We overslept, of course, but eventually made it out and took the Metro into DC. There was only time to see one museum and our first choices, any of the Smithsonian Museums, were closed...thanks to Boehner and the government shut down. Since Jack chose Mount Vernon on Sunday, Monday's pick was mine and, after much research, I chose the Newseum. It is a museum of News and Journalism from previous centuries right up to current minute news. The exterior includes a 74 foot high marble engraving of the First Amendment. It is seven floors and can be an all day trip. There was so much to see and so many exhibits that I liked, but one of my favorites has to be the display of Pulitzer Prize winning photographs. Amazing photographs that will take your breath away and sear themselves into your brain - a few depicting things I wish I'd never seen, though that would not change the fact that they happened.
Here are some photos I took in the Newseum.
9-11 Pieces from the World Trade Center and a door from an NY Police car.
and
J Edgar Hoover
The Berlin Wall - Two Views
Above two photos - The view from the Terrace of the Newseum
Martin Luther King Jr's Jail Cell door
Above right -
The Woolworth's Counter in Greensboro, NC where the February 1960 sit-in took place
Transmission Tower from the World Trade Center
The World and Freedom
Green are free countries. Yellow are partially free countries. Red are not free.
There is far too much red...and not nearly enough green.
A journalist getting shot. The journalist's truck took many shots...
Daniel Pearl's Passport...cancelled...
These are photos of journalists who have been killed all over the world...
TV News Helicopter
Guard Tower from the Berlin Wall
With Blue Bear and Red Bird in front of the background of a news set.
We had the option of actually recording a news story, but we passed on that!
After we left the Newseum we walked around looking for somewhere to eat.
These are a few shots I took while we walked.
We found a great little place to eat called Oyamel: Cocina Mexicana - a different kind of Mexican, it was delicious!
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