Growth on the natural resources. One of the best parks in the now, but it was a depressed, nasty place. It is a great story of how a community can get behind a park and start to appreciate and cherish the river and the waterfall again. Later, Bob Jones University, and how an old policy on interracial dating impacted the campaign. George w. Bush had lost New Hampshire to john mccain. South carolina was do or die for george w. Bush read evangelicals didnt really identify with him. Evangelicals really. Dentified with him he cam theade a fact of universities interracial dating policy. But first, textiles. It became known as the textile center of the world. It started here because of the abundance of water, and the abundance of people, potential employees. There was plenty of short Staple Company everywhere short Staple Cotton everywhere. Nose gentlemen had experience, they just decided to invest in these gigantic mills rea. Have together as partnership, and that is so unlike anywhere in those world, because they competed with each other yet they partnered with each other. They served on each others boards. These men got together and decided to build an empire together. They also decided to build greenville. The History Museum is a wonderful place. It is a wonderful place because it pays homage to where greenville really started. Especially the textile industry. Exhibit behind appear to for people to understand our heritage, and where we originally came from. In first mill was started 1873. The sun, alexander, is the one who started the weaving process, the spinning process in the mail. They built a larger mill across the river. That was the beginning. The huguenot mail, there were two mills right downtown. From that point on, through the in 1925, that is when the major mills were being built. From 1899, all of the huge mills , the five and four story mills were built. The interesting the us by 1910, it became very apparent that these large, vertical mill for efficient. You are moving product vertically. , and then, steam eligible, but you are moving product vertically. 1910 were on two stories, but that occupied more land. It became far more efficient to move products laterally. , and aarted changing huge vertical mills were efficient, and eventually they were abandoned. In greenville, and during the theile era, even through 60s, there were three distinct classes in this town. You had the business community, or White Community that was the owners and doctors, lawyers, that kind of thing. They had the africanamerican community, who were occupied in various businesses. They were not involved in the textile is surely on. Then you have the text community, for a lot of people as the mill held people. They are almost as segregated as africanamericans. It was an interesting society. Find, by world war ii, on the 75 of the population of greenville in one way or another the other was involved in the textile business and human mind this was the General Motors of south dakota a few will. Review well. Almost 65 of all of the cloth for tents, were made right here. Most of the uniforms for the army were made right here in greenville. It was pretty substantial and had pretty substantial impact on the war. It was hard work. It was really hard work working in the mill. Whether you were spending, weaving, it was hard work. ,t was dusty, it was hot because there was no airconditioning. They had these big windows, but it was hot during the summer. It was very cold during the winter. The job itself was very tough. Lintcall these people heads for good reason, because there was so much cotton dust floating around in the air that they would get it in their hair. Meemember senator telling that when they were little, and they would be in line downtown, they looked over, and heres this woman standing in line, and she has this wife stuff in her hair this white stuff in her hair, and he would not be allowed to talk to her. Lived in a mill village. This was isolated. So, people have a tendency to segregate them, life for the business that villages was very interesting. The mill owners provided them with their houses, but the cultures, schools, build ways that the operatives could live a reasonably normal life together. Entertainment. Ed baseball became a huge venue, and the southern league, which was created here, became an enormous textile baseball league. He grew up as a small boy in the mill village. As he growing 15 eight teenage years, he played baseball. He was so good, that the mill itself gave him time off so he could baseball. He was the star. Then he went on to play for semipro, and then of course professional teams. There was a lot for them to do to entertain social they were not working in the mill. Im a Firm Believer that greenville is where it is today, as far as a successful, growing, progress community. That foundation is in the exile industry. This was the first layer of real leadership that led to greenville growing. The sad thing about it today is the town, the city made the decision to turn its back on the whole textile crescent, because the textile and she was in decline. I think that if you really study history as people are doing, that they will understand how important the textile industry was. To important was the society the growth and prosperity of this area, especially. All