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Welcome. My name is Francis Gary Powers jr. I go by gary. Im the founder of the Cold War Museum at vent hill, virginia, about 45 miles west of washington, d. C. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1996 to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history and educate future generations about the time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to High School Students in this area, nine times out of 10, the students would not know anything about the cold war. They would think that the utwo incident had something to do with the utwo rock band. I noticed that they needed to be taught about the cold war time period. In 1996, we founded the museum which opened in 2011 here at vent hill farms station. A former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. Area. It used to be used by nsa, c. I. A. , asa, Army Security agency, and other groups to monday horthe Electronic Communications around the washington, d. C. Embassy and international signals. The cold war was a geopolitical stan
International, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century, in particular the era of the world wars and the cold war and in addition of the age eisenhower, hes author of the bitter road to freedom, a lib history of the liberation of europe which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and also a bestseller in the united kingdom. Following d. Hitchcocks remarks, ann compton will join d. Hitchcock for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th path of the United States. Anne is a pioneer of journalism in america. She was the first woman to cover the white house for Network Television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. Her on geoffty and impact are unparalleled. Anns career at abc news spanned seven president s of the United States, 10 president ial campaigns. She anchored from the white house, from capitol hill and president ial travel that took her to all 50 states and six continue innocents and ann, and this is a very significant part of american and white house hist
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