Where IS Christmas?

Now just where is Christmas?

Something has changed about Christmas in the year 2011.

It's not that the first holiday items appeared in August and it is not about the overabundance of potpourri, candles and other sources of scents (some 2-legged) assaulting us in very location.

It is certainly not the travesty that Whitman's (parent company, Russell Stover) has visited on the concept of the communion elements of bread and wine and changed them into chocolate.

[This deserves a bit of explanation. You can buy a box of chocolates, Forest, Forest Gump, with the name "JESUS" on the box. Theologies of transubstantiation and other opinions aside, it is a stretch to think that Christ Jesus abides in boxes of cocoa and sugar. Someone looking for Jesus in a church, a temple, the Eucharist or in the scripture might find it just too convenient to think that the Person and Nature of the Prophet and Redeemer could be bought for $4. Of course, I am waiting to see the boxes of "Jesus" discounted 90% AFTER the 25th. A blasphemous and discounted idea of Jesus is what many people hold on to, but this takes the fruitcake, rum balls and throws away the manger, away, far away. Of course, chocolate has important nutritional and medicinal uses and maybe someone's good health might be helped by just a little taste of ... !?!]

"I want" is a good thing to know and refine. This year, it was a chorus when little minds saw plastic, electronic and other items and responded like Pavlov's dogs to his famous bell.

During this season some people went to some stores and found that their layaway items had been paid for. In every place there are collections and the distribution of food, toys and financial help. That is charity. Charity is great and altruism is commendable, but where is Jesus?

You see it was not the incarnation that made the ancients excited. Jesus' parents, the shepherds and a few Magi, a priest and so very few, knew about that.

Jesus was in and around the Sea of Galilee, made trips to Jerusalem, spent a deliberately vague adolescence and young adulthood in the backdust (not backwater, it is a dry place) town of Nazareth. His mother comes to prominence early in the Gospels, we learn about his other family members later and then he makes his presence known at about age 30. Maybe a good idea for most of us.

The New Testament has various stories from different people and records the reaction of folk to what they heard about Jesus. Born yes, lived for about 34 years, was crucified, rose on the 3rd day and then, after a few visits with his closest followers and some larger audiences, did what places him forever where there is reverence, respect, wonder and grace ... he ascended into the heavens. (and did not start a school of religion or build a single building and certainly did not found a chocolate factory)

Come January, Easter merchandise will appear. I hope the ghost of Mr. Whitman haunts the whole company if they come out with pink or yellow Jesus eggs chocolates or bunnies.

So where is Jesus? Above and beyond anything we can sense. However, he promised, "I am with you ...". And, if you look and listen, you will find him ... in your heart I pray. © tim  www.timjohnsonphoto.com

Introducing Volopt.com

http://www.volopt.com/

This  is a plug to introduce you to a different kind of search engine.

Cleaner, deeper and more specific results will become an expectation rather than a surprise.

Enjoy the views. Tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

Just  a note to everyone already planning to have a healthier 2012. I invite you to log onto www.Qihub.com and order a copy of David Peter's DVD: Embrace Tiger, Return To Mountain. The contents are also available as an app from Apple.

You will enjoy the music and be inspired to DO a healthy workout every day. Qigong and TaiChi will help energize and heal your vital systems, all dependent on your swimming in the Qi.

David's workouts and exercises are accompanied by the fabulous flute and diggeradoo music of John Dumas. To see and hear more of this music, just visit www.Johndumas.com.

BTW – you can neak in a few exercises BEFORE the New Year. What a thought. At Qihub.com you can also connect to the other services and products that David offers. © tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

Thanksgiving 2011

Thanks … for life, love and passion.

[This special prayer of thanks is given to the people who were involved in my recent brush with death. 

For 8 days I suffered with acute pancreatitis – a sometimes fatal condition. 

The team of physicians, nurses and specialists took care of my failing body. Others joined around in prayers, ministries and healing touches. The talk and expectations became somber, but healing filled my body and I am grateful to praise God for mercy and healing.]

To the Almighty who is omnipresent and ever-present.

To the blessed twins who are also the mothers of the grandest children.

To Susan who applied her skills and determination that I should not die just now.

To Grace, Jessica and Christa who were ministering spirits and annointed me with oil and Prayer.

To the EMS folk that got me quickly and safely to the hosptal.

For pain medication which was the only alternative to a noose or hand grenade.

For applesauce and Eggland's Best.

