At the roads end, the wall. These are the people who move along the road. Some walk. Some ride. Some are well shod. Some are barefoot. Some are so young they must be carried. Or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary and land for the landless. Some protest openly, doesnt matter. Some were born on the road. Many will die along the way. A have van naw, cuba, january, 1959, this road leads to this wall. Red china, september, 1960, this road, this wall. Berlin, december, 1961, this road this wall. In the beginning the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosophy and scholar, carl marx, who maintains only through a certain system can the farmer avoid starvation. Our ends can only be maintained by an overthrow of all existing social conditions. Thus, the road begins. Many who walked the road know its origins well. Many do not. Some things must be known about the road by th
[inaudible] good evening everyone. I am the director of the wisconsin amenities council. Thank you for coming to see Amy Goldstein book presentation. Think a way for coming here today to talk about the life of the hard working people in janesville thats documented in your book. This event cannot be possible with the sponsorship of many of our friends. I encourage everyone to go to the festival website and find out more about our sponsors. The Wisconsin Humanities Council is proud to sponsor this evening. Its wonderful opportunity to supports and promote programs they use history, culture, and discussion to study Community Life in wisconsin for everyone. Tonights presentation will delight you and help us move forward in this direction. For those of you who may not know, the wisconsin book festival was created by the humanities council, an organization over 13 years before france decided to take on the task of keeping the event life. So kudos to the for having such wonderful event every
Before we begin our session and everybody gets set down, id like the make sure there will be q and a at the end. If everyone would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher has a very large and heavy mic and if he hears the phone, he will run to you and hit you on the edhad. Be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly. So im going to try to do that. Well kmnt to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. We have a latest in the series of speakers in the National Security area and thank you to cspan people here as well. Im an old spy i started in cia in the soviet european division. And today i get to find out at long last. James skasal is here today, our speaker. Special forces berlin clandestine cold war operations of the u. S. Army elite from 1956 to 1990. Jim is someone who came out of nebraska, midwest and did a few stints in some very special places as special forces. And then
Some of you know me. I head up the Intelligence Program here. Before we begin our session and everybody gets set down, id like the make sure there will be q and a at the end. If everyone would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher has a very large and heavy mic and if he hears the phone, he will run to you and hit you on the edhad. Be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly. So im going to try to do that. Well kmnt to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. We have a latest in the series of speakers in the National Security area and thank you to cspan people here as well. Im an old spy i started in cia in the soviet european division. And today i get to find out at long last. James skasal is here today, our speaker. Special forces berlin clandestine cold war operations of the u. S. Army elite from 1956 to 1990. Jim is someone who came out of nebraska, midwest and did a few s
At the roads end, the wall. These are the people who move along the road. Some walk. Some ride. Some are well shod. Some are barefoot. Some are so young they must be carried. Or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary and land for the landless. Some protest openly, doesnt matter. Some were born on the road. Many will die along the way. A have van naw, cuba, january, 1959, this road leads to this wall. Red china, september, 1960, this road, this wall. Berlin, december, 1961, this road this wall. In the beginning the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosophy and scholar, carl marx, who maintains only through a certain system can the farmer avoid starvation. Our ends can only be maintained by an overthrow of all existing social conditions. Thus, the road begins. Many who walked the road know its origins well. Many do not. Some things must be known about the road by th