now walter again. he knows he has this choice to live is what life is a white man or black man because nobody would know. but something incredible happened to him when he was 12 years old. that set the foundation for his life's work as a sort of maniacal and i don't use that word loosely a maniacal. um secret of justice in america and that is when he 12 years old. he went on his father's mail route. his father was a male carrier and after school each day. walter would go with his father on this mail route. and on this day i think was in september 1906. they witnessed the outbreak of the atlanta race ride of 1906 now at the time. um photographs didn't really exist cameras were hard to come by and there's very little photographic evidence of this riot, but it was reported so widely that you can see this this is actually the cover. of a french newspaper and in france because photography they didn't really work in newspapers at that time. they would paint the covers you can see across the bottom in small l

walters and obama -- walters writes about obama. obviously, walters passed away in 2010 of cancer. he is around for the '08 election. he writes his column. wrote a weekly column for decades on black politics. he is both impressed by barack obama but also disappointed that obama refuses to listen and understand that his job as president is to be open to a black agenda along with white agendas and other agendas. that's what he is disappointed by. he realizes that obama is president of the united states but what walters makes an argument about in his writings and criticism of obama but also black leadership and black people is that as president of the united states, you have to listen to multiple agendas and then decide the importance of those agendas, the order you are going to tackle those agendas. presidents of the united states, they listen to armenian americans, turkish americans, they listen to multiple constituencies. what walters argued was that barack obama was being disingenuous when he said he couldn't advocate for black agenda. he could only follow the law. because walters

with walters and presidential leadership and walters and white nationalism, what walters sees is the fact that black politics and the way in which it moves from protests to politics, we have to remember, there is all kinds of grassroots insurgency happening in the 1980's and 1990's, and walters is connected somewhat, but this is absolutely happening. but we are thinking about black politics as it is organized at an elite level, it goes from protests to policy. they are not organized. in 1972 we saw a congressman from michigan align himself. and this was not happening by the 1980's. walters says black politicians have to reach out to the grassroots. he tries to connect this at a national black leadership roundtable, a national black faculty congress, all these things that are never well resourced enough to become institutionalized. and when it comes to white nationalism, walters sees what we are experiencing today, but when you think about whiteness as a socially-constructed identity, postwar whiteness includes all sorts of previously marginalized white ethnics, people who could not b

barbara walters. tehran, 1977. i said, indeed, we work for the same company and gyptian said he wants to know, is it true she is paid $1,000,000 a month? and i said, well, actually i think it's $1,000,000 a year. and the drivers face fell. barbara walters was already a global icon. and then didn't it kind of propel her her career from that point on? isn't that a wonderful story? because how many journalists have had similar experiences to that? and, you know, one of them who did was walter cronkite. so walter cronkite was, of course, the leading anchor of the day and a figure of unquestioned authority. and someone who viewed barbara walters with a little bit of skepticism about whether she was a real journalist. and they were both trying to cover the groundbreaking things that were happening in the middle east, a groundbreaking trip of anwar sadat of egypt to israel. and it was barbara walters and her ability to cultivate relations with world leaders that a few months earlier in 1977 enabled her to get the first si

walter's mother was friendly.ut i wondered if she was wishing that walter had married an american girl. the others were nice to me, too. then, i had my first look at cleveland, ohio, the city which was to be my new home. his mother had been living alone since walter's father died. and we are going to stay with her until we can get a home of our own. as i looked around me, i was frightened. in this house, i would have to face a new life, very different than the one we had known in japan. ♪ the next evening, walter invited his family to come to the house and to see the pictures he had taken in the japan. i was still uneasy because i was not sure if these if these people liked me. something unpleasant happened to me. that night. walter's cousin wanted me to introduce myself. english was hard for me then, especially on the telephone. what i expected happened -- i could not understand a word. i knew there was no reason to be upset, but i felt stupid and ashamed. walter: i took this picture of her on our wedding day. th

walter white. walter francis white. and i never mentioned his name, the only thing people thought about was breaking bad. and i thought that's not going to work for me. the first thing i did was i want to yale university, i look at the archives, that's where walters papers are. i want to the public library at the schomburg center in harlem. i went through most importantly the naacp papers which is a treasure trove of materials regarding walter white. and when i found was more than i hope to and i really learned that the story of walter's life and why we should know about it is really much greater than i even anticipated. so who was walter white? one way to say this, explain in a very short sentence. you might say walter francis white was the powerful civil rights figure, in the first half of the 20th century. and already, you're saying to yourself, how can that be? he's making this up, it can be true. because of that was true, we would all know who was. another way to define walter sesay walter whi

