http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/glenn-beck/index.html#/v/963668030001/beck-reaction-to-founders-fridays/?playlist_id=163229
"The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press" - Preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d18vEgYIIUA
http://www.loujonpress.com/reviews.php
Excerpt:
The trouble with New Orleans these days seems to be a matter of word association. You hear the name and just can't help but think of Katrina, floods, rioting, disaster, levees and other words just like them. The chances of instead coming up with the names and places associated with the city's staggeringly rich heritage of literature and music have gotten to a point where even "slim to none" sounds a little on the optimistic side. And it's not like this is a recent development either. Now, it's hurricanes. Before that, it was cheap liquor and drunken college girls taking off their shirts for beads and fifteen minutes of fame in the world of amateur porn. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that. But when, again, you go back to a town and a culture that gave us some of the best writing of the twentieth century and some of the most influential music in American history, you can't help but think that somewhere down the narrow line between a city that has always moved seamlessly from one party of the century to another and a museum with a pulse that never stops beating, things got a little lopsided.
Thankfully though, there are people like documentary filmmaker Wayne Ewing. Even before Katrina, Ewing and others like him have remained committed to making sure the average out-of-towner learns and never forgets that New Orleans is as artistically important as New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, and all the others.
A Story of Love and Books
http://blog.nola.com/marklorando/2008/08/a_story_of_love_and_books_in_b.html
Excerpt:
Louise Webb, also know as Gypsy Lou, poses for a photograph Monday, June 23, 2008, in Slidell, La."This is boring!" cries Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb.
The bingo hall is an unlikely place to find a woman who spent years painting and selling watercolors on the streets of the French Quarter and who represents one of the last people alive from the generation of artists and writers in the mid-1900s that made the Quarter an American version of the Left Bank.
Webb flips her bingo cards over, calling it quits. She wants to talk. Or perhaps play Monopoly. Whatever. Do something else -- anything but kill another morning with bingo.
"Ah, gee, what a life!" Webb exclaims, drawing shushes and
http://www.christinyou.net/pages/jamstewart.html
Excerpt:
"I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20). "There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 8:1). "He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit" (I Cor. 6:17).
http://www.christinyou.net/pages/Xnotbs.html
Excerpt:
Christianity is NOT a Belief-system
Western society, steeped in Aristotelian rationalism, always seeks a formulated and systematized ideology to adhere to. Christianity is not a belief-system, but the vital dynamic of the very Being of the person and life of Jesus Christ by the Spirit.
1998 by James A. Fowler. All rights reserved.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-01-10/news/17943437_1_hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-game-change
Excerpt:
Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy that Obama 'would be getting us coffee' a few years ago: 'Game Change'
Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."
The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."
The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.
(In following youtube did Bill Clinton really say something about her sitting on his lap which he loved?) ...cal
President Bill Clinton's kind words about Angelique Kidjo at the 2010 William J Clinton Foundation gala at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine NYC.
Angelique Kidjo also performed Malaika live for the William J Clinton Foundation Gala. Other special musical guests included Eric Clpton and Jon Bon Jovi. The event took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine NYC. Through strategic organization and investment, the Clinton Foundation strives to change global systems, entire communities, and the way business is done in both developed and developing countries — while emphasizing solutions that make meaningful and positive changes in individual lives.
http://www.christinyou.net/pages/Xnotbs.html
President Bill Clinton's kind words about Angelique Kidjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwM-rBkQ1Fc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
Excerpt:
Animism (from Latin anima "soul, life")[1][2] refers to the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings, or at least embody some kind of life-principle.[3]
Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical (or material) worlds, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants, rocks, natural phenomena such as thunder, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment.[4] Animism may further attribute souls to abstract concepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology. Animism is particularly widely found in the religions of indigenous peoples,[5] although it is also found in Shinto, and some forms of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Pantheism, Islam, Christianity and Neopaganism.
Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as "one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first".[5]
While having similarities to totemism, animism differs in that it, according to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, focuses on individual spirit beings, which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself, or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life. Certain indigenous religious groups, such as that of the Australian Aborigines, are more typically totemic, whereas others, like the Inuit, are more typically animistic in their worldview.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angélique_Kidjo
Excerpt:
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo,[1][2][3] commonly known as Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time Magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva".[4] The BBC has included Angelique in its list of the continent's 50 most iconic figures[5] and The Guardian has listed her as one of their Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World[6]
http://egregores.blogspot.com/2010/05/angelique-kidjo-on-voodoo-and.html
Excerpt:
NH: Let's talk about the religion a little bit if you can before we play some more music. I know that you actually share two religions, I mean, you have Catholic. And you have animism. How do you juxtapose, I mean use both of those religions, how can they both be a part of your life? I'm not saying that they shouldn't be. I'm just interested to know how do you make these two religions both a part of who you are?
AK: When the missionaries arrived in Benin, for example, and they brought the religion, they asked everyone to be baptized, and everybody had been baptized but, we told them from day one that our religion we wanna keep it because our religion is very important for us. And they were obliged to accept that, there was no way for them not to accept that because people wouldn't go to their church and not go into their Voodoo ceremony after. So the first cathedral that had been built in the history of the Catholic religion in Benin was built right in front of the Temple of Python. And those two priests were very close friends. And how did those affect my life and I incorporate them in my life? It's simple. In the Voodoo religion they teach us to respect the nature and to respect every human being. Everything that is alive on this earth we have to have respect for because we believe in Voodoo religion that without the nature, a man would not exist, a human being would not exist. Therefore, we choose to believe in the thunder, in the lightning, in the water, in all the elements that are surrounding us, our lives. Snake is very important because they say in the mythology of the Voodoo religion that this world had been created by two snakes, male and female; during 40 days they created all the planets. And at the dawn of the 41st day, they embraced themselves and left the earth to leave the human being to do what they have to do. And those snakes are called aida-wedo, which means what belongs to the earth belongs to you. And when those gods come to reward somebody who works for a community, they come in terms of rainbow. And they call these two rainbows rainbow snake. And in Haiti, they call it aida-Houeda, and everything stays like that because, what is very important for me is the care of each other. That's what Catholic religion teaches us: You have to love each other. God doesn't send us on the earth to kill each other. He sent us for us to use our brain and our self-conscience to work for a better life for every individual and for everybody. And that's one of the things I really appreciate, too, in the Voodoo religion, where we deal with community.
http://www.seeing-stars.com/dine/houseofblues.shtml
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West Hollywood, CA. / (323) 848-5100
where (according to legend) the father of the delta blues, Robert Johnson, sold his soul to the Devil in return for his musical talent.
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But topping it all was the night of Sept. 21, 1995, when President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore dropped by and sung along with Jim Belushi on the old Elvis song, "Viva Las Vegas!". In 2003, the club was unfortunately involved in a celebrity scandal. Famed record producer Phil Spector met actress Lana Clarkson at the House of Blues, where she was working as a hostess. They went back to his mansion in Alhambra, but after dropping them off, the chauffeur heard gunshots. The police were called, Clarkson's body was found in the marble foyer of the 33-room home, and Spector was arrested for murder.
Tears In Heaven (Clapton)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6t4Zs5Yq_k
Me and the Devil Blues - Eric Clapton - Royal Albert Hall, 4th May 2004 (HQ)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBgUmFklv98&feature=related
http://www.who2.com/ask/robertjohnson.html
Excerpt:
Name at birth: Robert Spencer
Robert Johnson was an influential Mississippi blues singer and songwriter who supposedly sold his soul to Satan "at the crossroads" in exchange for his remarkable talent on the guitar. Born and raised in Mississippi, he started playing blues guitar in the late 1920s. His wife and child died in childbirth around 1930 and he is said to have devoted himself to the guitar. Part of the crossroads story stems from a report that he dropped out of sight for a while in the early 1930s and returned a much-improved guitarist. In 1936-37 he recorded at least 29 songs in Texas (San Antonio and Dallas), then returned to Mississippi to play and sing in clubs and bars. His mysterious death at the age of 27 added to the legend: on the night of 13 August 1938 something happened to Johnson in a bar in Greenwood, Mississippi and he died three days later. Maybe he was stabbed, maybe he was poisoned or maybe the devil collected on his debt -- nobody knows for sure. In 1986 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an early influence, and his songs have been covered by several rock stars, including Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones. His songs include "Crossroad Blues," "Me and the Devil Blues" and "Terraplane Blues."
Extra credit: In 1994 the U.S. Post Office issued a stamp in his honor... The story of his career was fictionalized in the 1986 film Crossroads... He's not the same Robert Johnson who founded Black Entertainment Television.