weekend, American History tv is featured greenville, South Carolina. Give severe was used as a Training Area for trips. Partners, we cable recently visited many sites showcasing the citys rich history. Learn more about it all weekend on American History tv. We are standing right here at the falls. This was a nasty spot. , but hard to believe now this was a depressed as nasty place. It is a great story of how a community can get behind a park and start to appreciate and cherish it again. Nobody knows exactly how this happened, but my vision is he was in the wilderness, looking for a great place for a trading post. In thes the sound distance, and he gets closer and closer, and pull back the branch of the tree and sees though river falls. He constructed a grist mill right after here. He operated the trading post and the gristmill for several years. They too decide the british in the revolutionary war. The birds down everything. He spent the rest of his life in the bahamas. About 20 years later, a gentleman who is recognized as the father of greenville new about harriss gristmill. Vietnamght of you can see some of the remnants of the mill, behind as. Arge shrubs that is the remnants of his bill from the early 1800s. And that is the site where the city of greenville and birthplace. This was the site of another large barge area. Right above the waterfall, he constructed a dam that diverted water right from the river and balloonhrough a right here along the bank of the river. We have some of the remnants of the regional bell here. The water went into the heart of the mill, and there was this , the water come limitedhere, there is a amount. If you look back at the , you will this area the waterfall was the centerpiece of the community. People were so proud of this river and so proud of the waterfall, this and historical documentation that says as soon as somebody got off the train for their first visit to greenville, in the first place the person would be shown is reedy river falls. Greenville citizens considered it second only to niagara. So much took place at the waterfall. Baptisms, weddings. It was a source of food and water for the Early Community of greenville, and it was really a place that was cherished. As progress continues and we move into the era of industrial evolution like so many rivers across our country, greenville turned its back on this wonderful river and it became grossly polluted. Greenville became a textile center, and there were many mills located upstream from the waterfall. They were discharging untreated waste into the river. People remember that the river would change colors depending on what the mills were running. It would be purple one day, red, yellow, green. It became an open sewer, and it became a resource that was the subject of jokes and ridicule. This is where the camper down bridge used to be. Across the river at this point, was built over the waterfall, and ended up just on the left side of the red brick building over there. It was built in 1960, and was finally taken down in the early 2000s. It totally obstructed the waterfall for decades. If you go back to 1960, when the bridge was constructed, the reedy river had been written off by this community. I dont think anybody gave a Second Thought about constructing this bridge right over the waterfall. It was purely for the convenience of transportation. The effort to establish falls park began in the mid1960s by a Wonderful Group called inter line of foothills garden club. My mother was a member of the club. The club decided they were going to celebrate and honor greenvilles birthplace, establishing a park at the waterfall. And mom was the chair of the Park Committee to make that happen. I remember her talking about the reaction she was getting from a lot of people in greenville about, are you all crazy . Why in the world do you want to do anything down there at that nasty spot . Which now, was covered up i this massive camper down bridge, and the river was still grossly polluted. There was a high rate of crime in the area. There was a lot of litter. But they were very determined. This is where greenville got its start, and we are going to celebrate it an honor it. After a lot of determined effort, it started to come together. It began by the donation of about six acres for the establishment of a park. When that donation was made, people started paying attention, saying this is going to happen. And then people started getting on board with it. You see now what we have 50 years later, one of the best parks in the United States. That part was the catalyst that led to greenvilles revitalization. People started paying attention to the downtown area, which at that time was dying. Now we have removed the bridge, we have built this magnificent pedestrian bridge, one of its kind in the world. Its curved, so you can walk out there, stop, look directly at the waterfall and enjoy it, and on a really nice day, this bridge is covered with people. There are lots of people down there along the river enjoying the park. Its the crown jewel of greenville. Will weakened American History tv is joining our Communications Partners to showcase the history of greenville, South Carolina. We continue now with our look at the history of greenville. Many of them complained about not knowing very much about their history