the conservators here at the national archives. and some of the items in the wallet were things like a social security card, his selective service notice, a service i.d. , because of course he was in the marine corps at one time. also, a fair play for cuba committee identification card, that was an organization he belonged to. let's see what else is interesting in here. other kinds of id's, a public library card. and so, all of these are just the contents of a wallet, just like you would have in your own wallet, whatever you have right now. this is something we would not normally make available, the researchers, that is why we have filmed it. mostly because of the wallet itself even more than the content. they agency also some photographs that the woman in the picture is his wife marina. there you can see his marine corps photograph as well. so, the next exhibit that our conservator is showing you here is fbi exhibit k-51, which was the camera used by mr. zapruder to take a very famous film of the assassination was probably -- whic

announcer: since july of 2017, the national archives has released thousands of documents related to the john f. kennedy assassination. many of them had been withheld by the cia and fbi for alleged national security reasons. the document releases are mandated by the records collection act of 1992 and will continue into 2018, so some of the documents contain redactions. up next, our visit to the national archives to learn about the assassination records and to see the artifacts, lightly harvey oswald's rifle, the so-called magic bullet and the eight millimeters film of the assassination. our guide is martha wegner murphy, who manages the staff that maintains the records. martha: the president, john f. kennedy assassination records collection was created because o f the act of 1992. so, a short history. it's the time of the assassination, there have been numerous investigations, starting with the warren commission and then congressional investigations. and of course the house select committee on assassination. in the early 1990's, there is a movie by oliver stone, and at the end of the mov

. >> this is an artifact that the national archives allowed us to videotape. oswald's guide map to mexico city. what is that? >> to my mind, there is what in many ways is the untold chapter of the kennedy assassination story, which is what happened when lee harvey oswald traveled to mexico city just several weeks before the assassination? i got to admit that when i went into the reporting on this book, i did not know anything about this incident in mexico city. this trip. but it may be very important. it's very clear to me that both the cia and the fbi were determined not to to draw what happened in mexico city, because it might've revealed just how much they had really known about oswald in the the weeks before the assassination and the threat he might post to president kennedy. it turns out that oswald went to mexico city apparently to get the visas and paperwork that would allow him to defect to cuba. much as he had once tried to defect to the soviet union. while in mexico city, while he is under surveillance by the cia in mexico city, he is meeting with cu

he also takes questions from viewers and the national archives director. the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided the video. patrick: good afternoon everyone, and welcome to the national archives foundation's virtual program series. i am patrick madden, the director of this foundation. we are going to open the treasures of the past virtually. i hope that you are receiving our american experience emails. and the history emails. if not, you can go to our website at archivesfoundation.org. before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. we want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. we'll be using the youtube chat function. i see that we have regulars here, and you know what i'm going to tell you. practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. we will give a shout out later on. i see a lot of folks from around the country. that is exciting. you do not have to wait until the end to ask your quest

so that's why we're here, that's why the national archives are here.when you get before president reagan, like we have lbj, that library, those are deeds of gift. so that president handed over the documents. and with the pra, with the congressional law that came in, the presidential records act that took effect, it goes back to the -- some of the things that we have to watch. we have to look at, and release the documents at an appropriate and timely manner. >> ek of. so we have a sort of follow up question, 12 years later, you know, next year, will everything get released? the answer is no because the archives goes through it, there might be -- a range of review protocols to take place so obviously some things will become available, but the review process will drive that, that's all a standard outline as the presidential library from the archives goes through its process. >> yeah, it's not a -- i don't want to give the impression that it's a light switch. again, for what i believe to be very good reasons, you know, the documents have to be looked at an

announcer: since july of 2017, the national archives has released thousands of documents related to theand fbi for alleged national security reasons. the document releases are mandated by the records collection act of 1992 and will continue into 2018, so some of the documents contain redactions. up next, our visit to the national archives to learn about the assassination records and to see the artifacts, lightly harvey oswald's rifle, the so-called magic bullet and the eight millimeters film of the assassination. our guide is martha wegner murphy,

