 Good afternoon. I'm Joe Irizarry. You're listening to Here and Now on Delaware Public Media. It is July 11th on this date back in 1955. The U.S. Air Force Academy officially opened at temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado in 1960. Author Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published and became a classic noted for its sensitive treatment of a child's awakening to racism and prejudice in the South.