excitement actually at that point on both sides because people have anticipated this for so long. some people were itching for a fight. they think war is a glorious thing and let s go and do it. but in the spring, lincoln s overeager young friend from springfield, elmer ellsworth, a short but very dashing commander of a drill team would go with the lincoln boys to the roof of the white house and look out with a telescope. and over the river they saw a confederate flag flying from the top of a hotel. and ellsworth, for one, was offended. ellsworth led a band across the river to tear down the confederate flag. as he was walking down the stairs, the owner of the inn took his shotgun and shot him in the chest. he fell down the last few steps, clutching and wrapped in this increasingly blood-soaked flag. lincoln loved this young man, so the war came home really fast for lincoln. with the first cannon fired at ft. sumter in april 1861, the country is thrust into civil war
Hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, here in florida, where my guest is 98 year old ben ferencz. He is the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials. He also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army. So does he believe that the Nuremberg Trials have made genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity less likely to be committed in The World Today . Ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. You were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. You moved to the United States with your family when you were a little baby. You really epitomise the american dream, a kind of Rags To Riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to Harvard Law School. We arrived in america. My parents were young immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty. No money, no skills, no language. And lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didn
Hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, here in florida, where my guest is 98 year old ben ferencz. He is the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials. He also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army. So does he believe that the Nuremberg Trials have made genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity less likely to be committed in The World Today . Ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. You were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. You moved to the United States with your family when you were a little baby. You really epitomise the american dream, a kind of Rags To Riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to Harvard Law School. We arrived in america. My parents were young immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty. No money, no skills, no language. And lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didn
98 year old ben ferencz. He is the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials. He also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army. So does he believe that the Nuremberg Trials have made genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity less likely to be committed in The World Today . Ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. You were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. You moved to the United States with your family when you were a little baby. You really epitomise the american dream, a kind of Rags To Riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to Harvard Law School. We arrived in america. My parents were young immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty. No money, no skills, no language. And lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didnt need any boots made in new york, there were no cobblers. But the owner of a building of
Hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, here in florida, where my guest is 98 year old ben ferencz. He is the last surviving prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials. He also helped liberate the death camps of europe while serving in the us army. So does he believe that the Nuremberg Trials have made genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity less likely to be committed in The World Today . Ben ferencz, welcome to hardtalk. You were born in 1920 in transylvania in central europe. You moved to the United States with your family when you were a little baby. You really epitomise the american dream, a kind of Rags To Riches story, because it was discovered that you were highly intelligent and you were put on a fast track to Harvard Law School. We arrived in america. My parents were young immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty. No money, no skills, no language. And lucky to have some friendly new yorker offer us, my father, who had been trained as a shoemaker, but they didn