To my healers David Peters and Dr. Dan Mudryck who tend to my body and soul.

For the understanding clients who have waited for their work to be done.

For sleep and building strength.

For my desire to pick up the pen and camera and keep working to make pretty letters

and take good photos.

For green tea and phosfood.

For rice.

For the rest and peace I have enjoyed.

Happily, gratefully and before God's throne – Thank You.

© tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

Cool Class, Photographer On Fire

Our Wake Tech digital photo class is going to be a sideshow at the NC State fair. It always happens.

Take a dozen beautiful and smart people, cameras in hand and tripods in tow and it is a scene. That is the case even before the tuna and pineapple cans come out.

People will wonder if this is the papparazzi that knows something they don't. Some will stop and look at what is the main subject.

Others will just remain bewildered as they are over fried Coke, roasted corn and the sow that had given birth to a dozen or more pink little piggies. They'll look and think that we are just a club or cult, but certainly not “normal”.

We are used to it. It's hard not to go public when you're trying to get a photo image of the “feel” of the fair.

Monday's class was busy and covered multiple and timed exposures and even writing with light onto media.

Then, too soon, class was over and I packed my little rolling cart.

I approached the exit, managed to get the door open despite my burden and stepped outside.

Just then another sense kicked into gear. I wondered just who would burn a tire and why. I didn't see a fire and the smell turned from rubber to electronics.

THEN, I felt sharp pain in my right thigh and saw a jet of flame push through my twice-worn slacks, a rare pair – not black. I liked those pants.

I was the source of the fire.

During the class I had taken my WT ID badge off and it made its way to the coin and key slot in the pockets – very handy and cool, normally.

Now though, there were 2 bright pennies making contact with a very healthy power cord attached to a 12 volt battery pack I forgot I was wearing.

Volts don't hurt, amps do and I was just ground enough to juice the amps, burn the cable and ruin the new pants after doing a number of my thumb and index finger – the chain, pennies and battery were HOT.

I got a personal charge from the discharge and won't repeat that trip-saving action.

Rarely do I make an ALWAYS or NEVER rule. In this case I can quickly say that if you are putting conductive material in your pocket, don't place a hot power supply on top of it.

I am not smarter now, though it does smart and I have 3 blisters from the chain on my thumb, but I am a tiny bit wiser. And I will miss those pants.

© tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

Thank you Steve, you made it fun!

There are already many tributes to the genius and sweetness of the recently deceased Steve Jobs. This is as it should be.

His work (and play) in bringing into the world the Apple Computer brand is worthy of note.

Over the years I owned and used a parade of Apple products and learned to dance with their strengths and deal with their quirks.

IBM and primitive diskware (160K, 5.25 floppies that were written on both sides and were really flipped to get work done) was my first exposure to Personal computing. That was 1982 and about $5000 for the 8086 processor and a handful of 4K Ram chips. It would remember what I wrote, hammer out ink from the 9-pin IBM printer and later on a cool and noisy daisy-wheel.

The IBM was efficient, effective and expensive. I later zoomed into another level of power with an ITT 386 (running Lotus 1, 2, 3 & Wordperfect) that had a true (sad, but true) color monitor.

The business computer was everything except personal.

Then, the Apple rolled onto the scene. (There was a knockoff Orange, but you had to be there to really laugh about that with me.)

My first was a IIe and then a Mac and later, for pictures and publishing a PowerPC with SyQuest and Zip drives. These things were more approachable and fun that the other PCs.

I also bought a Unix-based machine that did a lot of work, was fast and powerful, but had no bell, whistle or gong. Compuserve connected me to a raw idea called internet and databases and email. (Appreciating Unix and Linux, I now tip my cap to Red Hat, a corporation that has gotten things right. Professional support for Open-Source ...Yes!)

The Apple co-founders were idealists and kept refining their machines and building relationships with software vendors. There were corporate battles and separations and periods of making up.

Adobe loved Apple and tolerated Intel/AMD powered machines. Corel was there for EVERYONE.

Today we can have in our hands more computing power and resources than was available to NASA, while putting humans on the moon.

A dear friend knew I liked significant history and made a gift to me of something that today is a rarity.

I OWN a screen-print image of an ITT 4116 chip design. This chip was big and hot and could handle 4 whole K of info. K's turned into megs and megs into gigs and gigs into terabytes. (Time To Revisit the PP "Power Of Ten" presentation.)

Every sermon I ever preached can reside with every lesson I ever taught and each of the books and magazines I created on a single flash drive.

