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Summary
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN REMARKS AT THE SITE OF THE FUTURE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM.
Footage Information
Source | CONUS Archive |
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Record ID | 330520 |
Story Slug | REAGAN: HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SPEECH (1988) |
Location | WASHINGTON, DC |
Format | TVD |
Date | 10/5/1988 |
Archive Time | 18:39 |
TRT | 2:30 |
Supers | WASHINGTON, DC |
Video Description | WIDE OF CROWD AND STAGE WITH REAGAN SPEAKING, PUSH TO REAGAN TIGHT SOT, CROWD SHOTS, |
Description | PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN REMARKS AT THE SITE OF THE FUTURE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM. |
Script | (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO)00:00Solemn, profound, saddening and yet triumphant occasion. It's an occasion that commemorates all we've lost, the irreplaceable humanity whose monstrous end will ever testify to the hellish depths of human evil. But it's an occasion that commemorates something else as well. It commemorates the seriousness of our intention as human beings, as Americans, and in the case of many here today, as Jews, to keep the memory of the 6 million fresh and enduring, I believe the Holocaust is comprehensible. Indeed we must comprehend it. We have no choice. The future of mankind depends upon it. That's what we're here for, to lay the cornerstone for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which will help us understand and make it impossible for us to forget, we must send the message out to all the world. A blood libel against the Jewish people is a blood libel against all humankind, and no decent person will stand for it. There are still 10s of 1000s, maybe even hundreds of 1000s, of Soviet Jews who wait to leave the Soviet Union so that they may live free as Jews, and here, as we lay this cornerstone and vow that the Jewish people will never stand alone against tyranny, I want to ask the Soviet leaders a question, where are those exit thesis? Where are they? The01:52magnitude of the task which was before us.01:57Members of the original commission went on a study mission to Eastern Europe and Israel and the memorials that had been erected to the victims, nothing that we saw reflected the enormity of the events that had transpired. Only this vision was shared and supported magnanimously by President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush, and by the lead was there that day.02:26Can forget your speaking to us in the east. |
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Keywords
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
JEWS
WORLD WAR TWO
WORLD WAR II
WORLD WAR 2
WWII
WW2
CONCENTRATION CAMPS