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These guys are money, as many of you know. We are so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. Tonight, we welcome our two guests. Westra,lls, and kayla of the Minnesota West Community and technical college, the coauthors of great wartime escapes and rescues. Ill start by saying they had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great escape, starring Steve Mcqueen and james garner, richard. And borough, and charles bronson, among others. It quickly became a tv staple all of the guys in my class fell in martinsburg, missouri fell in love with it. We played it out in recess. All of us wanted to be mcqueen. I think i ended up with the attenborough role. Get executed at the end of the movie. Of course, mcqueen survives. What we didnt realize then and what we probably didnt care about was that the movie was based on a true story, the ....
52 americans were held hostage in the u. S. Embassy in tehran. Next, the Wilson Center hosts a panel discussing how the iran hostage crisis has impacted. S. Foreign policy since then. Good morning. Welcome to the Wilson Center. My name is christian osterman, and i have the privilege to direct the history and Public Policy program here at the center. Thank you for joining us today for this Panel Discussion on the 40th anniversary of the iran hostage crisis. On november 4, 1979, 52 american diplomats and citizens were taken hostage by a crowd of iranian students who stormed the u. S. Embassy, the combination of worsening relations between this country and iran in the wake of the iranian revolution in february 1979. Even though the crisis ended with the release of the h ....
On memberships and donations to bring you programs. Also, consider being a member. Structure you are 1844ng in was built around. That is when the fry house was built. Farmers lived and worked here prior to the battle of antietam. Union army took over their property. The structure was a Field Hospital where hundreds of Wounded Soldiers were treated by surgeons in the days and weeks following the battle. Us, Daniel Vermilya to discuss his new book. I will have to read from this because i could not memorize all this. Dan is a civil war historian and the author of several books including the battle of james a. Mountainand garfield and the civil war. He previously worked as a park field,at the antietam and he currently works at the historicr National Site in gettysburg ....
Spy on visitors and control their own citizens. Hello. I am a curator historian at the International Spy museum in washington dc and we had the largest collection of espionage and intelligence related artifacts in the world. Looking coldl be war berlin. Germany was divided between the victors, the u. S. , United Kingdom and the soviet union. Andsoviet union occupied the other countries, the west. That included the capital city of berlin, divided into four the soviets occupied the eastern section of berlin. This starts the division of germany and berlin after the war. That division became concrete the election of of the berlinn wall. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and berlin by the soviets, hundreds of thousands of people in the east had been fleeing to the west. These numbers became larger and larger. It was a terrible drain of inte ....