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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (58216)	9/20/2014 12:09:08 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

"the little ferret/weasle j'ellen who encrusts this site daily like herpes, would have been at home defending those " Studies have shown clearly that tolerance of trolls is the death knell of bulletin boards or blogging sites. I have several business sites and I simply don't tolerate trolls coming in to disrupt and create chaos. There primary goal is to get attention due to their severe personality disorders. I don't tolerate it.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (58216)	9/20/2014 12:41:30 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Thank you for that! The Roosevelts: An Intimate History *The Roosevelts: An Intimate History* chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962. Over the course of those years, Theodore would become the 26th President of the United States and his beloved niece, Eleanor, would marry his fifth cousin, Franklin, who became the 32nd President of the United States. Together, these three individuals not only redefined the relationship Americans had with their government and with each other, but also redefined the role of the United States within the wider world. The series encompasses the history the Roosevelts helped to shape: the creation of National Parks, the digging of the Panama Canal, the passage of innovative New Deal programs, the defeat of Hitler, and the postwar struggles for civil rights at home and human rights abroad. It is also an intimate human story about love, betrayal, family loyalty, personal courage and the conquest of fear. A film by Ken Burns. Written by Geoffrey C. Ward. Produced by Paul Barnes, Pam Tubridy Baucom and Ken Burns. *The Roosevelts* will air in the fall of 2014.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (58216)	9/20/2014 12:06:19 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 69300

A Kentucky Senator urged FDR to throw his support behind an anti-lynching bill. Later FDR told one of his aides about the conversation and laughed his ass off. FDR put a Klan member on the Supreme Court who had defended a Klansmen who had murdered a Catholic priest: .... Future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black defended Coyle's killer, a Klan member, and gained an acquittal based on an appeal to the jury's ethnic and religious prejudice. Coyle's killing brought Birmingham's religious and ethnic turmoil to a climax in an era dominated by Klan bigotry. The Klan of the time targeted blacks, Jews and Roman Catholics for persecution. The Rev. Edwin R. Stephenson, a Methodist minister who conducted weddings at the Jefferson County Courthouse, gunned down Coyle after becoming irate that Coyle had officiated at the marriage of his daughter, Ruth, to a Puerto Rican, Pedro Gussman. As defense attorney, Black had Gussman summoned into the courtroom and questioned him about his curly hair. "Lights were arranged in the courtroom so that the darkness of Gussman's complexion would be accentuated," said an Oct. 20, 1921, newspaper account of the final day of the trial. ........... freerepublic.com FDR also invited only the white athletes that competed the 1936 Olympics to the WH. African American runner, winner of 4 gold medals in Berlin in 1936, Jesse Owens said: “Hitler didn't snub me—it was [FDR] who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.” - quoted in Triumph, a book about the 1936 Olympics by Jeremy Schaap.