#1232 Listener Questions
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🗓️ 2 May 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
"Jefferson embodies — in many respects, not in all of them — the world that I want to live in. I want to live in Thomas Jefferson's America." — Clay
This week, we discuss listener questions about architecture, Sally Hemings, revolutionary war, Jefferson as a scientist, recommended books and how Clay's life has been affected by performing as Thomas Jefferson.
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Clay will be taking part in a Conversation at Bismarck State College with BSC President Larry Skogen on May 7th at 3 p.m. They'll be discussing the topic: "The Quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation: A Reevaluation of the Reformation (1517-1650)". You can learn more at bismarckstate.edu.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day podcast listeners of the Thomas Jefferson Hour and thank you for listening and thank you 1776 club |
| 0:07.3 | supporters for supporting the show and making this possible we really appreciate it. |
| 0:11.9 | This was fun we did listener questions. We always enjoy listener questions. They |
| 0:16.1 | come from a wide range of background. Some of them are sort of Jefferson 101, new |
| 0:20.6 | listeners. Yes and we've been taken to task a bit by... |
| 0:23.0 | Who would take us to task? |
| 0:25.0 | Well, that Stephen guy was... |
| 0:26.0 | He kind of, I said, you know, sorry. |
| 0:28.0 | Do you ever actually get to my questions? |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, yeah, and it was like, you know, I'm sorry and he said well try harder. I want to I want to apologize to a listener may I? Yeah who? We didn't come up in today's program, but I got a letter and I take this actually very seriously and the man said he loves the show and he |
| 0:44.3 | desires our work and he's learned from it and so on but he said you know from time to |
| 0:49.9 | time you talk about something called the Wendover Death March and I get it that that's all in good fun |
| 0:55.2 | But my father was actually in the baton death March and I wonder if you don't think that's maybe possibly a little insensitive. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, what do you think? |
| 1:04.0 | I wrote back and said, of course, of course. |
| 1:07.0 | You know, that the Baton Death March is one of the most horrific things that happened during World War II. |
| 1:12.0 | Right. |
| 1:13.0 | Thousands of people died. |
| 1:14.8 | It was a horrible human rights violation by the Japanese |
| 1:18.6 | Imperial government. |
| 1:20.2 | Well, I think the point is this is a four hour hike up a little mountain in Idaho, |
| 1:26.0 | where no one really suffers. |
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