To read more about the mysterious circumstances of Johnson's death, go to our loop Possibly Poisoned.
Other blues greats on Who2 include W. C. Handy, Willie Mae Thornton and Bessie Smith.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1798862
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Eric Clapton Takes on Robert Johnson's Blues
Guitarist Records the 'Powerful' Music that Influenced Him
Toru Moriyama Eric Clapton
Illustration by Peter Blake includes a rendering of the Robert Johnson Studio Portrait / Hooks Bros., Memphis c. 1935 / © 1989 Delta Haze Corp. / the Robert Johnson photo booth self-portrait, early 1930s / © 1986 Delta Haze Corp. All Rights Reserved. Me and Mr. Johnson CD.
Eric Clapton's 'Me and Mr. Johnson' (Reprise) March 30, 2004 - Eric Clapton once wrote that Robert Johnson's best songs have "never been covered by anyone else, at least not very successfully -- because how are you going to do them?" Now the rock guitarist has recorded Me and Mr. Johnson, a CD of the legendary bluesman's works that Clapton calls a labor of love.
Clapton is among several artists and bands who have been influenced by the Mississippi-born musician who died in 1938 at age 27.
Clapton remembers first hearing Johnson's music as a teenager. "I was definitely overwhelmed, but I was also a bit repelled by the intensity of it," he tells NPR's Bob Edwards. "I kind of got hooked on it because it was so much more powerful than anything else I had heard or was listening to. Amongst all of his peers I felt he was the one that was talking from his soul without really compromising for anybody."
Clapton has been playing Robert Johnson for nearly 40 years and has recorded a few of Johnson's songs previously. Me and Mr. Johnson includes Clapton's version of nearly half the 29 songs recorded by Johnson in 1936 and 1937 in San Antonio and Dallas, Texas, including "Traveling Riverside Blues," "Milkcow's Calf Blues" and "Come on in My Kitchen."
"In one way or another, he's been in my life since I was a kid," Clapton says. He says the project "has been in the back of my head to do for so long. It was about time that I took my hat off to him."
Me and the Devil Blues (Clapton)
Early this morning,
You knocked upon my door,
Early this morning,
You knocked upon my door,
And I said, "Hello, Satan,
I believe it's time to go."
Me and the devil
Were walking side by side.
Me and the devil
Were walking side by side.
I'm gonna beat my woman
Until I get satisfied.
She said she don't see why,
That I will dog her 'round.
(Now baby, you know you ain't doing me right.)
She said she don't see why, That I will dog her 'round.
Well, it must be that old evil spirit
So deep down in the ground.
You may bury my body
Down by the highway side.
(I don't care where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone.)
You may bury my body
Down by the highway side.
Oh, my old evil spirit
Can take a Greyhound bus and ride.
http://www.amazon.com/Me-Mr-Johnson-Eric-Clapton/dp/B0001HAHXW
Excerpt:
Mississippi Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ln0Fw-ONw
Clapton remembers first hearing Johnson's music as a teenager. "I was definitely overwhelmed, but I was also a bit repelled by the intensity of it," he tells NPR's Bob Edwards. "I kind of got hooked on it because it was so much more powerful than anything else I had heard or was listening to. Amongst all of his peers I felt he was the one that was talking from his soul without really compromising for anybody."
Clapton has been playing Robert Johnson for nearly 40 years and has recorded a few of Johnson's songs previously. Me and Mr. Johnson includes Clapton's version of nearly half the 29 songs recorded by Johnson in 1936 and 1937 in San Antonio and Dallas, Texas, including "Traveling Riverside Blues," "Milkcow's Calf Blues" and "Come on in My Kitchen."
"In one way or another, he's been in my life since I was a kid," Clapton says. He says the project "has been in the back of my head to do for so long. It was about time that I took my hat off to him."
Me and the Devil Blues (Clapton)
Early this morning,
You knocked upon my door,
Early this morning,
You knocked upon my door,
And I said, "Hello, Satan,
I believe it's time to go."
Me and the devil
Were walking side by side.
Me and the devil
Were walking side by side.
I'm gonna beat my woman
Until I get satisfied.
She said she don't see why,
That I will dog her 'round.
(Now baby, you know you ain't doing me right.)
