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Local War Stories: Francis Murphy
September 7, 2007
Francis Murphy veteran, WWII

In support of PBS' national premier of Ken Burns' The War, the WGBH Forum Network and WGBH Online have co-produced a handful of short interviews that capture the memories of local veterans of WWII.

These interviews are conducted at the Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service Senior Center in Brighton, MA and are a part of Mass Moments', Mass Memories series.

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Yaron Brook: Why the Forward Strategy of Freedom Had to Fail
Yaron Brook
01:47:29
As an expert on foreign policy and the Middle East, Yaron Brook is interviewed for his answers to a range of questions related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the war in Iraq, the Iranian threat and Totalitarian Islam and terrorism.
XWhaves: Where is The Digital Wave Taking Us?
Jonathan Wells
02:11:20
Members of the new media revolution join together for an active, open discussion of citizen journalism, personal media, video blogging, and the convergence of digital storytelling methods with a new era of novel, inexpensive, worldwide distribution and other aspects of the ever-changing landscape of
Writing on the Walls: American Prison Writing
H. Bruce Franklin
01:40:59
PEN New England's Freedom-to-Write (FTW) Committee, and the Cambridge Forum, host Writing on the Walls, a panel discussion about writing in, from, and about American prisons.
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Writers on War
Sean Hemingway
01:26:41
Sean Hemingway, who has just edited a collection of his grandfather's writings titled Hemingway on War, shares his insights with Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory, and James Webb, author of the acclaimed Vietnam novel, Fields of Fire.
Writers Among Us: Seth Jacobs
Seth Jacobs
01:06:37
Seth Jacobs argues that a midcentury religious revival in America, as well as policymakers' racist perceptions of Asians, led the United States to support the disastrous, autocratic Diem regime in South Viet Nam.
Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane
Tom Crouch
01:11:09
Tom Crouch, expert on the Wright Brothers and senior curator at the National Air and Space Museum, discusses how Wilber and Orville Wright started revolutions in transportation, warfare, leisure, and communication, and changed how we all see our world: as a whole.

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