2008 Events
01.10.08
James Campbell
The Ghost Mountain Boys
They marched through dense, tropical jungles and over a towering mountain peak without maps. The air was choked with humidity, the swamps were full of ...
The Ghost Mountain Boys
They marched through dense, tropical jungles and over a towering mountain peak without maps. The air was choked with humidity, the swamps were full of ...
01.17.08
Forrest Bryant Johnson
Phantom Warrior
He was too weak to farm, so he was sent out into the swamps of Georgia with a sling-shot, told to bring back whatever he could for the family to eat. Years later, ...
Phantom Warrior
He was too weak to farm, so he was sent out into the swamps of Georgia with a sling-shot, told to bring back whatever he could for the family to eat. Years later, ...
01.24.08
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Hershel "Woody" Williams
Five foot six was too short for the Marines in the fall of 1942, and barely tall enough a few months later; on the island of Iwo Jima, with the American forces taking ...
Hershel "Woody" Williams
Five foot six was too short for the Marines in the fall of 1942, and barely tall enough a few months later; on the island of Iwo Jima, with the American forces taking ...
01.31.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
The War on Terror: Progress or Regression?
As we approach the 5th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, where do America and her allies stand in the "Long War" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world...
The War on Terror: Progress or Regression?
As we approach the 5th anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, where do America and her allies stand in the "Long War" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world...
02.07.08
Heidi Squier Kraft
Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned In A Combat Hospital
Tales of the fearsome camel spider are told throughout Iraq. In truth, it is about the size of a human hand, and it is quite fast. It runs at five miles an hour, ...
Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned In A Combat Hospital
Tales of the fearsome camel spider are told throughout Iraq. In truth, it is about the size of a human hand, and it is quite fast. It runs at five miles an hour, ...
02.13.08
Stephen Coonts
A Conversation with Stephen Coonts
It is a riveting tale of aerial combat that unfolds at supersonic speed, but Stephen Coonts' best-selling novel Flight of the Intruder was actually a long ...
A Conversation with Stephen Coonts
It is a riveting tale of aerial combat that unfolds at supersonic speed, but Stephen Coonts' best-selling novel Flight of the Intruder was actually a long ...
02.21.08
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Brain M. Thacker
One soldier had to stay behind. The small observation team at Fire Base 6 was under heavy fire and vastly outnumbered, and two helicopters were shot down ...
Brain M. Thacker
One soldier had to stay behind. The small observation team at Fire Base 6 was under heavy fire and vastly outnumbered, and two helicopters were shot down ...
02.28.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
High Schools, Military Academies & JROTC: On Target, or Off the Mark?
What role should the US military have in over 3200 high schools across the United States? How does the City of Chicago maintain and support the largest and ...
High Schools, Military Academies & JROTC: On Target, or Off the Mark?
What role should the US military have in over 3200 high schools across the United States? How does the City of Chicago maintain and support the largest and ...
03.06.08
James Megellas
All The Way To Berlin
We return to the men of the 82nd Airborne Division in late September 1944, after the capture of the bridge at Nijmegen, Holland - a battle whose story one CBS ...
All The Way To Berlin
We return to the men of the 82nd Airborne Division in late September 1944, after the capture of the bridge at Nijmegen, Holland - a battle whose story one CBS ...
03.08.08
Civil War Saturday
Steve Mayeux
Steven Mayeux's Earthen Walls, Iron Men takes a footnote of history and imbues it with a rich sense of human drama. Fort DeRussy was the key to the ...
Steve Mayeux
Steven Mayeux's Earthen Walls, Iron Men takes a footnote of history and imbues it with a rich sense of human drama. Fort DeRussy was the key to the ...
03.08.08
Civil War Saturday
Marc Leepson
Marc Leepson is a journalist, historian and the author of six books. A former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C., he has written for ...
Marc Leepson
Marc Leepson is a journalist, historian and the author of six books. A former staff writer for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C., he has written for ...
03.13.08
James McPherson
Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief
On one side of the Civil War stood Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy: a graduate of West Point, seasoned by command in the Mexican War and four ...
Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander-In-Chief
On one side of the Civil War stood Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy: a graduate of West Point, seasoned by command in the Mexican War and four ...
03.20.08
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
James E. Livingston
In one ferocious battle after another, without a moment's rest between the defense of a key bridge and an assault on an enemy-held village, Echo Company ...
