Leaders. The ceremony is 35 minutes. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the useum vice chair, alan holt. Good evening, everyone. Its an honor to be here, and i want to express my thanks to all of you for being here. I want to especially thank this evenings chairs, beth hifitz and jody and wrod mackland. [applause] and the washington community. My Home Community for this fantastic show of support for the museum and its campaign. I am the son of holocaust survivors. And i am also blessed. I just celebrated with my parents their 70th wedding anniversary. [applause] i grew up in the 1950s and the 1960s. Two events that i most remember from my early life were the legacy of the holocaust and the ongoing struggle for civil rights. In fact, one of the unforgettable moments of my new jersey childhood was witnessing first hand the horrible race so tonight ark in these two strands of my life come together as we honor congressman john lewis. A very special american. [applause] a very s
That there are protections in place to make sure all the hard work done by the so many lives sacrificed are also preserved. Youre also going to hear from the president of the United States, who will be here in selma, 2 30 roughly, eastern time here from selma, right here at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge. He will be bringing with him the first Lady Michele Obama and the president is bringing his daughters, sasha and malia. And we expect that one of his messages will be to really challenge the generations of his daughters and other generations, that they will have their own marches and their own fights to fight and his message will be that the struggle the fight continues. Also during our programming today, youre, of course, going to hear from the man who was just 25 years old who is the most recognizable image of bloody sunday john lewis, congressman john lewis, is here. My conversations with another civil rights foot soldier, reverend andrew young. Youre going to hear the extrao
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