american history and culture curator rex ellis. good evening. my name is beth kelly. i m the vice president of the education research and historical interpretation division. it s my honor to offer you a warm and personal welcome. the word welcome has a great deal of meaning for colonial williamsburg. we have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th century community since 1932. 40 years ago, the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story. and so, with determination and courage and perseverance, programming was designed by our panelists tonight so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th century community. blending social history with public history to tell the african american story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making history. this is the first of three panelists discussions we will have this year, and i would welcome you to come back on july 5th, where we will look at current programming that focuses on af
pitts. a big part of bringing america back is restarting everything entertainment, stage, screen, sports. but tonight more than 30 million people out of work because of covid-19. among those on and off screen hopefuls, looking for new ways to make it big in show business. kenny frankor always dreamed of the big lights and big stage. dancing on broadway looks a little different when steps are on the sidewalk and the marquee for book of mormon is dark. how long s it been? since i ve been here? what, seven days now. what do you think? it s very empty. normally i m here at showtime and there s people lined up. this is a little deserted. kenny is one of millions, performers, stagehands, directors and writers out of a job. i will never be sad if i never get to perform here again. this is broadway, baby. this allowed me to she sheepish when i said i m an actor. this show will come back. there will be something. something will come back. a forced intermission, now
is my honor to turn him to run this discussion about unknown air missions. [applause] thank you. as pete said, the title of this panel is unknown air missions. some into this panel but they peaked in 1943 but we move to 1944 s we have other debacles to talk about. we re going to look at operation enter horn and operation frantic, the first is sometimes bizarre and attempt to deploy between nine to the china burma india theater and the others and attempt to shuttle bond with the russians that did more to launch the cold war then to end world war ii. there s a nasty pattern emerging here for the panels they want me to moderate. the last conference i got to sit and rickich frank atkinson who talked about the so i feel obligated to say today as i said then, that i want to remind everyone here we did eventually win the war. [laughter] we have to great presenters search date good friends of mine and trevor presenter. first is tami davis biddle besides responsible for the most impor
him to run this fascinating discussion about unknown air missions. tom? tom: thank you. [applause] tom: thank you. as pete said, the title is unknown air missions. down they burn airfield, so we move to 1944, so we have got a couple of other debacles tobacco to talk about. the sometimes bizarre and ultimately abandoned attempt to employ in the china theater, and the other is an attempt to shuttle bomb that did much more to launch the cold war than it did in world war ii. part here.nasty got to setember i next to rich and rick, so they the forests, so i feel obligated to say today as i said then that we have to remind everybody here that we did eventually win the war. [laughter] now, we have two really distinguished panelists, terrific presenters. biddle. tammy davis ist of the curriculum, she also working on a project in the manpower and mobilization for world war ii that i guarantee is going to na pulitzer prize, just to set the bar where it should be for her. i appreciat
perseverance, programming was designed by our panelists tonight so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th century community. blending social history with public history to tell the african-american story had never been done before. and quite literally they were making history. this is the first of three panelist discussions that we re going to have this year, and i would welcome you to come back on july 5th where we will look at current programming that focuses on african-american stories and also on october 18th where we will be focusing on the future and our panelists at that discussion will help us think about how do we continue to tell the story for, as mitchell said, it really is all of our story. i know our panelists well, and they have plenty to share with us. so please let me begin the evening by introducing our moderator. he began his career here as a junior interpreter and then became an active interpreter and manager and also a program developer. if you wou