And so we couldnt possibly find a better person in the history of sports and civil rights than dr. Harry edwards and he was gracious enough to lend his name to that lecture and we expect well have several presentations under that name in the coming years. Today is we have a conversation thats going to occur on the area of sports and civil rights. Ive been a part of many panels and many presentations over the years and normally you try and find the best panelists and the best people to make that presentation. Rarely do you have the people, the top people, who are presenting. In other words, if you had to pick one, two and three, rarely do you get one, two and three. Today were fortunate that we have probably the three most important people in the civil rights sports and society and sports and Civil Rights Movement in the last 50 years and were ecstatic, were pleased, were proud that we can present them and have a conversation with them with you today. So let me say that again. We have h
Every element of the grand strategy. Obviously they were discussing each other as well. And attitudes to the allies or potential allies at whatever point of the war youre talking about and in terms of what help might be gained from the americans. When you get round to what we call the transatlantic telephone , there you have something placed by an american telephone company, bell telephones, in mid1943. That was to give a secure telephone line that was potentially unstoppable, if you like, connecting the british Prime Minister to the american president. As far as anyone is aware, it was used by churchill and roosevelt. It was certainly used by churchill and truman. Because the latter had their conversations written down. It was used from 1943 afterwards. About what, you can only speculate. New talked about the my show planning for dday. They certainly talked about the planning for the end of the war, the surrender of germany and the recorded conversations we have about what was going t