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archived. that s c-span.org/history. during world war ii the united states army air forces formed a group of african-american military pilots, they were known as the tuskegee airmen. next, jeremy paul amick, author of together as one legacy of james shipley joined by the now 94-year-old mr. shipley to talk about his wartime experiences. the kansas city public library hosted this event. it s just over 50 minutes. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the kansas city public library. i m deputy director carrie kucagn, we re so happy you re here tonight. i want to let you know tonight is our final program for 2017. can you believe it? it s kind of bittersweet. anyway, if you re new here, if you ve never been before, please pick up our program. and you can sign up and you can be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. and we have programs both here and at central library two or three times a week and we d love to have you come and we d l ....
2017. can you believe it? it s kind of bitter sweet. anyway, if you re new here and you ve never been before, please pick up our program. can you sign up and be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. we have programs both here and at central library, two or three times a week and we would love to have you come and sign up and we would love to have you bring your friends. please sign up. tonight we re so honored to have james shipley with us. mr. shipley enlisted at just 19 years old. we are so honored to have one of the original tuskegee airmen. [ cheers and applause ] i want to especially thank the heart of the america chapter of tuskegee airman for making this possible tonight and all of your service all of these years. we appreciate you as well. thank you. [ applause ] tonight with mr. shipley is jeremy amick. the book is available outside the library and both of the gentlemen will sign the book right up here on stage. now to introduce our ....
pick up our program. and you can sign up and you can be on our list for all of the programs we have coming up in 2018. and we have programs both here and at central library two or three times a week and we d love to have you come and we d love to have you sign up. and we d love to have you bring your friends. so please sign up. tonight we re so honored to have james shipley with us. mr. shipley enlisted at just 19 years old and would become a member of the 332nd fighter group in one of the original tuskegee airmen. [ applause ] i want to especially thank the heart of america chapter of the tuskegee airmen for making this program possible tonight. and thank you for all of your service all of these years. we really appreciate you as well. thank you. [ applause ] tonight with mr. shipley is author jeremy paul amick and they will be discussing a new biography about shipley and the book is available here tonight right outside and both gentlemen will be signing after the prog ....
(clapping) and back in 2004 you look back and now 11 years and think oh gosh a for begun conclusion you know that was not the case it took uncommon leadership we had that in our city attorney dennis herrera that was an honor to work with him side by side welcome our city attorney dennis herrera (clapping.) happy pride. thank you kate and mayor ed lee i m sure with the great weather we re going to or have this weekend what a wonderful, wonderful today i had justice harry stewart in my office remember where we were 11 years ago and about the challenges that we knew we were going to face as and began this battle looked at gavin newsom and we stood on the steps mid-market over the course of the years we ve had ups and downstairs all of us collectively never waived in doing what was right as ii think back we ve uttered the words in this building about the arc of history bends towards justice well, today, it. came to fruition (clapping.) i think we need to call a special ....