Thing 22 different times. In high school when you have to be in class eight hours a day and you want to be in a sport and you get home at 8 00 and you terry the democrats would have been elected. Kent state would not have happened. Ellsberg would i have faced 105 years in jail. A whole lot of other history would be different if this war had been stopped, not to mention the thousands and millions of lives that were killed after 1967. It is a shame 14,000 u. S. Ondiers died in 1967, when 58,000. Went on to this war could have been over and history could have been seriously changed. We remember 1967 for that. Panels one and two talk about the context and digitization of the Antiwar Movement that could have made a lot of this dihi different had that happen. The next number is 50. Here we are 50 years later, and art has the summer of love on its culture. This is a change. Npr on july 1 said if you are member this, you werent there. [laughter] much i assume means too drinking, drugs, and may
Coming up next, contributors and editors from the book the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement, discuss their personal experiences and that movement. The Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office Hosted this event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. Of thee director Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. Me methodists actually hired right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Mennonite Central Committee in the middle of the war, in the middle of a war zone, helping children learn to read and write their own language. I wanted to also announced to everyone that we have a number of cameras here in the room. Cspan is covering it. So, when we get to questions and
This is a 90 minute event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. I am the director of the Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. The methodists actually hired me right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Mennonite Central Committee in the middle of the war, in the middle of a war zone, helping children learn to read and write their own language. I wanted to also announced to everyone that we have a number of cameras here in the room. Cspan is covering it. So, when we get to questions and answers i will ask you to wait until the microphone comes to you so that you can be heard by the audience that will be watching on Television Later on. Thank you very much and welcome to todays launch. [applause]
[laughter] Myra Macpherson i used to hate public speaking, and i would get anxiety, and i still do, but i was at a speech and a woman was in the front row and she was smiling, so i found myself playing to her. All of you remember jack, my wonderful jack gordon, and he would say it all matters about the 95 and who the hell cares about the other 5 . So i was focusing on this woman and finally i got so angry at the end of this q a and i was wondering what her problem was and so i asked the woman next to her, and she said, oh, she is him germany from germany she doesnt understand a word you are saying. So i wanted to focus on these sisters, because they were incredible female lecturers of their time. But at the beginning, they both almost fainted when they first started to speak, and i thought maybe this is an interesting story. Maybe they developed this amazing skill without anything behind this and it is just one little person on a huge stage and when tennie the youngest, was a 64, she s
Lincolns view of the world in one word, the word is is. He believes the United States is a country not the United States are. In the prior, states were reviewed as part of an overall confederation of states. He believed we were one country. And he wanted to bring the Southern States back. Second, he wanted to improve the status and the lot of the lives of the americans the africanamericans living in the United States of the time it. Those who were free before, and certainly those who became free. Many of them as a result of lincolns own efforts. When he was killed, everything changed. It sent back relations in this country over 100 years. And it setback the quality of life, and the economy and social development of the Southern States to the point where many Southern States to this day are lagging behind the rest of the country in education and health care and in so many other criteria. Would this have been different if lincoln survived . Impossible to know. But he would have tried. He