in greenville, the history of black folk in greenville. They reported that in schools, the only chapter that they had on black people is that they were slaves. That they were slaves and they wanted to know where they could find information, if they could go to the library or get some information on jesse jackson, but they knew nothing about the early history of blacks in greenville. Greenville is a typical southern town and black and white basically. I recall the 1940s and the 1950s when there were families of asian descent, maybe one or two, and two or three families had come into this area from one of the arab countries. And they normally lived in the neighborhoods close to black neighborhoods in greenville because they, too, were discriminated against to some degree. But greenville was filled at that time with the kinds of bigotry that most of us have learned to live with and accept. Black people during that time either place and they stayed in it. And we as children coming up, we, too, knew our place and it was the way things were and it was the way things had always been. I can recall as a child, hearing stories about willie earl, who was a young black man who was lynched after being charged with stabbing a taxi driver in the road. The lynching took place right in greenville. I remember hearing everybody talk about what happened to willie earl. And when we as children with think of being afraid of anything, we with think about what happened to willie earl. But as we grew older, for some reason, that fear left us because if you can be a young man or a young woman snatched out of jail without the benefit of a trial and brutally lynched, what is it to be afraid of . So when the Civil Rights Movement broke out, many of our parents tried to put fear in us by telling us how dangerous it was. And we realize that it was danger, but that danger didnt bother us. What bothered us was the possibility that we, if we allowed things to remain the way they were, that we, too, one day could lose our life. The bible says if you save your life, you could lose it, but are you willing to lose your life for the sake of what is right, then you will save it. So we were spontaneous in the Civil Rights Movement. At first, not many activities were covered by the local television station, which was channel 4. There were accounts of it in the newspaper. Greenville, as well as the other cities in South Carolina, did not get the attention of Bernie Meehan of birmingham, alabama or other cities. But this quickly spread from greensboro to columbia, which had Allen University and benedict college, Morris College, and even with pretty station in orangeburg at South Carolina university and then into charleston, s. C. , and that movement came together, although it was spontaneous at first, it involved into an organized movement of young people. It was at that time that i was actually, believe it or not, at the age of 15 elected to state president of the College Chapter of the naacp of the whole state of South Carolina. And we began to coordinate our efforts as a state. We were given an attorney that worked with us, who later became a judge, matthew j. Perry, and he worked with us on cases that could be filed, if there were arrests, he handled it. Normally we had donald james sampson, who was an attorney and another local attorney who handled those cases. It began to take movement and evolve into a statewide movement that began to garner some attention. So when Jackie Robinson came to greenville, he was denied access to the waiting room at the airport, and out of that insult, because here you have a baseball great at the level of Jackie Robinson being refused the use of the waiting room, and out of that, we had a march on the airport on i believe it was january 1, 1960. Yeah, but we organize that march on the airport and we marched from springfield that discharge located at that time on mcabee avenue and the new church is still on mcabee, and we had hundreds and hundreds who came from all over the state and locally to march on the airport, and after that very successful march on the airport, that was when the sitins began to occur. The peterson case happened after that. When students came home on summer break, they were arrested at a five and dime in greenville. There were about four of us who are arrested who were underage, under the age of 16. And we were consequently removed from the city jail and taken to the Youth Detention Center. We were kept at the Youth Detention Center for one week. Almost eight days, but it was seven days that we were kept there, and it was no fun. But we didnt stop. As soon as i turned 16, i was back on the trail again. But that particular case, arab attorneys case, our attorneys in used in an appeal before the United States Supreme Court. And the arrest of people on the record were removed from the record, so our names were not listed because we were under age at the time. The other case i was involved in in columbia was where students rallied from all over the state to protest the fact that the South Carolina house of representatives at that time had passed a bill that gave Police Officers the authority to arrest individuals for disturbing the peace, even if it was on state property. So immediately, we decided that we would have to march on the capital. That was back in