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Next on American History tv, from the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis, maryland, for historians discuss the challenges of naval logistics for the Fledgling Navy during the revolutionary war. The scholars detail how the American Navy successfully cooperated with a much larger french navy to help defeat the british by 1781. This u. S. Naval Academy Program is about one hour and 20 minutes. Professor smith good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. This is a session on naval logistics and the American Revolution. My name is gene smith and i will be the chair. Today we have three papers and comments by dr. Glenn williams. Our first paper is by tom long, who is an assistant professor and coordinator of history in the department of George Washington university. He joined the u. S. Navy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970 in practice Corporate Banking law until he retired. Afterwards, he went back and got a phd in history from George Washington university. He teaches
Accused was, amongst other things, an evasive witness. In my view, there are several reasons for this. He failed to listen properly to questions put to him under crossexamination, giving an impression that he was more worried by the impact that his answers might cause rather than the questions asked. Often, a question requiring a straight forward answer turns into a point of debate about what another witness did or said. When contradictions were pointed out to him, or when he was asked why certain propositions were not put to state witnesses, he often blamed his legal team for the oversight. Although the evidence of the accused is important, when a Court Determines to give or otherwise often accuse, caution must be exercised, and courts ought to avoid attaching too much weight to such untruthfulness. The conclusion, that because an accused is untruthful, he is therefore probably guilty, must be guided against as a false statement does not always justify the most extreme conclusion. In