Hear from a "Grandfather of the Internet"

Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight, Jr., retired, U.S. Army, is a highly decorated soldier, leader, and visionary.

LTG McKnight was co-host and star of "Back Channel...From Pigeons to Tweets...Mac the Knife with Farm Boy from Nebraska" (note: session began approximately after 7:00 minutes), which had its inaugural webcast on Friday, June 28, 2019, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., EDT from the Board Room of the Army-Navy Club in downtown Washington, D.C.

LTG McKnight commanded the U.S. Army Signal Corps for numerous years, including over 40,000 troops worldwide.

Under his command and control, the Signal Corps designed, engineered, tested, manufactured, and launched multiple modes of communications, including landlines, satellites, and other means, including the "Red Telephone" between The White House and the Kremlin. He also used carrier pigeons as a backchannel means of communications right after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant during the Korean War in 1952.

LTG McKnight played an instrumental leadership role in helping lay the technological and communications platforms for what became the Internet, as co-fathered by many, including Drs. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn at UCLA in 1974.

Think back even further, though, to the true individual and organizational pioneers in telecommunications, i.e., Samuel Morse (1837), Alexander Graham Bell (1878), Guglielmo Marconi (1894), John Logie Baird (1928), George Stibitz (1940), and Project SCORE (1958). They were the great grandfathers of the Internet for their research, testing, design, developments, and advancements in the different aspects of telecommunications and technology.

LTG McKnight envisioned and pursued the development of new and improved networking and interoperability.

Based upon his service to America and millions of people around the world in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and other parts of North America, along with U.S. military installations in Antarctica, Gen. McKnight has earned the title of a "Grandfather of the Internet."

To learn more about LTG McKnight, consider reading his book, From Pigeons to Tweets (2013), which offers a 60-year historical, military, technological, communications, and personal perspective from the Korean War (1952) to the Arab Uprising (2012).

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Greg