Through our doors first and maybe she will come back here to give a lecture of her own someday. Before spro deuintroducing our im really excited to let you know we have a special guest who was able to join us at the last moment. Her name is marion lee johnson. She was one of the Space Programs Hidden Figures. Ms. Johnson was an engineer at Nasas Marshall Space Flight Center in huntsville, alabama, working for boeing, the sponsor for tonights event. She worked on the team that determined the path, the parts of the thsaturn 5, would take, the rocket fell back to earth. Their work was vital for safety planning. After boeing and successful career in Computer Technology she now teaches the next generation of computer workers. Please join me in recognizing and welcoming ms. Marion lee johnson. [ applause ] like ms. Johnson, tonights speakers certainly know what its like to blaze trails and defy expectations. Throughout this years 50th anniversary celebrations of the apollo 11 mission ive bee
Ewing Marion Kauffman foundation for supporting the lecture series tonight. Perhaps you are aware that the Eisenhower Foundation is raising money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation. It is the largest Fundraising Campaign in our foundations 73 year history and it is the First Comprehensive exhibit renovation in more than 45 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer. We have been so encouraged by the response that we have received thus far and am pleased to report that we raise 90 of our goal. We want to finish the campaign before june 6 so we can publicly announce this milestone to all of the veterans who join us at the eisenhower president ial library and museum to commemorate the 75th anniversary of dday. Many of our friends have already made a gift to the exhibit renovations and i would like to thank you for your trust and participation in this project. There is still time to participate and i hope everyone will consider a gift so we can reach our goal. It gives
I want to thank the ewing and coughman foundation for supporting extra series tonight. Perhaps youre aware that the Eisenhower Foundation is raising money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation and its the largest Fundraising Campaign in our foundations 73year history its the exhibit renovation in more than 45 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer and we have been so encouraged by the response that weve received thus far and i am pleased to report that we raised 98 of our goals. [ applause ] we of the to finish the campaign and thank the veterans who join us at the Eisenhower Museum to commemorate the dday. Many of our friends have made a gift to the exhibit renovation and id like to thank you for your trust and participation in this project. Theres still time to participate and i hope everyone will consider a gift so we can reach our goal. It gives me great pleasure to introduce to nots program. Louis is Professor Emeritus in the department of history and editor
Cspans campaign 2020. Your unfiltered view of politics. This comes from Purdue University with biographers looking at political history. This talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking political history. Its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. I will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you that youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography and political history. Randy robert has written so many. Youve written half of our total number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre. Weve obviously been drawn to it and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we again, let me introduce the panelists. And as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about the genre. First we have larry maslin in the graduate acting program
On the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing todays washington journal in conjunction with American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern spaceflight. For the next three hours we are live from the national air and space museum where we will talk about apollo 11 with historian command michael and you. You can let us know our impressions if you watched the mainline. If you want to talk about the day 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post your thoughts and impressions of the anniversary and do the same on our Facebook Page facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based hear from the national air and space museum. A couple of facts of the anniversary of the apollo 11 mission. It was near limestone, buzz aldrin and michael the team for that day. For lunch for lunch took pl. , july 16th at 9 32 in the morning. The moon landing on july 20 july 1969 4 17 in the afternoon. The first step at about 10 50 6 pm on july 20, buzz aldrin would