i work in the national archives. i work -- i welcome you to this program. we have an ongoing lecture series to teach you about the records of the national archives and how to use them for historical research. we are pleased to have john emond here with us today. the title of the event is civil war voices. a bit more about the know your records program, we also do researcher newsletters, if you provide your e-mail address i will send you that newsletter automatically. it -- we do a genealogy fair and wheels of have a genealogy program taken place at the national archives building in washington dc. that happened several times a month. so, with that, i will turn -- give the biography for mr. emond. he retired in 2011 at the 30 years in government. most of it in contract technology transfer and project management at nasa. he is a member of the maritime committee with the maryland historical society. he is a collector of historical artifacts from the american revolution and civil war. including several civil war soldiers' letters which he will refer to in this pr

been in boxes for a couple of years at the end of the administration like cookies and things, the national archives isn't interested in getting those things. there have been good discussions over the years. but all the ornaments go to the national archives. >> wait a minute. is this a surprise? >> mrs. carter was disappointed she wasn't able to join us. she has fond memories. >> i'm going to burst into tears. >> oh! [applause] >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> this is the loveliest thing ever. >> thank you for solving the problem. we had been tearing the place apart looking for the ornaments. [laughter] >> that is so lovely. thank you. now, what to do with it now? put it next to your stocking. what an incredible surprise. how did you sneak that in? you all are sneaky. i'm deeply touched. i'm really thrilled and honored, thank you. all right. we're moving ahead. whoops, we are going backwards. now, i have a question, who is holding mrs. reagan's legs in this photograph? [laughter] >> at least i was holding the ladder. >> so colleen, the reagan years. >> well, i described them a little bit of holl

i work in the national archives. i work -- i welcome you to this program. we have an ongoing lecture series to teach you about the

so i continued my treks to the national archives. i went through 500 boxes and found bits and pieces of the story in a variety of record groups and once i saw the story once i had the narrative in my mind i understood i had a book so i found an agent and we got a publisher and i wrote it. >> host: is this written so that the layman can understand? >> guest: it is written for the layman. it is a narrative. i'm a storyteller so i know people like to read about other people. so i chose three scientists to focus on my main scientists who i talked about earlier. he is a very interesting, was a very interesting man. a very good man. he grew up a par -- poor farm boy who didn't want to farm so to get out of farming he studied biology. he went to indiana university and studied biology and he said repeatedly totally by accident he tripped into malaria which i could identify with but ended up getting a fellowship to go down and study the swamps in leesburg georgia as a limb knowledges. a limb knowledge is a someone who studies freshwater. he wa

. >> so, enough about the business of the national archives. let's talk about the business of tonight. it's my pleasure to introduce the two speakers you'll hear from this evening. first, harold holzer, who is a lead are authority on lincoln and the civil war. he is chairman or the abraham lincoln bicentennial organization. honored for his work he has earned second place lincoln prize for "lincoln at keep union" in 2005, and in 2008 was awarded the national humanities medal. he is senior vice president at the metropolitan museum of art. joining him will be frank bond. frank has produced award-winning document riz on topics ranging from the role of the press in the civil rights movement and the berlin wall. on issues like bias in the media, -- there's none of that, is there -- n two buy graph wall sketches of juniorism. frank was a member of the team that created the museum's new museum gallery an interactive look at the role of media in journalism today. so without further adieu i'm delighted to yield the stage and podium to our guests, harold a

so i just, i continued my treks up to the national archives. i went through r50 0 boxes and found -- 500 boxes and found bits and pieces of the story in a variety of different record groups, and once i saw the narrative arc in my mind i understood that i had a book. and so i found an agent, and we got a publisher, and i wrote it. yeah. >> host: is this written so that the layman can understand? >> guest: it is written for the layman. it is a narrative. i'm a storyteller, so i know that people like to read about other people. and so i chose three scientists really to focus on. my main scientist is lowell who i talk about, who i talked about earlier. he's a very interesting, he was a very interesting map. he was a very good man. he grew up a poor, poor farm boy who didn't want to farm. and so to get out of farming he studied biology. he went to indiana university and studied biology and he, you know, he said repeatedly totally by accident he tripped into malaria which i could identify with because it was totally by accident for me too. but he ende

the national archives, bless them, i have dedicated the new book to them given 40 years of work on those tapes, they have gone through so they could release the tapes and make them public, every single conversation. it is a godsend. they don't transcribe them that at least gets you into the substance to release them because they withhold anything that is personal or national security, they listen to every conversation, get the people speaking in the conversation and the images of the conversation. when i started the new book that we are here to talk about they hadn't digitize this yet, but i was able to manually go through all their subject logs and found a thousand watergate conversations. the next thing i looked to see is how many of those had been transcribed. this got a little depressing because there were not as many as i thought had been transcribed. the watergate special prosecutor did 80 conversations, 12 of which were really good because they were used in the big trial of former attorney-general john mitchell, white house chief of staff bob haldeman, former assistant john ehrlic

