Carolina. To learn more about the cities on our 2015 to her, visited cspan. Org cities to her. We continue now with our look at the history of greensboro. This is American History tv on cspan3. Today we are the greensboro historical museum. This is exhibit called the murphy confederate long arms collection. This collection was loaned to the museum, and then bequeath to the museum on dr. Murphys death in 2003. John and Isabel Murphy were a couple married, and john was a particular collector of confederate long arms. He was born in washington, d. C. , and attended school in virginia, said he was a southerner. He enrolled in the navy and served as a doctor for 20 years before retiring. He assembled an outstanding collection, one of its kind of confederate long arms. By that, i mean rifles muskets shotguns, and carbines made in the south for confederate soldiers. His interest in the civil war talking to his maternal grandfather and some great uncles, and the fact that his maternal grandfather was a confederate veteran, so i think that sparked his interest in the civil war. This in tenniel of the civil war in the 1960s was also a big celebration. Around that time, 1950s and early 1960s, he started collecting artifacts and rifles, weapons from the civil war. The collection consists of approximately hundred pieces total. As i said, dr. Murphy originally loaned the collection to the greensboro historical museum, and it was his intention to give it to the museum on his death. It was willed to the museum in 2003 and now its part of our permanent collection. We are starting with a piece that was made by tarpley. This is a pace piece that was manufactured here. It was one of the most rare and unique pieces in the collection. You can see stamped on here Jeremiah Tarpley was the gentleman who applied and received a patent for this design. It was his idea for the sign of the rifle the design of the rifle in combination with an existing firm was making sewing machines in greensboro that also resulted in the manufacture of this piece. This is number 380, the serial number. It is unusual and its appearance. It is missing a wooden for stock. Every other rifle or longer manufactured has a piece of wood that goes along here, and this particular design omitted that. That was one of the design flaws. It got too hot to handle. They werent very userfriendly. Being said, few of these were made, less than 200, and today less than 20 are known to be in existence. Dr. Murphy had four in his collection, which we have here to museum. This next piece is a rifle that was manufactured i jones and gardner by jones and gardner. This rifle is more traditional compared to the tarpley. It has a complete barrel. The ramrod. It is a muzzleloader compared to a breech loader that we saw with the tarpley piece. What we know about this piece is the soldier who used this piece. As you can see, at the bottom of the stock here, theres a plaque that was added after the civil war, which says, solomon haze, company g, North Carolina infantry. This general and was a farmer from South Carolina who enlisted in the confederacy in 1962 and was discharged at the age of 59. Heres an example of where we know who the rifle was used by and then stay in the family and was descended and eventually acquired by dr. Murphy. The last piece i selected to talk about is another rifle. This one is made by h c lamb. The family is one of the gunsmiths from jamestown. His father was a gunsmith not for military purposes, but he made hunting rifles and guns. Henry learned his trade from his father and went into production during the civil war. Here is an example of where the craft was passed on to a second generation, and then he actually was awarded a contract with the state of North Carolina provide arms for the confederacy. Again, about 500 of these were believed to be made to support the troops. This map shows all of the different armories and locations that were represented within the collection. There are 39 different makers or armories that are represented in the murphy collection. Each of the stars on the map will show where things that were made within the murphy collection are shown. The piedmont rifle, this shows where the tarpleys were made and interestingly enough, the armories and makers are long gone, but the sites of been excavated. You use these relics and pieces that have been dug up and found at the site. It gives us further evidence that we know with a play sexy was and further incomplete pieces that were not assembled or used. They would have varied in size and scale depending upon the location. Some of them were quiet large and sophisticated. Others were not so large but they would have been done with the skill level for men to work with the iron and metals to shape and craft the tools and eventually produce the weapons. Most of them are no longer in existence, but the sites where they stood have been explored and archaeological digs have taken place, and so the pieces that were found that have been dug up, that have been saved many of which have been found to put into museums today, they are further evidence of the work that was done. Some of these pieces mightve been discards, rejected, or when they abandon the site or they were left behind in hurry, they were buried underneath and now they turned up 100 figures later. I would like to stop here at the south greeneville state works, a case devoted to moores carbines. It is shorter than a rifle and a little bit less powerful, but as a preferred weapon for men on a horse. In this case, you see a pristine example here. Very advanced technology for this time in the war, and an opportunity for scholars studying these pieces. We have an actual prototype ease that was made, and below that we have serial number two. The second piece made of production. Nowhere else can you see these pieces. Then we have a later place peas with us your own number of 1013. There are very subtle changes but significant and important ones