i'm patrick madden, the executive director of the national archives foundation and we're really glad you've joined us this afternoon for a wonderful program. through the program we were able to share the tesh use. -- the treasures. this will afternoon you'll hear a lot about a texas who main -- made quite a bit of difference in our country's history. by now you have been receiving our american experience e-mails on tuesdays or our history snacks e-mails which are crafted with content for our young historians on friday and enjoying that content. we're delighted to launch the presidential library series today. some of you who have visited presidential libraries know about the archives, presidential library passport where you get stamps as you go around the country to the different presidential libraries. well, we're going to bring that to you virtually. while our museums are closed we sharet it would be fun to with these museums are like and insights throughout their legacies and start with the presidential library. before we do that we want to make sure you know how to ask questions a

through this program, the national archives, we are able to share the treasures. the doors are closed but the treasures are with you, the american people. this afternoon we will hear a lot about a texan who made quite a bit of a difference in our country's history. by now you have been receiving the american experience emails on tuesdays or our history snacks emails which are crafted for content for our young historians on fridays. we are delighted to launch the presidential library series today. some of you who have visited residential libraries know about the archives the passport or you get stamps as you go around the country to the different presidential libraries. we are going to bring that to you virtually here while our museums are closed. without it would be fun to share what these museum experiences are like around the country and what some insights are about these presidents and their legacies. today we will start out with mark lawrence. before we do that, we want to make sure you know how to ask questions along the way. next to the video you will see a

that is why the national archives are here.efore president reagan, like lbj, that library, those are deeds or gifts. that president handed over the documents, and with the pra, the congressional law that took effect, it goes back to some of the things we have to watch, we have to look at and release documents at an appropriate or timely manner. mr. madden: a follow-up question, 12 years later, next year, will everything get released? the answer is no. there might be a range of review particles that take place. obviously some things will become available, but the review process will drive that. that is all standard and outlined as the presidential library and archives goes through its process. mr. mordente: i do not want to give the impression that is a light switch. everything is out. for what i believe to be very good reasons, documents have to be looked at. mr. madden: i know we do not have a lot of time left but i do have good questions. are there any portraits painted by president bush on view at the museum? mr. mordente: t

as this case says, either the constitution matters or it's just a piece of parchment in the national archives. one thing though, sean, really interesting in this case, i encourage everyone to read this paragraph, we know there is a mass influx of mail in ballots. in georgia, 94 increase in mail in ballots. you'd expect the rejection rate to be higher this time around then in 2016 with all these new voters. but instead of being higher, it was 70 times lower and the statistical analysis done here in this case by an expert shows that if you had the same rejection rate as in 2016 in georgia, we expected to be higher. but if you just had the same, that would be a net gain of 25,587 votes for president trump, more than doubled the margin he'd need in georgia. a concise history of how democrats change the laws, eliminated safeguards, mass mail out ballots to change the system in the mass mail in experiment. >> sean: i'm having a hard time getting over that he got 15 million votes more than barack obama. i don't know. i'm kind of suspicious. i'm suspicious he got 15 million more votes than hilary too

important enough to come to the national archives. if it is important enough to come here, we need to preserve it for all time. we work with our conservators. we have access policies. we work with researchers. increasingly we are trying to digitize our records to make them available on the web so anyone anywhere can have access to the records of the national archives. you like american history tv, keep up with us during the twitter, andook, youtube. learn what happened this day in history. cspanhistory. >> next, on the presidency, the herbert hoover presidential library executor explains how the facility takes a broad look before,oover' is career during, and after his time in the white house. the national are caps on edition hosted the event and provided the video. >> i will be talking to the director of the herbert hoover presidential election. he served as the illinois state historian. it will be recognized with a number of professional awards and he will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln. are you there? i ca

