Podcasts. Eleanor roosevelt began the long trip home. Slowly the long, black funeral train pulls up then down the pennsylvania avenue to the beat of muffled drums the president was born for the last time to the executive mansion that for 12 years had been his official home. The passing of f. D. R. From the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. People wept openly, unashamed of their grief. Drawn by six white horses, the flag draped casson was brought to the white house and carried into the great east room where 80 years before almost to the day the body of Abraham Lincoln also laid in state. At hyde park his ancestral home in duchess county, new york the guns of west point cadets rang down the final curtain on the man of destiny known around the world as f. D. R. To measure something of his greatness we turn back the clock to Franklin Roosevelt as a young man making his First Political campaign. To the time when only 28 years of age he was elected new york state senator
Important overseas American Military base in the 1950s. Produced between 1951 and 1971, the big picture was a Weekly Television report for the army and the american public. Narrator the United States army presents the big picture, an official report produced for the armed forces and the american people. A small, rocky, typhoonswept island, this is okinawa, principal link in the ryukyus chain, which stretches more than stretches over the pacific from japan to formosa. Unimportant . Perhaps at first glance. But okinawas role in todays world is out of proportion to its size. An area equal to rhode island, okinawa is a vital outpost in the free World Defense network less than 300 miles from the coast of communist china. But okinawa has not always played the Important Role it plays today. For many centuries it slept, an island off the beaten track of world affairs. Feudal lords ruled over scattered straw hut villages , where life centered around two things rice and religion. Ancestor worshi
Tribe here to indian territory. We began the removals starting in 1829 and they culminated in our larger removal here to indian territory in the summer and fall months of 1836 with our arrival 1836, and throughout january of 1837, when we arrived at port gibson in indian territory. For about 20 years or so, beginning at about 1840, prior to settling here, we met at the grand council of our tribal towns until 1861. 1861 was the arrival of the civil war in the United States, and affected just about everyone. After the civil war, we had to sign a treaty, as many tribes involved in the civil war. We signed that treaty in 1856. 1867, we designed our tribal constitution, which was the foundation for Government Operations that established themselves in this area. Once we establish that new tribal government, we had a place for that. We settled on this very ground that we are on. It was in 1868 they constructed the First Council house, the twostory log cabin. It was the muscogee people named t
Miles from houston here. And there were people lined up all along the tracks, all the way here. I was in a bus. We kind of followed the path of the train. And it was just amazing. You could see the people all over, all over the tracks, through conroe, places like that. And then the train ended at the university about a mile from here. And the casket was put in a hearse and brought here. Kids in the corps cadets theres a walkway on the other side of the gravesite. The cadets lined the walkway all the way here. The Funeral Service here was just family. So there was a memorial service, and at st. Martins in houston. That was a public ceremony. Then the body was brought here. Like i said, people lining the path all the way up here, and in college station, people all along the tracks. Then once the body got to the library museum, it was just family. And so it was a like mrs. Bushs service, it was just a family service. And they chose early, after the library was put here, they the gravesite
We were a removed tribe to indian territory. Andremovals began in 1829, culminated in the large removal in the indian territory summer and fall months of 1836 with our arrival to indian territory here in late december, 1836, and throughout january of 1837, when we arrived at port gibson in indian territory. ,or about 20 years or so beginning at about 1840, prior to settling here, we met at the ground cancel grand council of our tribal house until 1861. 1861 was the arrival of the civil war in the United States, and affected just about everyone. After the civil war, we had to find a tree be, as many tribes involved in the civil war. We signed that treaty in 1856. 1857, we designed our tribal constitution, which was the foundation for Government Operations that established themselves in this area. Once we establish that new tribal government, we had a place for that. We settled on this very ground that we are on. 1868 they constructed the first counsel house, the twostory log cabin. The