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so i with is that the national archives. and i would work with the archivist who helped me through the process to find records. there is whole room as large as this. one binder after another you are tracking the contact number the scientist had so during world war ii of is trying to track that down and it took three days. i knew the call numbers and one hour later i had the box and there was nothing in there. i had never done archival research proposal is started to flip through and i came across a memo that was written to the lead public health official of massachusetts and a cast the federal researchers could come into effect patients at the psychopathic hospital with malaria to use drugs against the infections that the outcome of the war was at stake the war department was experiencing horrendous casualties because of malaria and they needed as a drug and the science community was pitching in and would be allowed the patience to become a part of this and he said yes. so boston in psychopathic was one of the half-dozen that

i'm not particularly pleased to be giving this talk at the national archives wonderful repository of old books and manuscripts and the reporting of this book i became a great lover of archives, going to the institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. i got to see a lot of these old documents myself. there's nothing like seeing an original document and being able to touch it with your fingers and see it with your own eyes. it's really a wonderful service that buildings like this provide and providing access to these materials. so i'm going to dive right in here with a reading from the +e i start with the first sentence from the first chapper so there's nothing you need to know going in. then i'm going to talk a little about the strange character forbes smiley who i got to know very well over the past three years and then show you some images of some of the maps that he stole particularly focusing on the virginia and wash d.c. area. let me dive right in here. this is the beginning of my book "the map thief." e. forbes smiley ii couldn't stop coughing. no matter how much h

the national security archive, it was the first organization to be known publicly as nsa. his organization is what i call the good nsa. the other nsa is the national security agency who was into our private phone calls and read our mail, and are a core component of our secret government that has done everything possible to fight and to my requests for access to their historic records. peter kornbluh has for decades been in the forefront of filing requests and occasionally legal suit to obtain declassification and release of highly classified and hidden documents. the role of the good nsa is chasing our store records, trying to pry open the hidden hands of the bad nsa, and most of the covert agency is, and our national archives that have layers of classification and secrecy. peter kornbluh has been responsible for major projects at the good nsa and has extracted records. this is my definition of a hero. vital records have been obtained of the nixon kissinger overthrow of the chilean government in 1973 and, and his book was entitled "a declassified dossier on atrocity and acc

this 40-minute film was chosen to be preserved in the national film registry of the library of congress and was recently restored by the national archives. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the joy of my soul ♪ ♪ since jesus came into my heart >> thank you, soldier. my prepared text today was to have been make thy name be remembered in all generations. i think i'm going to depart from my prepared sermon. while i was listening to the sergeant's solo, i kept looking up at our service flag. i was thinking of the men who serve us. i see some of them here this morning. private roberts, sergeant jackson. lieutenant carter. and -- and -- >> private parker. first class. >> first class is right. i was over at the uso the other night and i met somebody i hadn't seen in quite a long time. the last time i saw this man, well, one of my members treated me to a ticket to yankees stadium to see joe lewis. versus max mailing. in 1:49 an american fist won a victory. but it wasn't the final victory. no, that victory is going to take a little longer and a whole lot more american fists. now those two men that were matched in the ring that night are matched again. this time in a fa

. >> so, enough about the business of the national archives. let's talk about the business of tonight. it's my pleasure to introduce the two speakers you'll hear from this evening. first, harold holzer, who is a lead are authority on lincoln and the civil war. he is chairman or the abraham lincoln bicentennial organization. honored for his work he has earned second place lincoln prize for "lincoln at keep union" in 2005, and in 2008 was awarded the national humanities medal. he is senior vice president at the met

i went to the national archives and watched the outtakes the footage that huston didn't use in the movietematically discarded anything that looked too clean, too perfect, too hollywood. that is the mark of a very smart filmmaker and really understood that war movies were going to have to look different than how they had looked until that point. so as a document of filmmaking history, i think it's fascinating, and as a war document as a document of the length -- the lengths to which the army would go, including stretching or ignoring the truth, i think it's also a really important part of america's war daughter is the award winning filmmaking history. >> and of course john huston's daughter is thecs award winning actress anjelica f(s%Ñhusto in,. did he fully understand the work that it had later in his career? >> i think that, you know,.ljwÑ hustonwñ enough to understand that he was absolutely revered and venerated as a director. unlike many of the other directors that i wrote about, huston directed vigorously until the very, very end of his life. not all of the movies he made were good.