he also takes questions from viewers and the national archives director. the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided the video. patrick: good afternoon everyone, and welcome to the national archives foundation's virtual program series. i am patrick madden, the director of this foundation. we are going to open the treasures of the past virtually. i hope that you are receiving our american experience emails. and the history emails. if not, you can go to our website at archivesfoundation.org. before we began, i want to make

here's the lead -- "an arizona group sent the national archives in washington, d.c., notarized documents intended to deliver, wrongly, the state's 11 electoral votes for president trump. mesa resident lori osiecki, age 62, helped create a facsimile of the certificate of ascertainment that is submitted to formally cast each state's electoral votes." she told the "arizona republic," "we already turned it in. we beat them to the game." so, the real electoral votes won't count because we sent in a fake set of them first! we were earlier! the actual arizona electors cast their votes for biden and harris today. and the fake republican electors and whatever they do, it doesn't amount to anything, legally, right? i mean, it's -- legally, i suppose it's possible the consequence of that might be significant, if they get charged with a crime for something having to do with forged government documents. but they weren't real electoral votes. the real arizona electors today cast the real votes for arizona. they did have to meet at a secure, undisclosed location, for safety reasons. same thing was true

but now because of our access to the library of congress and the national archives, we are able to go back and look in the archives and, in fact, abraham lincoln on that exact same date hand wrote an order for 300,000 soldiers, but he put it and he signed it, but he put it in his desk. so question is, was the reason for his extreme reaction, his fury not that there had been a fake story but that there had been a leak from the white house and he was wondering who had done it? who was so intimate to him that, they would actually do this? and one of the indications he thought it was a leak, is that his first action was to shut down the telegraph between d.c. and new york, which suggested he knew the information was real enough in d.c. that he could have been something that traveled up to new york. don't want to-- i give away too much, because it is quite a mystery. when i was doing the research i was sort of amazed at the twists and turns that it takes. so i do not want to take away from that. if you are considering following the story further. but i think that there is a couple of thing

the national archives hosted this event and they provided the video. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] dr. mitchell: i am elizabeth mitchell a new will talk about my new book lincoln's lies, the story in the research behind it. it's something that happened in 1864 when abraham lincoln was in the process of running for reelection. it talks a lot about what goes on with abraham lincoln and the press. now, it is a little bit of a different version of him than we normally are used to, because i think that everyone came up with the idea that abraham lincoln was this kind of simple illinois lawyer who was, just sort of a man of the people who was carried to the presidency but the reality is that abraham avvyoln was quite a s manipulator of the press. sometimes to humorous effect and wintimes purely to office or defeat his opponents. we're going to start back in 1861. abraham lincoln was setting off to

lawrence also answers questions from viewers and national archives foundation executive director a drick madden. the foundation hosted this event and provided the video. >> hello, welcome, everyone, to the national archives

the originals are in the national archives in washington, d.c.e have a replica of one of macarthur's pens. he used six pins to sign the document. ens.hose to use six prn he did this for a very simple reason. one that we still do today. away asd to give these souvenirs. he stepped up to the microphone and said simply, these proceedings are closed. he gave a signal. from the beginning of the ceremony until the end, 23 minutes. that is all it took to end the bloodiest conflict in u.s. history. we are back. we have now come to recognize this part of the ship for an event that happened in world war ii. it is a touching event and it tells you about the ship and its crew. okinawa, the of missouri saw herself under, causing attack. , cozz the word has a lot of feelings attached because of world war ii. it dates back to the 13th century. twice the fleet was wiped out by a typhoon. this was viewed as this was viewed as kamikaze, or divine wind. threat the missouri found itself facing in 1945. the starboard side is where we are standing currently. he came i

