You were watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. Live to theou now hotel hererkman park in washington, d. C. For all the coverage of the American Historical Association annual meeting. Over the course of the day, we will bring you several roundtable this as well as live interviews with historians in and we will respond to your calls and tweets. Topics include watergate and how it impacted political partisanship as well as challenges for the National Parks service in commemorating the postcivil war rick reconstruction era. First up, a panel of historians talks about the year 1968 and reflect on the major events that unfolded 50 years ago. This is live coverage on an American History tv on cspan3. Hello, everybody. Good morning. Years after 1968. Part one. This is the first of a series of panels on the 50th anniversary of 1968. 1968 as as called local and global event. I am the chair today. We are missing, unfortunately, one panelist who was sick last night a
Today. We are missing one panelist who got sick last night and cannot make it, unfortunately. We are going to go in the order that we are sitting and 10 minutes each for a short presentation. This is a roundtable, and then we open up to discussion with you guys and the four of us. Ok. Hi, everybody. Can you hear me . Like this . Ok. Not in a creepy way . Like this . Better . Ok. I want to i want to thank everybody coming today. Im currently working on a book manuscript about egypt, the modern history of egypt. And it operates from a premise that the egyptian people are a people that protest. And that has been well documented over since the early 19th century. We have this notion of continuity in student protests over the long history of egypts modern history. However, the reason for protests often is different. And so, what i hope to talk about today is the student and worker protests of 1968, and really what i am interested in in egypt is the conservative in 1967. H takes hold a lot o
One panelist who was sick last night and cannot make it, unfortunately. We are going to go in the order that we are sitting and 10 minutes each for a short presentation. This is a roundtable. And then we open up to discussion with you guys and the four of us. Ok. Hello, everyone. Can you hear me . Like this . Ok. Not in a creepy way . Better . Ok. I want to thank everyone for coming today. Im currently working on a book manuscript about egypt, the modern history of egypt. And it operates from apprentice that the egyptian people are a people that protest. And that has been well documented over since the early 19th century. We have this notion of continuity in student protests over the long history of egypts modern history. However, the reason for protests often is different. And so, what i hope to talk about today is the student and worker protests of 1968 and really what i am interested in in egypt is the conservative term which takes hold in 1967. A lot of historians or political scie
Political nor jihadist has been suggested in the initial phases of the story. Actually it was somebody, perhaps a professor at alexander university. Look at pictures there looking to make contact with an estranged wife. Thus iran confirmed report suggested now is the motivation behind whats happening. It is a picture taken inside the cap and reporting to shut the 27yearold man. The evidence of a grainy picture looks a little bit older than 27. This is a story which continues to unfold and is by no means at its more definitive stage. It will become in time. Lets turn briefly to her correspondent in cairo spirit we are expecting a briefing from the egyptians soon. Ascot the Civil Aviation ministry has said it will raise the price any moment now. We expect them to shut some light onto what has been going on. Egypt has released another statement. They said there were 55 passengers on the plane, so not just one as we originally heard. They were around four or exactly as they said it, for pa
Right now theyre going to want to know all the information they can gather. What does he look like . Has he made any statements on board the plane . Did anybody actually see a suicide belt . Does it look real . Does it not look real . Is he standing up . Ise sitting down . Is he at the front of the plane, the back of the plane . They want to know all this information to give them the tactical advantage. The other side of the coin is that right now its difficult for the people left on board, and probably the passengers that are getting onto that bus at larnaca will be able to say who else was on board, maybe somebody knows the rest of these passengers. Maybe they know foreign affiliation. Because the indication is that the foreign passengers are still left on that plane. One of the things that has to be kept in mind, that plane is no longer under the jurisdiction of what egyptians would do in their country had it still been on the ground there. They have to go with the protocol of cypru