so that she would get herself committed to blackwell's island which is known as roosevelt island, eastriver off of manhattan. of. and it housed an insane asylum a hospital, a prison. it was not a good place. nellie wanted to investigate the conditions there and she got herselves incarcerated for ten days. what she found out was many of the women were immigrant women who couldn't make themselves understood. they were imprisoned at blackwell's island just because they couldn't make themselves understood. she found a lot of appalling abuses of power there. doctors who seemed to be sexually soliciting nurses, patients who were mall flourish, her editor got her out in ten days so she could write the exposÉ. but nellie bligh was a pioneer of this investigative journalism. >> mawsheemaureen corrigan thanu very much. >> thank you lisa. >> why did they get rid of arguably the best player in history, just before the world cup? i'll ask the coach when i speak to him next. and we'll explain in our data dive next. next. arrested >> these people have chased a president from power, they've torn down

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island. this was a decision that had been made by roosevelt and churchill themselves personally at the arcadia conference in washington, which was going on the times must condemn. now, i try not to be to second-guessing when i read about things. but it seems elemental cost that of is coast, about a week or so behind. the animals in charge of the atlantic fleet might have said, maybe we better hold off sending this, for ireland and then to be better put these 15 destroyers on a patrol screen along the coastal shipping lines. no order was ever given. the convoy is still on schedule surrounded by a ring of steel, and a scholar of american merchants and allied merchant sailors began. it is one of the most baffling situations in in my years of researching industry. another baffling thing is that nobody was ever out -- held accountable for this incredible lapse in judgment. got shuffled in buried under the reams of reports on the other works on the events. anyone who, the report does how take place a year before the allied war effort. but it is also still scrambling among many how to fight the war t

roosevelt. a particularly damning detail was that on the date this message arrived in the -- to every command along thelet thick coast there were 15 frontline atlantic fleet destroyers tied up in staten island, new york, awaiting final orders to take an allied troop convoy from new york to northern ireland. this was a decision that had been made by roosevelt and churchill themselves personally at the arcadia conference in washington, which was going on at the time this message came down. now, i try not to be too second-guessing when i read about things and put information together in a chronology. but it seems elemental that knowing that at least 15 u-boats were either arriving on station off the east coast, or were a week or so behind, i should think the admirals in charm of the atlantic fleet might have said, maybe we'd better hold off sending this convoy to ireland and maybe we better put the 15 tee destroyers out in a patrol screen along the shipping lanes. but no order was ever given. the convoy sailed on scheduled. surrounded by the ring of steel, and the slaughter of american and allied merchant sailors began. it's one of the most baffling, just -- i don't know -- excisions i've ever

islands, was out of the navy by january of 1942. pretty bitter because he took the blame, the politicians in washington created it -- the roosevelt administration created a commission and asked congress to investigate what happened at pearl harbor and who is to blame and the roosevelt administration had complete control of this blue ribbon commission and roosevelt simply asked the house and senate, they complied. and somebody has to be blamed and it felt to walter short who is head of the army at the hawaiian islands in january of 1942 and husband kimmel even though the navy has done a number of studies and reports afterwards to complete the -- i have one of them here, exonerate these two men and our own government, the military code, and the u.s. embassy in washington going to the white house and the war department but it wasn't going to kimmel or short or any of our overseas commanders but macarthur has the advantage because he had been told by every means possible, short wave radio, telegrams, wire services radio, all these other installations have been hit and yet he does nothing. macarthur was a political legacy, his father won the congres

islands who was out of the navy by january of 1942. and lived his life understandably pretty bitter because he took the blame. the politicians in washington created the, the roosevelt administration quickly created a commission and asked the congress not to investigate what happened at pearl harbor, how it happened and who was to blame, basically. the roosevelt administration had complete control of this blue ribbon commission. and roosevelt simply asked the house and senate not to initiate their own investigations, and they complied. and, you know, it is that in politics when something goes bad, somebody's got to be blamed. and it fell to walter short who was head of the army at the hawaiian islands who was also out by january of 1942 and husband kimmel. even though the navy has done a number of studies and reports afterwards that completely exonerate -- i have one of them here -- completely exonerate these two men. and as a matter of fact, our own government handcuffed them because we had not yet intercepted the japanese military code, but we had intercepted the diplomatic code. and yet the material we were getting that was coming into the u.s. embassy in washing