up next on real america from the national archives. fresh colors. using his own narration and archival footage, the filmmaker laments the soviet question of a 1968 student uprising in his home country. he went on to received many awards including academy and people. abby and has created animation for several pbs programs including sesame street. i was trained as a artist. after completing my schooling, i worked for several years as a artist and animator for czechoslovakia films. and then the russians invaded my country. now i'm a political refugee in the united states. my first job in this country was as a animator. my first assignment was to make a film about the american flag, because it was thought that i might bring a fresh vision to a familiar sight. here in this room i began my work, that would take me back in time and place to the late fall day when i arrived in new york city. to leave one life, and come into another, creates a moment of abrupt break. behind you is the iron curtain you have broken through. the long waits in the refugee camps,

the national archives in washington was a great source too because they have all the pension documents for all all servicemen these are not digitized so that required me making multiple multiple trips to to the national archives and they also have regimental histories there which i did make use of. before the war there was the african-american population wisconsin was scattered over the whole state, predominantly rural and small towns. there were a couple of communities i want to mention one was pleasant ridge community in in grant county near lancaster. this was formed by a number of families formerly enslaved in missouri and in in virginia who came together and found developed a farming community in that area the other one was cheyenne valley in rural vernon county and that one was community was made up of a multi-racial group white black native american and various combinations who moved there in the 1850s and 1860s. two other communities that aren't thought of very much but contributed quite a few um servicemen to to the united states civil war troops and to the army in the civil w

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the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided the video.atrick: let's get to it. today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the herbert hoover presidential library. he has been with the hoover library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois , state historian and went on to lincoln collection at the abraham lincoln presidential library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards. he will take a step back in time, not all the way back to lincoln, but to the time of herbert hoover. tom, are you there? i want to make sure we can hear you. are you with us? how are you doing today? obviously the library is closed. how is everyone doing? thomas: the staff is doing well. they are eager to return on a regular basis and we are eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when the opportunity avails itself, but i appreciate the opportunity. patrick: great. i know you have a great set of images and stories and tales. i have a feeling we have lots of questions. i will sign off. i

the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided it. >> let's get to it. today i'm going to be introducing and talking to the director of the herbert hoover presidential library museum, thomas schwartz. tom has been with the hoover library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois state historian and chief historian of the exhibit and content of the abraham lincoln, presidential museum where he directed the lincoln collection at the abraham lincoln presidential lube ra presidential library and editor and the be in of presidential -- interesting presidential words. it will take a step back in time. tom you're there, i see you. i need to make sure i hear you and you're with us. how are you doing today? >> thank you, patrick. doing well. >> how is everybody -- how's everybody in west branch given everything that we're dealing with in obviously, the lean raer is closed. how is everyone there? >> the staff is doing well. they're eager to return on a regular basis and we're eager to be able to safely reopen to the public when that opportunity avails i

to national archives or from colorado of course of the time i'm. going to assume and i said it is for the stylus i don't want to seem to. run on it i feel i mean anything if you ask this but i'll bring their. own master. you know when you go up in them people on the planet seem. to poison nail on the door sort of on person. is one. of the great. one. i love. so this is what. i did that i did you know that i. like you know but i don't know what. was up with. my new nike assume that yellow known i mean i look on my dying you can see. that. show your muscle no carcano my 3 months ago but the camera is a little opposition and i don't want those in quantity important enough for the government to see my you know that i mean i'm not being dumb as some of the. c.e.o.'s push and play an ok i. see 2nd going to ask them but in some. sort of those paid me. see me. some oh so now i mean they're in this opening to see the movie and then you see this is the end and it was he has his story you want to get in when i mean. you know all that she goes to this you can

downtown here in d.c., and also the unit records are in the national archives in college parki can't tell you exactly where that information may be located in either one of those. the individual service records would be either here in washington d.c., or if they also survived in st. louis. the unit records will probably be in college park. but also, the 369th henry is still in new york city. they may have some information. and there are a number of books written just recently, one of our scholarly advisers, they wrote the book on the rattler's, and if you go to the footnote, you will see a lot of where they got their information from. we keep talking about the 369th. i also want to you and our other viewers to know that 369 was only one of eight african american regiments that thought. and they get recognition for several different reasons. and because they are known, we do have a interpretation that really focuses on them. but they were just one eighth of the african american regiments that actually fought in the trenches. so when you say, companies, as a historian i can't te