Apple forced business computers to turn toward a GUI and that made the hardware more fun and less expensive.

However, remember that user-friendly does not mean user-effective.

WYSIWYG is, for many a dream because what people create may not approach what they have imagined.

Steve Jobs saw what he saw as practical, profitable and fun. His WYG is really what WE got.

He forced our thinking out of any boxes, coloring outside of any lines and merging tech with life.

Humans discover fire – ouch. Humans learn to use fire constructively – OK. Computers move beyond the realm of business applications – Yes.

Humans adapt computers to their uses and computers light the path to a smarter, better, more connected and more tolerant humanity … we pray.

Thanks, Steve, for the work and the laughs. © Tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

Heads UP - from NASA

Sometimes I just have to share. 
NASA has made video and audio files available for your education and enlightenment. Cool ringtones and other entertainment can be created from this new resource. NASA will keep you up to date with the latest news when you sign up for their bulletins.
If you are a subsciber to the World Wide Telescope you can now have sounds to go with the images.
Of course, in space there is no  


http://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/


Enjoy the treats.  tim    www.timjohnsonphoto.com

AN ORDINARY, EXCEPTIONAL DAY

Remembrances

The poor and wealthy, the young and old, the powerful and pitiful will gather, contemplate and reflect on the tragedy and aftermath of the events of 9/11.

Our happy and productive nation received a shot to the gut. People watched in disbelief at what had happened in New York. One of the World Trade Towers had been struck by a jet.

Then, the second tower was hit by a second jet.

Drama was also playing out over Pennsylvania as brave passengers foiled an attempt to assault another American icon with a third jet.

This attack had been months in planning and was perfect in execution. Osama bin Laden was behind the assault and he has paid for this criminal act with his life.

The goal of the attacks was to create terror in the United States. It did reveal our weaknesses – but instead of terror it created a determined counter-terror culture that will never rest.

Revenge has not brought back the professionals, loved ones and precious people that lost their lives and livelihood due to the attack.

But revenge is being meted out and will be executed whenever a plot for another attack is discovered.

We applied our energies and technologies to the problems, our best and brightest are an army of volunteers fighting a war that is keeping the conflict a half a world away.

We mourn and honor the loss of our soldiers – but there is a lesson … terror has lost; resolve has won.

There may be attacks on the US in the future. We even have homegrown idiots that engage in destructive plots.

The US will continue to deliberately and effiently play deadly “Whack-A-Mole” with any fresh crop of insurgents.

With the same reverence that we have for the Concord Bridge, Gettysburg, the heroes of the Battle of the Bulge, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima and every foot of land in which American and allied troops have fought and died – we honor the victims, the heroes and the nation that has lived a decade past 9/11.

Monuments in concrete and steel, glass and light and water will remind us that an ordinary day may turn into a world-altering event. It will also remind us that this nation is great, strong, sweet and dedicated to the idea that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are things that evildoers cannot destroy.

There is a prayer, deep resolve and devotion to this land in every American heart.

Future generations may ask what any or all of these monuments mean – and a voice will rise to remind them of just who we are and the rich heritage they have received.

© tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

Irene, You Destructive Lady

Hurricane Irene's damage to people, property and the whole of life on the US Eastern seaboard is just being measured.

Some people's lives were ended and others lives were shattered by the extent of the damage.

There is kind of a weariness people are experiencing because she arrived just days after a pretty strong, but nameless earthquake.

There was a little rescue and human kindness work to do that took me "Down East".

While there I surveyed a field of cotton - promising profit and fiber from our favorite comfort fabric.

However, this field had been lashed by winds and pummeled by rains. What you see is the inside of the not-yet-mature cotton boll.

Hundreds and maybe thousands of tons of cotton are ruined.

There are no denim trees or any decent substitute for this wonderful plant.

We will all be amazed at the cost of the loss of this cotton crop and at the cost of our next pair of Wrangler jeans.

We'd cry, but a tear in a poly-cotton hanky just isn't right.

© tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

GOTTA BE THERE, PREPARED & LUCKY

Much success with photography comes with a great deal of preparation.

Primary, your mind has to be set to got TAKE pictures. Your equipment must be ready to do the job and then you must SEE the things you want to photograph.

Some of my early blog posts have a lot to do with the technical and mental preparation you must have. Dig through the nearly 140 posts and find a few that ring your bell.

Luck is a wonderful thing to accompany all of your preparation.

