up next brigadier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career in particular his time with the tuskegee airmen african-american military pilots who served in segregated army air corps units during world war ii. charles mcgee later served with the air force in korea and vietnam and in total flew more than 400 combat missions across three wars it received a post-service promotion from colonel to brigadier general in 2020 at the age of 100. the friends of the national world war ii memorial hosted this discussion and provided the video. in an hour 30 minutes kenneth price discusses his book whitman in washington becoming the national poet in the federal city, which examines the impact the capital had on poet walt whitman's writing and his outlook on a nation a minute tumultuous transition. in two hours a conversation between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson has portrayed by bill roebling and bill barker. they talk about their roles in shaping revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. i'm really excited to be introducing you to our next g

>> well, i'm charles mcgee, brigadier general in the united states air force, retired. i ended up doing something i enjoy doing and i like to pass it on to the young folks as they find their talents, pinpoint where you enjoy doing and along the way, i was hooked after my first flight. for some reason, it struck me in a way and then again, i don't have the answer, i sometimes say, why? me how me? i don't know! but i got wonderful assignments and was able to actively fly during my 37 year air force career. so, as i say, i was hooked after the first flight. but i also got involved just before integration under the air force. they said, well you have to do something else besides flying. some went to intel and school, by their school, and i just chose aircraft maintenance school. so, along the way, have decided to do flying outside of active in material and support as well. so, i have a well rounded career as you say, when i enjoy and never to not enjoyed it. i'd like to pass it on. and i'm able to share it with teachers across the country, this is so important. you have a g

among them is charles mcgee from cleveland, ohio. >> and i learned about the program because of the nowe the mechanics. the policy of the army at the time was saying that, they couldn't use a black pilot because there were no black mechanics. they insisted on segregation. >> reporter: the same year, under pressure from the naacp, president roosevelt orders the army air corps to begin training black pilots in alabama at tuskegee institute. >> we were trained by black instructors. their job was twofold. one, teach us to fly. and secondly, to condition us for the white instructors that we would have in basic and advanced. >> reporter: in early 1941, the 99 pursuit squadron was established. but the pilots at tuskegee aren't given a combat mission, despite their stellar training record. finally, in april 1943, 16 months after pearl harbor, the 99 pursuit squadron is sent into combat. my dad was in the 477th medium bombardment group. our war, my dad said, was also fighting bigotry, prejudice, and segregation. the men of the 99th are used as escorts, or support fighter pilots, one of the riski

brigadier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time as part of the tuskegee airmen. black military pilots who served in army corps segregated units during the war. mcgee later served with the air force in korea and vietnam. and in total flew more than 400 combat missions across 3 wars. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> each week, american history tv's "american artifacts" takes you to museums and historic places. and coming up next we travel about 45 minutes west of new orleans to visit whitney plantation in wallace, louisiana, to learn about the history of slavery in america. >> hi, my name is ashley rogers. i'm the director of museum operations at the whitney plantation. we are beginning our tour today in a historic friedmans church built circa 1870 by people who lived on the opposite side of the river in paulino, louisiana. this structure was donated to us about ten years ago but i descendants of the original founders of that congregation. they bought the land in 1870, 2 parcel

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i'm charles edward mcgee brigadier generals united states air force retired. i ended up doing something i enjoyed doing and i like to pass that on to the young folks as you find your talents. pinpoint what you enjoy doing along the way but but i i was hooked after my first flight for some reason it struck me in a way and and then what followed is again? i don't have the answer. i sometimes say why me, how me i don't know but i got wonderful assignments and was able to actively fly 27 of my 30 year air force career. so as i say i was hooked after the first first flight, but i also got involved in just before integration the air force. they said well you have to do something else besides flying. some went to intelligent school weather schools on i chose to go their craft maintenance. school so along the way besides enjoying flying i was active in material and maintenance support. is as well, so i had a well-rounded career as i say one. i enjoyed every every minute of it and i like to pass that on and i know to be able to share with teachers across the country is

brigadier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time as part of the tuskegee airmen. black military pilots who served in army corps segregated units during the war. mcgee later served with the air force in korea and vietnam and in total flew more than 400 combat missions across 3 wars. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> each week, american history tv's "american artifacts" explores the history of the united states through objects. up next, we visit capitol hill to talk to house historian matthew wasniewski and house curator farar elliott. and to see a selection of artifacts from the house collection. >> the story of how african-americans come to congress in the 19th century is not one a lot of people are familiar with. we actually have 22 african-americans serve between 1870 and 1901. 20 in the house. 20 in the house, 2 in the senate. it's largely a house story. and it has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. during the civil war there were

