Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
Warning until 5 15, for another 14 miutes, princegeorges and parts of charles and fairfax counties as well. This storm was producing prolific amounts of lightning. Starting to see some of that lightning fall out of thunderstorm which is a good sign. It means that the thunderstorm is starting t calm down a little bit and fizzle out somewhere, but, still some very heavy rainfall and that will ber the main tt out there tonight, hervey rain. Ill have the fireworks forecast coming up in about 15 minutes. All right. Thanks, amelia. People havehe been gatng down on the mall well before this rain hit. And even after is started our crews have seen many folks headed down to get a good look. Crowds continue torow as we check in with W Corey Smith the live near the Lincoln Memorial where the president is the set to speak. Reporter yeah,gu , the crowds do continue to fill in. But this rain is kind of forcing people to make that executive decision, are we going to stay or go . We see more people fil
They havent written memoirs yet but i think they are going to. In terms of minute memoirs, this is probably the last of someone and knew it from the beginning. What did you put in this book had never talked about before . Also at the end of it, where you put in that quote by john osborn, it looked so he said e had seen shelley an me, the first day, Inauguration Day in 1969, looking up at the portico, all e had seen how it breaks e said it almost your heart. All of this thats fresh and new. Is, really about what it was like as a young conservative in the nixon white to do battle for your beliefs and the opposition you face and the transition the was undergoing. Operated ixon sort of on holding the whole thing together until the watergate collapsed it. Mentioned sprio agnew, in the des moines speech, weve got it, before we go there, what role did it play and up to it . Nixon in his first years, toward the end of the first massive demonstrations and the moratorium were being Monument Grou
Ago. How many others are left . Patrick im sure there are some of the young men around nixon, what we would call back in those days like Dwight Chapin and others who havent written memoirs yet, but im not sure they are going to. But i do think in terms of a written memoir, this is brian, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. Brian what did you put in this book that you had never talked about before . Patrick well, i put in the origins of the agnew speech my memos on that. There is a number of memos in there then i went to my files and got out that i have never published before a great number of them and theres a description of how i almost defected on the china trip. I was so unhappy with it, and theres also the end of it, you know where you put in that quote by john osborne and it looks so he said, he saw i had seen shelly and me when first day, the Inauguration Day in 1969 looking up at the portico and then he had seen how it all end
Pat buchanan and the knowledge of your new look acknowledges of your new book, you wrote this is surely among the last to be written by a confidant who served in the white house from its first to its final days over four decades ago. How many others are left . Im sure there are some of the young man around nickel nixon. Who havent written memoirs yet, but im not sure theyre going to. I do think in terms of a written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. What you put in this book youve never talked about before . The origins of the agnew speech, my memos on that, theres a number of memos in their i got out that ive never published before and there is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip i was so unhappy with it. End of itlso the where you put in that quote, he said he saw shelley and me on the first day of the Inauguration Day looking at the book looking up the portico and saw how it all ended, he said it alm