The Gallery of Freedom
Most of these documents are borrowed from the online exhibition of
The National Archives.
Way back when... The English Magna Carta from 1215...
The words that changed the world... The Declaration of Independence, July
4, 1776.
The greatest document of law ever written. Too bad not even the Supreme
Court reads it anymore.
The Bill of Rights.
George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights.
This inspired both Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and
Madison's Bill of Rights.
Emancipation... Sadly, we still have a long way to go.
SOUND FILES
(you'll need a RealAudio Plug-in
to hear these)
President Bush
announces the attack on Iraq, January 16, 1991.
President Reagan
asks Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall, June 12, 1987.
Defense Secretary John Knott
discloses the British Invasion of the Falkland Islands,
April 25, 1982.
President Reagan
addresses nation on the situation in Poland, December 23, 1981.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
speaks to the Israeli Parliament, November 20, 1977.
Neil Armstrong
lands on the moon, July 20, 1969. (One small step for man, a giant
leap for mankind...)
Barry Goldwater gives a presidential campaign
address in 1964.
(The election isn't one for the records; this election is one
for the history books...)
Barry Goldwater,
declares his candidacy for President, January 3, 1964.
Martin Luther King Jr.
speaks at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963.
(I have a dream...)
John Foster Dulles announces the fall of Dien Bien Phu, and
speaks about the necessity of free people to fight for their
freedom. May 7, 1954.
General Douglas MacArthur
speaks to a joint session of Congress upon retiring from the Army,
April 20, 1951. (Old soldiers never die, they just fade away...)
President Truman
sends troops to Korea, June 30, 1950.
WW2 propaganda...
"Any Bonds Today?" for Windows and for
Mac.
Winston Churchill
speaks to the people during the Battle of Britain, June 18, 1940.
(This was their finest hour...)
Winston Churchill's first radio
address to the nation as Prime Minister, May 19, 1940.
(the long night of barbarism will end...we conquer, as conquer we
must-as conquer we shall...)
Prime Minister Chamberlain
informs the nation that England is now at war with Germany, September 3,
1939.
General Pershing, commander of the US expeditionary force in France during
WW 1,
speaks to the nation from Allied Headquarters, Chaumont, France,
probably April, 1918.
(Three thousand miles from home, an American army is fighting for
you...)
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