national archives just outside washington d.c. 2 documents reveal a disturbing relationship between america and she is she the mastermind behind japan's biological warfare program unit 731. they show that after the war american military intelligence shielded the leaders. unit 731 from war crimes trials in return for their expertise in advancing america's then embryonic germ warfare plans information procured will have the greatest value in future development of the u.s. b.w. program so we decide that we're going to trade in this sort of of deal of we trade issues non-prosecution for his secrets which he smuggle out. and so the deal is made the trunks of of raw data arrive and in a sense we've sold our souls because we need to know that they were able to develop weapons that were capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people these once top secret documents reveal that to speed its program the united states paid ishi and his top germ warfare scientists handsomely for their cooperation they were assisted by direct payments payments in kind food miscellaneous gift items entertained. from 1

i had to apply through national archives.e president and first lady have the final say as to who the director of their museum and library are, so what you see here on the right is a timeline of the administration. terrorist attack's that occurred, the ones who were thwarted during the entire timeline. theou look at the center of screen in the cabinet in the background and look at the bottom of the cabinet, there is a square box. this is another one of my favorite artifacts. gun thatox is the saddam hussein had when he was captured. if you remember that phone clip of u.s. forces finding him and pulling him out of that hole, that was the weapon that he carried and that was presented to president bush. slide. we are very fortunate. we have an exact replica, and i mean exact replica of what the oval office look like the day that president bush left office. you see the desk there in the middle. presidents get to choose which desk they use. president bush chose the resolute desk. to the right you see a picture of a cowboy on a hors

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this compilation of film and audio recordings from many national archives sources was produced by theichard nixon presidential library in 2012. the documentary consists of films by the naval photographic center, super 8 films by nixon's advisors and white house communications agency sound recordings. south lawn, 17 fabric, 1972. 1972.ruary, [crowds] [applause] [beep] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> mr. vice president, mr. speaker, members of congress and members of the cabinet, i want to express my deep appreciation to all of you, who have come here to send us off on this historic mission. i particularly want to express appreciation to the bipartisan leadership of the house and senate, who are here. we, of course, are under no illusions that 20 years of hostility between the people's republic of china and the united states of america are going to be swept away by one week of talks that we will have there. that theecognize government of the people's republic of china and the government of the united states have had great differences. we will have differences in the future. but what

here's the document that mysteriously appeared in the mail in the national archives somehow got the pentagonrelease this thing and it is the beginning of the biological weapons arms race between the americans and soviet union because it says they are going to deceive the soviet union into thinking they've come up with a super toxic germ weapon and once they do that, the russians are going to waste their efforts. they did waste their efforts in fact we had a whole huge mass of the arms race because of this plan from 1949. so, you write a whole book and there's all these frustrations and documents if it's important you've got to post it on twitter. >> thank you to the harvard bookstore and welcome to the host. thank you so much. always a joy. >> thank you so much. this is truly lovely. thank you both you can learn more about this important book and purchase with the link in the chat and on behalf of harvard bookstore here thank you and have a good night, keep reading and everybody please be well. thank you. >> thank you so much, everybody. take care.

to restore the reputation of kassam say mommy is someone who for with us troops again cited a national archive i think by him is going to do that. but i do but i do think it is going to try diplomacy with iran and you know if you try to promise as i try to stay in the book i mean the mistake that off people often make is to run can be complex because they listen to the anti american ism of the islamic republic and its leadership and the thing that this means that they won't be able to negotiate with the best of the us it's not true it's never been true as you pointed out there has been many instances of not just the motion but military collaboration in afghanistan iraq and other places not the many americans arguably have told about that in the media just set the scene like you did in the book of where kos emslie money came from you talk about this province of command in the 170 s. half way between amazing western hub and sophistication and an ancient past. well still in money came from tribal areas of southern iran of cameron province my own mother's care months i had a personal connection to