existence. 15 are in british institutions, one is in the australian parliament, one is at the national archives. there are only four copies of the so-called 1215 version a 1217, 1225 and a 1297 version. there are only 17 left. and the reason is 800 years, its's hard to file things away and keep them. and lots of times they were burned and other things, but the library of congress now has on display one of the four 1215 copies. it's very rarely in the united states. and i encourage everybody to take a look at it and see that they can. even though they didn't go into effect and abdegaited by king john and the pope, some did become the law of england, still on the books of england. without the 1215 we wouldn't have the 1297. so if the magna carta had said that the united states should televise their proceedings we would do it then, right? >> didn't king john say that? >> i thought he did. >> i do agree with you. there will be a lot in the television. not if you've seen the way in which the cases are argued and people respond, i suspect, though it's self-serving but i think it's true that people ta

minister as saying his nation in china have agreed to maintain the status quo over the senkaku islands in the east china sea. files released on tuesday by the british national archives showed the remarks being made to late british prime minister margaret thatcher. the two met in japan in 1982. the document quotes suzuki agreed that the two countries should cooperate on the basis of their major common interest and leave aside differences of detail. suzuki says they both agree to maintain the status quo over the senkakus without discussing the matter concretely. abe and he told thatcher the issue is effectively shelved. she was due to negotiate with china over future of hong kong which was british crown colony at the time. the document says suzuki persuaded her to hold direct talks on the basis of his own experience. a senior japanese foreign minister official denies the existence between any such deal between japan and china. he told nhk the mintry has not confirmed suzuki's remarks. he says there has never been any agreement with china to shelf issues regarding the senkakus. and there is no change in position that the islands are part of japan's territory both in te

now, in the national around kentucky documents -- archive documents that i mentioned i spent quite a bit of time examining, i found fantastic records from 1960. for those of you with long memories, you may remember the pivotal event in 1960 was the capture of adolf eichmann in argentina by the israelis in a bold secret mission that no one in the u.s. or anywhere else knew about in advance. they can kidnapped him from a bus stop not far from his home as he was returning home from work and they swept him out of the country and back to israel to stand trial in what would become one of the great famous trials of the 20th century, and he was ultimately executed for his role as the architect of the final solution. now, the raid made headlines, of course, around the world, but for otto von boll she slipping, this was a terrifying moment. he was worried that his name was going to come out at eichmann's trial and, in fact, he was right. it came out several times. eichmann credited him as one of the early pioneers of the anti-jewish policies, and he was worried that the israelis were going to c

. >> i found a document in the national archives the first time it's public disclosed in the book it'sance in which american intelligence has an interrogation with a top nazi spy inside of italy who ran all of their recruitment and he draws up a chart who was running the nazi intelligence system inside italy. there is the name nugaro under milan, the name of the person running the bank. it raises the question was the top money man during the war actually a spy for the nazis, a double agent, dealing with the nazis in order to turn intelligence over to us? the reason you can't answer that question 100% i can only raise the question is michael, the vatican stiff armed me in nine years of research. i applied to get in they rejected me. i asked to talk to dozens of people they turned me down or ignored the requests. and i'm asking through you, here on cnn, with an international audience on pope francis if he is serious about reform with all due respect to open those files up. release the holocaust files inside the secret archives release the vatican's world war ii files buy pius xii so all

one is in the australian parliament and one is at the national archives. there are only four copies of the so-called 1215 version. there was a 1217, 1225 and 1297 version. then some others. there are only 17 left and the reason is, it's 800 years. it is hard to file things away and keep them and lots of times they were burned and other things. but the library of congress now has on display 1 of the 4 1215 copies. it is very rarely in the united states. i encourage everybody to take a look at it and see it if they can, in part because, even though it didn't go into effect and was abrogated by king john and ultimately the pope, it was the basis for the subsequent magna cartas that did go into effect, the 1297 one did become the law of england and it is still on the books of england. so without the 1215 we probably would the not have had the 1297. if the magna carta had said that the courts of the united states should televise their proceedings, you would do it then. right? >> didn't king john say that? >> i thought he did. >> i do absolutely agree with you. y

