Unconstitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court discussions. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, the court made a unpopular decision. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live and a society with different people who stick together because they believe in the rule of law good evening and welcome to landmark cases tonight were going to look at 1886 case in which the Supreme Court ruled the equal protection guarantees apply not just to citizens but noncitizen s in the next 90 minutes will learn about what led to the case and the effect of its decision on American Society our two guests will help us understand all of this a professor of american. ,. , she will help us to understand the issues around chinese immigration and the chinese exclusion act in the. The president and founder of the organization that creates historical material for has. Give us the most basic facts about this case. So the decision came 18 years
To december 26th, 1991 with the collapse of the soviet union. It was a geopolitical standoff. Each one could have destroyed the world through a nuclear war but the cold war do d that. There will be no winners, so this cold war was a state of heightened tension that did not have direct conflict between the soviets and the americans. Vietnam, korea, gulf war, afghan war. Vint hill farms station was functional between World War Two and the 90s. After the cold war, the American Government realized there was no need for this facility because there was no more soviet union. The cold war ended. That as well as, there was an act called base realignment and closure act. In the mid 90s, a lot of military bases were shut down for cost savings, financial reasons, and we didnt need as much facilities to monitor the sol soviet union. It vacant for about ten years. We found it was available. They said yes we would love to talk to you about locating here. Of negotiations we opened up in 2011 at this f
Museum at vint hill, virginia, 45 miles west of washington, d. C. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1986 to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history and educate future generations about the time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to High School Students in this area, nine times out of ten, the students wouldnt know anything about the cold war or the u2 incident. They would think the u2 incident had something to do with the u2 rock band. As a result, i knew they needed to be taught about the cold wartime period. As a result, i ended up noticing they needed to be taught about the cold war time period. So in 1996, we founded the Cold War Museum, which opened in 2011 here at vint hill farms station, a former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. , area. It used to be used by nsa, cia, asa, Army Security agency, and other groups to monitor the Electronic Communications from around the washington, d. C. , Embassy Region and International Signals that the
Houses a Museum Dedicated to remembering the cold war. This is just under one hour. Gary welcome. My name is Francis Gary Powers jr. , i go by gary. I am the founder of the Cold War Museum at vint hill, virginia, about 45 miles west of washington, d. C. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1996 to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history and educate future generations about the time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to Highschool Students in the area, 19 times out of 10, the students wouldnt know anything about the cold war or the u2 incident. They would think the u2 incidents have to do with the rock band. As a result, i noticed that they needed to be taught about the cold war. In 1996, we founded the Cold War Museum, which opened in 2011 here at a former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. Area. It used to be used by the nsa, cia, Army Security agency and other groups to monitor the Electronic Communications around the washington, d. C. Embassy r
And inception in 2004. And prior to joining, she worked in two networks that were here in western massachusetts both in holyoke and in north hampton. So it is a special honor to be able to welcome her back to western massachusetts. [cheers and applause] so i know that we are all excited to hear from her and this New York Times bestselling book, option three, ukraine. So those are your three options. [applause] so you want would you prefer showing hands or shouting . Shouting, okay. Number one, walruses. [cheers and applause] number two, alaska. [applause] number three, ukraine. [cheers and applause] [laughter] i think some people voted for both walruses and ukraine. Im going to demand a recanvas. All right. Ill read the bit on walruses in particular. Just the thing that weirded me out about the publication of the book when the book came out last month, earlier this month, is that right at around the time i got to my pub date, a couple of Different Things happened in the news. One is th