benjamin brown french.ettysburg address. who is standing up at the platform? benjamin brown french. but for someone that no one has heard of and in and of himself did not do anything of great significance that would be remembered today, he is the most amazing, emotive, sensitive, and intelligent eyewitness that a writer could hope for. so he really is at the heart of the book. brian: so, where is the diary? joanne: at the library of congress. brian: were you allowed to put your hands on it? joanne: i was. i was. and since he was a wonderful source, not only did he have the 11 volume diary, and i have a picture in the book because i wanted people to see what it looked like. he had a newspaper column and he pasted some of the columns he wrote in the diary, which is sort of wonderful. he had an extensive correspondence. and he wrote poetry about politics. so, he was beyond wonderful. there was the point when i was writing it towards the end, his diary is not quite as juicy in the last few years before the civi

herbert lee, medgar evers, jimmy lee jackson, benjamin brown, dr. martin luther king jr., and the four little girls who were sadly killed in the 16th street baptist church bombing in birmingham, alabama. judge keith fought on their behalf during his tenure on this federal court. some of his other rulings had a profound impact on american life as well. the biggest being his decision that prohibited the nixon administration from warrantless wiretapping in domestic security cases. he ordered the nixon justice department to end all wiretapping that were not approved by the courts. this was in the midst of the nixon administration's attempt to go after radicals accused of conspiring to bomb a c.i.a. office in ann arbor, michigan. , in the

benjamin o davis senior receiving his one star on october 25th, 1940. there is very few of us in the audience that remember 1940, but our panel does. so let's introduce lieutenant colonel browne from minneapolis, minnesota, whose father also fought in world war i, can you just give us a review of some of your thoughts. >> i was born in raised in minneapolis, minnesota. when i was about in the sixth gra grade, 11 years old, i woke up one more and guess what, i was going to become a military fighter pilot, well at the mention of that, my mother who looked at me, isn't it strange how your mother can look at you and say he has all of this wonderful talent, and i had no talent whatsoever. so i sat on that piano stool for the first ten years of my life or so. and then in the sixth grade at 11 i decided i would become a military pilot. don't ask me why or how, i don't remember seeing a movie about it, but one miranda warning i woke up and i was bit. so from that time on it was model airplanes and every book i can fly. i can remember one book in particular, randolph field, texas. west point of the air. i bet i had that book memorized. so when i was 16 years old, i was a soda jerk and

benjamin davis junior. yesterday was the anniversary of senior of receiving his star october 25, 1940. there's very few of us in this audience that remember 1940, yet our panel does. >> let's introduce lieut. col. harold brown from minneapolis minnesota whose father also fought in world war i. would you give us a brief history of some of your events that took place? >> certainly. i was born and raised in minneapolis minnesota and when i was in the sixth grade, 11 years old, i woke up one morning and guess what? i was going to become a military fighter pilot. well, at the mention of that, my mother who looked at me, isn't it strange how your mother can look at you and say he has all this wonderful pallet but i have no talent whatsoever. but they can see things that no one else could see. so, i sat on the piano stool for the first 10 years of my life for so and then in the sixth grade at 11 years old i decided i'm going to become a military pilot. don't ask me why, don't ask me how, i don't remember seeing a movie about it, but one morning i woke up and i was bitten. from that point on it was model airplanes and every book i can fly. i can remember one book in particular. west point of the air, and i bet i re