march of 90 six march of 1961, i think it was march, it could have been march of 1961. Hundreds of students came down from the state and students from columbia and Morris College and South Carolina state university. In fact, congressman clyburn, jim clyburn was arrested, he was one of the ones arrested during that particular march on the state capital. But they kept us in jail overnight and that next day when we were able to have visitors, who wasnt there but are faithful youth advisors. They stay there all night, even though we were released at that time. But we had some wonderful adult leaders in the movement and there is so much to be told and sometimes im hesitant to even talk about the Civil Rights Movement because the history of the Civil Rights Movement, like most histories, is like a wild, elusive bird that always flies away. You cant put your fingers on it or your hands around it because what i found is that when you are a part of something as lifechanging as the Civil Rights Movement, everybody wants to be a part of it, everybody wants their little niche in history. If they marched in one march, they ran the Civil Rights Movement, or they were a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. But there were those that i can recall in greenville who were a part of the Civil Rights Movement from the beginning to the end. Those that did leave and come back, you know, the college vacations, that those who really made a substantial contribution and who stood on the battlefield until as we used to put it, victory was won. Announcer our cities tour staff recently traveled to greenville, South Carolina to learn about its rich history. Are here on the campus at Bob Jones University in greenville, South Carolina. This has been here since 1947. It is a beautiful spot right here a merrill and a half from Downtown Greenville mile and a half from Downtown Greenville. Our student body currently is about 2800 students. That fluctuates from yeartoyear. It comes down to what role do is. Our viewpoint of the world is not secular, our viewpoint of the world is as it is revealed in the pictures, the bible. That is the lens we are looking through. Math, ort is science, education, or whatever a person does in their life, it is a political worldview, which makes all the difference in the world. Background ont of the school, it was founded in 1927 in a world renowned evangelist named bob jones senior. Part of the great evangelist arrow when they have huge crusades all over the United States and he was from south alabama, but he was always a strong preacher farewell known. He started his school because he was actually concerned about the negative influence of secular education of the 1920s. The school was started in right outside of panama city. In the depression years that moved to cleveland, tennessee. They were there from the our team early 1930s. They outgrew that school, so they picked up about 2500 students from cleveland, he, and moved to greenville, South Carolina. And here ever since. They went all the way to the u. S. Supreme court on an issue interracial dating here on campus. It was a difference between biblical conviction and Public Policy. What happened was Public Policy ruled biblical conviction. That was the problem of the issue of that time. That is why has repercussions today, because if there are people who have religious convictions about rings, and conflict with Public Policy, and what is the Supreme Courts going to do about that . In trying to understand the court case, officially known as Bob Jones University versus United States, this is no defense of the ban on interracial dating. It was wrong, it was racist, the school eventually recognizes that. But understand this, you go back to the south in the late 19th century after the civil war. The tragedies of what slavery was replaced with was a system of segregation, and also part of states. Ible time was mostly southern states. Asy passed what are known miscegenationtion decision nation laws. This was for white southerners after the civil war, right on through probably the 1940s and 1950s. Segregation was the reality. Make it ok, that is just the way it was. And so, once you have is bob jones senior, and the jones thely come from not just south, but from the deep south, from alabama. You have the Civil Rights Movement starting and things begin to change, and integration is going to start taking place nationally, especially in the south, where the focus is. The university actually integrates, only a few years after other colleges and universities in South Carolina. Integration really was never the issue. The issue is how do you handle race was an integrated student body . ,he administration as the time it was still bob jones junior who would have been president , the response apparently was to keep a stage of the all segregated world, which was represented by the antimiscegenation laws, the vans on interracial marriage. The administration basically framed and as a religious liberty issue. That was the argument that they made by 1964, the Civil Rights Act had passed, and the pressure was you cannot do this, and keep your tax exemption. A taxs eventually exemption. So we suited to get it back. Lost att was eventually the Supreme Court level. I think it was 1983. We lost, and the school basically went forward with