War and the movement for gender e. Quality. And admiration of history i was curious about the state september 8. What happened on this date . September 8 the surveyor site launched. Margo lee launches her book Hidden Figures into the literary world. [applause] she graduated from the university of virginia with a degree in finance. A journalist from independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of the english monthly magazine with her husband margo is the daughter of one of the first black male engineers so she grew up knowing many of the figures. Of the computer project and be Foundation Fellow and recipient of the Virginia Foundation of the humanities grant for her research. She lives in charlottesville virginia. Virginia woolf once said anonymous and history was usually a woman. Let me say that again. Anonymous in history was usually a woman. Tonight these brilliant women are anonymous no more thanks to her book Hidden Figures. May the names of Catherine Johnson, mary jackson, d
She recently spoke at the museum of flight in seattle. This is one hour and 20 minutes. The lovely director welcome, everyone to the Space Gallery hergalleryhere at the museum of. My name is jeff and i am the curator for space history here at the museum. The president and ceo sends his regards and regrets he is unfortunately unable to be here as he is ill. I would like to begin by thanking the special featured speaker this evening Julian Guthrie and the special guest dave moore [applause] and also, the team from the cspan books will be recording this evenings events and conversations for later viewing. We have a fabulous evening in store as a part of the orbiter on october the space focused events throughout the month leading up to the space fast which will be happening from november 3 through 5th. This years is themed ladies who launch and it features talks, activities and handles all about space. For a complete listing, i encouk at the insert in the magazine you should have received
She recently spoke at the museum of flight in seattle. This is one hour and 20 minutes. The lovely director welcome, everyone to the Space Gallery hergalleryhere at the museum of. My name is jeff and i am the curator for space history here at the museum. The president and ceo sends his regards and regrets he is unfortunately unable to be here as he is ill. I would like to begin by thanking the special featured speaker this evening Julian Guthrie and the special guest dave moore [applause] and also, the team from the cspan books will be recording this evenings events and conversations for later viewing. We have a fabulous evening in store as a part of the orbiter on october the space focused events throughout the month leading up to the space fast which will be happening from november 3 through 5th. This years is themed ladies who launch and it features talks, activities and handles all about space. For a complete listing, i encouk at the insert in the magazine you should have received
College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silence all your cell phones at this point, and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. So the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes, and w
Its my pleasure to welcome jack to the museum for this presentation. Youre going to do questions and answers so hell be doing q a after his speech. Welcome jack. [applause] this is a great venue, i suspect its the first time book tv has done one from an error line hanger. This is probably my tenth book tv but it is closest to my heart. Let me start background. Many of you know that on july 17, 1996, at 819 p. M. , twa flight 800 life to the jfk airport in hundred life the jfk airport in new york bound for paris. Twelve minutes later, 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island, the popular south shore of long island it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were killed. Fiftythree of them were twa employees. Many of you in this room knew at least some of those people. There is a memorial in their honor at the museum and if i were coming here and to spread a Conspiracy Theory i would be dishonoring their memory and would be insulting you. Instead im here to tell you what happened on july 17,