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Barry Wirth

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

Jack was able to bring her to his mother and introduce. So within four months, he had a girlfriend who eventually he would marry. He had admission to Harvard Law School and also had the opportunity to kind of recover in exile. He wasn't in New Haven. He was in Cambridge where nobody really knew his story. And he was able to put things together relatively quickly and

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

Jack was able to bring her to his mother and introduce. So within four months, he had a girlfriend who eventually he would marry. He had admission to Harvard Law School and also had the opportunity to kind of recover in exile. He wasn't in New Haven. He was in Cambridge where nobody really knew his story. And he was able to put things together relatively quickly and

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

Jack was able to bring her to his mother and introduce. So within four months, he had a girlfriend who eventually he would marry. He had admission to Harvard Law School and also had the opportunity to kind of recover in exile. He wasn't in New Haven. He was in Cambridge where nobody really knew his story. And he was able to put things together relatively quickly and

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

which demonstrated to him that maybe what he'd been through wasn't so hard after all, and maybe anybody could do the same thing that he did. Of course, all of us think, I couldn't last three nights in a Chinese prison, much less nearly 7,500 nights and days in a Chinese prison. But Things came together for him quickly, got his law degree, moved back, married Audrey.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

which demonstrated to him that maybe what he'd been through wasn't so hard after all, and maybe anybody could do the same thing that he did. Of course, all of us think, I couldn't last three nights in a Chinese prison, much less nearly 7,500 nights and days in a Chinese prison. But Things came together for him quickly, got his law degree, moved back, married Audrey.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

which demonstrated to him that maybe what he'd been through wasn't so hard after all, and maybe anybody could do the same thing that he did. Of course, all of us think, I couldn't last three nights in a Chinese prison, much less nearly 7,500 nights and days in a Chinese prison. But Things came together for him quickly, got his law degree, moved back, married Audrey.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

They had a son, moved back to Connecticut, and he started to pick up the life that he had lost when he went to China in 1952. Eventually becomes an esteemed judge in Connecticut.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

They had a son, moved back to Connecticut, and he started to pick up the life that he had lost when he went to China in 1952. Eventually becomes an esteemed judge in Connecticut.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

They had a son, moved back to Connecticut, and he started to pick up the life that he had lost when he went to China in 1952. Eventually becomes an esteemed judge in Connecticut.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

Conservative juvenile affairs, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. There's a courthouse in New Haven that's named for him, a highly cherished person in New Haven, because he brought that same temperament. to juvenile and family cases, which of course are always rancorous. And he had a very inspiring second life. He had hoped to go into politics and he ran for,

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

Conservative juvenile affairs, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. There's a courthouse in New Haven that's named for him, a highly cherished person in New Haven, because he brought that same temperament. to juvenile and family cases, which of course are always rancorous. And he had a very inspiring second life. He had hoped to go into politics and he ran for,

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

Conservative juvenile affairs, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. There's a courthouse in New Haven that's named for him, a highly cherished person in New Haven, because he brought that same temperament. to juvenile and family cases, which of course are always rancorous. And he had a very inspiring second life. He had hoped to go into politics and he ran for,

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

the Democratic nomination for Senate in 1982 against a field of better known candidates and lost. But that was his one regret that he never got to the Senate. I guess moral of the story, if you're going to get caught spying, do it in your 20s. If you're going to have a real big setback of any kind, do it in your 20s if you can. Gives you the runway to get past it.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

the Democratic nomination for Senate in 1982 against a field of better known candidates and lost. But that was his one regret that he never got to the Senate. I guess moral of the story, if you're going to get caught spying, do it in your 20s. If you're going to have a real big setback of any kind, do it in your 20s if you can. Gives you the runway to get past it.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

the Democratic nomination for Senate in 1982 against a field of better known candidates and lost. But that was his one regret that he never got to the Senate. I guess moral of the story, if you're going to get caught spying, do it in your 20s. If you're going to have a real big setback of any kind, do it in your 20s if you can. Gives you the runway to get past it.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

I think the parallels are so interesting. Number one. like the Chinese, when Paris was shot down, now remember this was in 1960, Eisenhower was still in office. He was looking at a triumphal last six months in office. There was going to be an arms control agreement. He was going to be the first president to visit Russia.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

I think the parallels are so interesting. Number one. like the Chinese, when Paris was shot down, now remember this was in 1960, Eisenhower was still in office. He was looking at a triumphal last six months in office. There was going to be an arms control agreement. He was going to be the first president to visit Russia.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

I think the parallels are so interesting. Number one. like the Chinese, when Paris was shot down, now remember this was in 1960, Eisenhower was still in office. He was looking at a triumphal last six months in office. There was going to be an arms control agreement. He was going to be the first president to visit Russia.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

Everything was kind of, it looked like there was an opportunity to put a, as he said, a crack in the wall of the Cold War. And then this was the very last scheduled U-2 flight. We were overflying Russia with high-tech cameras and data gathering equipment to look at their nuclear program. And when he was shot down, the Russians did the same thing that the Chinese did.

American History Hit
A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned

Everything was kind of, it looked like there was an opportunity to put a, as he said, a crack in the wall of the Cold War. And then this was the very last scheduled U-2 flight. We were overflying Russia with high-tech cameras and data gathering equipment to look at their nuclear program. And when he was shot down, the Russians did the same thing that the Chinese did.