Quote the one story clinic, women its health care services, run by dr. george r. tiller, has become the lightning rod for the battle. end quote. in what could be known as the summer of mercy, thousands of members of an anti-abortion group called operation rescue descended on the city of wichita using their bodies to physically block access to abortion clinics offered while screaming threats and prayers at the clinic s workers and prayers at the patients and thousands were arrested and it took a quarter of wichita s entire police force to control the crowd. as the new york times reported at the time, the protesters say the confrontation here is the beginning of the fight that is building as the supreme court moves closer, they say, to overturning roe v. wade. the decision that legalized abortion in 1973. end quote. that was also the summer that our next guest, julie burkehart started working at that very abortion clinic in wichita on a summer break from college. every other abortion c
Today pled guilty to that seditious conspiracy charge, he s now the third oath keeper to do so. mr. wilson, that s his name, he has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors as parts of the plea and already told them about one alarming episode about which we previously did not know. william todd wilson says that about 5:00 p.m., on january 6th, he and stewart rhodes and other oath keepers left the capitol and went to a nearby hotel. at the hotel, quote, rhodes gathered wilson and other co-conspirators inside of a private suite, roads then called an individual over speaker phone. wilson heard rhodes repeatedly implore the individual to tell president trump to call upon groups like the oath keepers to forcibly oppose the transfer of power. this individual denied rhodes request to speak directly with president trump, after the call ended, rhodes stated to the group, i just want to fight. so the leader of this
A steel plant in the hard-hit ukrainian city of mariupol remains a target of heavy russian artillery ten weeks into the russian invasion. thick smoke rising over the building where hundreds of civilians and ukrainian soldiers have been under siege a commander with the azov battalion, the last ukrainian fighters left in mariupol, posted this video to the tell gam saying russian forces had broken into the territory of the plant and that quote there are heavy bloody battles. the kremlin claims the forces are not storming the plant but suppressing attempts from so-called militants to fire from new positions. just a few hours ago, the international red cross and the united nations announced that more than 300 civilians had
Prominent leaders of the ejan gel cal movement in america. this is a little bit of a sermon he gave to his congregation in lynchburg, virginia, years after that ruling was rendered. quote, if chief justice warren and his associates had known god s word and had desired to do the lord s will, i am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made. the facilities should be separate. when god has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line. the true negro does not want integration. he realizes his potential is far better among his own race. end quote. falwell went on to assert that integration quote will destroy our race eventually. and in the aftermath of brown v board, segregation became a motivating factor, including for the evangelical movement. more than 3,000 private schools and academies popped up in the