Franklin parkway is one of the biggest and best events on the philly calendar. Unless of course you actually live near the parkway. In this area youre stuck. Reporter you leave your car where it is on fourth july and hoof it. Yeah. Yup. Yup. Leave it parked where it is. Reporter that parking couple with late night festivities force some locals to simply hunker down until the fifth of july mercifully arrives. Can you get out of your house and go anywhere. No, its tough. Its tough. Its usually mobbed. Theres people all over the place coming all over just people picnicking over here. Reporter its part of a growing problem for the fairmount neighborhood. Over time the parkway has become the go to location for just about every big even in the city. Papal visit, to made in america concerts. Oh, my god. Reporter to this Years National Football League draft extravaganza. The nfl thing was mess because they took over for like a whole month. All the Parking Spaces out here. Reporter Fairmount Ci
Internal history they had written of the u2 spy plane program, written back in the 1970s if i recall correctly. One of the findings was they had gone back and correlated domestic ufo reports with then classified u2 flights and discovered there was an extremely high correlation. [laughter] this is actually true. A lot of the ufos that people were seeing was the sun glinting off u2s but could not the explained at the time. It is a real pleasure to be here. I am flattered by the introduction and by the turnout today. Thank you so much to the Truman Library is to do. Today, we will talk about intelligence. American intelligence history has been dominated by the history of the cia, and the cia is an agency whose creation truman oversaw, but it has dominated history to the point where you will hear people who should know better say nothing important happened in american intelligence prior to the cia or its immediate predecessor. This is actually drivel, of course, and nothing many of the mai
Explore the history of espionage during world war i, focusing on four american agencies that participated in spying. Including the u. S. Army. Public library and Truman Library institute cohosted this hourlong event. Thank you for the warm introduction and warm welcome. I was not planning on talking about ufos. When the topic comes up, its irresistible. Recently let me say that in the 1990s the cia declassified a u2 Spy Plane Program written back in the 1970s, if i recall correctly. Thatf the findings was they had carefully gone back and correlated domestic ufo reports with classified u2 flights and discovered an extremely high correlation. This is true. A lot of these that they had seen where the sun glinting in a way that cannot be discussed at the time. All right. Down to business, it is a real pleasure to be here. I am flattered by the introduction and turnout today. Much so much. Lets talk about intelligence. Intelligence history has been dominated by the history of the creationge
Venture into the art of good writing with steve pinker. At 12 30 see the feminist side of a super hero as jill lapore searches wonder woman. Pamela paul and others talk about their reading habits. On American History tv on cspan3 at 8 a. M. Eastern the fall of the berlin wall with footage of president bush and bob dole with speeches from john kennedy and ronald reagan. Fashion experts on first lady fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the time in which they lived. And then at 10 p. M. , former nbc news anchor tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day on cspan networks. For our complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Coming up next, former Intelligence Analyst for both the state department and the cia mark stout explores the history of espionage during world war i. He focuses on four american agencies that participated in spying. The navy department, War Department, state department and the Expeditionary Forces abroad, incl
Causes. Then at 8 p. M. , Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito and former Florida Governor jeb bush on the bill of rights and the Founding Fathers. On cspan2 at 10 a. M. Eastern venture into the art of good writing with steve pinker. At 12 30 see the feminist side of a super hero as jill lapore searches wonder woman. Pamela paul and others talk about their reading habits. On American History tv on cspan3 at 8 a. M. Eastern the fall of the berlin wall with footage of president bush and bob dole with speeches from john kennedy and ronald reagan. Fashion experts on first lady fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the time in which they lived. And then at 10 p. M. , former nbc news anchor tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day on cspan networks. For our complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Coming up next, former Intelligence Analyst for both the state department and the cia mark stout explores the history of espionage durin