Good morning. I propose to cover three things in my brief opening remarks this morning. Why me . Why now . Why are you here . Magna cartas relevance today. From an early age growing up in america, it was good king john the lion heart, bad King John Lachlan and robin hood and his merry men, not to forget maid mir yen, littlejohn, fryer tuck, henry the viii, shakespeare, costume and architecture and in music. I grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew george washington, john jay, sam adams, all the Founding Fathers were english men. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so did settlers from germany, austria, hungary, polands, swiss, russians, chinese and all the countries came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years since the founding of jamestown in 1607. My parents took me to the new york worlds fair in 1940 just seven years old to see many o
Mir yen, littlejohn, fryer tuck, henry the viii, shakespeare, costume and architecture and in music. I grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew george washington, john jay, sam adams, all the Founding Fathers were english men. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so did settlers from germany, austria, hungary, polands, swiss, russians, chinese and all the countries came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years since the founding of jamestown in 1607. My parents took me to the new york worlds fair in 1940 just seven years old to see many of the countrys exhibitions and among them, for the first time i saw magna carta at the british exhibition. The 1215 lincoln cathedral magna carta. On my first visit to britain as a serving officer in dwrupt states army, in 1957 i was returning to america to be discharged after serving in korea, my tour of dut
Good morning. I propose to cover three things in my brief opening remarks this morning. Why me . Why now . Why are you here . Magna cartas relevance today. From an early age growing up in america, it was good king john the lion heart, bad King John Lachlan and robin hood and his merry men, not to forget maid mir yen, littlejohn, fryer tuck, henry the viii, shakespeare, costume and architecture and in music. I grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew george washington, john jay, sam adams, all the Founding Fathers were english men. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so did settlers from germany, austria, hungary, polands, swiss, russians, chinese and all the countries came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years since the founding of jamestown in 1607. My parents took me to the new york worlds fair in 1940 just seven years old to see many o
Today remain silent on what they call a vital issue. Im a minority as myself. So this sort of relates to me. Reporter the students took the racist remarks personally. We have to make a difference as people. You know, incidents like this shouldnt happen. They shouldnt have hate towards someone because of the pigment of their skin. Reporter the School District admits there is a problem, citing other past racial issues with students. But the majority is now stepping in. Change something thats been a problem and you know, to have a proactive approach to solve it and make it better so Something Like this wont happen in the future. Reporter determined today show acceptance a. We care about what happened and what those kids did didnt represent the rest of us. Reporter im told the students involved have been disciplined. We did speak to the district about this issue. Coming up at 6 00 youll hear from them and why they say it will never happen again. They were tossing things and yelling. New vi
His ninety five thesis document was a rejection of the pope and what luther considered to be a corrupt Catholic Church which he felt had betrayed its face he luther and wanted to save it thus began five hundred years ago a schism within the Christian Church and the rise of the reformation it was a revolution new things revolution five hundred years of practice and ism are being celebrated in germany throughout the year events including this major exhibition at berlins martin. About luthers global legacy well have more on that in a moment and well talk to an author about writing a luther novel in two thousand and seventeen but first we travel to where it all began five hundred years ago to the heart of this years celebrations the city of witan bowed about an hours drive south of berlin. Luther described a city at the edge of civilization. Martin luther would have been amazed at whats become of his quiet little bit and back. This year its the spiritual and artistic epicenter of events su