i'm not particularly pleased to be giving this talk at the national archives wonderful repository of ooks and manuscripts and the reporting of this book i became a great lover of archives, going to the institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. i got to see a lot of these old documents myself. there's nothing like seeing an original document and being able to touch it with your fingers and see it with your own eyes. it's really a wonderful service that buildings like this provide and providing access to these materials. so i'm going to dive right in here with a reading from the +e i start with the first sentence from the first chapper so there's nothing you need to know going in. then i'm going to talk a little about the strange character forbes smiley who i got to know very well over the past three years and then show you some images of some of the maps that he stole particularly focusing on the virginia and wash d.c. area. let me dive right in here. this is the beginning of my book "the map thief." e. forbes smiley ii couldn't stop coughing. no matter how much he tri

. >> in the national archives, there are substantial academics who profoundly do not get it that he didmuch -- >> go ahead. >> i overheard african-american academics at a recent panel discussion demean lincoln's role in the extinction of slavery saying that he had a limited role in eliminating slavery. that is a cause of concern today. they want to knock down the reputation of the emancipator because they view him as slow to the game, too little, too late. >> certainly, that view has been around for a long time. one of the things that i was trying to do with the book is to understand what the criticisms are, and look at the issue of influence. i think that view has influence. i have a friend who is at the new york historical society with in the last couple of years, and he overheard a tour guide pooh-pooh'ing lincoln's role. that is unusual. you know, i understand that criticism. but in some ways, it strikes me as simplistic. the civil war was the most incredibly complex time in american history. i don't know what else to say to you. >> the thing is, african-americans did more to for th

it was hosted by the national archives. >> in the words of young jeezy, let's go to work. you know i thought we would start this the way we usually end these things. by saying thank you. this is the week when we recognize the service of people who have served our country in uniform. our country in uniform. and all of you served in public service so i'm going to start by saying thank you. is that okaying? >> yo

it was hosted by the national archives.+wb >> in the words of young jeezy, . let's go to work.the way we usually end these things. by saying thank you. this is the week when we recognize the service of people who have served our country in uniform.d our country in uniform.0)i8 and all of you served in public x

is kind of an extraordinary letter, and i remember when i came across it in edinborough in the national archives of scotland i thought just how extraordinary it was. you see, what's extraordinary is really two things. first of all the fact that it was the date of it. and this was written remember, in june/july 1774 some nine months before the revolution actually began or, rather nine months before the war began. nine months before the battle of lexington. and yet already clearly lieutenant colonel leslie was bent upon violent suppression of what he saw as an uprising. the vitriol was written, and the question is, therefore, what exactly was it that made the british so vitriolic about what was going on in boston? of course, it was the tea party, no question. leslie had been in boston on the night of the tea party and what he had seen was what he thought was a complete and utter announcing of royal authority -- announcing of royal authority that amounted, in effect to high treason. what i'll be doing this evening is talking about why it was the british thought it was high treason. that's in not so

i'm not particularly pleased to be giving this talk at the y national archives, wonderful be repositoryuscripts and the reporting of this book i became a great loverreport of archives, going to the going to the in institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out ofy.aking i got to see a lot of these old documents myself. t there's nothing like seeing an docu original document and being able to touch it with your fingers and see it with your own eyes. it's really a wonderful service th your that buildings like this provide and providing access to these bu materials. so i'm going to dive right in here with a reading from the dive rig beginning of my book. i start with the first sentence from the first chapter so there's nothing you need to know going in.th then i'm going to talk a little ch about the strange character forbes smiley who i got to know very well over the past three years and then show you some images of some of the maps that he stole, particularly focusing on the virginia and wash d.c. area. let me dive right in here. fo this is the beginning of my book "the map thief.

it was hosted by the national archives. >> in the words of young jeezy, let's go to work. you know i thought we would start this the way we usually end these things. by saying thank you. this is the week when we recognize the service of people who have served our country in uniform. our country in uniform. and all of you served in public service so i'm going to start by saying thank you. is that okaying? >> you're welcome. [ applause ] >> and i'm thinking that there are others here who served if you served in any of the administrations represented here, will you be known to us? will you just briefly give us a little wave? [ applause ] and we say thank you. thank you. we'll talk about the whole relationship between the media and press secretaries. if there are any press secretaries here, whether you served on capitol hill or in the white house, elsewhere, can we make yourself -- and if you especially returned my phone calls, thank you. and if you didn't well, thank you anyway. okay. any press secretaries here? thank you for coming. thank you, thank you. [ applause ] it's a

