smyser discusses the berlin crisis of 1961 to 1963. he recounts the meetings between president kennedy andny key the that -- nikita khrushchev and the political fallout from the construction of the berlin wall. this is about an hour and a half. >> well, welcome, everybody, to the woodrow wilson center for the book launch of "kennedy and the berlin wall: a hell of a lot better than a war" by william smyser. it's one of the, certainly, readable books ever written on the history of the berlin wall and this major confrontation between kennedy and khrushchev, between the united states and the soviet union during the late '50s and the early '60s, and i'm sure we will have 90 highly-interesting minutes of talk and discussion together. my name is bernd schafer, i'm a senior psychologicaller here -- scholar here, and i'm very pleased to have an outstanding panel here today. we will start with mr. smyser who will talk about his book and major points of his book for about 30 minutes followed by comments. i will introduce our commentator when it's

smyser, marybeth. go to www.amazon.com. thank you everybody for coming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> up next, todd moye >> from the 2011 was about reading festival, trillium 11 discusses his boat, "freedom flyer: the tuskegee airmen of r ii."wa this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you very much. i 's great to be here. i need to look for more reasons to travel from text is to hudsot atlley in the middle of there summer. this is a great place to be ink its always fun to come back to the fdr library. the servants had come book began as an oral history project. an from 2002 not 2005, i was bona fide historians who work for the national park service,the developing a national historic site called the tuskegee national air site in tuskegee, alabama with the tusk segee airn to fly. the national park service dedicated a significant amount of money to interview in the tuskegee airmen so that we could work those oral history santini's and programs, so we could find