It was my good fortune to have a week to spend with my family at a great NC beach location. It was a favorite location, near places I had photographed many times.

Our week had been pleasant, relaxing and fun. On this particular day we decided to take the ferry from Fort Fisher to Southport, a nice trip and sweet destination.

The 5 grandchildren made for some fine snaps but the photos of the day came due to the weather. People started yelling, “There's a tornado!” It is always better to photograph one than be in one and I grabbed my Pentax, polarizer and joined the group taking pictures.

The interesting thing is that the twister was near the place we were staying – but the only thing I could really do was take photos. I got some intersting and dramtic shots. People with lesser equipment snarled, but I gave them my card and told them to look for my images on my website.

Then, about 45 minutes later, Elizabeth said, “Dad, there's another one.” She was right.Off to the southeast there was another waterspout. This one was joined by 3 other downward spirals but they never joined the dance.

So 2 tornadoes on one trip.

Prepared, yes; equipment in hand, yes; I was there and got the images.

People closer got some dramatic footage, but I got what I got.

In September I am teaching a digital phot class for Wake Tech. It is at Millbrook High in the evenings. Come and get ready to get some great phoos of your own. © tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

BELKS FOOTPAUX REPORTED IN N&O

The N&O is always good for something. Josephus Daniels was a kingmaker and used his newspaper like a hammer.

He was valuable to this city, state and nation.

I still read a paper paper and like the touch and smell to go along with my steel-cut Irish oats or filling Southern breakfast.

I recycle responsibly and today I share this little funny with you.

I read this article and did not have to read any of the comics. This provided laughs enough.

I love Belks, their employees and most everything except their new logo that looks like a collision of letters on a California freeway. The "b" and "e" stopped too soon and the "lk" just crashed into them. Maybe our friends at Haddock Collision could help them out - or a matter of kerning could be applied.

Anyhow, the BIZ article should have everyone looking for the new developments in the Cary Belks shoe department. I'm taking my camera for the opening.

I know that some women looking for comfy footwear will be there to see the new offerings and I just wonder when Belks is going to apply this development to undergarments. 

The math is simple and we gotta see the show. © tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

BTW - I did take the liberty of softening the appearance of most of the article and sharpening the lovely, funny sentence.

The heat that is unbearable to our bodies is potentially destructive to our electronics. 
Just as film is vulnerable to heat, so are the components in your cameras, MP3 players and computers.
A good rule of thumb is that when you retire to the air conditioning, take your electronics with you.
At special risk are your expensive batteries. They can lose their power and, in the extreme, can leak or explode inside of your expensive devices. Make sure you allow your rechargeable batteries time to cool down before you charge them.
The CCDs and CMOSs inside of your cameras and video equipment can't handle the heat.
A situation may arise if you do have a cool camera and the heat and humidity are high outside is that if you see something that needs photographed, and you rush outside to get the picture, be prepared for lens fog.
Some lens cleaners add a touch of fog-proofing, but don't count on it.
Protect your investments as you protect your health.
© tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

Many people died in a horrible way in the last several hours. For a time our attention is fixed on the victims of the bombing and shootings in Norway. We also look at the death of a talented, 27-year old singer who died in London, England.
The murderous Communist dictator, Joseph Stalin, said that one death is a tragedy but a million deaths is a statistic.
He is wrong.
The people of Norway did not see dozens of people die, they grieve today, and we with them, for each individual life that was ended abruptly.
Each person, each name, each life was taken by a hate-filled, vengeful person. His is the name that should be lost.
There are laughs that will not be shared, loves that will never be discovered, inventions and processes that might never be realized because of the abrupt passing of these precious people.
We pray for the families and friends and we mourn with the nation and world.
That this should happen in Norway is a puzzle to many. Norway is generally pacifist and neutral.
However, hatred and destructiveness know no national borders.
I earnestly hope that the family and friends celebrate the lives that were and will live in the hope of the greatest eternal reunion.
© tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com

This invitation from NASA can be fun. Think, play and submit what you think might work. Have a BLAST off and a safe landing. tj


WASHINGTON – NASA, through the Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory, is supporting an online challenge for artists to design a T-shirt commemorating the final space shuttle mission and the program's contributions to exploration.

The challenge is run by Threadless, an online design site, and the Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory. The lab is administered by Harvard University, which is under contract to NASA to study crowd sourced innovation that leads to tournaments for scientific and engineering challenges.