that took place in the course of the time between the prototype and the last piece that was made. It influenced how the performance of the peas and how useful it was to the soldier during battle. Were also incredibly fortunate to have a shipping crate it was used to ship these carbines. This kind of material rarely survived. This collection has a lot of different values. We have it here at the museum and we are keepers of it for the general public, but it also estimate his Research Value and scholarly value. One of the great things about this collection is that it contains multiple examples of rifles and carbines made at a particular armory or manufacturing sites. Having more than one example having maybe 10 examples of those pieces made over a span of several years, scholars and researchers are able to compare the differences and how the pieces were made, look at the examples of the nuances and the changes and how some of the technology was improved over time. Dr. Murphy was more than just a collector, although he was an extremely discerning collector these are choice pieces that are in pristine condition with all original parts, but there also that he assembled them with a purpose and actually published several books. After he retired from his medical practice, devoted his energy and his time to writing several books. He really was a leading force in the field of scholarship in this field and opened up a lot of doors and shared a tremendous amount of information with the scholars that are interested in this. They are now able to benefit from that by having it a public venue here the museum. The museum has a wide number of visitors with a range of interests. We try to present the collection in a context that will appeal to a lot of different types of visitors here. Individuals that have a keen interest in this war will find it interesting for some reason. Individuals that are particularly excited about long arms and rifles will be especially a static disease and many pieces in one place. You are hardpressed to find that. At the same time, we also went to appeal to the general public, so we put up these rifles and other instruments, but we also put out other examples of artifacts related to the civil war and paintings from dr. Murphys collection, and personal effects that were used by confederate soldiers to try to convey the experience of what it was like for soldier at the time, what were some of the experiences, and to bring that experience to life. Its not just an abstract sense of looking at a piece of technology, but also the people that were involved, so theres a personal basis to that as well. Its a collection that came out cannot be diverted or replicated elsewhere. It is a onceinalifetime kind of collection and an opportunity to see. It is an awesome responsibility for the museum to be the caretaker and stewart of this collection. American history tv is featuring greensboro, North Carolina, a cities to her staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. Learn more about greensboro and other stops on cspan cities to her at cspan. Org cities to her. Cities to her. Youre watching American History tv, all we can, every weekend on cspan3. The guard towers are gone, but the memories come flooding back for so many people who until today had lost such a big part of their childhood. Many released after the war some very the memories, and with it the history of this camp. Now more than 60 years later this sunday, on the only family internment camp at crystal city texas, in which he says is the reason for this camp. The government comes and says we have a deal for you. We will reunite you with your family and the crystal city internment camp, the family internment camp, if you agree to go voluntarily. I discovered what the real secret of the camp was. They also had to agree to voluntarily repatriate to germany and to japan if the government decided they needed to be repatriated. The truth of the matter is that the crystal city camp was humanely administered, but the special war divisions in the department of state used it as roosevelts primary Prisoner Exchange in the center of roosevelts Prisoner Exchange program. Sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern and pacific on cspans q a. On American History tv, the coauthors of the book, florida and the marielle boatlift lift of 1980, the first 20 days. They discuss how the state of florida handled the arrival of 30,000 cuban recipes refugees in key west and 30 months. The authors discuss the socalled mary alitos, the first wave of over 120,000 cuban immigrants in 1980 and the impact they had on the political and social culture in florida. This session from the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the university of florida is about one hour. Welcome to the Bob Graham Center. Thank you for being here this evening. We have a very Interesting Program for you on the mariel boat lift. We have three great scholars and speakers here this evening with us. This program this evening is sponsored by the Bob Graham Center, the center for latin american studies. I want to thank our partners for their collaboration with us in this event tonight. I am David Kathleen hawk and their book is entitled entitled entitled tphra tphra and theyll discuss the political response to the crisis and account how local agencies along with private volunteers left to provide food, shelter and security for these new arrivals. Theyll speak for about 40 minutes all together and then well open it up for a discussion and conversation with you. He have a microphone here for your availability, and we welcome you to talk and ask any questions about the mariel boatlift, the cuban American Experience or the new Diplomatic Initiative involving the United States and cuba. Our moderator is dr. Tkpwaeur ra distinguished member of the department of history and cuban history and three books. We greatly appreciate her being here this evening and coordinating this