She said she don't see why, That I will dog her 'round.
Well, it must be that old evil spirit
So deep down in the ground.
You may bury my body
Down by the highway side.
(I don't care where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone.)
You may bury my body
Down by the highway side.
Oh, my old evil spirit
Can take a Greyhound bus and ride.
http://www.amazon.com/Me-Mr-Johnson-Eric-Clapton/dp/B0001HAHXW
Excerpt:
Mississippi Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ln0Fw-ONw
http://www.play-blues-guitar.eu/play-blues-guitar-robert-johnson.php
Excerpt:
Devil legend
According to legend, as a young black man living on a plantation in rural Mississippi, Robert Johnson was branded with a burning desire to become a great blues musician. He was "instructed" to take his guitar to a crossroad near Dockery Plantation at midnight. There he was met by a large black man (the Devil) who took the guitar and tuned it. The "Devil" played a few songs and then returned the guitar to Johnson, giving him mastery of the instrument. This was, in effect, a deal with the Devil mirroring the legend of Faust. In exchange for his soul, Robert Johnson was able to create the blues for which he became famous.Various accounts
This legend was developed over time, and has been chronicled by Gayle Dean Wardlow,[31] Edward Komara[32] and Elijah Wald, who sees the legend as largely dating from Johnson's rediscovery by white fans more than two decades after his death.[33] Son House once told the story to Pete Welding as an explanation of Johnson's astonishingly rapid mastery of the guitar. Welding reported it as a serious belief in a widely read article in Down Beat in 1966.[34] Other interviewers failed to elicit any confirmation from House and there were fully two years between House's observation of Johnson as first a novice and then a master.Further details were absorbed from the imaginative retellings by Greil Marcus[35] and Robert Palmer.[36] Most significantly, the detail was added that Johnson received his gift from a large black man at a crossroads. There is dispute as to how and when the crossroads detail was attached to the Robert Johnson story. All the published evidence, including a full chapter on the subject in the biography Crossroads by Tom Graves, suggests an origin in the story of Tommy Johnson. This story was collected from his musical associate Ishman Bracey and his elder brother Ledell in the 1960s.[37] One version of Ledell Johnson's account was published in 1971 David Evans's biography of Tommy,[38] and was repeated in print in 1982 alongside Son House's story in the widely read Searching for Robert Johnson.[39]
In another version, Ledell placed the meeting not at a crossroads but in a graveyard. This resembles the story told to Steve LaVere that Ike Zinnerman of Hazelhurst, Mississippi learned to play the guitar at midnight while sitting on tombstones. Zinnerman is believed to have influenced the playing of the young Robert Johnson.[40] Recent research by blues scholar Bruce Conforth uncovered Ike Zinnerman's daughter and the story becomes much clearer, including the fact that Johnson and Zinnerman did practice in a graveyard at night (because it was quiet and no one would disturb them) but that it was not the Hazlehurst cemetery as had been believed. Johnson spent about a year living with, and learning from, Zinnerman, who ultimately accompanied Johnson back up to the Delta to look after him. Conforth's article in Living Blues magazine goes into much greater detail.[41]
His own account
Johnson seems to have claimed occasionally that he had sold his soul to the Devil, but it is not clear that he meant it seriously, and these claims are strongly disputed in Tom Graves' biography of Johnson, Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson, published in 2008. The crossroads detail was widely believed to come from Johnson himself, probably because it appeared to explain the discrepancy in "Cross Road Blues". Johnson's high emotion and religious fervor are hard to explain as resulting from the mundane situation described, unsuccessful hitchhiking as night falls. The crossroads myth offers a simple literal explanation for both the religion and the anguish.In "Me And The Devil" he began, "Early this morning when you knocked upon my door/Early this morning, umb, when you knocked upon my door/And I said, 'Hello, Satan, I believe it's time to go,'" before leading into "You may bury my body down by the highway side/You may bury my body, uumh, down by the highway side/So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride."
The song "Crossroads" by British psychedelic blues rock band Cream is a cover version of Johnson's "Cross Road Blues", about the legend of Johnson selling his soul to the Devil at the crossroads, although Johnson's original lyrics ("Standin' at the crossroads, tried to flag a ride") suggest he was merely hitchhiking rather than signing away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for being a great blues musician.