known tax exemption, and operated. In 2000, dr. Bob jones the third made the decision that having that rule in place was such a detriment to our spiritual ministry, that it should be dropped right that came on the heels of the South Carolina republican president ial primary between john mccain and george w. Bush. An extraordinary man who will be an exceptional candidate, george w. Bush and his wife laura. [applause] bush had lost New Hampshire to john mccain. And so South Carolina was do or die for george w. Bush. He had decided to move to texas and stay there, and became an evangelical methodist that was part of his identity. Evangelicals identified with him. He spokeo campus, and in chapel. I remember it very well, about a campr two after the mccain decided to make an issue of the fact that the university, although integrated band interracial dating. Divisiontle tactics of and slender are not our values. [applause] they are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the republican party, or the name of america, shame our faith, our party, and our country. [applause] tvit was fodder for cable for about a week or two. It was pretty painful. I think within a week or so, dr. Bob the third decided that it did hurt the school, and our spiritual ministry, so he dropped the rule. I guess it was a few years later, stephen jones, the next president , apologized. Hadink in that apology, he the best rationale for it. In the end it was not really about religious liberty, it was were to cap to to our culture. Christians, hopefully we take our faith very seriously, and we want to , especiallye world what we consider to be evil in the world. Transcendply did not what we should have. South carolina today is important president ial elections because of the sequence in the primaries. It is the big one right after New Hampshire. You have iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina. States are different demographically and culturally. South carolina is perhaps the first place you can test your audience,a southern , notally more conservative just for republicans, but for democratic candidates. How they feel, for example to africanamerican voters, and there are graders greater of those in the low country, in the charleston area. Sanders basically are can do at how sanders with africanamericans. This is the first opportunity engage that. Republicans,t for but for other parties as well. Politicians come to places like bob jones, because some consider us as the old image of the bible belt. Someone has said that we are not just the bible belt. We are the buckle of the bible belt where it introduced here, then it beyondly expands outward just the campus itself. They are targeting the evangelical network, which is pretty well organized. I think what people misunderstand, they think it is more unified than it is. It is fractured like other groups, but they want to get their share of it, their percentage. Even if you are not identified specifically as an evangelical candidate, you can still get a percentage. You do not want it to be angry with you. So one way you do it is symbolically you visit liberty, or you visit bob jones. The candidates of his current president ial election cycle are pettit wants it to happen. I think that is appropriate. The candidates want to come back. They are willing to overcome any adverse reactions. I think since 2000, we basically redemptionme sort of , i hope. We can be acceptable to president ial candidates visiting. During reconstruction in 1858, greenville sent a vibrational delegation to write a new state constitution to eliminate slavery, and give the right to vote to black men and women. With theers worked city staff to explore the rich history. Learn more all weekend on cspan tv. Museum we the history want to highlight all aspects of the korean war. This is our exhibit called the forgotten war. Highlighting the s through the artist, the conflict that was there. Even though it was a forgotten war, it deserves to be remembered for the men and women who fought there and loss relies lost their lives. This is an introduction to the exhibit itself right we do give a little Background Information about the beginnings of what is going on in korea. Japanese occupation throughout world war ii, let between the soviet union and the United States, and the immediate aftermath. We are giving you an introduction as you progress to the rest of the exhibit. By ane some artwork artist who was in korea. He was not originally a painter, he was more of a photographer. But some of his superior officers heard that he could do no. Doodle. They encouraged him to become a new painter for the u. S. Navy. Exhibit. S our cruiserhave a navy yearbook. They were given out at the end deployment. We also have a swimsuit that would be worn in korea. This is a taste of the rest of the exhibit as you go through chronologically. Happenedthings that that are shut out of us with the korean war, and to really highlight the other artists that we have included in the exhibit. Artave a lot of arch featuring helicopters and fighter jets. We were behind soviet union with the korean war broke out. We were using a lot of planes in world ward ii. We caught up quickly with the red army, focusing on new planes that were invented, making debuts in korea. The helicopter was widely used as