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We are honored to be joined tonight by three former secret Service Agents, and the combined services are 32 years, and larry was honored with a role in stopping assassination attempt on president gerald ford in 1972 in sacramento, and then larry served 25 years as the security chief with the United States olympic committee. Joe clancy is with us, and he served on the protective details of four president s, including president bush and trail blazer as he would have called them by the secret service code name, and he was tempo, and mrs. Bush was trail blazer. The 32 Years Experience culminated in 2014 when joe was named the director of the secret service and he was in charge from the obama administration. And today, he is the chief Security Officer at comcast corporation. And Nicholas Trotta is with us, and helped to protect five president s, including president bush. Worked on large scale events such as world leader summits and a lot of the post 9 11 trips and even trips to afghanistan
They are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win and the others, too. [applause] early 1960s, president john kennedy said we want to galvanize our country to do something very bold, and it was the space race. We wanted to do something bold to beat the russians. Lets beat the russians by sending humans to the moon and returning us safely before the end of the 1960s. As the country is starting to think about going to the moon, one of the questions we had was, how do you know where you are going . If you travel to a foreign country, you take a map with you to figure out where you are going. If you cover to travel to a foreign world, you better have a map to you dont hit the side of a mountain or run into a crater or Something Like that. So it was a critical part of preparing to go to the moon. We are inside the historic
Learn about their history and life. We will look at highlights of some of these stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Alabama,n selma, africanamericans were denied the right to vote. There were folks throughout the south that did not want these people to have the right to vote. They can be considered second class citizens. Poll taxes would be the price you had to pay per year in order to get on the voting rolls. Say i live here in Dallas County and allke 60 dollars taxes are one dollar a year. Raise that isa 40. Thenf my 60 will go i will have 20 which i have to feed and flow my kids. There are not very many black people who will have extra money left over to pay a poll tax. On something when i have an extra dollar left over and i go down to this courthouse and i show up saying i would like to register to vote. I would go to the county registrar, have my poll tax ready. Takes my pollnel tax but he also administers a literary tax. That tests could take many forms. Ask me the name of the pr