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that's what walter's argues.lack people can't just say that because you like the first black president that there is no black agenda and to quote that walter said is that there are so enthralled that they let this one pass. they gave this brother a pass so he's speaking with black vernacular and gave your brother or sister a past and just because you're black this is fine. it's an in house deal. when we think about barack obama and black politics walter's pushback is not because obama wasn't trying to run as a black power, he realized that obama ways the black power sign at the democratic convention, if obama came out on the lawn with the malcolm x t-shirt, that these things would be politically disastrous. but i mean that obama was the black president and had to ignore a black agenda. i think that is fair criticism and is much different from other criticism that trying to attack obama for not just solely advocating which no president can do. although, one of the things that waters remind us is that you got ronal

walter: hal? hal: yes, walter? walter: has there been any suggestion in that caucus that new york delegates attend the fourth party meeting at the drake hotel? hal: so far the question of the new party has not come up. but these people are angry about the way delegates are being treated and others at the convention are being treated. and, as i said, they called them "atrocities." they are just going to walk out of this meeting. they have not said they will do subsequent times. walter: thank you, hal. did you have more? hal: that was it, walter. walter: morris raskin of the so-called new party has called a meeting at the drake hotel, has reserved a banquet room. he is expecting 200 or 300 delegates, he says, to attend that meeting. now at the podium, the press secretary to philly senator robert kennedy is seconding the nomination of senator mcgovern. >> a moral disaster for our nation when he calls for the application of part of our swollen defense budget to the needs of rural and urban america, he showed the passio

walter: beautiful. mile, altitudee 234 miles per hour. 195 feet per second. >> everything's held in place. >> still see it? >> yes, indeed. >> still see a contrast. walter: see it beautifully on the screen here. through the region of maximum dynamic pressure now. >> everything looks good here. 1350 on the start. >> looking at the screen and looking out the window. >> standby for mode one, charlie. mark one, charlie. houston, you are go for staging. walter: that's for dropping the first stage, going to the second stage power. you're hearing from ken mattingly at mission control in houston talking to the astronauts. >> down range 35 miles high. standing by. walter: and this is jack riley reporting, the voice of mission control. >> and ignition. walter: each of these events are very -- >> all engines, you're looking good. >> roger, you're loud and clear, houston. >> three minutes downrange, 70 miles, 30 minutes high, velocity 350%. >> roger, we confirm. >> neil armstrong confirming both of the engine separ

so walters is a trailblazer. doesn't have a prescription on how to win, but he is saying, here are the problems. sometimes really illustrating what the problems are becomes a huge intervention. it becomes up to another generation to try to answer those questions, but that is what walters did. of ways, when we think i want to a moment switch, but with walters and presidential leadership and walters and white nationalism, what walters sees is the fact that black politics and the way in which it moves from protests to politics, we have to remember, there is all kinds of grassroots insurgency happening in the 1980's and 1990s. we aren't covering it here and walters is connected somewhat, but this is absolutely happening. but we are thinking about black politics as it is organized at an elite level, it goes from protests to policy. mobilizing demonstrations. in 1972 we saw a congressman from michigan align himself. and this was not happening by the 1980's. walters says black politicians have to reach out to the grassr

walter: only one window. is visual simulation up-to-date, and they conceal -- can see one thing out the window. wally: the first -- walter: the first light on mercury must have been some view. wally: i will use the word fantastic. that window is interesting. we started off in the first mercury and the first orbital flight, we had windows like portholes on either side we said we need a window down the centerline like airplane drivers had. and that window becomes kind of port -- important because you -- altitude.added that window became worthwhile, and now we have a good view. walter: it was not just to give you a view of the outside world. -- another fact, you will get me talking that way in a moment. and nobody will understand us. tack on thefirst orbit. 116 by 119, miles. mission control, 117 by 114. that is what we had come up with a little earlier. or 120. up about 118 it is just what they hoped for and well within the nominal range for the destination. interesting kind of to elevate your orbit one mile wh

was barbara walters mother. and i think the cemetery office, assuming they were actual mourners, not reporters, and costume told where it was. and that's how we found the gravne and it's three it's not a it doesn't it's not a standing tombstone it's it's for. plaques it's flat to the ground along a path in cemetery for her her father her sister and each of these markers said, you know, beloved husband and father, beloved mother and wife beloved sister and does not say that. barbara says to barbara, jill walters, no regrets. i had a great life. i, i love that. i she says she had no regrets. but we she did. and you wrote in the book that when people would come up to her and say i want to be you, she would say, then you have to take the whole package. what did she mean by that? well, you know, it's i think, the happiest people in the world probably aren't relentlessly driven, refuse to acknowledge any role for a personal right. i think while we've lots of ambitious people in washington, some kind of balance is usef