this film by the way, courtesy of the national archives. go ahead jeanine. caller: good morning.ave a comment. i took my 17-year-old son to see "selma" this weekend because i fully believe that when i was working for my master's i got more detail about african-american history in our country as opposed to she, who is an 11th grade and he gets a gloss-over. so for "selma," for me it was to give him some information so that he could make some of his own assessments. incidentally, i think that's missing from what we are seeing how some children react to some of the decisions that have occurred in the media. with that being said i want to know why there's a point of contention for viewers as a historian. i don't expect the president solely,sic-handedly to implement any law. we see that with the gay legislation as well as the history of civil rights. a partnership i disagree with the caller who said without lyndon johnsons it wouldn't having civilrights. it might have taken longer. but when there is an outcry, we tend to see legislation enacted. not the other way. can you speak to tha

the brazos. 59 delegates eventually signed this. there were three hispanics that signed it. one of them was a mexican national lorenzo de zavala, for whom the archives and library building is named. there was also jose francisco ruiz and jose antonio navarro. as we talked about before, stephen f austin and moses austin, his father their hope for texas was to colonize it and make it a very prosperous place but this was mainly a dream for white colonists who came from the united states and from some european nations. the same promise was not necessarily available to people of other ethnicities. if you were of african descent you have basically no rights. this is a really fascinating document. basically a letter of safe passage. we might call it a passport for emily west, who was a free woman of color from new york who had come to texas before the texas revolution with captain morgan. during the revolution, she was trying to return home to new york and got this letter, which would have allowed her free passage. in the meantime, she was captured by santa ana and detained for a while. a myth grew out of this story that somehow she was a woman who had dis

one of the things that we have done, we are hiring folks for that facility and we have hired some folks from th smithsonian and national archives to help us one of the folks who is overseeing that effort, oversaw the effort of moving artifacts for the smithsonian from new york to the american indian museum here. >> what are your top restoration priorities, what are things that this team wi the most focused on? >> the things that we are most focused on as a category are the high risk artifacts. those artifacts that are organic, paper, uniforms that type of thing which are very highly subject to large temperature and humidity swings. those are the things that we highlight first. in a macrosense, one of the things that we'll be conserving and restoring in the year coming up, this year, is the u.s.s. constitution. she'll be undergoing, beginning a 30-month overhaul on the 20th of march of this year at boston that's number one. >> historic navy yard where she was born in fafact? >> yes. >> youmuseum here is one of the finest in all of washington. if not the country for the breadth of its collection, the amount of stuff locateted in

the controversial film "birth of a nation." >> each week,"reel america" brings you archival films. is film examines tensions following the creation of the state of israel. >> the most explosive of these the state of israel. israel was born a mid-turbulence and bloodshed. it became a separate nation after the british withdrew from palestine in 1940. it was immediately attacked by its neighboring states, who resented the new nation and contended its creation to be illegal. israel successfully beat off

nation's history. american artifacts, 20 museums and u. s. sites. history bookshelf with the best_known american history writers. lectures in history with top college professors delving into our nation's past. our newest series, reel america with archival footage. c_span 3, created by the cable industry and funded by your local providers. >> each week, "american history tv"'s reel america brings archival films the health of the story of the 20th century. ♪ >>in a gathering of 10,000 before the memorial of the great emancipator, president truman strongly advocates freedom and equality for all u. s. citizens. >> recent events have made us realize that it is more important today than ever before to ensure that all americans enjoy these rights. [applause] when i say all americans, i mean all americans. [applause] our immediate past is to remove the remnants of the barriers which stand between millions of our citizens and their birthright. there is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry or religion, or race, or color. [applause] ♪ >> next, anderson university prof. brian dirck look for abraham

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the policies and legacies of our nation's commanders in chief. lectures in history with top college professors delving into america's past. hour new series real america featuring archival government and educational films from the 1930s through the 70s. cspan three. created by the cable t skrrks industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. liesk us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> president obama delivers his state of the union address on tuesday, january 20th to a joint session of congress. now american history tv looks back to 1975 and president jerald r. ford's state of the union speech which was dlifed eddelivered five months. he told the congress that he didn't expect much applause because as he said, quote i've got bad news. he detailed the opportunity ricountry's economic and energy woes blaming in part the ever increasing government benefits. he urged his country men to move in a new direction. president of the united states. [ applause ] >>> mr. spugs ub,seaker, mr. vice president, members of the 94th congress and distinguished guests, 26 years ago, a freshman congressman, a young fellow with lots of idealism who was out to change the

