On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese pilot Takeshi Maeda approached Pearl Harbor on a torpedo run with a specific target in mind: the USS West Virginia. When the attack began, Takeshi successfully hit the West Virgina with his torpedo, watching the plume of water rising into air. As the planes circled the destruction they had created, the West Virginia had sunk to the bottom of the harbor after several torpedo hits. Takeshi's mission was accomplished...or…
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese pilot Takeshi Maeda approached Pearl Harbor on a torpedo run with a specific target in mind: the USS West Virginia. When the attack began, Takeshi successfully hit the West Virgina with his torpedo, watching the plume of water rising into air. As the planes circled the destruction they had created, the West Virginia had sunk to the bottom of the harbor after several torpedo hits. Takeshi's mission was accomplished...or…
On an island full of sacred historical reminders, perhaps none are more iconic than the USS Arizona Memorial. Visitors from around the world come to pay their respects to the 1,177 men who went down with their ship that fateful day. But to the diminishing few who were actually on Oahu the day of the attack, this monument represents more than just a story read from a page. In these short reflections, a few of the greatest generation share their…
Oysters were once so plentiful in the Chesapeake Bay that sailors feared running aground on the huge, reef-like beds that rose out of the water. Today however, over-harvesting and disease have pushed the native Virginia oyster to the brink of disappearing from these troubled waters forever. Fighting to save both the Chesapeake’s native oyster population, and in turn, their own way of life, a new generation of watermen and scientists has embraced the…
The sights and sounds of December 7th, 1941 left a lasting imprint on the military and civilian survivors who witnessed the attack that day. Almost every single one remembers exactly where they were, and what they were doing, when they first realized the island of Oahu was under Japanese attack. This short collection of visceral, tangible memories comes from a group of survivors who remember these events from over 70 years ago as if they happened…
Midori Takenouchi was just a young girl when her father was sent to fight in Manchuria by the Japanese Army in 1939. The only contact she and her family had with him was through carefully screened letters that arrived from the Manchurian front. Always optimistic and patriotic, these letters painted one picture of the war abroad. Eventually however, her father found a risky way to send his real letters home without being censored. These letters…
The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but our troops still aren't getting what they need. It's a scandal of enormous proportions that involves deceptive corporations and complacent government officials. But the biggest problem of all is that the people in Washington who could fix it continue to ignore it.
Between YouTube, Brightcove and the Huffington Post, this video has received over 200,000 views, and ranks as…
In one his last interviews in 2008, Mike Wallace tells Charles Lewis about his unexpected friendship with former Vice President Richard Nixon on the way to his 1968 election as president and his decision to become a 60 Minutes correspondent instead of possibly joining the Nixon administration. This video is part of the forthcoming Investigating Power project, which will be released on April 25, 2012, at InvestigatingPower.org.
In one of his last interviews, Mike Wallace talks to Charles Lewis in 2008 about his exclusive interview with Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. This video is part of the forthcoming Investigating Power project, which will be released on April 25, 2012.
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