James E. Livingston
In one ferocious battle after another, without a moment's rest between the defense of a key bridge and an assault on an enemy-held village, Echo Company ...
03.27.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
Israel: A Strategic Review
With the Iraq war a key focal point in the presidential primaries, Israel garners few headlines. Yet the strategic interests of this long-time American partner are critical ...
Israel: A Strategic Review
With the Iraq war a key focal point in the presidential primaries, Israel garners few headlines. Yet the strategic interests of this long-time American partner are critical ...
03.31.08
A Film By Howard Reich
Prisoner of Her Past - Interview by Rick Kogan
Sonia Reich believes that she is being hunted. Her food is rancid and hair ridden with lice; her doctors are trying to poison her, and someone has painted a yellow Star ...
Prisoner of Her Past - Interview by Rick Kogan
Sonia Reich believes that she is being hunted. Her food is rancid and hair ridden with lice; her doctors are trying to poison her, and someone has painted a yellow Star ...
04.09.08
Bruce Chadwick
1858
In 1858, fate had yet to pay its call on them. Abraham Lincoln was giving galvanizing speeches across Illinois ... and losing an election. Jefferson Davis was ...
1858
In 1858, fate had yet to pay its call on them. Abraham Lincoln was giving galvanizing speeches across Illinois ... and losing an election. Jefferson Davis was ...
04.10.08
100 Episodes
Honoring The Citizen Soldier
We've crossed the Delaware with General Washington, stood at Gettysburg beside President Lincoln, and seen the ash of Iwo Jima through the eyes of a young man ...
Honoring The Citizen Soldier
We've crossed the Delaware with General Washington, stood at Gettysburg beside President Lincoln, and seen the ash of Iwo Jima through the eyes of a young man ...
04.17.08
Ed Burke
End Of Watch
Constable James Quinn was the first. He had arrested a suspected thief in the Sands, a rough-and-tumble Irish neighborhood on the lakefront, but allowed his ...
End Of Watch
Constable James Quinn was the first. He had arrested a suspected thief in the Sands, a rough-and-tumble Irish neighborhood on the lakefront, but allowed his ...
04.22.08
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Bruce P. Crandall
He is the most recent living recipient of America's highest award for military valor. In a ceremony at the White House in 2007, more than 41 years after his ...
Bruce P. Crandall
He is the most recent living recipient of America's highest award for military valor. In a ceremony at the White House in 2007, more than 41 years after his ...
04.24.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
The Two Koreas: What is the Way Forward?
North Korea recently threatened to turn South Korea into a "sea of fire", and reduce its neighbor to "ashes". After the apparent progress of last fall's six-nation ...
The Two Koreas: What is the Way Forward?
North Korea recently threatened to turn South Korea into a "sea of fire", and reduce its neighbor to "ashes". After the apparent progress of last fall's six-nation ...
05.01.08
Sir Max Hastings
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
The alliance between Nazi Germany and Japan was marked by few shared efforts. When Hitler gave a pair of new U-Boats to Japan, German manufacturers ...
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
The alliance between Nazi Germany and Japan was marked by few shared efforts. When Hitler gave a pair of new U-Boats to Japan, German manufacturers ...
05.08.08
Todd DePastino
Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
A long series of officers had tried and failed to quell the rogue cartoonist. His infantrymen were covered in mud, unshaven, and resentful toward officers' privileges ...
Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
A long series of officers had tried and failed to quell the rogue cartoonist. His infantrymen were covered in mud, unshaven, and resentful toward officers' privileges ...
05.15.08
Alex Kershaw
Escape From The Deep
The USS Tang had a service record like no other submarine in the Pacific. Over the course of five patrols, its crew sank enemy ships at an unrivaled pace ...
Escape From The Deep
The USS Tang had a service record like no other submarine in the Pacific. Over the course of five patrols, its crew sank enemy ships at an unrivaled pace ...
05.19.08
Marcus Luttrell
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing & The Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10
In a remote, mountainous area of Afghanistan, a four-man Navy SEAL team faced a difficult decision when three goatherds stumbled across their location. If ...
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing & The Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10
In a remote, mountainous area of Afghanistan, a four-man Navy SEAL team faced a difficult decision when three goatherds stumbled across their location. If ...
05.22.08
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Thomas G. Kelley
It was the worst possible time to break down. On June 15, 1969, Lt. Thomas G. Kelley was leading a column of eight Navy river assault craft along the rivers and ...
