This conference from Purdue University continues with biographers looking at political history, this talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking american political history, its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. We will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully we will convince you that the made the right choice, hanging out with you to talk about media and biography and political history. A lien between the four of us weve written at least 17 biographies, it might be more than that i was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many, youve written more than half of our total number i think. So, we have a lot of experience in this genre, weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So, before we begin lets introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could stand a minute or two, telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it
Off your cell phone or anything that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pederson. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the legendary Top Gun Program at Naval Air Station miramar in march of 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews on the uss hancock and three on the uss enterprise. He retired as a captain, having accumulated 6100 flight hours and 1005 flight carrier landings while flying 39 different types of aircraft. For those of you who know pedersons story from the 1986 movie, top gun, Jerry Bruckheimer is producing, top gun maverick, a sequel in 2020. His book is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. Here to keep the conversation going is larry burke, curator of Naval Aviatio
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Who is at the england defender Millie Brights former football club. Emily, what are Excitement Levels like where you are . There has been lots of excitement here this morning. This is of course where Millie Bright started her Football Career when she was just nine years old at Killer Marsh Dynamos and it was here on these very pitches behind me where she was scouted by sheffield united. Of course she now plays for chelsea and has been captain of the england lionesses in the world cup. But people here have been telling me she hasnt forgotten her roots and has been back to visit many times and speak to her old coaches, and in fact one of them joins me now. This is andy poulsen who knows Millie Bright and you remember the first day she started here, dont you . Yes, she was only a tiny little dot, but she was full of running and then when she started playing for me she played up front scoring 80 odd goals in the one season she was with me. But you could always tell there was potential ther