To join the war effort and culminates in the december 7, 1941 attack on pearl harbor. Children i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [gunfire] [plane engines] narrator in the jungles of new guinea, on the barren shores of the on the barren shores of the aleutians, in the tropic heat of the pacific islands, in the subzero cold of the skies over germany, in burma and iceland, the philippines and iran, france, in china and italy, americans fighting. Fighting over an area extending 7 8 of the way around the world. Men from the green hills of new england, the sunbaked plains of the middle west, the cotton fields of the south, the closepacked streets of manhattan, chicago, the teeming factories of detroit, los angeles, the endless stretching distances of the southwest, men from the hills and from the plains, from the villages and from the cities, bookkeepers, soda je
Sometimes it seems that were all on the road at the same time. Were a nation on wheels. And soon to take to the air as a slim young man in a silver plane opens up new horizons. There he is. Charles a. Lindbergh landing at the ford airport. Another pioneer gives us the courage to try something new. In no time at all, there are scheduled flights to anywhere you want to go. The dimensions of time and space are further diminished. A new age begins and we move forward with it. Yet as we go, we preserve the past to mirror the accomplishments of those who have shown us the way to the futu future. Historians and law professors recently gathered at the university of Baltimore Law School to discuss the film mr. Civil rights Thurgood Marshall and the naacp. They explored marshalls early law career, as well as his work in the south to expand Voting Rights for africanamericans. Well also hear about his arguments before the u. S. Supreme court and how he became the first africanamerican appointed to
For knowing how to put machines together and make them run. He was born into a world of limited horizons. And though he left the farm that might have been his heritage, he never lost his love for the land and the everlasting cycle of seed time and harvest. What he accomplished helped men put the burden of work on machines and broke the barriers of space and time. Of isolation and distance. His life was a paradox. While his mechanical genius helped to change forever the lives of people ever where, he sought to preserve in some permanent form, a record of the world around him and his eve everwidening interest in it. He collected buildings the way others collect stamps. And put them in a village where time stands still. He assembled acres of machines and put them under cover in a vast historical museum. And early, he discovered the astonishing capacity of the Motion Picture camera to document for all time whatever it saw when the crank was turned. In april 1914, at his holland park plant,