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the video archives. >> this thing called youtube. >> youtube. thank you. >> thanks, tony. >> hundreds of thousands of people turned out in industry lan can to witness history. pope franciscan nonizing the nation'sfirst saint. >> reporter: more than half a million sri lankans joined in prayer with pope francis. many camped out overnight with extended families as what they described the biggest day of their lives. they traveled to the capitol in the south. >> i've never had a chance like this. it's a privilege to be here. >> for hundreds of thousands of people who attended mass here in colombo it was a chance of a lifetime. to see the head of the catholic church and be blessed by him. >> he wanted to revive the church amid persecution by the dutch colonizers. hymns were sung in several languages while over 1,700 priests took part of the mass. the 78-year-old pontiff dubbed the people's poem, said that reconciliation is important in a country struggling to come to terms in the end of 30 years of civil war. >> respect for the sacredness of life respect for the dignity and freedom of order and commitment to the welfare of all. >> catholics are a minority in sri lanka. they hope that good is created

the policies and legacies of our nation's commanders and chief. lectures in history. and our new series real america featuring archival government and educational films. created by the cable tv industry. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >>> we take you to manhattan as mourners gather. vice president joe biden was among those who came to pay their respects yesterday at the wake for governor cuomo. reporters said the line at one point stretched one block up madison avenue and around the corner. some of mr. cuomo's grandchildren came outside to greet mourners as they waited. this is live coverage on c-span 3. ♪ >>> the funeral mass for former new york governor mario cuomo will get underway shortly. this is live coverage. former president bill clinton and former new york senator hillary clinton are expected to attend. the hearse carrying the casket has arrived in front of the church so the funeral should begin shortly. >>> good morning. please stand. ♪ >>> the grace of our lord jesus christ, love of god and the holy spirit be with you all. >> and with your spirit. >> in the partners of baptism

the entire day. i think we are relearned so much. i've been inspired by my visit to national archivesy as i brought my young children looking at the constitution. i wanted but what would be the west use of my 12 minutes today. of course that the difficult question. i've been exploring a number of questions but i thought that might be best toocus exactly on what has been sort of teed up for me which is this interaction between state level programs and the executive. and his relationship comes out the most for me and my work in him om our mental and federalism programs. as gillian and others make a difference in the amount of attention given to the of state dissent within the cooperative federalism program states are often pushing back against aggressive federal actions with obama actions providing the a case in point in the environmental realm. i'm often trouble, however that these discussions seem a bit narrow sometimes where they are focusing only on one aspect of this very complicated federalism relationship. not only exploited in sort of a status moment in time but also just one si

national captioning institute which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> each week, american history tv brings you archival films that help tell the story of the american century. the battle of the bulge happened on december 16, 1944 in belgium, luxembourg, and france. a key crossroads village standing between the german army and their objective, the port of antwerp. the big picture episode from 1965 telling the story of the desperate fight around the small town from the perspective of men from both sides who were there including lieutenant will rogers junior. this half-hour documentary is narrated by actor robert taylor. ♪ >> on the 18th of december 1944, the conflict that would become the battle of the bulge was two days old. it had started with a huge german counter offensive planned with a strict timetable. by the 18th, two panzer armies should have reached the river, driving toward their objective antwerp. instead, thousands of hitler's finest troops were fighting to take a small town in belgium. a junction of roads and railways, the key to success for the counter offensive was the timetable. a key to the timetable was st. vith. ♪

the vatican secret archives contain the church's records back through the centuries, including evidence relating to sexual abuse cases from the early middle ages to the present day. as a sovereign nation, the holy see cannot be compelled to hand over its original documents or any copies held by their embassies worldwide. the only hope for those representing victims of sexual abuse is to sue individual dioceses. that was how jeff anderson was able to subpoena crucial correspondence between monica's former archbishop cardinal dolan and cardinal hummes, prefect of the congregation for the clergy in rome. >> we have evidence that archbishop dolan got express permission from the vatican to move $57 million from diocesan funds into a "cemetery trust," and that permission was given by the vatican almost immediately. >> narrator: two key words in latin from cardinal hummes said it all: nihil obstat. "nothing stands in your way." with these two words, the vatican allowed the diocese to protect its millions from further legal claims of abuse victims. >> to me, it was designed to do one thing: to keep the archdiocese and the vatican from having to account for their crimes and complicity in them.