next george morgan tells the story of his mother, mary sherman morgan, the first female rocket scientist in the united states and inventor of hydyne, the propellant that boosted america's first satellite into orbit. the program mary sherman morgan worked on was highly secret so her family had little idea of her accomplishments until after her death. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. i would like to thank the bookstore for inviting me this evening. i have a few prepared remarks which will include reading a few passages from the book. these remarks will basically tell you a little bit about my mother and her story and the book came to be. i have a question for you. it is a rhetorical question so you don't have to answer. question is this. how much do you really know about your parents? when i was growing up i was like any other kid. i wanted to know what my dad did every time he went to work in the morning. i knew he was an engineer at rocketdyne in canoga park the was the doing? when i asked him what you do when you go to work each day he would always have the s

next, george morgan tells the story of his mother, mary sherman morgan, the first female rocket scientist in the united states and inventer of the propellant that boosted america's first satellite into orbit. the program mary morgan worked on was highly secret, so her family had very little idea of her accomplishments until after her death. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] enter thank you very much. i'd like to thank fro match's bookstore for inviting us here this evening. i have a few prepared remarks which will include reading a few passages from the book. and these remarks will basically tell you a little bit about my mother and how her story and the book came to be. .. many years later, long nap during that you family plan, my father writing the attend the airshow. while there he began into an old friend from work. the man looked at me and said i work next to your dad at the desk for 15 years. i said hey, you're the guy i've been looking for. i want to know, what did my father do every morning when he went to work each day? he got very quiet, thoughtful and then he said, a little

next, george morgan tells the story of his mother, mary sherman morgan, the first female rocket scientist in the united states and inventer of the propellant that boosted america's first satellite into orbit. the program mary morgan worked on was highly secret, so her family had very little idea of her accomplishments until after her death. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] enter thank you very much. i'd like to thank fro match's bookstore for inviting us here this evening. i have a few prepared remarks which will include reading a few passages from the book. and these remarks will basically tell you a little bit about my mother and how her story and the book came to be.

we wrap up prime-time programming at 11:00 eastern with rocket girl, the story of mary sherman morgan, america's first female rocket scientist. visit booktv.org for more of this weekend's television schedule. .. >> this is an honor and a pleasure to be here, truly a wonderful store. thank you for having us. when kevin and i first started this book, i'll be honest, i really didn'

the time had come for people to start talking about mary sherman morgan. i drove to my father's house and interviewed him. prying open that steel safe. he told me a few things some of which i already was aware of. she was born in a small farm in north dakota. she was youngest of eight children. her father refused to send her to school when she was young wanting her to work on the farm. e haven'tly -- eventually the state of north dakota intervened and forced her father to allow her to attend school. they gave her a -- the state of north dakota gave her a horse so she could get across the river that separated their home from the schoolhouse. when she enrolled she was three years behind. even so she managed to catch up and pass everyone. graduating in 1940, as her high school's class valedictorian. as soon as that graduation ceremony was over; however, her father insisted that she return to work on the farm full-time. instead she packed her bags and ran away from home in the middle of the night and headed for ohio. where she enrolled in college in ohio, whic

programming at 11:00 eastern with rocket girl, the story of mary sherman morgan, america's first female rocket scientist. visit booktv.org for more of this weekend's television schedule. .. >> this is an honor and a pleasure to be here, truly a wonderful store. thank you for having us. when kevin and i first started this book, i'll be honest, i really didn't know much about che guevara. i knew the image on the t-shirts, growing up in new york city in the late 1970s. a lot of people wore che t-shirts. is image was spray painted on walls all over new york city with expression che lives. he was a handsome figure. a scraggly. and piercing eyes and the black beret that was tilted a little bit, and the star on the beret. he looked like a revolutionary, and his message seemed to be to somebody who just looked at the t-shirt and look at the same, somebody who was, you know, for power for the people. everyone read members that expression from the '70s. fast forward to 2010, kevin and i became friends because we both worked at "the associated press," and kevin and i both have a love for military

mary sherman morgan.live sunday on c-span 3's american history tv, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 16th street baptist bombing. from birmingham, alabama. >> joining us now janine. her book called shadow elite, william,. guest: thank you. host: obviously, apparently you created a new term. flexion. we live in a world of flex. we have flex perks, flex time, flex work, flex cars. we even have flexible players. the era that we live in today has created a new type of flexible power broker that maneuvers among government consultancy think tank and media roles we the public don't have the tools to quite know what these power brokers are up to. so it creates a problem of accountability. example. just last week there was a woman who wrote a piece about syria and about arming the syrian rebels who wrote a piece the "wall street journal" and she was presented as someone affiliated with a think tank. now, think tanks have this prntation of neutral and academic. only later did it turn out that she had a dog

life hidden from family and friends, the story of america's first female rocket scientist, mary sherman morganpan3'se sunday on c- american history tv, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 16th street baptist church bombings with eric holder. starting at 11 a.m. and throughout the day, from birmingham, alabama. >> yes, the world is changing. no, we cannot control every event. america remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs and as long as i am president i intend to keep it that way. he is talking about the indispensable nation, what he doesn't want us to talk about is that we don't know how to win wars. have, by virtually any measures, the best military in the world. we certainly spend more on our military than the rest of the world put together. we don't know how to win wars. it seems to me there ought to be a very serious national conversation to ask why that is the case. where does the fault lie echo is the faultiticians -- lie? is it our politicians are too stupid? is at the size of the forces are too small? by itst the fact that very nature war is very unpredictable. to

life hidden from family and friends and the story of america's first female rocket scientist, mary sherman morgan and live on american history tv, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 15th st. baptist church bombings. starting at 11:00 a.m. and throughout the day live from birmingham, alabama. >> a letter was received on thursday with conditions on the global treaty. and if cabinet meeting on thursday, president obama told reporters that he is hopeful that talks on syria between secretary john kerry and his russian counterpart would yield concrete results. >> thank you, everyone. well, obviously we are missing a few members of our cabinet here today, in particular john kerry. he is overseas meeting on a topic that we have been spending a lot of time on over the last several weeks. the situation with syria and how we can make sure that the chemical weapons are not used against the people. i am hopeful that the discussions that secretary kerry has with the foreign minister as well as some of the other players in this can yield a concrete result and i know that he is going to be working very ha

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