brigadier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time as part of the tuskegee airmen, black military privates who served in army corp. units during the war. mcgee in total floor more than 400 combat missions across three wars. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> each week, american history tv's "american artifacts" visits museums, archives and historic places. the national museum of african-american history and culture opened in september of 2016. located on the national mall near the washington monument, the museum has quickly become one of the most visited in the nation's capitol, with capacity crowds almost every day. up next we visit the museum to tour the history galleries which began three stories underground. >> welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. my name is mary elliott and i'm a museum specialist and cocurator of the slavery exhibition, which is one of the three exhibitions in the history gallery at the museum. we have three exhibitions in this gallery, and those e

brigidier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time as part of the black milt pilots who served in the war. mcgee later served with the air force in korea and vietnam and in total flew more than 400 combat missions across three wars. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> my name is eric finley, and i am the dosin for the african-american heritage family trail. this is our 13th year of doing the tours here in mobile and actually they got started maybe five or six years prior to that when one of our

brigadier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time has that parte tuskegee airmen. black military pilots who served in army corps segregated units during the war. mcgee later served with the air force in korea and vietnam. and in total, flew more than 400 combat missions across three wars. watch tonight, beginning at 8 pm eastern. and enjoy american history tv

i'm really excited to be introducing you to our next guest general charles mcgee was one of the same tuskegee airmen and a career officer in the united states air force for 30 years who flew a total of 409 combat missions in world war ii korea and vietnam during world war two brigadier general magee with stationed in italy with 300 second fighter squadron of the 332nd fighter group. general mcgee, are you there? do you want to try to reduce yourself? good morning, and certainly the pleasure to be here to share because of the i realize that teachers have a real challenge this day and age because there's so many things that are out there for youngsters to focus on and if we can keep them on t

eastern, a discussion with charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and time served with the air force flying more than 400 combat missions across three wars. at 8:00, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson, discussing their roles and shaping -- in shaping revolutionary war era america. exploring the american story, watch american history tv today on c-span3. >> tonight at 9:00 eastern on afterwards, john of the american enterprise institute with his book after the people vote, a guide to the electoral college. he is interviewed by the author and former editor, tara ross. >> congress should be hounding the electors as presented to them because it was the state that, as a process, made the decision. i will not say never but it would be extremely rare and it would be wise to not have objections in a regular way or in the big way we had in 2020 because it is more about the states selecting based on their laws. congress is there primarily just to have to test help them. -- primarily there just to help them. >

eastern, discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and the time he served with the air force flying more than 400 combat missions across three wars. at 8 p.m., a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing their roles in shaping the revolutionary war era america, constitutional government to produce. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >> sunday on q&a, author and history professor -- joseph talks about his book "the sword and the shield, the lives of malcolm x and martin luther king jr.." >> we see with king, the revolutionary king he starts talking about using nine violence as early as 1965, after los angeles rebellion of 1965, to paralyze cities to leverage nonviolent civil disobedience to transform american democracy. malcolm x had called for the same thing at the march on washington which malcolm criticized the march on washington because he wanted to display of civil disobedience that was going to be muscular enough to end t

brigadier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time as part of the tuskegee airmen, black military privates who served in army corp. units during the war. mcgee in total floor more than 400 combat missions across three wars. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> each week, american history

an effort to defeat democratic could -- at 6:30 pm eastern, a discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with it tuskegee airmen and time served with the air force, flying more than 400 combat missions across three wars. at 8 pm on the presidency, a reenactment between brand truman franklin and thomas jefferson discussing their roles in shaping the revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span 3. >> next on american history tv, vanderbilt university divinity professor, james bird, discusses how the founding fathers used the bible to defend their patriotic convictions and to justify the revolutionary war. this top was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible here in washington d.c.. it's 45 minutes. >> our third session today is the bible of the american revolution with james bird. and this presentation, based on his latest book, james bird shows that the bible was a key text of the american revolution, and

brigidier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time as part of the tuskegee airmen, black milt pilots who served in the war. mcgee later served with the air force in korea and vietnam and in total flew more than 400 combat missions across three wars. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> my name is eric finley, and i am the dosin for the african-american heritage family trail. this is our 13th year of doing the tours here in mobile and actually they got started maybe five or six years prior to that when one of our african-american city councilmen took a trip to boston on business and when there he saw a sign that said african-american trail. he thought it sounded interesting because it was kind of a novelty. prior to most of the museums that we see today on the trails and he took the tour, and he enjoyed it, and he got to thinking on his way back to mobile. mobile is close to 300 years old, and he had heard his family discuss about a lot of the contributions that african-americans had

an effort to defeat democratic could -- at 6:30 pm eastern, a discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with it tuskegee airmen and time served with the air force, flying more than 400 combat missions across three wars. at 8 pm on the presidency, a reenactment between brand truman franklin and thomas jefferson discussing their roles in shaping the revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span 3. >> next on american history tv, vanderbilt university divinity professor, james bird, discusses how the founding fathers used the bible to defend their patriotic convictions and to