national gallery. i was lucky enough to be in the archives. i found some small letters on a blue white house stationary, which i recognized immediately as jackie kennedy's hand writing. as i started to dig into the letters, she was in an argument with john walker over an art exhibition. but in the series of letters, no one mentioned the name of the painting. so i had to jump on a plane, flight up to the jfk library and within a few days, i figured out it was the mona lisa. i realized what's an incredible story it really was and that these letters have been forgotten. i really think a large reason the exhibition had been largely forgotten is because of the assassination. the other most remarkable thing i learned was how intent the candies were in creating a cabinet level position for the arts in america, much like we have in europe, in france with andre mehl rose, the minister of french culture this was a sincere plan on their part. in fact, plans were made later in the year to announce a arts cabinet position. >> excellent. i want to ask you,

the national archives hosted this event and they provided the video. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] dr. mitchell: i am elizabeth mitchell a new will talk about my new book lincoln's lies, the story in the research behind it. it's something that happened in 1864 when abraham lincoln was in the process of running for reelection. it talks a lot about what goes on with abraham lincoln and the press. now, it is a little bit of a different version of him than we normally are used to, because i think that everyone came up with the idea that abraham lincoln was this kind of simple illinois lawyer who was, just sort of a man of the people who was carried

the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided the video.atrick: let's get to it. today i am going to talk with thomas schwartz, the director of the herbert hoover presidential library. he has been with the hoover library since 2011 and before that, he served as the illinois state historian and went on to direct the lincoln collection at the abraham lincoln presidential library as an author and editor, his work recognized with a number of professional awards.

wrongdoing whatsoever, sloppy, sort of like sandy burglar, remember him, goes into the national archives, shoves documents in his pants in that area and his backside and his socks, he is just sloppy, sloppy. you have to give the left credit and i will give him credit. when they lie which is pretty often a lot, they have incredulous tenacious audacity. i will give them that. they lie with a passion, rampant hypocrisy doesn't end there. the election, tony bubbalynnski came forward with damning evidence about the international paper play schemes, invalidated by his own documents, his own emails and extensive report from senator chuck grassley of iowa and ron johnson of wisconsin, found millions of dollars in payouts 20 experience hunter, russian oligarch, ukrainian oligarch, burisma, national, bank of china, they found it all including money being transferred, despite a mountain of evidence the media ignored that story. big tech censored that story. remember the new york post, fifth-largest paper in the country marked for daring to report the facts. they have been vindicated. now that the e

the national archives foundation hosted this event and provided it. >> let's get to it. today i'm going to be introducing and talking to the director of the herbert hoover presidential library museum, thomas schwartz. tom has been with the hoover library since 2011 and before that he served as the illinois state historian and chief historif

it goes into the national archives and shows all these documents down his pants. then his backside into socks, is just sloppy. he took them, he sloppy. you do have to give the left credit. when they lie which is pretty often, a lot, they have incredulous, tenacious audacity. i will give them that. they live with passion. remember tony bobble and, our own tucker carlson had a great interview with him. damning evidence about the biden family international pay for play schemes and his claims were then validated by his own documents, his own emails and by an extensive report from senator chuck grassley iowa and senator ron johnson ron johnson from wisconsin. and that includes the money being transferred and everythi everything. big tech, they censored that story. the fifth-largest paper in the country. they been vindicated in the media feels more comfortable. all right, you you got him elected and no he will hide in the basement and we let him talk about it again. >> there is no evidence to support the claims about joe biden's son. >> hunter biden is undergoing an inv

the national archives hosted this event. they provided the video. ms. mitchell: hi. i am elizabeth mitchell and we are going to talk today about my lie, and the's process of running for reelection. it talks a lot about what goes on with abraham lincoln and the press. now, it is a little bit of a different version of him than we normally are used to, because i