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witness history spoke to dr irving king jordan.tally deaf — i can't hear a jet engine, i can't hear anything. right now i'm working with a sign language interpreter, sarah, so's sitting front of me next to the camera, so instead of hearing your questions, i am seeing sarah's signs. newsreader: gallaudet college has being the centre of deaf- education in america since1847. in 1987 the president at that time stepped down. right away there was a push for the board to recognise that the next president should be a deaf individual. so they narrowed it down to three finalists. two of us were deaf and one was hearing. i have a lot to bring to the university but i also have a lot to learn from it, and that process must being right away. the board of trustees voted to name elisabeth zinser the seventh president of gallaudet. dr zinser had a lot of experience but she didn't know anything about deafness. and that's when i guess you could say the protest started. someone had the bright idea to bring buses to block the gates. the rallying cry wa

witness history spoke to dr irving king jordan.'t hear a jet engine, i can't hear anything. right now i'm working with a sign language interpreter, sarah, who's sitting front of me next to the camera, so instead of hearing your questions, i am seeing sarah's signs. newsreader: gallaudet college has i been the centre of deaf education | in america since 1847. in 1987 the president at that time stepped down. right away there was a push for the board to recognise that the next president should be a deaf individual. so they narrowed it down to three finalists. two of us were deaf and one was hearing. i have a lot to bring to the university but i also have a lot to learn from it, and that process must start right away. the board of trustees voted to name elisabeth zinser the seventh president of gallaudet. dr zinser had a lot of experience but she didn't know anything about deafness. and that's when i guess you could say the protests started. someone had the bright idea to bring buses to block the gates. the rallying cry was "we want a