Interpretations
The Devil in these songs may not solely refer to the Christian model of Satan, but equally to the African trickster god, Legba, himself associated with crossroads—though author Tom Graves deems the connection to African deities tenuous.[43] This contention could stem from a lack of familiarity with the pervasive retention of African religious roots among Southern Blacks early in the 20th century. As folklorist Harry M. Hyatt discovered, during his research in the South from 1935–1939, when African-Americans born in the 19th or early-20th century said they or anyone else had "sold their soul to the devil at the crossroads," they had a different meaning in mind. Ample evidence indicates African religious retentions surrounding Legba and the making of a "deal" (not selling the soul in the same sense as in the Faustian tradition cited by Graves) with this so-called "devil" at the crossroads.[44]Folk tales of bargains with the Devil have long existed in African American and European traditions, and were adapted into literature by, amongst others, Washington Irving in "The Devil and Tom Walker" in 1824, and by Stephen Vincent Benet in "The Devil and Daniel Webster" in 1936. In the 1930s the folklorist Harry Middleton Hyatt recorded many tales of banjo players, fiddlers, card sharks, and dice sharks selling their souls at crossroads, along with guitarists and one accordionist. The folklorist Alan Lomax considered that every African American secular musician was "in the opinion of both himself and his peers, a child of the Devil, a consequence of the black view of the European dance embrace as sinful in the extreme".[45]
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The Verdict Is Missing
Talking to members of the hung jury, the author learns how Phil Spector escaped a guilty verdict, for now at least, while O. J. Simpson finally ended up in a prison jumpsuit.
- By the time the jury began its deliberations in the Spector murder trial, the author had become highly critical of the defense strategy, fascinated by the antics of Phil Spector’s family, and close to two main characters—one living, one dead.
The Phil Spector murder trial gets Hollywood-style ugly as the defense summons Lana Clarkson’s “friends” to paint her as a failure, “Super Madam” Babydol Gibson claims Clarkson was a call girl, and Transformers director Michael Bay leaps online to protect her memory.
Covering Phil Spector’s murder trial, with its roller-coaster testimony and cross-examination, is the author’s top priority. But when the Paris Hilton story explodes all around him, it’s hard to resist a detour—and an invitation to the Hilton estate.
Where else would the author be but at the murder trial of rock 'n' roll legend Phil Spector, catching the cast of legal stars, meeting with the defendant in the men's room, and listening to some damning testimony from women who say they've faced the barrel of Spector's gun.
Like his art, Larry Rivers’s life was always changing and sometimes shocking, a bohemian collage of jazz, women, drugs, and fatherhood that ended last August. His orbit included Andy Warhol, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Willem de Kooning, and, beginning in 1957, a young Park Avenue mother and writer, BARBARA GOLDSMITH. Whether the Pop-art pioneer was mocking her Baccarat finger bowls, making an impromptu movie, or firing off a sketch in return for a Lambretta motor scooter, Goldsmith recalls, Rivers’s friendship was as exhilarating as any of his work.
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http://www.comeunity.com/apv/babylift-clark.htm
Excerpt:
Operation Babylift - The Last Flights out of Saigon
An Interview with Cherie Clark
Interview By Allison Martin
What encouraged you to be become involved in adoption in Viet Nam in the early 1970's?
Cherie Clark: We were in the process of adopting two of our own children from Viet Nam in the early seventies. When it became apparent that our paperwork was going nowhere I went to Viet Nam to attempt to bring them home. During that time I was asked as an RN to join the efforts of one other nurse taking care of about 200 babies, all were tiny newborns and some ill. It was a nightmare. But it opened my eyes to the needs, as literally van loads of children would arrive.
I was able to leave with my own children in 1973 and escorted back five other children. I traded in my Pan Am ticket for a free escort ticket, at the request of Margaret Moses (who later died in the plane crash) so she could use the money to buy milk for the babies in their care.
It was in Margaret's words, "a salvage operation." We were literally picking up babies and trying to keep them alive long enough to place them for adoption. Children were being abandoned at a frightful rate. Poverty, lack of stability and the war - all contributed. The number of half American children was lower in those days. Although three of my kids are half black, they were somewhat older.
You participated in the first and last flights of the Babylift. Could you describe them?
