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Continuing through 2018, we mark the 50th anniversary of americas war in vietnam. In 1960 seven, hundreds of thousands of troops were on the ground in vietnam, while at home voices became more vocal. There was a large cohort of the baby boomer generation that the culture during the summer of love. To learn about these events, we now turn to to todays guest, book 1967,ks and his the year of fire and ice. Mr. Brooks is an internationally recognized author with 14 books on history. s passion for these areas of research and dates back to his childhood when the Brooks Family visited gettysburg in europe. In addition, dr. Brooks is a professor and received an undergraduate degree in history from Lasalle University and earned his masters and doctors of education degree from the university of pennsylvania. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome victor brooks. [applause] victor thank you so much for coming today. I am very honored that all of you could take from your schedules to listen to me. A
Youre cheating in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow to our teacher my names you know neal good to have your company our top story this hour german tabloid billed as published what it thought was leaked evidence of the activities of a russian troll farm but the lead turned out to be far from concrete rock as the of joins me now with all the details. This is build a lot of germans get their days news from not so theres a duty of care here surely so why was the newspaper duped into running whats been confirmed this fake will build rushed into this one they thought they had a real bombshell on their hands they thought that they would incite a National Scandal a huge political scandal basically what happened is they got these allegedly leaked emails which involved the. The s. P. D. There precisely specifically their youth wing lead to kevin. Kunar who was allegedly talking to a russian board factory to. An agent a russian agent who introduced himself as yuri what they
A russian troll farm but i got to have comments. Bild thought they had a bombshell the makings of an International Scandal heres the meat of it build the published a report about how the socialists the s. P. D. Was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory its huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s. P. D. Youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel that no grow Cold Campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering the services of an online army under his control to spread the message what build got their hands on was the email exchange between them it reads wonderfully cold words mistrust secret meetings like something out of a spy a movie did kevin im ury id like to talk to you about supporting your no grow Cold Campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mile from you but just to be sure could you name me g. s favor
Our Team International and you know neal our top story this hour german top lloyd builds has published what it thought was leaked evidence of the activities of a russian farm but the lead turned out to be far from concrete. Joined me earlier with the details. Well build rushed into this one they thought they had a real bombshell in there and they thought that they would incite a National Scandal a huge political scandal basically what happened is they got these allegedly leaked emails which involved the socialists the s. P. D. There precisely specifically their youth wing leader kevin kunar who was allegedly talking to a russian border factory to. An agent a russian agent who introduced himself as yuri what they were talking about according to the email exchange is the s. P. D. Kevin kuhn is running a campaign against forming a Coalition Government with the angular merkels own party. Its called the google the group will campaign and the russian yuri allegedly offered to use the use of