Only. If you are an africanamerican in america and you are under 50, your number is 202 7488000. For the black viewers 50 and. Ver, 202 7488001 keep in mind, you can always and we at 202 7488003 are always reading on social facebooktwitter and on at facebook. Com cspan. Once again we are talking about yesterdays march on washington which have been here in the nations capital. Conversations and revolved around some of the same issues that they talked about 57 years ago. In fact, here is reverend al sharpton who was on the National Mall yesterday talking about why the march needed to happen again. We did not come to start trouble, we came to stop trouble. You act like it is no trouble to shoot us in the back. You act like it is no trouble to put a chokehold on us while we scream i cant breathe 11 times. You act like it is no trouble to hold a man down on the ground until you squeeze the life out of him. It is time for a new conversation. , why did they have the march at lincolns memorial
I was the one that was drafted because i was a senior. I ended up being the boss man in the initial phase of this and we can get into hour it was done shortly. One of the benefits to writing this book was it allowed me to think back. I do a come pparison with what know today, and i compare what i saw and what i see in writing about the navy at it existed today, and i think it did a pretty fair job i started in 1953, two jobs going to college, and everyone was breathing on my nec, and we went in the reserves. So there is a squadron. And i worked here is the first good one. I was working for a chief named brown and he was my mentor. Mentor is a keyword you will hear a lot from me. I carried his tool box and i got his coffee when i wanted and he spent an inordinate amount of time teaching me how to maintain those airplanes. We went on and it was right down here. Im in dc tonight, forgive me i make mistakes. But we had the first jet squadron. A young lieutenant. A twin compact. And they sa
Discussing his book top gun an american story, Aerial Combat and how his book inspired the 1986 movie to the gun. Good evening. Im Lauren Rosenberg with smithsonian associates. Welcome to tonights program. To our members, im so glad youre here. Its your support that makes events like this possible. And if youre joining us for the first time, an equally warm welcome and open invitation to explore the wide range of programs we offer at smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pederson. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at naval station miramar in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the
Smithsonian associates. Now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled to welcome the programs founder, dan pedersen. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at miramar in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews on uss hancock and three on uss enterprise. He retired as a captain having accumulated 6,100 flight hours and 105 carrier landings while flying 39 types of aircraft. For those of how know pedersens story from the 1986 movie top gun youll be happy to know that jerry brook heimer is producing top gun maverick a sequel scheduled to be released in 2020. Pedersens book top gun is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. And here
We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pedderson. He went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at navy air station in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews. He retired as a captain having accumulated 6,100 flight hours and 1,005 carrier landings. For those of you who know his story from the 1986 movie top gun, you will be happy to know that he is producing a sequel which is scheduled to be released in 2020. Peddersons book is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. And here to keep the conversation moving is larry burke, cure ator of u. S. Naval aviation at the national air and space museum. So now please welcome dan pedderson and larry burke. You ready to go . Im going to take about ten minutes to just set the stage here for larry and i to go back and forth in final preparation for the questions coming from you. The assumption is