Thomas G. Kelley
It was the worst possible time to break down. On June 15, 1969, Lt. Thomas G. Kelley was leading a column of eight Navy river assault craft along the rivers and ...
05.29.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
The Politics of Defense & National Security: Where do the U.S. Presidential Candidates Stand?
As the 2008 presidential election nears, all of the major candidates have taken steps to burnish their credentials on national security in the eyes of the electorate ...
The Politics of Defense & National Security: Where do the U.S. Presidential Candidates Stand?
As the 2008 presidential election nears, all of the major candidates have taken steps to burnish their credentials on national security in the eyes of the electorate ...
06.09.08
Lucinda Franks
My Father's Secret War
At first, nothing she found among the ruins of his apartment changed what Lucinda Franks knew about her father. There were cigarette butts and coffee...
My Father's Secret War
At first, nothing she found among the ruins of his apartment changed what Lucinda Franks knew about her father. There were cigarette butts and coffee...
06.12.08
R. Alan King
An American Soldier's Battle for Heart & Minds in Iraq
While serving as a senior civil-military advisor in Baghdad, U.S. Army Lt. Col. R. Alan King disarmed several potentially dangerous situations with ...
An American Soldier's Battle for Heart & Minds in Iraq
While serving as a senior civil-military advisor in Baghdad, U.S. Army Lt. Col. R. Alan King disarmed several potentially dangerous situations with ...
06.23.08
Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
Allan R. Millett
Chicago, IL (June 23, 2008) - Allan R. Millett has been selected to receive the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime ...
Allan R. Millett
Chicago, IL (June 23, 2008) - Allan R. Millett has been selected to receive the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime ...
06.24.08
Martha Raddatz
The Long Road Home: A Story of War & Family
Thousands of miles apart, the American soldiers serving in Baghdad and their families in Fort Hood, Texas awoke to what promised to be an ordinary...
The Long Road Home: A Story of War & Family
Thousands of miles apart, the American soldiers serving in Baghdad and their families in Fort Hood, Texas awoke to what promised to be an ordinary...
06.26.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
Elizabeth Samet
In Prof. Elizabeth D. Samet's English class at West Point, cadets discuss the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Randall Jarrell, and read books ranging from the ...
Elizabeth Samet
In Prof. Elizabeth D. Samet's English class at West Point, cadets discuss the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Randall Jarrell, and read books ranging from the ...
09.04.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: At Home & Abroad
Their missions range from the deserts of Iraq to the wetlands of the United States, involving construction support in war zones and protection for our water ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: At Home & Abroad
Their missions range from the deserts of Iraq to the wetlands of the United States, involving construction support in war zones and protection for our water ...
09.11.08
Noah Andre Trudeau
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
His name is cursed in Georgia, almost a century and a half after the famed march from the smoldering ruins of Atlanta to Savannah and the sea. It went exactly ...
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
His name is cursed in Georgia, almost a century and a half after the famed march from the smoldering ruins of Atlanta to Savannah and the sea. It went exactly ...
09.17.08
Joseph L. Galloway & Harold G. Moore
We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
It was the 1992 publication (and Vietnamese translation) of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young that allowed journalist Galloway and retired Lt. Gen. Moore to ...
We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
It was the 1992 publication (and Vietnamese translation) of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young that allowed journalist Galloway and retired Lt. Gen. Moore to ...
09.25.08
Andrei Cherny
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift & America's Finest Hour
After three years of shared control over post-war Germany, tensions came to a head; the Soviet Union cut off all land and water access to Berlin, intending ...
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift & America's Finest Hour
After three years of shared control over post-war Germany, tensions came to a head; the Soviet Union cut off all land and water access to Berlin, intending ...
10.02.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
Tuskegee Airmen
They were America's first black military pilots, fighting Nazis in Europe and Jim Crow at home. On this special presentation of Front & Center, John Callaway sits ...
Tuskegee Airmen
They were America's first black military pilots, fighting Nazis in Europe and Jim Crow at home. On this special presentation of Front & Center, John Callaway sits ...
10.03.08
2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award Recipient
Allan R. Millett
Allan R. Millett is the recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. In their ...
Allan R. Millett
Allan R. Millett is the recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. In their ...
10.09.08
Lewis Sorley
Honor Bright: History & Origins of the West Point Honor Code & System
Ulysses S. Grant was miserable there, racking up a long list of demerits, and George Armstrong Custer finished a merry last in his class; Robert E. Lee was one of its ...