Threadless, an online community of amateur and professional designers, is challenging its 1.5 million international artists and the public to design a shirt about "The Final Frontier" by July 22. Threadless will produce the design chosen through online votes. The chosen designer will receive a $500 cash prize, a $500 Threadless gift certificate and a shuttle-flown patch from his or her home country. The Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory will provide the patch.

For more information about the final space shuttle mission and the shuttle program, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

For more information about the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/ntl/

To submit a design, vote or view current submissions, visit Threadless at:

http://atrium.threadless.com/nasa/

Come Fourth And Read! It Is Your RIGHT

Just a few weeks after the cover of TIME magazine asked if the US Constitution was valid for our generation and for generations to come, I worked through a catalogue of other important Documents in our nation's relatively brief history. This list is just 100 of thousands of documents that have helped define our nation and, upon your reading, I guarantee will you pause to consider their place in your life and in world history. TIME illustrated its cover by showing a reproduction of the Constitution as if it had begun its path through a shredder. I got the design intent, but the significant part of the document, the bottom, is home to the signatories who took their stand and placed their lives and fortunes in jeopardy to nurture our country beyond the powerful Declaration Of Independence. Signing either document was treason against Great Britain. I'm glad they had the courage, parchment, quills, ink and courage to put their names and lives on the line for us.

Many of the most ancient treaties were settled with ceremonies, marriages among neighboring tribes and were not written down. However, we do have tablets, scrolls and letters patent that have helped our world civilization come to terms with the nature of power, law, civility and societal survival.

Torah, the additional books of Wisdom and Prophecies, the New Covenant, the the Acts, Letters and the Revelation are words that form the heart of the Judeao-Christian faiths. Other faiths have their own wisdom and intention of making good people better and making bad people pay for their crimes.

Fordham University has catalogued a massive library of ancient works by region, language and source. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook-law.html

We must understand the relationship between rights and freedom, the source of authority and the consequences of accepting the rule of law.

America is enigmatic, has been and shall be. Our constitution guarantees our right to protest – even to oppose established law. We agree to be governed as we are. That is why elections are important. We bow to no king or queen but we can prosper or suffer at the hands of the leaders we elect.

A teen character on General Hospital is asserting her right to independent actions. “I am 18!” “It is not your business”, she declares to her parents and concerned friends. She does have right to be foolish and stupid, but when your mother is a lawyer and your father always packs heat, patience and silence may be a very wise choice of action – at least until she turns 21, 25, 30 or so on.

In addition to happy celebrations, I urge some thoughtful study and reflection of how we got to this moment in history. For perspective, a visit to a National Cemetery may be the lens through which you could look. I have and there are images from my visits in my photo gallery. It would be interesting if, in addition to the exciting fireworks in the sky, the firing of our collective synapses might also be an even brighter light.

• Lee Resolution (1776)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Articles of Confederation (1777)
• Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
• Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
• Treaty of Paris (1783)
• Virginia Plan (1787)
• Northwest Ordinance (1787)
• Constitution of the United States (1787)
• Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51 (1787-1788)
• President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
• Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
• Bill of Rights (1791)
• Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)
• President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
• Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
• Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Treaty of Ghent (1814)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
• Compromise of 1850 (1850)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
• Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
• Homestead Act (1862)
• Pacific Railway Act (1862)
• Morrill Act (1862)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
• Gettysburg Address (1863)
• Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
• President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
• Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
• 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
• Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)
• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
• 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
• 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
• Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
• Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880)
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• Pendleton Act (1883)
• Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
• Dawes Act (1887)
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• De Lôme Letter (1898)
• Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States (1898)
• Platt Amendment (1903)
• Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
• 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
• 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
• Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)
• Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
• Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
• President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
• 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
• Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
• Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
• National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
• National Labor Relations Act (1935)
• Social Security Act (1935)
• President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal (1936)
• President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
• Lend-Lease Act (1941)
• Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
• Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
• Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
• General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
• Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944)
• Manhattan Project Notebook (1942)
• Surrender of Germany (1945)
• United Nations Charter (1945)
• Surrender of Japan (1945)
• Truman Doctrine (1947)
• Marshall Plan (1948)
• Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
• Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
• Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953)
• Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
• Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
• President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)
• Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps. (1961)
• Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)
• Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
• Test Ban Treaty (1963)
• Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
• Social Security Act Amendments (1965)
• Voting Rights Act (1965)

Enjoy the 4^th and join me in a long and deep study of the precious documents that help us continually redefine and better our nation and our world. ©tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com