Ignition. Liftoff. Liftoff. Roger. Feel pressure a little high. Roger. Slightly low, no problem. Roger. Go for staging. Roger, staging. That thrust is looking a little high. Roger. Status check . Go. Go. Guidance . Standby. Go. Go, flight. Roger. Roger. Standby. Standing by. Over 300 feet per second. 7295. 72 is 24860. Roger, no go. You are no go. No go. Do you have a time . Roger, flight area charlie at nine plus 20. Roger. We are going for area charlie. Retrofiring at nine plus 20. Roger. Give me sometimes some times. No swells. Destroyer is the low. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 retro fire. Roger. Fire one. Rocket two. This was not an actual Gemini Mission, nobody left the ground. They did not abort. We have edited together and isolate a launch with shots of Flight Control assimilating the launch. The flight was simulated from a room in the mission construed Center Control center, and flight simulation is done by computers. They will undergo 11 days of simulation flight before march extreme. Earlie
I hope you will join me in just a moment of silence to remember Justice Scalia. Thank you. We are grateful this evening that the court, chief Justice Roberts and his colleagues, allow the Supreme Court Historical Society to continue using this courtroom for its programs. It is a gift to us, and we are grateful. At this juncture, normally, i would have a few remarks introduce our distinguished host for the evening. But it seems that chief Justice Roberts is on a tight schedule this evening, we are lucky to get him here. He has asked that his introduction be as brief as possible. Since we are so grateful to chief Justice Roberts for his continuing support of the society, and since he is, after all, the chief justice, let me just say right now, it is my privilege and my owner to introduce our host for the evening, chief justice john roberts. [applause] Justice Roberts thank you. That is actually my preferred introduction even when i have lots of time. The memorialnote drapery we have on t
American and 19thcentury u. S. History, he earned his phd in 1985, so he is no stranger to richmond. His 1993 book is one of the most important studies of one of the most important slave compares these conspiracies in history. He was invited to speak at the university of richmond 20 years ago and he will be interviewed about that book later today. Most of his work has been on the subject of slave resistance, colonization, and evolutionism. List of find a partial his publications in his program. He has worked at the intersection of race and politics and his most recent books deal with the mid19th century. Years of meteors, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in the election that brought on the civil war, and the wars of reconstruction, the brief violent history of americas most progressive era. His talk today will draw mostly from the final book and his title of the talk today is black activism during the civil war. Ladies and gentlemen, Douglas Egerton. [applause] Douglas Egerton thank
Welcome to montgomery, alabama, on American History tv. It is considered one of americas most historic cities for its role on the civil war and Civil Rights Movement. Today, it has a population of 205000 and is alabamas secondlargest city. With the help of our Cable Partners, over the next 90 thetes, hear the story of montgomery bus boycott and its impact on the city. Each day that the buses ran empty, the bus company lost about 3000 per day. About 1955. Ng three thousand dollars was the average yearly salary of most people in the area. It speaks to the amount of of the busestate because remember the bus fare was only . 10. Quite later, we will learn about an alabama governor who made a bid for the presidency. When people ask him what the takeaway from the 1958 campaign is, he says, i try to talk about progressive improvement and good and goodgood roads schools, known would listen. When i started to talk about segregation, everyone started to listen to me. But first, learn about court
President s done over the years, and compares the criteria and results. His class is about an hour and 10 minutes. four scores are fathers said, with those words, there was a battlefield not far from where we sit today. The brilliance of those words is not recognized at the time. In fact lincoln was not the featured speaker at gettysburg. Everett,tually edward a senator from massachusetts who spoke for two hours well lincoln waited to give his closing words. Today we recognize the gettysburg address is perhaps the greatest moment of president ial speech and history. The fact that people did not see the speech that way at the time, lincoln was not the featured speaker points to the fact that lincolns greatness was not recognized at the time in general. We have to remember that when lincoln became president , he had not served in Public Office for 10 years. Of dress, hisyle speaking, his selfeducation, all that meant that lincoln was looked upon with some degree of condescension from the