Honor Bright: History & Origins of the West Point Honor Code & System
Ulysses S. Grant was miserable there, racking up a long list of demerits, and George Armstrong Custer finished a merry last in his class; Robert E. Lee was one of its ...
10.15.08
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
Jack H. Jacobs
Fresh out of college and facing a stack of bills, Jack Jacobs requested assignment with an airborne division, with an eye towards the extra pay he would earn for ...
Jack H. Jacobs
Fresh out of college and facing a stack of bills, Jack Jacobs requested assignment with an airborne division, with an eye towards the extra pay he would earn for ...
10.15.08
Medal of Honor
Documentary Film Preview
The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring. The medal, dating ...
Documentary Film Preview
The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring. The medal, dating ...
10.23.08
Steve Coll
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
It's a familiar story, to a point. A young man from a small town leaves home to make his fortune. He's in the right place at the right time; through hard work and ...
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
It's a familiar story, to a point. A young man from a small town leaves home to make his fortune. He's in the right place at the right time; through hard work and ...
10.30.08
Joyce Hoffmann
On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam
For female reporters who wanted to cover the long, brutal war in Vietnam, the challenge began before they even left home, when - in the words of one former ...
On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam
For female reporters who wanted to cover the long, brutal war in Vietnam, the challenge began before they even left home, when - in the words of one former ...
11.06.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
Congratulations, You Won... What Now? U.S. Presidential Election Special
By November 6th, the votes will be cast, and the results will be in - after eight years, the United States will have a new President. But after all of the pomp and ...
Congratulations, You Won... What Now? U.S. Presidential Election Special
By November 6th, the votes will be cast, and the results will be in - after eight years, the United States will have a new President. But after all of the pomp and ...
11.12.08
Jonathan Brent
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
Nobody in the Soviet Union spoke up for a few years after Stalin's death. In the minds of a long-terrorized public, dying was exactly the sort of thing Stalin ...
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
Nobody in the Soviet Union spoke up for a few years after Stalin's death. In the minds of a long-terrorized public, dying was exactly the sort of thing Stalin ...
11.13.08
Carlo D'Este
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874 - 1945
After his first personal experience of battle, at 23 years of age, Winston Churchill wrote that "war, disguise it as you may, is but a dirty, shoddy business, which only a ...
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874 - 1945
After his first personal experience of battle, at 23 years of age, Winston Churchill wrote that "war, disguise it as you may, is but a dirty, shoddy business, which only a ...
11.22.08
Rufus Phillips
Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
As the new Vice President, Lyndon Johnson came away from his first cabinet meeting impressed. Kennedy, he thought, had put together a brilliant team. However ...
Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned
As the new Vice President, Lyndon Johnson came away from his first cabinet meeting impressed. Kennedy, he thought, had put together a brilliant team. However ...
11.22.08
Linda Robinson
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus & the Search For a Way Out of Iraq
At the end of her time with General David Petraeus, veteran reporter Linda Robinson believed that something more valuable than oil had been found in Iraq: a ...
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus & the Search For a Way Out of Iraq
At the end of her time with General David Petraeus, veteran reporter Linda Robinson believed that something more valuable than oil had been found in Iraq: a ...
12.03.08
Kimberly Dozier
Breathing The Fire: Fighting to Report - And Survive - The War in Iraq
A story on Memorial Day in Iraq was guaranteed to make the network news, figured Kimberly Dozier. She didn't know where her crew was going or what they would ...
Breathing The Fire: Fighting to Report - And Survive - The War in Iraq
A story on Memorial Day in Iraq was guaranteed to make the network news, figured Kimberly Dozier. She didn't know where her crew was going or what they would ...
12.04.08
Front & Center with John Callaway
An Update on the Guard and Reserve
The last several years have presented unprecedented challenges for the Reserve components of the U.S. Military and the National Guard. How are they handling ...
An Update on the Guard and Reserve
The last several years have presented unprecedented challenges for the Reserve components of the U.S. Military and the National Guard. How are they handling ...
12.11.08
Medal of Honor with Ed Tracy
John F. Baker, Jr.
John Baker had been a gymnast in high school before he joined the Army. One day, near Tay Ninh Province in South Vietnam, he put the first lesson of gymnastics...
John F. Baker, Jr.
John Baker had been a gymnast in high school before he joined the Army. One day, near Tay Ninh Province in South Vietnam, he put the first lesson of gymnastics...
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