USS Houston Was FDR's 'Lost Cruiser' [video 53min]

James Hornfischer chronicles the Pacific battle that destroyed the USS Houston during World War II in Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivors. The author explains that former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s favorite ship was sunk by the Japanese and the surviving crew members became prisoners-of-war and were forced to work as slave laborers on the Burma-Thai Railway. Hornfischer is a literary agent, former book editor and the author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. This event was hosted by the University of Houston Library in Texas.