Elizabeth King Beard--Naval Code Breaker | Webinar

When Julia Beard Garrett read Liza Mundy’s 2017 book, Code Girls, she realized the book revealed something quite unexpected, that her mother was a code breaker. She found a box of papers rich with documents supporting her role as a Navy code breaker. According to Liza Mundy, the women took an oath never to talk about their work. Their oath of silence was forgiven in 1990, but they were never notified so they kept their oath. This webinar will present the work of the Code Girls in the Army and Navy through what was discovered about Lydia Elizabeth King Beard, Julia's mother, and the other 10,000 women who helped to shorten the war by being part of the code breaking process