walter -- mr. cronkite: this lasts 2:25, and that brings the vehicle to its orbital speed. >> 23,000 feet per second. downrange, 1000 miles. altitude, 101 miles. >> this is our number five. >> 7:18. walter: this third stage is a j-2 engine. >> at 10 minutes, you are go. >> roger, 11. go. walter: i think i misidentified the capsule communicator. >> the man who is communicating with the astronauts from mission control is bruce. >> apollo 11, this is houston, predicted cut off at 14.2. >> correct. >> downrange 1175 miles. velocity, 24,090 mile feet per second, altitude, 102 nautical miles. walter: there is former president johnson. saying goodbye to a few of his friends in the stands. >> apollo 11, this is houston, you are go at 11. walter: talking with the vice president, the official representative of resident nixon. -- president nixon. the vice president is the top official in the administration. >> 25,254 feet per second. walter: we should get confirmation of orbital insertion in about 15 seconds.

walter understood and always answered for me.the phone rang i felt i had failed him. >> it was after our regular closing time and walter was anxious for us to get home. we had both been working very hard ever since the opening of the store. the next day was a sunday, and we were going to go on a picnic . we thought a day in the country would do us both good. business at the store have been slow at first but now, we can look around with pride at what we had done. we worked together in our future seemed good. it was fun being alone with walter, just like our first date in japan. walter needed a dock and somehow i had to get one -- needed a doctor and somehow i had to get one. >> rick: i had no choice now, at that moment, the telephone became my friend, instead of my enemy. when walter was better, we decided to have a party. i now never wondered whether i was like i knew i was. i had a second mother there was something in my mind that night, something i needed to tell walter about. i told him i was going to have a baby. but that was

walter's this willard being the son of david and rachel walters. so it's through their family line that we have these letters to share with you and share with american public in this donation. it becomes clear why the walter's family valued these letters. there's 180 letters and papers, mostly of the use of envelopes that se way te mail travel, the cost of that mail. when the address had to chan to find somebody who had relocated and ttmarks of the work that the post office was doing to to procese mail. we have about 100 of those envelopes and about 80 or so letters and a few items of ephemera that the family enclosed while trying to communicate with each other, including the item in the middle here, which is a special order that was issued in 1863, and that david had chosen to enclose in this pe with his letter that's pictured. and this was at a time while david was serving in kentucky, a border state, and working with the fidiana calvary secure a peace in the area. in particular, this special declared martial law in the counties so that the state

gary walters: 2007. steve: reflect on your 27 years at the white house and that moment of september 11th and september 12th. gary walters: well, obviously that was the most horrific event that occurred because of the loss of life life. obviously there was a tremendous scare when president reagan was shot. those were probably the two most difficult days. learning, as it turned out, on the day president reagan was shot i wasn't at the white house. i was at home and it was my day off and learning that the president of the united states had been shot and may be near death that was a difficult day. but the -- those days are over with and by the history and the events that go on at the white house. the positive event that occurred was when president reagan had gorbachev at the white house, and i literally felt the breaking down of the cold war and the iron curtain. i mean, that was quite an experience. i had a tremendous opportunity over the years to oversee history. chronicling that history as a historian and

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walters: that is true. the ushers office, led by the chief usher at the time, give us our responsibilities. gather information, put together things. i was the new guy on the block -- tried to learn as much as i could on inaugural day i arrived there at 3:00 in the morning to see what was going to go on from morning until late at night. my actual job on inaugural day while the president and president-elect went down to the capital to take the oath of office, was to go across the street and bring the carter's cat back from the blair house. that was one of my primary jobs. there is a lot that goes on in the preparation leading up to inaugural day. gathering information, chief usher talks to the first family. principally the first lady about the way she would like the house on the first day there. the activities they will be associated with on those days. i remember the carters invited everybody who marched in the parade to come to the white house over the next three days. the carters greeted them and shook han

walter: of life continue on near-perfect course. the spacecraft now in the dominant moons gravity in drag along faster and faster. the first man in history to reach history of preparing to go around it, losing all contact with earth as they traveled across the backside where they would perform the critical braking maneuver needed to achieve orbit. -- all systems go. over. >> [indiscernible] >> roger. in the oven at 3:50. current altitude away from the calnot aautinot all miles. >> you heard the remarks of jim lovell. thanks a lot, troops. we will see you on the other side. walter: it was an agonizing wait for those back on earth. this animation shows how the 20,000 pound spacecraft engine was fired, slowing the council to prevent it from whipping around the moon. the initial blast was the put the apollo 8 into an elliptical orbit, to be corrected to a near circular path 69 miles above the lunar surface. on the ground, no one yet new if that braking maneuver would work or even take place. as apollo 8 came around the moon, voice conta