Cherie Clark: The first airplane that I left on was relatively organized. This was just following the crash. My kids and I were in seats that were military style, strapped along the side of the plane in sling sort of seats. The babies were all in cardboard boxes and strapped in with a long white heavy strap. Boxes and boxes of babies. I was holding my kids, one was Dan who was critically ill and also holding a baby who I had with me from the day it was born. A military doctor attempted to remove both my son and this baby from me. I was terrified and angry. This was the first flight.
The last flight that I left on, April 26th - the last Operation Babylift flight, was a nightmare. We could not pull the buses near enough to the plane because there were constant, incoming rockets. The airport that families arrive in now when they come to Saigon was a military nightmare. Rockets were falling all around us. If you look at the tarmac in some places the patches are still there.
We were held up in the fire station right at the airport. We waited there in 100 degree temperature for hour upon hours. For a time, I was separated from our group. We waited to board the flight for about ten hours. Many babies died during that time as we sat waiting for the chance to take off.
We were loaded onto a military plane. Just simply ducking, running and carrying children. There were 18 adults and 180 babies on board. We simply laid the babies on the floor of the aircraft and sat next to them and cared for them. Minutes before we took off, the over-stressed soldiers who were standing at the back of the plane (many who had no idea they were even going to end up in Viet Nam for the evacuation) shoved off all of the boxes carrying milk and water and medicine for the babies.
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History
World Airways was founded in 1948 by Benjamin Pepper with the introduction of ex-Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 flying boats. Edward Daly, however is thought of as World's founder. He bought the airline in 1950 for $50,000 and proceeded to acquire DC-4s.
World got its first government contract in 1951 and has had a substantial amount of government business since then.
Excerpt:
The War Cradle
Vietnam's Children of War Operation Babylift - The Untold Story
By Shirley Peck-Barnes
Review by Allison Martin
The War Cradle by Shirley Peck-Barnes is the first hand account of Operation Babylift, the epic airlift and subsequent adoption of over 2,000 children from Vietnam in 1977. A stirring tale of the young children and adults caught in the aftermath of the ages long war, The War Cradle takes you to the forefront of Operation Babylift - in Vietnam and in the United States. Shirley Peck-Barnes describes this gripping event with fervor and compassion, including the crucial events leading up to the evacuation and the treatment of orphans in the United States upon arrival.
The War Cradle takes you behind the scenes to the passions and conflicts of the people involved in the day to day operations of a key parent/adoption organization (FCVN) in Vietnam in the late 1970's. You can not help but be touched by the passion and the moral decisions called upon by the events of Operation Babylif as you meet Ed Daly, president of World Airways and hotdog pilot; Dr. Ted Gleichman, who founded the agency Friends of Children of Vietnam (FCVN); Ross Meador, a young man who cared for so many orphanage babies and children; and Rosemary Taylor and Cherie Clark, who dedicated themselves to the children so that they could have families once again; and many more. Photographs and quotes from participants bring the true story to life.
I recommend The War Cradle to everyone interested in the tragic events and the complex emotions of Operation Babylift. If you are intrigued by the chronology, people and events of Operation Babylift, you will find it a difficult book to put down.
Excerpt:
Operation Babylift: Saving Children from the Vietnam War
April 2009 marks the 34th anniversary of “Operation Babylift” (OBL), a humanitarian effort that provided for the evacuation of over 2,500 Vietnamese children and infants during the final weeks of the war in southeast Asia. Prior to OBL, international adoptions in the United States were infrequent and required an individual Act of Congress for each prospective adoptive family. OBL, by allowing a large number of international adoptees to enter the United States via parolee visa, changed the “complexion” of the United States and ushered in the era of international adoption still prevalent today.
April 2009 marks the 34th anniversary of “Operation Babylift” (OBL), a humanitarian effort that provided for the evacuation of over 2,500 Vietnamese children and infants during the final weeks of the war in southeast Asia.
Time:Monday, April 27, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Location:Ring Auditorium
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Independence Avenue and Seventh Street, SW
Metro:Smithsonian (Orange or Blue lines) or
L’Enfant Plaza (Yellow or Green lines)
Prior to OBL, international adoptions in the United States were infrequent and required an individual act of Congress for each prospective adoptive family. OBL, by allowing a large number of international adoptees to enter the United States via parolee visa, changed the “complexion” of the United States and ushered in the era of international adoption still prevalent today.
