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Is the National Security agency who was into our private phone calls and read our mail, and are a core component of our secret government that has done Everything Possible to my requests for access to their historic records. Has for decades been in the forefront of filing requests and occasionally legal suit to obtain declassification and release of highly classified and hidden documents. Nsa ise of the good chasing our store records, trying to pry open the hidden hands of the bad nsa, and most of the Covert Agency is, and our National Archives that have layers of classification and secrecy. Has beennbluh responsible for Major Projects at the good nsa and has extracted records. Hero. S my definition of a vital records have been obtained of the Nixon Kissinger overthrow of the chilean government in 1973 and, and his book was declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability. They read like an outline of a novel. Obtained documents after the u. S. Attempt to overthrow the cuban governm
Speaker, warren perry. From memphis,ly tennessee. He has a graduate degree in medieval literature and from the catholic university. , while women walt whitman and the civil war. Elvis,cowrote office which received the bronze award from forward magazine in 2010. In his 12 years at the National Portrait gallery, he wrote over 200 articles for print and the web. More than 40 on the American Civil War. Here he received one of tims secretary Research Prizes for 2013 for the Smithsonian Congress of scholars. We are very proud of him. He is founder and director of library of perry theater. I would like to introduce amy well, the site manager and she is going to make a few remarks and then well have one come up here. Warr come up here. Thank you. E thank you. I would like to thank you so much for coming out. Creek and belle grove historical park was excited to partner with the smithsonian for this lecture. Thank you for agreeing to speak on this great history. We think it is such a perfect the
My dad had an eighth grade education, my mom, a fifthgrade education, and yet, they believed in the promise of this country. They worked really hard and sacrificed, as so many latinos and hispanics have done in this country, because they wanted that Better Future for their children, and they believed in the promise of this country. They talked us important values that have been our guide for our lives, me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. They taught us the importance of family, faith, Community Hard work, sacrifice, honesty integrity. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Next on American History tv, researcher Peter Kornbluh discusses president kennedys attempts to open up negotiations with cuba. He discusses the issues involved with establishing reliable dialogue in negotiations. He is coauthor of back channel to cuba. This is about 45 minutes. Thank you. Im here to introduce Peter Kornbluh, whom i have just met. I have just gotten a copy of his new book, co
<strong>Other lives: </strong>Commander in the 4th Indian Infantry Division during the battles of Alamein who moved to Glasgow after the second world war