A Black storyteller chronicles the history of slavery and freedom
A Black storyteller chronicles the history of slavery and freedom
March 6, 2021
by Fred Jordan, African American Chamber of Commerce
By definition, a historian is an expert or student of history. I am not an expert or a student, but one whose family has been intimately involved in the Black history of this country and I was raised, lived, studied and worked in those areas most prominent in Black history: Washington, D.C., Southern Maryland and Boston.
Whether through family history or personal stories of direct descendants of great men and women, I am your griot. I am Frederick Jordan, your storyteller.
Randy Krzmarzick
I remember the single moment I heard that John Kennedy was shot. Lots of moments followed in the years ahead thinking and talking about who was responsible for that assassination.
Seventy minutes after shots were fired in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. Two days later, Jack Ruby killed Oswald. That happened on live television, seared in our memories. It was a bizarre couple of days, for sure.
The Warren Commission in its 888-page report concluded that Oswald and Ruby acted alone. Both floated in groups that had reason to loath John Kennedy. Multiple other investigations followed, some leaving open the possibility that one or more of those groups was involved, even that there was another shooter.
(Antiques Roadshow/PBS)
For history buffs, there s nothing better than a surprise on Antiques Roadshow. Every once in a while, someone drops by with a personal story better than anything found in the history books.
In Season 25 of the show, available on the PBS video app, the appraisers revisited a trip to Orlando, Florida in 2007 when they got a visit from none other than Cecil Stoughton, the first-ever official White House photographer, who documented the personal and public lives of President John F. Kennedy and his family.
He brought a number of photographs to the appraisers on Antiques Roadshow, including a private photo of the Kennedy family along with perhaps one of the most famous photographs of the 20th Century.
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