The program’s participants include Lana Mae Noone, OBL activist, adoptive mother, and author of Global Mom: Notes from a Pioneer Adoptive Family; Jennifer Nguyen Noone, who was the final baby placed with a waiting family by OBL; Ross Meador, who was the field director for Friends of Children of Vietnam during OBL; LeAnn Thieman, adoptive mother and author of This Must Be My Brother, as well as co-author of 10 titles in the popular Chicken Soup for the… series; and Philip R. Wise, a retired U.S. Air Force Sergeant who survived a tragic OBL plane crash.
A temporary art and artifacts exhibit will be on display, including the Vietnam Babylift Quilt created from remnants of clothing worn by the orphans, original clothing, photos, materials, and the speakers’ personal artifacts.
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Jennifer Nguyen Noone, Clark Air Force Base, Philippines, May 1975 | Jennifer Nguyen Noone | Lana Noone in front of Vietnam Babylift Quilt |
Time:Monday, April 27, 2009, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Location:Ring Auditorium
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Independence Avenue and Seventh Street, SW
Metro:Smithsonian (Orange or Blue lines) or
L’Enfant Plaza (Yellow or Green lines)
Prior to OBL, international adoptions in the United States were infrequent and required an individual act of Congress for each prospective adoptive family. OBL, by allowing a large number of international adoptees to enter the United States via parolee visa, changed the “complexion” of the United States and ushered in the era of international adoption still prevalent today.
The program’s participants include Lana Mae Noone, OBL activist, adoptive mother, and author of Global Mom: Notes from a Pioneer Adoptive Family; Jennifer Nguyen Noone, who was the final baby placed with a waiting family by OBL; Ross Meador, who was the field director for Friends of Children of Vietnam during OBL; LeAnn Thieman, adoptive mother and author of This Must Be My Brother, as well as co-author of 10 titles in the popular Chicken Soup for the… series; and Philip R. Wise, a retired U.S. Air Force Sergeant who survived a tragic OBL plane crash.
A temporary art and artifacts exhibit will be on display, including the Vietnam Babylift Quilt created from remnants of clothing worn by the orphans, original clothing, photos, materials, and the speakers’ personal artifacts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Babylift
Excerpt:
Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries (including Australia, France, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War (see also the Fall of Saigon), from April 3–26, 1975. By the final American flight out of South Vietnam, over 3,300 infants and children had been evacuated, although the actual number has been variously reported.[1][2][3][4] Along with Operation New Life, over 110,000 refugees were evacuated from South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War. Thousands of children were airlifted from Vietnam and adopted by families around the world.
http://www.ships.bouwman.com/Navy/SubicBay/FREQUENT-WIND.html
Excerpt:
We were beginning to have very serious problems on the flight deck. With all the South Vietnamese aircraft now on deck it became virtually impossible for our returning helo's to land with their human cargo. Something had to be done to alleviate the situation, and fast, before our helo's ran out of fuel. So, the Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD), began an all hands effort. Along with help from other departments, they began stripping the South Vietnamese aircraft on deck. It was a piece of work I'll never forget. In an amazingly short period of time the aircraft were stripped of all usable parts down to, in most cases, the rotor blades and seats! Then all the empty fuselages were pushed to the edge of the flight deck and pushed over the side. The job was accomplished none too soon, as many of our helo's had been circling, waiting to be able to land with most running low on fuel. As I recall, we retained only four of the helo's that were flown in intact. Two had been the personnel aircraft of South Vietnamese President Thieu, complete with chrome trim and customized interiors! The other two belonged to Air America, the name the CIA flew under. We secured them back on the fan tail.
Shortly after this evolution was completed, I sadly witnessed our only casualties of the day. A Marine CH-46D, flying plane guard, suddenly went into the water off the port quarter. It sank into the depths almost immediately. Marine Corporals Stephen R. Wills and Richard L. Scott, crewmen, escaped, and were lifted out of the water. Unfortunately, however, the pilot, Marine Captain William C. Nystul, and his co-pilot, Marine 1st Lieutenant Michael J. Shea, never got out of the cockpit and were lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski
Excerpt:
1960s
By 1960, Bukowski had returned to the post office in Los Angeles where he began work as a letter filing clerk, a position he held for over a decade. In 1962, he was traumatized by the death of Jane Cooney Baker, the object of his first serious romantic attachment. Bukowski turned his inner devastation into a series of poems and stories lamenting her passing. Jane is considered to be the greatest love of his life and was the most important in a long series of muses who inspired his writing, according to biographer Jory Sherman. In 1964 a daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski, was born to Bukowski and his live-in girlfriend Frances Smith, whom he referred to as a "white-haired hippie", "shack-job" and "old snaggle-tooth".[citation
Excerpt from above Frances Smith:
Frances Dean Smith was born Frances Elizabeth Dean, in San Rafael, California, on March 19, 1922. During her childhood her family moved to the East Coast, where she grew up.
