democratic national committee headquarters in washington. it turned out that they were connected with my reelection committee and the watergate break-in became a major issue in the campaign. the full resources of t

our own jenna moma arthur -- general macarthur said this was the greatest military achievement in allland, the united states, the soviet union, all the free peoples, must ensure final victory. on all of us rests the mission of world liberation. ♪ >> you could watch archival films on public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series, real america saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. >> sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern julia sweig talks about the influence the first lady had on lyndon johnson's decision-making. she also discussed her life after lbj's death. ♪ >> in washington dc, violence corrupted in the halls of congress. three men and a woman believed to be part of a puerto rican nationalist gain in november 1950 attempted the assassination of president truman from the visitor's gallery of the house of representatives. five congressmen were hit. ben f jensen of iowa, clifford davis of tennessee, to -- can roberts of alabama, george h fallon of alabama and robert bentley of michigan who was seriously injured. observers noted the attack cam

general macarthur said this about the battle in moscow, the scale and grandeur of the effort market asnity of china, england, the united states, the soviet union, all the other free peoples must, can, will ensure final victory. and all of this rest the mission of world liberation. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] ♪ >> american history tv on c-span3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story, every weekend. today at 2:00 p.m., all are for -- oliver halley recalls is time in vietnam. tonight at 8:00, the american art culture, films of the 1970's, with university of dayton professors john heitman and todd oldman. that is on oral history. charlotte henry with her experience during the more. sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on reel america. the 1972 film documenting president nixon's trip to china, the first from a u.s. president ever. then, visit transfer -- san francisco to tour the streets of chinatown, exploring

her sisters were traveling to a memorial service for a relative when she was stabbed to death at macarthur b.a.r.t. station, again in 2018. the 29-year-old suspect in that stabbing was found to be insane at the time of the stabbing so the bronze sculpture arrangement will be placed in the center of this museum. folks can anticipate expansion of capacity within some of the bars in san francisco. bars are allowed to open indoors at 25% capacity, also increased for gyms, wineries, restaurants and tasting rooms. those are all at 50% capacity indoors. our crews are out last night during the first night of business within the new tier. many business owners said this move was a welcomed one and counting down the days until the june 15 date, the date governor newsom set for a total reopening. >> it's nice to come inside and have a drink. it's a small step but feels like a big weight. >> we know each other so it really becomes a focus of the community. >> reporter: and as we've been saying all week and really last week, entering this yellow tier could really be a domino effect for a lot of those bu

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around this evening, they were able to waive off a group that tried stopping at high street and macarthur. the aim is to keep this up through the rest of the year. in oakland, sergio quintana, "nbc bay area news." >>> now to denouncing anti asian attacks and promoting unity. across the nation and right here in the bay area. people yesterday joined together united with that one goal. this rally in oakland drew politicians and community members from all backgrounds. speakers included mayor libby schaaf, actor daniel wu and california attorney general, who announced the formation of a racial justice bureau in the department of justice. after the rally, people gathered and took out their whistles blowing them in a new effort to prevent attacks. >>> monday is the new federal tax return deadline, tax day was pushed back by a month because of the pandemic. most delayed deadlines for state tax returns to may 17th. request your extension until october 15th. >>> still to come on "today in the bay" at 7:38, the big basin devastated by the massive wildfires of late last year. coming up at 7:45, a new

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couple things, there is chp activity and fire crew activity north bound 880 at 80 as you head to the macarthur maze. an earlier vehicle fire, everything is out and being put over to the shoulder. just know it's out there. a blip on our censors as you work into the altamont pass, slight slowing west bound 580 around grant line. other than that the rest of 580 is very quiet. >>> i am anne makovec at the live news desk. a live look at the state capitol in sacramento, it will be a big day with the governor issuing the biggest package in history to the legislature history. it's called the focome back. he spent the week highlighting things with it with the tax rebate in the form of direct checks to californians, largest small business relief program in the nation as well as help for homelessness and public schools. he will present all of it at 10:30. we will be on top of it and carry it live on cbsn bay area. >>> bears home in the north bay wilderness after roaming streets of a neighborhood. hed o than thrhours. ficers ma bag ep the in the tree while they seplan to get it out safely. it eventually m

we believe some of the shooting took place on eastbound 580 between macarthur and seminary. that section of the road was shut down for several hours. it has since reopened and more shooting again at 68th and foothill. we can seashell casings on the ground and the party bus ended up here at the eastmont substation. i asked chp about any suspect information, they don't have anything or not putting anything out yet. we don't know why or what led up to this shooting. >> a whole bunch of young women trying to enjoy they selves and someone -- took her life. >> reporter: that was the stepmother of the 19-year-old girl who was killed and i also spoke to the 19-year-old's grandmother, she told us her granddaughter was a young mother herself, her baby is turning 3 this coming saturday. reporting live here in oakland, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> very sad. thank you, bob. >>> in the meantime, chp in the south bay searching for a gunman who opened fire on a car yesterday on interstate 880. it happened at about 2:30 in the afternoon near the great mall in milpitas. it shut down a n

