the transformation of american politics. australia.melbourne, numerousritten for publications including the new politico, and fox. nicole: i would like to thank both for that great introduction and all of you for coming out here today. time oft is busy this year postelection and post-thanksgiving. thank you for coming out and for inviting me. about my bookalk and i thought i would focus on the relationship between conservative media and electoral politics since that seems particularly timely this month. to do that, i want to start not in the 1940 s in 1950 passes when the book begins, but in the last few months. donald trump announced in mid august another campaign shakeup. he was hiring steve annan, the breitbart. the world react as if wires had been crossed. from the media, jumping straight into politics. even in the world of partisan media, it seemed unusual to give up all pretext of difference pretense of difference. maybe that should not have been so surprising.
gruss griffin, 40 years old, one of the original mercury astronaut. the first american astronaut to go twice into space. edward white, 36 years old. the first american to walk in space. astronaut, roger chaffee, 31 years old, training or his first spaceflight scheduled for february twice first. these three astronauts were aboard for 10 minutes before assimilated liftoff when the fire hit at about 6:30 tonight. ,hey were inside the spaceship pressurized, buttoned up inside their spacesuits with a fire hit. a closed circuit television camera with relaying pictures of the astronauts on their back inside the spacecraft. wase was a flash and that it, according to a nasa spokesperson watching the television screen a few hundred yards away. the screen went blank and he said there was no communication from the astronauts. they died silently and apparently swiftly. their bodies have been left in the spacecraft, according to the latest information from the cape, pending investigation i
previously he was the associate director of the brady johnson program at yale university. after he received his phd from princeton in 2011. in addition to his current book, shadow cold war the sino-soviet competition for the third world, he has published articles in such journals as cold war history. his current project modeling revolution looks of the attempt to find a workable model of socialism for developing countries. today he will be speaking on shadow cold war the sino-soviet come petition for the third world. jeremy: thank you. first, thank you to eric, amanda, and kristin. thank you, everyone for coming. the cold war, it has been generally studied as competition. asologies, great powers projected by these powers onto the world. the competition between the young states and soviet union for influence and power elsewhere. i think a lot of what the book is about is looking at the impact of the world on the cold war, especially the developing world. and how the rest
apollo astronauts lose their lives in a tragic flash fire aboard their grounded space capsule. the tragedy occurred during the first flight. these were veterans of space flight, and a rookie. to this,drill similar the entire three-man crew was engulfed by flames. blue-ribbon team is investigating, aided by films. one of the seven original astronauts. the first space walker. with a lot of in experience. he was proud and happy his first flight was to initiate the apollo program. when the tragedy struck, one of the astronauts yelled, fire in the space craft. all three were victims of the swift inferno. likeeporter said it looked the inside of 8 . it was theorized and electrical overload may have sparked the blaze. 27 rescuers were overcome by smoke and heat. apollo astronauts are heroes who gave their lives in total dedication to duty. their dedication will forever be honored. yugoslav diplomatic missions throughout the united states and canada are damaged in a series of blas
it was also determined the capsule door design made rescue difficult. and that crew escape had not been adequately considered. announcer: this is a cbs news special report. mike wallace: this is mike wallace at the cbs newsroom in new york. america s first three apollo astronauts were trapped and killed by a flash fire early tonight during a launchpad test at cape kennedy in florida. virgil gus griffin, 40 years old, one of the original mercury astronaut. the first american astronaut to go twice into space. edward white, 36 years old. the first american to walk in space. and rookie astronaut roger chaffee, 31 years old, training for his first spaceflight apollo one scheduled february 21. these three astronauts were aboard for 10 minutes before off imulated lift for a simulated lift off when the fire hit at about 6:30 tonight. they were inside the spaceship, pressurized, buttoned up inside their spacesuits with a fire hit. a closed circuit television camera with relaying pict