brigadier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time has that part of the tuskegee airmen. black military pilots who served in army corps segregated units during the war. mcgee later served with the air force in korea and vietnam. and in total, flew more than 400 combat missions across three wars. watch tonight, beginning at 8 pm eastern. and enjoy american history tv -- my name is eric finley and i am the dulcet for the african american heritage trail. this is our 14th year. and they got started maybe five or six prior to that five or six years. when one of our african-american city councilman took a trip to boston on city business. when he was there he saw signs that said african american heritage trail. he thought it sounded interesting, because it's different than the museums we see today, and he took the tour and he enjoyed it. he got to thinking on his way back to mobile, that we heard his family discussed about the contributions african americans made, and he thought this is something we could do in mobile and we can do it very well. he starte

brigadier general charles mcgee looks back at his military career, particularly his time as part of the tuskegee airmen. black military pilots who served in army corps segregated units during the war. mcgee later served with the air force in korea and vietnam. and in total flew more than 400 combat missions across 3 wars. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> each week, american history tv's "american artifacts" takes you to museums and historic places. and coming up next we travel about 45 minutes west of new orleans to visit whitney plantation in wallace, louisiana, to learn about the history of slavery in america. >> hi, my name is ashley rogers. i'm the director of museum operations at the whitney plantation.

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eastern, a5> discussion with charles mcgee looking back on his military career, specifically his time three wars. at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the roles in shaping revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> next a look into disinformation campaign

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eastern, a5> discussion with charles mcgee looking back on his military career, specifically his time with the tuskegee airmen and across three wars. at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the roles in shaping revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> next a look into disinformation campaign tactics such as silencing journalists and political opposition and how best to respond to those tactics. the mccain institute hosted the discussion. >> again, my name is paul fagan, welcome. i'm from the mccain institute and we're very happy to be hosting this event today countering use of disinformation and the road ahead in 2021 we're very pleased to have everyone here. i'm going to, before i introduce the panelists i'll turn it over to my boss and executive director of the mccain institute ambassador mark green who will give opening remarks and then i'll turn it over to our panelists today. mark, over to you. >>

eastern, a discussion with a brigadier general, charles mcgee, looking back on his military career particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and his time serving with the air force through three wars. at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the roles in shaping revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> book tv on c-span2 has top-notch fiction books and authors every weekend. coming up tonight at 8:00 eastern, a discussion on the book "now what -- the voters have spoken." with steve and cynthia and anthony scaramucci. on sunday, the american enterprise institute's john fortier with his book -- after the people vote -- a guide to the electoral college. he is interviewed by tara ross. at 10:55 eastern, author janice with her book -- how to pioneering sisters brought medicine to women and women to medicine. watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. ♪ >> you're watching c-span. you're unfiltered view of government. c-

at 6:30 pm eastern, a discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with it pesky airman and time served with the air force flying more than 400 air force combat missions across three wars. at 8 pm on the presidency, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the rules and shaping revolutionary war era america and a constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story, watch american history tv, this weekend on c-span 3. >> american history tv continues as american university professor daniel dries back looks to the bibles contributions to the american constitutional and judicial system. including its impact on due process, the separation of powers. this top was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible in washington d.c. this. is about 45 minutes >> hello everyone, our second session today is the bible and the founding of the american constitutional republic with daniel dreisbach. during the american founding era, no book was more

at 6:30 eastern, a discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military careerparticularly, his time with the tuskegee airmen. at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, and reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the role in shaping the revolutionary war era america and their constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> washington journal continues. host: our first guest is tom kean. he served as the former chair of the 9/11 commission. he is a member of the bipartisan policy center on the task force on the ideology cochair and former governor of new jersey. thank you for giving us your time is money. guest: thank you. host: he wrote a letter to president biden advised president harris and others about this idea of a commission looking at the events of january 6. can you give us the just of the letter and why you wrote it. you do we -- guest: we look at this event and thought it was a violation that never happened before, the capital of has never been invaded like t

at 6:30 p.m., a discussion with charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and teem served with the air force flying more than 400 combat mission across three wars. at 8:00 p.m. on "the presidency" a reenactment between benjamin frankly. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> sunday on "q&a" author and history professor talks about his book "the sword and the shield: the revolutionary lives of malcolm x and martin luther king jr. ". >> so, what we see with king, the revolutionary king, he starts using non-violence as early as 1965, after the los angeles rebellion of 1965, to paralyze cities to leverage non-violence civil disobedience to transform american dplok si. malcolm x had called for the same thing at the march on washington, which malcolm criticized as a farce on washington because he wanted a display of civil disobedience that was going to be muscular enough to end the racial status quo in the united states of america. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >>> nex

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