the man was a major at the time and he later became general douglas macarthur. so that's it. >> so you are saying that general john j pershing literally pinned it to his chest, that was major douglas macarthur who fixed it. >> yes, took it out of his skin. >> that is, in fact, quite a ceremony and awarding of that medal of honor. later, the awarding of the medal of honor wouldn't necessarily occur on a battlefield while people were still -- as you can see, this is an image from our collection of the newspaper that actually goes through and talks about that day from those, we saw it -- who saw it themselves. that is not necessarily how that occurs in later years. there is a wonderful picture of berkeley with the matter as well as others. kathy, could you tell us a little bit more about that mystery of how people end up, how these are now awarded? >> absolutely, i would be delighted to. just a little background for those of you who are watching and may not be terribly familiar with the medal of honor, the medal of honor is the highest military award that this coun

the driver through about 8 to 10 miles from 5.80, in macarthur at 1230 this morning and took all these people who are wounded here to eastmont station. the oakland police department to get help. i mean, just in same story here. police are currently surrounding the party bus is completely riddled with bullet holes. there are multiple scenes. the shooting surrounding the police station right here next to the eastmont town center and where the bus was shot at on eastbound 5.80, near mcarthur family members on scene told our camera crews it was a 21st birthday party and the birthday girl was shot in the leg. this has not been confirmed by police or chp. but we're waiting to hear from them to hear more about the victims, how they're doing in the hospital recovering who this one person is who died on scene here. so stay tuned. we know a tow truck just arrived to take this party bus from the scene. the chp is leading this investigation because it did happen on highway 5.80. and so they will be the ones giving us that update. but truly just an insane and horrific story. darya james. i mean, th

that's is a different times for you know truman fired macarthur. and 1951 and of course aston had to testify testified nine straight days about this and when he was done, he had a press conference and action said i am now going to test the human capacity for alcohol. yeah, and you can you imagine a secretary of state saying that today, but it was a different year. yeah, and you you can get away with that kind of. stuff, you know one of the things i find very very interesting about your work and your take on this is that you know, most americans probably don't think of this except like right now when we have a new administrations because there's a fair amount of turnover, but there's always there's always this question of who's the best who are the best people to put around a president that somehow we have this sense that those who surround the president? are very important they wield a lot of power a lot of influence. we want, you know, good judgment all these qualities that we care about. and if i read you correctly, i think that you know as much

it was an army colonel who leaked to pearson the material about general macarthur in korea that macarthurad ignored the intelligence reports that the chinese were building up along the river and had moved forward. the source within the pentagon. when government agents would come to quiz pearson about his sources he would look at them and smile and say, my sources are at the top level of your agency. [laughter] in other words, your boss leaked this to me. elizabeth: amazing. all right, our next question is from catherine miller. she says on wikipedia there is a claim pearson worked with the eisenhower staff to publish information on joe mccarthy. have you found any evidence of that? and she has a second question, do you feel anything pearson wrote had an impact on later policies, i.e. public outcry that led to any change in laws? don: in terms of the second one yes, many of his issues eventually were enacted into law. the column was credited with saying when he started to get public opinion behind something it created inevitability to some of the movements. sometimes he initiated things, s

this is a person who has a macarthur award, pulitzer award, two polk awards, a peabody award and threemuch less one individual. to talk about the kind of absurd overqualification for tenure and then the response of the board becomes even more inscrutable in face of that. the real -- it's who they chose to grant tenure to and how those people's credentials match up two years, five years, match up to that of the accolades that professor hannah jones brings to the table. >> the thing is, the idea that somebody with the macarthur genius award and pulitzer would not get tenure, it's absurd. it doesn't sound like it could be real. the reason she wouldn't get tenure is because some conservatives are offended the way she's doing journalism and history because she won't do the sing song rose color glasses and america is america, columbus sailed the ocean blue that has been taught, i don't know what that says about this country and academia. what does it say? >> i will tell you what it says. it says you cannot produce scholarship and journalism that takes a critical view or eye to this nation's

for four years he worked with macarthur who was commander in chief of the philippine army to help thef the 15th regiment. ♪♪ ♪♪ in the dark spring of 1940, german armored divisions were crashing through harlem and belgium. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> they were streaking its destruction through europe skies and beleaguered britain standing alone. the united states had passed the selective service act to prepare for what inevitably lay ahead. and the biggest challenge in colonel eisenhower's life was to aid in that preparation. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> late in 1940, he was made chief of staff where his staff brought him assignment as chief of staff of the 9th corps. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> in the summer of 1941 colonel eisenhower became chief of staff to general walter krueger whose newly organized third army was preparing to participate in the most realistic war maneuvers yet held by american troops. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> in these maneuvers over the louisiana countryside as america fought to train its growing army of citizen soldiers, eisenhower's task was to work out a plan of defense against an invading, mechanized force. [ shots fired ] ♪♪ ♪♪ >

know to to make this four month journey, but that's true and susan of course had married samuel macarthurwho had 20 years of experience in the trail trade and by the time he married susan 20 years his junior if you will, he was very well established very well wealthy and the macarthur he was also very well connected and during that army of the west invasion. his brother was used to help pave. way for the army of the west to enter into new mexico and because he knew the politicians and the military officials of mexico not only in santa fe, but also down in chihuahua as well. interesting um again, i want to encourage our audience if you have any questions for joy. it looks like we have one. that just came in. as you were reading and doing your research on these first-hand accounts. what was the biggest question you had? for what? you could not find the answer. hmm you know, i don't know that i have preconceived notions when i've done the research on these brides. i've been interested in the history of the santa fe trail for decades and at i guess in the twilight years of my career, so to sp