well. It is largescale for the first time. There are a lot of famous people who fought in korea in the fighter jet, including a of the original astronauts like neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, john glenn, and the Baseball Hall of famer ted williams. You have all of the amazing men to were known and unknown the families who fought in this new way of fighting. This is actually my favorite portion of the exhibit. We really highlight jesse brown. He was from mississippi and one of the first africanamericans to join the United States navy, as well as the first pilot. He struggled when he joined the pilot program. They did not want him. To be in the navy, you have to pass a swim test. They kept trying to say he cannot swim. He basically outlasted them. To korea, and december of 1950 his plane is shot down. He dies of exposure. Himof the men who was with one that will honor for trying to rescue him. His body remains in north korea, worked his tried that work has been made to try to recover it on th for the family. This painting is from a photograph. It really does highlight not only his story about how korea is in race relations, Harry S Truman really embrace this idea of civil rights. Much to the chagrin of party members, both republican and democratic. Orderieved and executed forcing the integration of the military. He was tired of waiting for the government to do it. He uses constitutional power to get it done. The korean war will be the first fully integrated war that the United States will fight. Here bya lot are over the artist mostly known for his westerns and cowboy convictions. But he get his start in the Korean Campaign. Here is a lot of his work that is exploring daytoday life, and what it is like the combat field. We also discussed a lot about the mash unit, mobile hospitals. When the Korean Campaign broke out, they realize there were a lot of fatalities because the hospital areas were not close to the front lines. The mash units were set up so , give theme triage the care they need from it they can get to more permanent it is made famous because of the Popular Television show, which takes place during the korean war, although it is much more closely associated with the vietnam war. It was filmed during the vietnam era. This is where it gets a start. It will continue to be used in operationam and iraqi freedom. This continues to highlight detail of the korean war. Most of the fighting was going back and forth in the first year between the north korean army, and south korea, supported by the united nations. The clash between communism and capitalism, the struggle throughout cold war between the east and the west. The korean war is the manifestation of this. This is the first conflict of the cold war, the first real military action taken by the united nation, which had verily, to existence. Real forays first into the policy of containment, director that communism does not spread elsewhere. This is the struggle between ending the war as quickly as possible, and in the meantime, that was macarthur has been relieved of his duties, due to insubordination. One of the people is this man, the vice admiral. This is colored pencil, highlighting how talented the artist is. Chinese cannot fight without so they decide to finally make progress towards the ceasefire. Depictinge painting the signing of the armistice. The korean war does not actually and with a peace agreement, and ends with an armistice being signed. A continual ceasefire. The thing that has held up the ceasefire for a really long time was what to do with pows. Andary those of soviet north korean and chinese troops. Obviously, the west does not want to go to the communist regime, the communist regime does not want us to stop their citizens from returning. A third party needs to talk to to ask where they want to be returned to. Ais is the great image of north korean p. O. W. That really ishlights the struggle that about pows on the core of the korean war at the very end. What do you do with all of these people are now in pow camps . Pharmacist is signed in 1953. Returnedially is to the status quo that is there today and theres the demilitarized zone. Visit the museum, i really want them to get a scope of what korean war is. It really is unfortunate that gone and it in the forgotten war, and that it is sandwiched between two of the biggest complex of the 21st century. But people went and fought and died. 35,000 american soldiers that died in korea. Over 3. 5 Million People total. To really get a scope of what was going on, we have some fabulous american arts depicting the war. Really getting inside what was going on in the 1950s. American history tv is featuring greenville, South Carolina. Once used as hunting land adventure by the cherokee indians, indian artifacts have been found on the banks of the river. We recently visited many sites showcasing the citys history. Learn more all weekend on American History tv. Good evening my fellow citizens. This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the soviet military buildup on the island of cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has that ashed the fact series of missile sites is no corporation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a Nuclear Strike capability against the western hemisphere. The cuban missile