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AMERICAN MOSAIC1 - November 15, 2002: Rap2 Loses a Popular Artist / Question About the John Kennedy
Assassination3 / 20th Anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial


Broadcast: HOST:
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC --VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.
(THEME)
This is Doug Johnson. On our program today:
We tell about a rap musician who was killed recently ..
.
Answer a listener’s question about the assassination of President John Kennedy ..
.
And report about the anniversary of an American memorial.


Vietnam Memorial Anniversary

HOST:

On Monday, November eleventh, a ceremony was held at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D-C.
It observed the twentieth anniversary of what has become known as “The Wall.” The memorial recognizes and
honors the American men and women who served in the Republic of Vietnam. Shep O’Neal tells us more.

ANNCR:

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is not like most memorials that honor soldiers. It has no swords, no horses, no
statues of famous generals. It is a very simple design. It is two black stone walls that are built into the ground.
The two walls form a letter “V”
with the arms of the letter spread wide. The gold names of fifty-eightthousand-two-hundred-twenty-nine soldiers are cut into the black stone. These are the names of the soldiers who
died or who are still missing as a result of their service in Vietnam.


The Wall has the power to create strong feelings. The shiny black stone acts like a
mirror. This mirror effect seems to draw in visitors so that they too are part of the
Wall. This is especially emotional for those visitors who served in Vietnam and for
the family members of those killed there.

A former soldier named Jan Scruggs thought of the idea for the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial. He formed an organization to raise the money to build the project.

A competition was held to choose the design of the memorial. The judges

considered more than one-thousand designs. They chose the design of a twenty-oneyear-old Yale University student named Maya Ying Lin. Mizz Lin’s family members had come to the United
States from China. Maya Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial caused great debate. Many people
criticized her design. They said it was too simple and did not show the heroic efforts of the soldiers. Some said
the competition should be held over. But it was not.

Today, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial designed by Maya Lin is the most visited memorial in the nation’s
capital. The National Park Service is responsible for it. Officials say almost four-million people visit the Wall
each year.

Mister Scruggs says the Wall makes people feel the price of war. It makes them understand that the price has to
be paid in human lives. The message of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial can be understood by all --veterans,
families of veterans, international visitors, young people and those who will visit the memorial for many, many
years to come.


Kennedy Murder

HOST:

Our VOA listener question this week comes from Iran. Babak Roshani asks about the murder of America’s
thirty-fifth President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

That is a good question to answer one week before the thirty-ninth anniversary of the
assassination. President Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas on November
twenty-second, nineteen-sixty-three.

The news of the killing5 shocked millions of Americans. Almost all older Americans
remember what they were doing when they heard the news.

John F. Kennedy was elected president in nineteen-sixty. He was the youngest man
ever elected president. He went to Texas in an effort to end a split6 in the state’s
Democratic Party.

Large, friendly crowds greeted the President’s open car as it drove through the streets of Dallas. Mister
Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline, was sitting next to him. Suddenly, there were gunshots. President Kennedy was
wounded in the neck and head. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he soon died.

Television and radio reported the news of the shooting to a shocked world. Vice4 President Lyndon Johnson met
Missus Kennedy at the airport. Mister Johnson was sworn in as President on the presidential airplane.

Several people who saw the shooting said the shots that killed Mister Kennedy came from a building where
schoolbooks were stored. Police raced to the Dallas Schoolbook Depository, but could not find the killer7. Then
they began searching for an employee of the building who had left the area a few minutes after the shooting.
Police arrested the employee, Lee Harvey Oswald, a short time later.

Oswald is said to have shot and killed a policeman while resisting arrest. He was charged with the murders of
President Kennedy and the policeman. Police questioned Oswald for two days, but he denied the charges. The
murder weapon was found hidden in the building where Oswald worked. He owned the gun and his handprints
were found on the weapon.

Two days later, police decided8 to move Oswald from the Dallas city jail to another jail. As he was being moved,
a man named Jack9 Ruby10 shot and killed the suspect. Ruby died in prison three years later. President Johnson
appointed a special committee to investigate the murder of President Kennedy. The committee’s final report
found that Oswald had acted alone. However, many people did not agree with that finding. Many still do not.


Jam Master Jay

HOST:

Rap music lost a popular artist last month. Jam Master Jay of the rap group Run-DM-C was shot and killed at a recording11 studio in New York City. Mary Tillotson
tells about the man and his music.

ANNCR:

Jam Master Jay’s real name was Jason Mizell. He served as D-J in the rap group Run-D-M-C. The D-J uses
records in a special way to provide different sounds for the rappers. He finds drumbeats and other sounds he
wants to use on a record. Then he uses his hands to move the record back and forth12 at different speeds under the
needle of the record player. This creates different noises. The process is called scratching. Listen to Jam Master
Jay scratch on the Run-D-M-C song, “Down with the King.

(MUSIC)

Run-D-M-C formed in nineteen-eighty-two. Jam Master Jay helped the group
become one of the most important hip-hop groups ever. Its music was popular with


From left: Joseph 'Run'
Simmons, Darryl 'DMC'
McDaniels, Jason 'Jam
Master Jay' Mizell.
many different kinds of people. Run-D-M-C also mixed rap and rock music for the
first time. Here is Run-D-M-C and the rock group Aerosmith performing the
Aerosmith song “Walk This Way.

(CUT TWO-Walk This Way)

Jam Master Jay was opposed to messages of violence in rap music. He said such
violence represented everything rap was against. Jam Master Jay was thirty-seven
years old when he died. The two surviving members of Run-D-M-C said they will
no longer perform in honor of their former D-J.

We leave you now with the Run-D-M-C song, “Jam Master Jay.

(MUSIC)

HOST:

This is Doug Johnson. I hope you enjoyed our program today. And I hope you will join us again next week for
AMERICAN MOSAIC -- VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.

This AMERICAN MOSAIC program was written by George Grow, Paul Thompson and Caty Weaver13. Our
studio engineer was Glen Matlock. And our producer was Paul Thompson.


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1 mosaic CEExS     
n./adj.镶嵌细工的,镶嵌工艺品的,嵌花式的
参考例句:
  • The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
  • The image mosaic is a troublesome work.图象镶嵌是个麻烦的工作。
2 rap SABzi     
n.轻敲,拍击,责骂,厉声说出,说唱音乐,谈话,最少量;vi.轻敲,敲门,表演说唱音乐,畅谈;vt.抓,抢,拍击
参考例句:
  • I heard a rap on the door.我听到有轻轻的敲门声。
  • Today we are going to rap about relationships.今天我们要聊聊关系的问题。
3 assassination BObyy     
n.暗杀;暗杀事件
参考例句:
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
4 vice NU0zQ     
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
参考例句:
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
5 killing kpBziQ     
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
参考例句:
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
6 split avXwG     
n.劈开,裂片,裂口;adj.分散的;v.分离,分开,劈开
参考例句:
  • Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了?
  • The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。
7 killer rpLziK     
n.杀人者,杀人犯,杀手,屠杀者
参考例句:
  • Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
  • The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
8 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
9 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
参考例句:
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
10 ruby iXixS     
n.红宝石,红宝石色
参考例句:
  • She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
  • On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。
11 recording UktzJj     
n.录音,记录
参考例句:
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
12 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前;向外,往外
参考例句:
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
13 weaver LgWwd     
n.织布工;编织者
参考例句:
  • She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快,而且布的质量很好。
  • The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。

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