Library to Host Air Combat Expert and CNN Analyst
Via University of Texas at Dallas
Library to Host Air Combat Expert and CNN Analyst
Author Flew Hundreds of Missions in Southeast Asia Before Serving at Pentagon
Maj. Gen. Donald W. Shepperd, a decorated combat pilot and CNN military analyst, will discuss the challenge that the Mideast poses for aviation at a public lecture Saturday at McDermott Library.
Shepperd’s presentation is titled “Double, Double, Toil and Trouble - Implications of the Modern World (Especially the Mideast) for Aviation.” The endowed lecture is presented by McDermott Library Special Collections and will be held June 21, 2008, at 4 p.m. in McDermott Library Auditorium (MC 2.410) at UT Dallas. It is free and open to the public.
A reception and book signing will follow in the Special Collections Department on the library’s third level, where patrons can meet Maj. Gen. Shepperd. He is the co-author of Bury Us Upside Down, a book about the “Misty Pilots,” who flew low-level reconnaissance in Southeast Asia. The UT Dallas Bookstore will have copies of the book available at the lecture.
Maj. Gen. Shepperd is this year’s George W. Jalonick III and Dorothy Cockrell Jalonick Memorial Distinguished Lecture Series speaker.
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