David in november, we opened the exhibit remembering vietnam. By opening in 2017 and continuing through 2018, we mark the 50th anniversary of the height of americas war in vietnam. In 1967, hundreds of thousands of u. S. Troops were on the ground in vietnam, while at home, antiwar sentiments became more vocal. There was a large cohort of the baby boomer generation that entered the culture during the summer of love. To learn about these events, we now turn to todays guest, Victor Brooks and his book 1967 the year of fire and ice. Mr. Brooks is an internationally recognized author with 14 books on history. His passion for these areas of Research Dates Back to his childhood when the Brooks Family visited gettysburg and europe. In addition, dr. Brooks is a professor and received an undergraduate degree in history from Lasalle University and earned his masters and doctors of education degree from the university of pennsylvania. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Victor Brooks. [applause] victor thank you so much for coming today. I am very honored that all of you could take time from your busy schedules to listen to me. A little bit of the background for this book, i was 19 years old when 1967 started and was in college, and therefore i was old enough to know what was going on in the world, but not old enough to know too much about the economy or the stock market. It was more what was the newest rock band, what was on tv, how i was going to get along with my parents, and so on, so this book is a combination of several things. What i am being what i am going to be doing today from my book is basically three things that are heavily related to one another. One is the Popular Culture of the time, which is undergoing an enormous change in 1967. The second is the impact of the baby boom, what is starting to be called the generation gap that is developing at this time. And finally, fitting in well with the exhibit here is the vietnam war, and some of the research i did on the war in 1967 and how it set up many of the major changes right after the end of 1967, including the famous tet offensive, which changed the entire course of the war. So i would like to share with you some of the Research Findings i discovered. Much of my research was done using a lot of the magazines and journals of the time, life, newsweek, even tv guide magazine. I discovered all kinds of interesting things. I probably made a huge profit for ebay sending away for some of these things. I even read 17 magazine and things like that. It is a varied group of sources i have been able to find. First of all, i want to talk about the Popular Culture of the time and how 1967 is such a major watershed in the 1960s. Basically what happened, in 1967, first of all on television, a huge technological breakthrough had just occurred. 20 years effectively after Network Television started in roughly 1947, in the fall of 1966, all three of the major networks, abc, nbc, and cbs, went over entirely to color television