President Eisenhower - D.Day, Normandy - June 6, 1944
The Making of an Activist
A MEMOIR
Morton Gladstone
Fifty years later, on the Anniversary of D-Day - in a CBS TV News Special with Walter Cronkite reporting on
President Clinton, President Mitterrand and other world leaders meeting in Normandy - Morton Gladstone, in the New York studios,
was invited to reflect on the historic events and how they shaped and re-directed his life.
To view 7-minute video of CBS TV Report
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To see Other videos on D-Day click here
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Life in the Margin: The Making of an Activist.
in which he shares scenes from a vivid and varied life that has spanned
wealth, loss of wealth, war, peace, politics, marriage, family and activism:
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INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS
(Click chapter headings below to read)
PROLOGUE
Cracks in the facade - discovering activism
MOTHER
FATHER
BROTHER
GRAND CHILDREN
SCHOOLING OF AN ACTIVIST
The Teenage Years
THE FACADE CRUMBLES
Disbarment
CRYSTALLIZATION
Summing up a life's journey
MILITARY YEARS:
The Army beckons, Draft Board -I’m Available!- Selma Field,Louisiana - Pope Field,Fort Brag
CBS TV - COAST TO COAST
Operation Overlord and the invasion of Normandy - Breaking radio silence
MILITARY YEARS:
The Army beckons, Draft Board -I’m Available!- Selma Field,Louisiana - Pope Field,Fort Brag
THE TRIP TO ENGLAND
(Excerpt originally published in USA by PBS)
THE TRIP TO ENGLAND
Capitalism and Piranhas
The Whorehouse in the Sahara -
Stars shine. Rivers flow. Men lust - and a 22-year-old captain shall lead them...
ENGLAND BEFORE THE MISSION
The Air Force hunt for the elusive Snipe
MISPLACING THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR
- Right Again.
AXIS SALLY'S WARM WELCOME AT WESEL
Paratroopers Turn Pale
THE MOVE TO DREUX
Home in France
LUNCH WITH GERTRUDE STEIN AND ALICE B. TOKLAS
(Originally published in USA by PBS)
THE LIBERATION OF HOLLAND
A CHAPLAIN AT PASSOVER
The First Passover in Free-France - in English, French and Hebrew
THE TRIP BACK TO USA
Change of Fortune
JACKIE MY LOVE
LAW SCHOOL
START OF A FAMILY
EARLY FATHERHOOD
THE DAILY RAT-RACE
ACTIVISM AFTER THE WAR YEARS
Nuremberg
The Humphrey Campaign
MY WORLD FEDERALIST YEARS
LEXINGTON DEMOCRATIC CLUB
The International Criminal Court
LAW OF THE SEA
A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN
GRAND CHILDREN
REGRETS
I AM CONTENT
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This is a companion site to
World Activist Handbook
In Appreciation
Alice Hammerstein Mathias
Barbara Walker
Lucy Webster - Co-editor
Kevin Sanders - Co-editor
Jerry Spivack - Co-editor
Julian Gladstone -Contributor
Tricia Joseph - Editorial Assistant
Suzette Patterson - Editorial Assistant
BIBLIOGRAPHY of Books on World Federalism
Contact:
morton.gladstone@gmail.com