She married Wray Smith while living on the East Coast and had four daughters. They were eventually divorced and she returned to California in 1963.
She was closely associated with the Southern California poetry community. She is also noted for her relationship with poet Charles Bukowski, with whom she had her fifth daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski.
She died from complications of a hip fracture in Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California, early on June 2, 2009.[1]
http://www.pbagalleries.com/search/item168666.php?&PHPSESSID=eeb941
Excerpt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheism
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090105110119AAAryks
http://www.fcvn.org/
Excerpt:
Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries (including Australia, France, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War (see also the Fall of Saigon), from April 3–26, 1975. By the final American flight out of South Vietnam, over 3,300 infants and children had been evacuated, although the actual number has been variously reported.[1][2][3][4] Along with Operation New Life, over 110,000 refugees were evacuated from South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War. Thousands of children were airlifted from Vietnam and adopted by families around the world.
http://www.ships.bouwman.com/Navy/SubicBay/FREQUENT-WIND.html
Excerpt:
We were beginning to have very serious problems on the flight deck. With all the South Vietnamese aircraft now on deck it became virtually impossible for our returning helo's to land with their human cargo. Something had to be done to alleviate the situation, and fast, before our helo's ran out of fuel. So, the Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD), began an all hands effort. Along with help from other departments, they began stripping the South Vietnamese aircraft on deck. It was a piece of work I'll never forget. In an amazingly short period of time the aircraft were stripped of all usable parts down to, in most cases, the rotor blades and seats! Then all the empty fuselages were pushed to the edge of the flight deck and pushed over the side. The job was accomplished none too soon, as many of our helo's had been circling, waiting to be able to land with most running low on fuel. As I recall, we retained only four of the helo's that were flown in intact. Two had been the personnel aircraft of South Vietnamese President Thieu, complete with chrome trim and customized interiors! The other two belonged to Air America, the name the CIA flew under. We secured them back on the fan tail.
Shortly after this evolution was completed, I sadly witnessed our only casualties of the day. A Marine CH-46D, flying plane guard, suddenly went into the water off the port quarter. It sank into the depths almost immediately. Marine Corporals Stephen R. Wills and Richard L. Scott, crewmen, escaped, and were lifted out of the water. Unfortunately, however, the pilot, Marine Captain William C. Nystul, and his co-pilot, Marine 1st Lieutenant Michael J. Shea, never got out of the cockpit and were lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski
Excerpt:
1960s
By 1960, Bukowski had returned to the post office in Los Angeles where he began work as a letter filing clerk, a position he held for over a decade. In 1962, he was traumatized by the death of Jane Cooney Baker, the object of his first serious romantic attachment. Bukowski turned his inner devastation into a series of poems and stories lamenting her passing. Jane is considered to be the greatest love of his life and was the most important in a long series of muses who inspired his writing, according to biographer Jory Sherman. In 1964 a daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski, was born to Bukowski and his live-in girlfriend Frances Smith, whom he referred to as a "white-haired hippie", "shack-job" and "old snaggle-tooth".[citation
Excerpt from above Frances Smith:
Frances Dean Smith was born Frances Elizabeth Dean, in San Rafael, California, on March 19, 1922. During her childhood her family moved to the East Coast, where she grew up.
She married Wray Smith while living on the East Coast and had four daughters. They were eventually divorced and she returned to California in 1963.
She was closely associated with the Southern California poetry community. She is also noted for her relationship with poet Charles Bukowski, with whom she had her fifth daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski.
She died from complications of a hip fracture in Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California, early on June 2, 2009.[1]
http://www.pbagalleries.com/search/item168666.php?&PHPSESSID=eeb941
Excerpt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheism
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090105110119AAAryks
http://www.fcvn.org/
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