Contents:   C-SPAN Series   |  Booknotes Video  |   Oral Histories  |  Additional Media    Click the links above to jump to the respective sections of this page. World War II Memorial Dedication • Watch Video     View C-SPAN coverage of the dedication of the World War II National Memorial dedication on May 29th.   C-SPAN Series  American Presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President from 1933-1945 • Video Clip List     • Teacher Guide    • FDR Facts & Figures     President Franklin D. Roosevelt served during almost the entire length of World War II.  He is the only American president to be elected to four terms. American Presidents: Harry S. Truman, President from 1945-1953 • Video Clip List     • Teacher Guide    • HST Facts & Figures     President Harry S. Truman served from the last few weeks of World War II through the next major U.S. conflict, the Korean War. American Writers: Ernie Pyle, World War II war correspondent • Video Lessons     • Learn More About Ernie Pyle     Ernie Pyle provided a glimpse for his readers at home in to the everyday lives of American soldiers at war.  He received a Pulitzer prize and many other awards for his writing.     Booknotes Video  Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage, by Joseph Persico  • Watch Video     •Read Transcript     From the transcript: ...BRIAN LAMB, host: Joseph E. Persico, author of "Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage," when did you get the idea for this book? Mr. JOSEPH PERSICO: Brian, I was a kid growing up during the Roosevelt... Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II, by James Tobin • Watch Video     • Read Transcript     From the transcript: ...LAMB, host: James Tobin, who was Ernie Pyle? Mr. JAMES TOBIN: Ernie Pyle was the most famous war correspondent of World War II. He started out as just one war correspondent among many and became a kind of folk hero, really, identified with the... No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin • Watch Video     • Read Transcript     From the transcript: ...with Eleanor I'd like to understand why she was unable, at a certain moment in the middle of the war, when he asked her to be his wife again and stop traveling and stay home and take care of him, to say yes to him. I mean, I know that he loved her, I know she still loved him, and I'd want to say, "Why... Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression & War , by David Kennedy • Watch Video     • Read Transcript     From the transcript: ... But I took a group of mostly Stanford alumni down there. And I gave some lectures on World War II. We had a group of maybe 75 or 80 people and about a dozen or two of those were veterans of the Solomon Islands campaign. And that was a real education. We'd stand on these airfields...  Oral Histories of World War II  D-Day and Battle of the Bulge Veterans • Listen to Audio     C-SPAN Radio program: 6/7/2003: 1 hour, 1 minute. This is the first of a four-part series of oral histories of World War II veterans who participated in D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge veterans.  In this show hear D-Day veteran Harold Baumgarten, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division U.S. Army, and Doug Brinkley, Director of the Eisenhower Center, which provided the interviews. An American POW Captured on Bataan •Listen to Audio    C-SPAN Radio program: 6/14/2003: 1 hour, 10 minutes. This is the second of a four-part series of oral histories of World War II veterans who participated in major battles of the war.  This week, hear the story of J.S. Gray, U.S. Army Air Corps, who was captured on Bataan and held by the Japanese for three-and-a half years. D-Day Veterans • Listen to Audio     C-SPAN Radio program: 6/21/2003: 1 hour, 10 minutes. The third feature in C-SPAN's "The Voices of World War II," this program shares the stories of D-Day veterans Len Griffing of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, James DeLong, a B-26 Marauder Pilot, and British Royal Navy beachmaster, B.T. Whinney. An American POW Captured During Operation Market Garden • Listen to Audio     C-SPAN Radio program: 6/28/2003 -- length: 49 minutes. This is the last segment of the 4-part series "The Voices of World War II."  Hear the story of glider pilot Chuck Farrell who took part in Operation Market Garden (the invasion of Holland). He was captured by the Germans and held as a POW for almost nine months.  Additional Media  Tour of the National World War II Memorial • Watch Video     C-SPAN Washington Journal program: 5/1/2004: 30 minutes. Barry Owenby, National World War II Memorial Project Executive, discusses the newly opened World War II Memorial. House of Representatives Salute to World War II Veterans Serving in the House  • Watch Video     C-SPAN program: 5/20/2004: 45 minutes. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and others join to salute World War II Veterans serving in the House of Representatives.