Torah, visit cspan. Org cities tour. We continue with our look at the history of chapel hill. We are in chapel hill, North Carolina at the Marion Cheek Jackson Center. The Marion Cheek Jackson Center is a place where we preserve the side and 10he north top communities. Buying me are photographs of the Civil Rights Movement that took thee here in chapel hill in 1960s. In the 1960s chapel hill was segregated. People could not go into stores, the schools were segregated. It will be theaters, all things were segregated. , again, a time when black people had to create their own community. In this particular community they built their home, they had a business district. Had one school, they had their churches that everyone attended. There was a very closeknit community. What got the ball rolling here in chapel hill during the Civil Rights Movement was, after the greensboro sit in, there were a group of guys that got together and they decided they needed to do something here in chapel hill to
Of october, 1962 when the United States and the soviet union faced off over missiles in cuba in one of the hottest episodes of the cold war. He explains how the ideological militancy of cuban leader fidel castro worried leaders in both moscow and washington who did not truly desire Nuclear Conflict despite their tough talk. Dr. Kengor all right, welcome. Here good we have cspan today. And we are going to talk about the cuban missile crisis. And specifically, fidel castro leading into the cuban missile crisis. So we will hit a. Of 1957 until 1950 nine until the missile crisis itself in october, 1962. Aboutst class we talked july 20 6, 1953 launch of the revolution, the communist revolution in cuba. That was when fidel and force of 100 to 200 rebels launched an attack on the Army Barracks santiago,o, in cuba. It did not go well. A bunch of rebels were killed. Fidel castro ascends to 15 years in prison for that. He did not quite serve 15 years in prison. He served less than one year, 11 m
Is my honor to turn him to run this discussion about unknown air missions. [applause] thank you. As pete said, the title of this panel is unknown air missions. Some into this panel but they peaked in 1943 but we move to 1944s we have other debacles to talk about. Were going to look at operation enter horn and operation frantic, the first is sometimes bizarre and attempt to deploy between nine to the china burma india theater and the others and attempt to shuttle bond with the russians that did more to launch the cold war then to end world war ii. Theres a nasty pattern emerging here for the panels they want me to moderate. The last conference i got to sit and rickich Frank Atkinson who talked about the so i feel obligated to say today as i said then, that i want to remind everyone here we did eventually win the war. [laughter] we have to great presenters search date good friends of mine and trevor presenter. First is Tami Davis Biddle besides responsible for the most import parts of th
Crisis itself in october, 1962. That will pick off a little bit where we left off in the last class. The last class we talked about july 26, 1953 launch of the revolution, the communist revolution in cuba. And that was when fidel and a force of 100 to 200 rebels launched an attack on the Army Barracks in santiago, cuba. 15 years in prison, so less than a year in prison, 11 months altogether. With that, he was on the run, he was in exile. He went to mexico. His brother, raul, as well. They would eventually come back and try to recommence the revolution, taking over in january, 1959. That is about where we left off. One thing i didnt mention the last class, but youre going to read the article on this, its the Herb Matthews piece in the New York Times. If you have not read it yet if you have, you have probably been shocked, right . By this article, you are thinking what is this . What is this piece . Herb matthews was a reporter for the New York Times. He wrote a february 24, 1957 front p
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. This is a test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac and then reagan learned how to perfect state of the unions and these like major speeches and barack obama was the big deal about blackberry president , he had a blackberry. Trump took twitter and ran with it and we still havent caught up with it because social media is a big phenomenon and donald trump sees the world as how many followers do i have. He judges power he is interested in celebrities that have a lot of followers. If you are a Congress Person or a state representative and dont have twitter followers, trump thinks you are a loser. But how long is twitter going to be the big deal . Theres going to be something new coming up. It might be we have to find ways to restrain some social media. I mean, facebook has taken off people that are holocaust deniers. Gone. You know, freedom of speech has its limits. You cant go in theaters and scream fire when there isnt one and the internet has not been