crisis took ince over a 13 day timeframe 1962. There was only one combat fatality of this Huge International office right that andat ontology is from that combat fatalities from greenville. When they began flying u2 missions over cuba. They were strategic, highaltitude reconnaissance missions. We were taking photographs of what was going on in cuba. It became apparent that the soviet union was developing mediumrange Ballistic Missiles in cuba. Kennedy informed the nation on october 22 from the oval office, he spoke to the nation, and it is considered the most alarming speech of the cold war. This sudden, clandestine place weapons outside of soviet soil is a deliberately provocative, and unjustified change in the status quo. It cannot be accepted by this country. Our courage and our commitment by ever to be trusted again a friend or foe. Americans were terrified. They had no idea what would happen. It would with lead to and it would lead to world war iii. They did not know if it would lead to world war iii. Anderson was in this group of pilots from the very beginning. He was allegedly the air forces top u2 pilot. He had over 3000 flight hours, over 1000 actually can be used to he was not assigned to this missing mission, but volunteered for it right he took off from the air force base, cuba, and around at. Was shot two surfacetoair missiles were launched by the soviet military faith they were not under orders to do so, and we are unclear what happened. And thee launched, proximity pieces detonated near the u2 he was flying. Them closure his flight suit, and he died nearly immediately. They believe this meant war with the soviet union. Kennedy do not believe that. Engage with the kremlin. Thankfully, these discussions resulted in the next day in the agreement that ended the crisis realizedk both men that this could mean allout nuclear war. Initiallyial was developed in may of 1963. Less than one year after major andersons death in the in october of 1952. He played in this park quite a bit. He was involved in boy scouts and apparently loved to fly from a very early age. Yearbook quote was good humor is the Clear Blue Sky of the soul, so that gives you a little insight into his character. In the days after his death, the United States was extremely keen on returning anderson us body to the United States from cuba. There was a funeral here in early november, about 1800 local people attended his funeral. He is buried in woodlawn sarah to woodlawn cemetery. He was 35 years old at the time of his death. Sons and hadto two a daughter named robin on the way. His widow in the days after his death received this letter from president kennedy and it has a handwritten message from president kennedy on it your husbands mission was of the greatest importance, but i know how must how much deeply you must feel his boss. Take greatue to pride in Major Rudolph Anderson and as one wellknown journalist in the 1960s commented, he died so that thousands, millions of us did not have to and that sets quite an example. Tour staffes traveled to greenville, South Carolina to learn about its history. Learn more about it and other onps on our tour cspan. Com city tours. This weekend come on American History tvs real america, the it hearings, 50 years later. 1966, gives equal time to critics of the war and members of the Johnson Administration in hearings televised live to the nation. Here is a preview. General taylor had been very much involved in policy from the beginning. Had sent Kennedy Taylor to look at the situation and taylor had said it was a dire situation, that he did not leave the government could defend itself and saw americans sending Naval Support and air support. Believetaylor did not u. S. Combat troops should ever be sent to vietnam. He was totally opposed. General taylor was a loyal soldier and supports what the Johnson Administration is doing. Because his telegrams are Public Record and we know he had great reservations about sending Ground Troops and the United States should draw the line and only send Naval Support and air support. In a historicged debate in this country with honest differences of opinion. I happen to hold the point of view that it isnt going to be too long before the American People as a people repudiate our war in southeast asia. That is of course good news. Smear youthat is the give to us who have honest opinions but i dont intend to get into the gutter and engage in a kind of debate. The United States is already losing the people of this country by the millions in connection with this war in southeast asia. All im asking is, if the people decide this war should be to take are you going the position that that is weakness on the home front of democracy . I would say our people are badly misguided and do not extend do not understand the consequences of such a thing. It is a violation of our rules to demonstrate and please remain silent. The vietnam hearings, 50 years later watch more of the Senate Foreign relations meeting chaired by J William Fulbright saturday at 10 00 eastern. Only on cspan3. Historian martha hodes was awarded the lincoln prize. The 50,000 prize is awarded by Gettysburg College and the institute of American History tv American History for the finest scholarly work on abraham lincoln. She talkab
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