Smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else 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 to welcome the programs founder, dan pedersen. 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 navys legendary Top Gun Program at miramar in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews on uss hancock and three on uss enterprise. He retired as a captain having accumulated 6,100 flight hours and 105 carrier landings while flying 39 types of aircraft. For those of how know pedersens story from the 1986 movie top gun youll be happy to know that jerry brook heimer is producing top gun maverick a sequel scheduled to be released in 2020. Pedersens book top gun is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. And here
Received the pulitzer for. This afternoon hes going to speak on another misunderstood character, jesse james. Its really at the point of a new wave scholarship focused on civil war warfare. Theyve all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. And now we have a more kpansive view of civil war military history. Jesse james unfortunately sometimes is perceived as a robin hood figure. And we also see him being a political, that hes part of those bandits. I think whats so impressive is he has taken this man and enabled us to see a man who, we should note, has left very few written records. But a man who was during the civil war, who was deeply political. And so it is my pleasure to bring back to the stage t. J. Styles. [ applause ] thank you very much. My grandfather did some public speaking and once he was going to talk, someone came up to him in the lobby and said i really want to go to the ball game, is this guy any good . He said sometimes i find
Received the pulitzer for. This afternoon hes going to speak on another misunderstood character, jesse james. Its really at the point of a new wave scholarship focused on civil war warfare. Theyve all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. And now we have a more kpansive view of civil war military history. Jesse james unfortunately sometimes is perceived as a robin hood figure. And we also see him being a political, that hes part of those bandits. I think whats so impressive is he has taken this man and enabled us to see a man who, we should note, has left very few written records. But a man who was during the civil war, who was deeply political. And so it is my pleasure to bring back to the stage t. J. Styles. [ applause ] thank you very much. My grandfather did some public speaking and once he was going to talk, someone came up to him in the lobby and said i really want to go to the ball game, is this guy any good . He said sometimes i find
Give the speech of his life tonight, we talk to the woman who will introduce him and ask can he get things back on track today, thursday, july 21st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today. At the Republican National convention with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from cleveland. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its thursday morning. Were here at the Republican Convention here in cleveland and who was it that said conventions are boring, scripted affairs, nothing happens. Take the word boring off of the list. This thing is not boring at all. Its the fourth and final day of the convention and should be a really big one for donald trump. This morning it is that snub, his primary rival ted cruz, delivering a snub that everyone is talking about. It was quite a moment on the floor. I was there. Cruz was booed and then donald trump sweeps in and steals the moment. By the way, well talk to ivanka trump later on about what she thinks about her speech to
Can he get things back on track today, thursday, july, 21, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today at the Republican National convention with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from cleveland. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Its thursday morning. Were here at the Republican Convention here in cleveland and who says convention are boring and scripted affairs and nothing happens. Take the word boring off of the list. Its not boring at all. Its the fourth and final day of the convention and should be a big one for donald trump. This morning it is that snub, his primary rival ted cruz, delivering a snub that everyone is talking about. It was quite a moment on the floor. I was there. Cruz was booed and then donald trump sweeps in and steals the moment. By the way, well talk toi ivana trump. Ted cruz had the room for the bulk of that speech until that moment when he did not endorse. The crowd didnt like that one bit. We have a lot to get to. Lets start w