And the continent of africa on the move stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their own hands. V. W. Multimedia series food for. D. W. B. Dot com. Hello and welcome to twenty one this week were celebrating the spirit of one thousand Nine Hundred Sixty six was its a year that changed the world. A time of social and political upheaval the old order was stripped away and nothing was ever the same again and taking stock of the legacy of sixty eight and its relevance today about. Half a century on. It all began in the early sixtys
in the usa Berkeley California students are fed up. Civil rights free speech the War In Vietnam Social Topics that culminated in massive protests with National Implications and sparked demonstrations around the Globe The Rebellion has a soundtrack. The call for change and freedom spreads to germany to west berlin june one Nine Hundred Sixty Seven the shah of iran makes an official visit students demonstrate against his authoritarian
the congressman negotiated with temple lawyers. what are you doing down here? essentially to try to see my relatives. i have a mother, three sisters and a brother. i haven t seen my sisters and brothers in about four years now. 28-year-old jackie speier was congressman ryan s legislative aide. she helped arrange the trip and knew enough to be afraid. i was concerned about making the trip. temple defectors had told her jonestown was a virtual prison camp. a place where members were brainwashed, armed and willing to kill for jim jones. i was in the process of purchasing my first home in arlington, virginia. i literally made my contract contingent on surviving the trip. almost like i had a premonition about it.
Selfharm saving listen to this, 150 lives annually averting nine school shootings. Joining us now is founder of Rachels Challenge Darell scott. Darrell you and i are friend a it is a honor to have you on. I want to begin by sharing with you and bringing up impact Rachel Joy Scott had on my life she changed my life and my walk as a christian, and i want to put forward some of her Journal Entries you discovered six of her journals after her passing and heres some of the things that she wrote. She really had a kind of i would say premonition of what lied ahead she wrote this 11 minutes before and this will be my last year i have gotten what i can. That was in her journal she also traced her Hand And Youll see this here for our viewers hes hands belong Rachel Joy Scott, and will someday touch millions of peoples hearts indead they have. She enwrote this, i am dying we cannily my soul leaves, slowly my body withers i consider it
ayatollah khomeini declared his novel the satanic verses blasphemous, an insult to islam. and called for the indian born writers assassination. rushdie went into hiding with around the clock, police protection for ten years here s he eventually moved the us and thought he was safe, but in august 2022, as he was about to speak at a literary festival and should talk when new york salman rushdie was attacked by a muslim man with a knife. rushdie, who s now 76, lost his right eye and came close to dying he s come to terms with the attempt on his life by writing of new book about it. called simply knife, which went on sale on tuesday. i talked to him for report i filed for 60 minutes this past weekend. it was his first television interview since the attack you had had a dream two days, i think it was before the attack. what was the dream? i kind of had a premonition. i mean, i had had a dream of being attacked in an amphitheater but it was a kind of roman empire dream nearly.
speak at a literary festival in should talk when new york salman rushdie was attacked by a muslim man the knife. rushdie, who s now 76, lost his right eye and came close to dying. he s come to terms with the attempt on his life by writing a new book about it called simply knife, which went on sale on tuesday. i talked to him for report i filed for 60 minutes this past weekend. it was his first television interview since the attack you had had a dream two days, i think it was before the attack what was the dream? i kind of had a premonition of an added had a dream of being attacked in an amphitheater but it was a kind of roman empire dream, nearly. as if i was in the colosseum. and it was just somebody with the spear stabbing downwards and i was rolling around on the floor trying to get away from him and i woke up and was quite shaken by it. and i had to go to to talk. and i i said to my wife, eliza, i said, i don t want to