Witnify Blog http://blog.witnify.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:29:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Tag Test Post http://blog.witnify.com/?p=23174 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=23174#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:29:55 +0000 http://qa1.witnify.com/?p=23174 function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=23174'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=23174 0 Hello world! http://blog.witnify.com/?p=1 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=1#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:40:40 +0000 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=1 function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=1'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=1 1 Cassius Clay Muhammad Ali on the Origin of the Name Cassius Clay http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20209 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20209#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:03:31 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20209 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20209'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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Boxer Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay, describes where the Clay name came from and he explains how he first got into boxing. This interview happens on February 9, 1960, 4 years before he changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20209 0 Veterans History Project World War II Veteran: ‘I Didn’t Know Whether I’d Even Come Home or Not’ http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20202 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20202#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:01:25 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20202 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20202'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRjQV4zdrMQ

Veteran Robert L. Rothe describes the various places he traveled throughout his time served in World War II as well as the love of his life he met while on a 14-day leave. Rothe served in the war between the years of 1943 to 1946. View more veterans' stories at the Veterans History Project and see more interviews conducted by the Illinois Veteran's History Project.

 

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20202 0 Cassius Clay Muhammad Ali: “I’m No Longer Clay, I’m No Longer a Slave’ http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20108 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20108#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:55:20 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20108 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20108'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsL4r_yhMLM

Boxer Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay, describes why he changed his name to Ali and explains how he reacts when someone uses the wrong name when they speak to him. Ali changed his name in 1964 at the direction of his religious leader, Elijah Muhammad.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20108 0 Veterans History Project World War II: Veteran Describes Being in a German War Camp http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20158 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20158#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:49:02 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20158 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20158'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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“I would sing, I would do some exercises, I would tell myself jokes…just to keep occupied and not feel like I was going nuts"

Robert Weinberg, a former captain of the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942-1945 talks about his World War II experiences while stationed in Italy. He describes the time he was captured by Hitler Youth after his plane was shot down. He was then imprisoned by German forces in the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp where “it was dark…They made their bread with half sawdust & pieces of wood in it…" View more veterans' stories at the Veterans History Project and see more interviews conducted by the Missouri Veterans History Project.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20158 0 World War II: WAVES Woman on Meeting Truman’s Wife http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20190 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20190#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:48:52 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20190 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20190'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

Grace Irene Myers-Baker was an officer during World War II and she describes meeting Harry Truman’s wife, Bess, when Truman was vice-president. Myers-Baker served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) division for the U.S. Navy and was stationed in Washington, D.C. View more veterans’ stories at the Veterans History Project and see more interviews conducted by the Illinois Veteran’s History Project.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20190 0 J. D. Salinger Joyce Maynard Discusses Her J. D. Salinger Affair http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20176 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20176#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:39:37 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20176 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20176'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

Author Joyce Maynard shares intimate details of her nine-month affair with reclusive writer J.D. Salinger, whom she calls “Jerry,” in 1972 when he was 53 and she was only 18. Discover why she decided to write about this part of her life 25 years later in “At Home in the World” and what Salinger thought about Maynard when she told him about writing the book.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20176 0 Peace Corps Establishing The Peace Corps http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20166 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20166#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:55:09 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20166 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20166'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

"Executive Order

Establishment and Administration of The Peace Corps in The Department of State

By virtue of the authority vested in my by the Mutual Security Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 832, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1750 et seq.), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment of the Peace Corps. The Secretary of State shall establish an agency in the Department of State which shall be known as the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps shall be headed by a Director.

Section 2. Functions of the Peace Corps. (a) The Peace Corps shall be responsible for the training and service abroad of men and women of the United States in new programs of assistance to nations and areas of the world, and in conjunction with or in support of existing economic assistance programs of the United States and of the United Nations and other international organizations.

(b) The Secretary of State shall delegate, or cause to be delegated, to the Director of the Peace Corps such of the functions under the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, vested in the President and delegated to the Secretary, or vested in the Secretary, as the Secretary shall deem necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes of the Peace Corps.

Section 3. Financing of the Peace Corps. The Secretary of State shall provide for the financing of the Peace Corps with funds available to the Secretary for the performance of functions under the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended.

Section 4. Relation to the Executive Order No. 10893. This order shall not be deemed to supersede or derogate from any provision of Executive Order No. 10893 of November 8, 1960, as amended, and any delegation made by or pursuant to this order shall, unless otherwise specifically provided therein, be deemed to be in addition to any legation made by or pursuant to that order.

The White House

March 1, 1961"

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Source: National Archives

http://research.archives.gov/description/300010

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20166 0 Walter Cronkite on His Vietnam War Commentary http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20102 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20102#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:49:51 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20102 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20102'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe8IG2P9PnM?rel=0

Walter Cronkite, anchorman of the CBS Evening News, discusses his Vietnam War coverage and the importance of his commentary. Cronkite reported live from Vietnam in February 1968.

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