fairfax community college in warrington, virginia. i taught the survey class. teach these civil war, but my depth of knowledge is not strong. however, i do know an awful lot about one particular part of the civil war, and i just want to ask you when it comes time for questions, if you would please keep your questions within that area of what i know most about, ok? will answer any questions about the civil war as long as they are, have to do with what happened between june 13 -- sorry -- i will expand that to june 12 -- [laughter] and in the eastern theater and the north of richmond and we are all set. so, in the limited amount of not i have -- and also i'm going to step on anybody. this is what we will hear about tomorrow. i will not step on anybody's toes. broad overview a of what happened at fort stevens. july 12, 1964. where are we in the civil war in july 1864? we just came off the blaze, whatever it was, the three last big battles of the war, which was the battle of -- thank you, wilderness, spotsylvania courthouse, and cold harbor. and then very simply, the highlights -- what

selma, alabama, some of the lawyers remember this case, warrington versus greyhound. they were arrested. it was a student. seat in the so-called white waiting room. it became the boynton case. because of what happened here, we decided to organize something called the freedom rides. i was 21 years old, had all of my hair and a few pounds later. people in61, black white people couldn't be seated on a greyhound bus together, leaving the nation's capital. in may of 1961, 13 of us, black-and-white, mutt in washington dc under the leadership of cory and the man by the name of james former, organize the freedom rides of 1960. [applause] beaten,e way, we were and i will never forget in a wetle town called rock hill, attempted to get off the bus. my sleep mate was a young white gentleman from connecticut. we were escorted to a white waiting room and we were beaten, left many years later, the young man came to myten us office in washington, d.c. mr. lewis, i have been a member of the klan. i'm one of the people who beat you. will you forgive me? he was in his 70's. he brought his son in

communication base in warrington, ridge and yet that now houses a cold war museum. here's a preview. >> as a result of my father have aho he was, we do small exhibit on what my father went through. over here, we have a silhouette of the u2. we have this, the booster stage of the sa2. the actual missile is a fit long -- 80 feet long. it's always can fit in the museum at this time. the actual missile is next-door. but it gives you an idea, this model, the booster section on the end, it did you an idea of what the component is for. my father was able to survive being shot down by the soviet missile because it was not a direct hit. had it been a direct hit, he would have been in pieces. a near miss,s below and write to the fuselage of the exterior of the airplane, it damaged the tail section, the nose pitches forward, the wings aboutak off, dad falls to 32,000 feet before bailing out. he didn't use the ejection seat, if he did, he would have severed his legs on the way out. he opened the column -- the canopy, undoes his harness, , thes free of his air hose parachute opens, and he parach