we figured it was a perfect time to invite joey back to tell us the stories of these women. who will currently serves as deputy librarian for the new mexico state library?

, joey saved my life, because if he had gone up again and flown, he would have felt certainly he would have been killed. so that is the way it was in the end of the war. >> and talking about how fortunate you are to bail out, and i thought about it while you were talking about. of all of my nine, about a year of training in the air tuskegee, i never had one minute on quote how to bail out. >> you bailed out of 51? >> yes, 51. >> you bailed out of the right side. >> are you kidding? >> i bailed out of the left side. >> i'll be damned. our job was to knock out radar stations. right on the coast on the shores of southern france. later on, i found out that these radars controlled the guns around southern france out to harbor of southern france. well, that came in about 15,000. we dove in. we indicated about 250,000 miles per hour, and went right across the top of the radars. huge towers with a lot of buildings underneath where the machinery was going on, and at about 200 feet, i felt something go boom. and as i went along, fire came up out of the floor. the dang thing hit the square. i sai

he'd always say, my friend joey. joey saved my life because if he would've got up again -- he felt certainly he would've been killed. because that's the way it was during the end of the war. >> i was thinking how fortunate you were to be able to move out. i had to bail out. i thought about it while you were talking. out of all my nine, about a year of training in the air in tuskegee, never had one minute on, quote, how to bail out. >> did you bail out -- >> 51. >> you bailedout of the right side. >> are you kidding? >> i bailed out of the left side. >> our job was to knock out radar stations. on the coast, right on the shores of southern france. later on, i found out that these radars controlled the guns around southern france, out the harbor of southern france. came in at about 15,000. we dove in. we indicated about 250 miles an hour. and went right across the top of these radars. huge towers with a lot of buildings underneath where the machinery is going on. at about 200 feet, so, boom. and as i went along, fire ca

our speaker this afternoon joey pool who joins us from new mexico joy is a returning, missouri valley sunday speaker in 2019. she gave a talk on her book. over the santa fe trail to mexico the travel diaries and autobiography of dr. roland willard. at that time she mentioned she was researching first-hand account. so several women specifically young rides. he traveled to santa fe trail in the mid 19th century. with this year marking the 200th anniversary of the opening of the trail. we figured it was a perfect time to invite joey back to tell us the stories of these women. who will currently serves as deputy librarian for the new mexico state library? previously she was director of the el camino real international heritage center in new mexico. and a museum director for the colorado historical society cool is devoted much of her career to studying santa fe trail history. in 1986. she helped organize the first santa fe trail symposium in trinidad, colorado. at that conference. she was named the first vice president of the santa fe trail association. she also served for 10 years on the

and he never say, hey, my friend joey,, he saved my life. because if he had gone up again, and flown, he felt certainly that he'd been killed. and that's the way that it was during the end of war. >> we were talking about how fortunate you were to move out. i had to bail out -- about a year ago, in training at tuskegee, we never had one minute of quote, how to bail out. [laughs] >> did you bailout of a 50? one >> in 51, yeah. >> you bail out on the right side. >> are you kidding? >> so. [laughs] >> i bailed out on the left side. [laughs] >> our job was to knock out radar stations. the coast, right on the shores. that was in southern france, later on, i found out that these radars control the gums guns outside of the southern france. , i think we indicated about 250 miles an hour. and, right across the top of these radars, could be huge towers, could be buildings underneath the machinery going. on at about 200 feet. there is a boom. as it went along fire came up out of the floor. i said to myself, how do i get off this? finally decided quickl

. >> hi joey, how are you? >> i'm great! >> in regards to what the gentleman right here was talking about, unfortunately, what about caroline bryant? she's very much alive. >> yeah, she is very much alive. that's a great question. i'll try to answer this. i know i'm supposed to answer this brief, but i'll try my best to answer this, so just follow me on this real quick. okay. so caroline bryant, and this is, the reason we know this, so caroline bryant is the woman who emmett till reportedly wolf with all that, right? and so, she gave a statement to the defense lawyers literally just, you know, a couple of weeks before the trial of her then husband and his half bother who killed were involved in killing emmett till. so anyway, her original statement to the defense, and we have copies of the notes, because they're in the william bradford huey papers at ohio state, and in that she basically said that he flirted he floated with her, grabbed her hand, asked her for 80, flirted with her, walked out, whistled at her. she told a muc