All didly 14 when you the miracle back in 1969. I tried to get here and follow in your footsteps as quickly as we could. We have a panel that will talk about lunar module landing operations. The panel here is jack knight, bob nance, hal loden, and bill reeves. Instead of me going on about them i will ask them to identify themselves, say a little bit about what they did and then open it for questions. My name is john charles. I am the science in fast scientist in residence at space center houston. I would like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight. To talk about what you did here for apollo 11, what brought you here in the first place and your recollection of that important day. Jack i was the son of an air force family. We were in various bases around the world. I went to the Georgia Institute of technology and graduated in 1965. I came directly to the manned space flight center, in particular the apollo systems group. At the time i arrived, apollo had been a program in work, but w
Our stops by going to cspan. Org citiestour . They were very bride wheels compares the careers in leadership start want tof the things i make sure before we go into our , is to thank those of you who have come from other and some of our supporters. One of the people not with us today but is a life member an honorary member of our board is James Robinson junior. He has had some Health Issues but he is recovering and i know he is back on the speaker circuit. Nick who has also had a few Health Issues and not able to travel right now. One of the great collectors, folks who hut is folks connected with the Shenandoah Valley battlefields. Two people who are very has made to me, sarah all of this work behind the scenes. She is constantly making sure that something needs to be done and it gets done. Like that. Meone last but not least, my wife elizabeth. Elizabeth has come down from virginia to join us. Into myill do is move part of the presentation. We are going to talk about the leadership. W
Good afternoon, everyone. Joining uso much for for the American Civil War symposium. Ordinary people, extraordinary times. T up on our roster where she received the 2016 great teacher award. She taught previously at the state of at the university of new york in the state of albany. She received her phd studying under dr. And dr. Gallagher. Dr. Taylor is a member of the board of editors of the journal of southern history and advisor editor for the civil war monitor magazine and coeditor of the university of Georgia Press is on civil war series. Her current book project of the manyy thousands of men and women and children who fled slavery during the civil war and examined how their day to day experiences shaped the way emancipation unfolded in the United States. Book derived from her dissertation provided family in the civil war. In 2005. Published that book is the topic of her program today. I present to you dr. Amy morel taylor. It is indeed a real pleasure to be back here in virginia,
Emerging civil war blog. I am pleased to introduce our esteemed panel tonight. I have asked a variety of purposes, some of whom are some of whom are from a variety of perspectives some of whom we will hear from this weekend and some of those who are here exclusively tonight. The idea is to talk about great defenses. For those of you who come to the symposium in previous years this conversation is apt to wobble in all sorts of interesting and fun and cool ways. I am going to pitch a couple of softballs to the panel, let them talk a little bit, and then we will open things up to the floor because we want this to be a conversation, for you to have the opportunity to pick the brains of some of the finest historians we have working with us here at emerging civil war. I am going to start to my immediate right with my great polish brother. People are like chris. Which one . The polish one. That still does not narrow it down. [laughter] chris is the director of the memorial town in norfolk. If
Nashville as a major union supply base for the rest of the war. I always like to get up and say our next speaker needs no introduction. Thats because ive introduced him about 9,000 times, i think, which is why he needs no introduction. My great friend and polish brother chris kowlikowski is the director of the macarthur memorial which is a fantastic resource and a mustsee place to visit. But once upon a time he was a civil war guy before he found himself embroiled in world war ii. He started as an internal at Fredericksburg Spotsylvania National Military park, from there hes gone to perriville where he was the site manager, hes done work with the civil war trust, he went to the George Patton museum which is what first got him involved with world war ii and while hes busy doing that hes written a couple fantastic books, one on perry ville and one on stones river. Im very fascinating with theullahoma but it was equally monumental in its strategic success. Hes here to talk about stones ri