Welcome. My name is Francis Gary Powers jr. I go by gary. Im the founder of the Cold War Museum at vent 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 High School Students in this area, nine times out of 10, the students would not know anything about the cold war. They would think that the utwo incident had something to do with the utwo rock band. I noticed that they needed to be taught about the cold war time period. In 1996, we founded the museum which opened in 2011 here at vent hill farms station. A former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. Area. It used to be used by nsa, c. I. A. , asa, Army Security agency, and other groups to monday horthe Electronic Communications around the washington, d. C. Embassy and international signals. The cold war was a geopolitical stan
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
Pentagon report, in 1963 u. S. Army film that covers counterinsurgency efforts in vietnam, the cuban missile crisis, the berlin wall, and from the secretary of defense to the people of the United States, this is the annual report of our armed forces. Narrator, peter hackers, pentagon reporter. This is a euro crisis in asia, berlin and cuba and how our armed forces have met these meetings and challenges to freedom. In their drive for world domination, the communist have identified Different Levels of possible conflict to exploit. Peace ink of war and light of what he calls the new means of mass destruction. And what he calls local wars, he putsrejects because as he it, they may grow into a thermonuclear war. But he recognizes another category which he called war of liberation and popular revolts. What we prefer to call some version and covert aggression. It is these wars which he says are not only admissible but inevitable. Answer tested during a year in vietnam is counterinsurgency cou
Suffered if the western hemisphere fidel casss stroes cuba. In the days after he seized power this air base has been crucial to keeping an eye on what is happening in cuba. In 1962 when Nuclear Missiles were discovered though island, hundreds of aircraft launched from this southern most tip of america as the United States and soviet union teetered on the brink of war. Come with us as we take you inside the confrontation with communist cuba. In the 19950s from the tropicana to the Hotel Nacional for americans in search of paradise no place held more allure than the cuban capital. Havana was a booming city. Is and was a beautiful city. The trekter of the institute for cuban and cuban american studies at the university of miami. Nightclubs, gambling, beautiful beaches. All of those things that tourists like. The 750 mile long island boasts 307 sunny days a year. Cubans love their island homeland. I was born in havana but my family lives in a small town outside of havana. As a young girl,
The mansion in new york. Her book will be on sale afterward. It is my pleasure to introduce margaret oppenheimer. [applause] margaret thank you very much. July 3, age 33, a distinguished new yorker wrote a note in his diary. The celebrated colonel burr was married to the celebrated mrs. Jumel. His choice of adjectives was interesting. Not distinguished, but celebrated. Celebrity had the same connotation it does today. Someone who was known to the public but not always with approval. Today, i am going to talk about how eliza jumel and aaron burr became public figures, why they married, and what happened after these two celebrities joined hands. Ladies first. Eliza jumel is on the right. She is painted here one year before her marriage to aaron burr next to a portrait of him painted after the ceremony. Eliza jumel was born betsy bowen in providence, rhode island, in 1775. About 2. 5 weeks before the battle of lexington. There was absolutely nothing in her beginnings to suggest that her n