event. Without further adieu ill let our panelists take control of the evening. Thank you for being here. [applause] its a privilege to be here. Thank you for coming. Thank you for inviting me and i had some time this morning and over the weekend to get to know our two authors. I think they have a great deal to teach us. I want to start with a few introductory remarks to get us to remember what the mariel boatlift was all about and also to highlight how unique their contribution is with this book. What became known as the mariel boatlift began in april 1980. On a particular day in april somebody we dont remember at all was responsible for the event that took place, the very long event that became the mariel boatlift. On this day he drove a bus filled with a handful of friends and family through the gates of the caribbean embassy. Within hours to the shock of the castro government and the world about 10800 people all random people from the streets of havana decided to go to the grounds of the Peruvian Embassy. Some of them are family members of mine, cartoonists professors ran tkpl workers, people off the street. People who came with their families and by themselves suddenly showed up on the grounds of the embassy and about 10,800 people packed into the grounds. They sought political asylum not from peru but from the United States. Most of us are accustomed of thinking of the mariel boatlift as an entirely spontaneously generated event. It was born of the decision of the man to drive the bus through the gates of the embassy. While the majority of the thousands who showed up that day definitely did act spontaneously. What this book shows is how and why mariel was not a spontaneous event from the perspective of the cuban government what eventually brought 125,000 cubans to u. S. Shores was the product of particular Strategic Policies on the part of the government so the book argues to consolidate National Security interest in unique and unprecedented ways by influencing the cuban exile, political culture as they have never been able to do prior. Reasons for this that i would give as background include the fact that 1978 to 1980 as a result of negotiations were 3, 1 the United States and cuba created son sol lats in each others countries which was unprecedented. Secondly about 3,000 Political Prisoners were free from cubas jail and third and probably most importantly, castros government allowed the visit of 100,000 cuban exiles who had been declared enemies of the state and enemies of the revolution and noncubans to return and visit their families. This process or these processes shook the cuban citizenry that had lived in isolation from alternative forms of news and perspectives not controlled by the communist state or surveillance agencies in surprising ways. To put it bluntly a lot of people who not really questioned their governments representation of the exiled community or what the experience was, their government representation suddenly came face to face with it in the form of their own family members and in many long conversation. When they come to the United States in that context in 1980 it was a shock to the system. They were very different than cuban exiles. 25 of them at least selfidentified as black or my lat tows. They also came from largely working class backgrounds, a lot of them had benefited from the revolution in other ways and they didnt see all policies were bad or taboo and they were shocked to develop those were taboo subjects in miami. To talk about the Healthcare System or universal access to free healthcare or Free Education was something that made it seem good and therefore not really accessible in miami. What is important about the book in many respects is it shows in many miami. What is important about the book in ways these physicians were ordinary there in miami could be exploited and were by the castro regime. They have three goals in creating and orchestrating or directly making it possible for it to happen. These goals i would say first to discredit the ways positive image of cube cubans in the United States. And second, they wanted to leave cuba and remain in cuba by showing and highlighting it. They were criminals. They were people you didnt want to be living next door to and sending people from cubas jails. Even though they were a smile minority of the 125,000 they were important. Third goal that the book highlights and most provocatively i think of the cuban government is that the primary objective was to deliberately create and help craft new divisions among newly arriving and the existing exile by planning agents of Cuban State Security forces positive among them in miami among them posing as just simple refugees when they were not. Above all in many ways the book shows that they provided an opportunity to do far more, to do far more than relieving tension on the island. It was an opportunity for the cuban government to influence the internal character and phreut constitutional culture. So my questions for the authors are three and theyre not very complicated complicated. First, how did you get involved and what do you think its lessons are for u. S. cuban relations and secondly with respect to that last among provocative argument made by the book, your book demonstrates that the cuban government used mariel not just to get rid of disabled people and others the cuban government used mariel as a way to consolidate interests for the cuban government. How did that happen . Ladies and gentlemen you can hear me . Shall we try again . At the time of mariel boatlift i owned a Convalescent Home in miami and my partner was a cuban and Seventh Day Adventist nurse. All were cuban and no one spoke english and provocative i spoke little spanish but we managed. When the visitation started in the late seventies where they could go visit their relatives in cuba and bring clothing and goods and money, we got very involved obviously because our employees were very involved and it was the first