Phoebe was 3 days, 3 weeks, 4 months, 34 years, old on 12/10/1997.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
Amistad (1997)
Release Date: 10 December 1997 (USA)
Tagline: Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_%281997_film%29
Amistad is a 1997 Steven Spielberg film based on a slave mutiny that took place aboard a ship of the same name in 1839, and the legal activity that followed.
This movie begins with Joseph Cinqué (whose true name was Sengbe Pieh), an African on the schooner La Amistad (Spanish for "friendship"), leading a revolt that frees the other Africans and kills most of the crew. They force the ship's captain to steer back to Africa, but the captain tricks them and heads to the United States where the Africans are captured and jailed.
Word gets out immediately to U.S. President Martin Van Buren, Queen Isabella II of Spain, and a group of abolitionists. The group of Africans are charged with mutiny and murder. There are also property claims by the Queen Isabella II of Spain, the captain of the ship, the people who captured the Africans, and others. A young lawyer, Baldwin, is brought on the case by the abolitionists.
Baldwin finds a translator (Chiwetel Ejiofor in his first film role) and talks to Cinqué, who has become the leader of the group of Africans. In flashbacks, Cinqué tells about his life. He was captured in Africa and brought to the Caribbean Islands by an infamous Middle Passage slave vessel named the Tecora. Cinqué tells of the various horrors of the Middle Passage, such as when fifty people were drowned to save rations. Cinqué was finally taken to the Caribbean Islands, where he was illegally sold to the owners of La Amistad.
In the district court, Baldwin brings as evidence a book he found on the ship. It conclusively proves that the Africans did indeed come from Africa. The defendants' birthplace was a matter of critical importance because U.S. law at the time outlawed anyone who wasn't the child of a slave from being enslaved (based on the provision in the United States Constitution that permitted Congress to outlaw the African slave trade starting in the year 1809). This meant that those held aboard La Amistad were being traded illegally, and were officially abducted citizens of West Africa. As such, they were legally permitted to use deadly force to secure their release. Thus whether or not the defendants were born in Africa was critical to determining whether their conduct was indeed justifiable homicide or murder.
Upon seeing the log book from the ship, the presiding judge appears prepared to rule for Baldwin. But President Van Buren, under pressure from the South, replaces the judge with a younger judge whom Van Buren can influence. It is thought that this will result in a ruling against the defendants. However, the new judge surprises the Administration by ruling in favor of the defendants. The judge concludes that they were born in Africa, and thus were permitted to use deadly force to resist those that would enslave them. He orders their return to Africa at Government expense, and further orders the arrest of the would-be slavetraders.
The prosecution then appeals the case to the Supreme Court, where seven of the nine justices are slave owners. Baldwin finally convinces former president John Quincy Adams to help him on the case. After some communication with Cinqué, Baldwin and Adams are ready to present the case (Baldwin making the case to the Supreme Court isn't shown). John Quincy Adams then gives a speech on slavery and the case in general. The Supreme Court then (March 9, 1841) rules in favor of the Amistad Africans, in an opinion by Justice Joseph Story. Story was played in the movie by an actual retired Supreme Court justice, Harry Blackmun.
The end of the movie notes that Cinqué returned to Africa, the slave fortress he went through was destroyed by the Royal Navy, and the American Civil War ended slavery in America.
The actor who portrays the lawyer for the defendants fighting for their freedom after being captured by slavertraders was 343 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, old on 6/28/1998.
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000190/
Matthew McConaughey
Date of Birth: 4 November 1969
Amistad (1997) .... Baldwin
I assume the date 6/28/1998 represents the day I first woke up with my current official federal undercover identity after my real identity had been suppressed from conscious awareness in support of my official United States federal undercover identity.
From 4/9/1946 to 8/4/1985 is: 14362 days
From 3/3/1959 to 6/28/1998 is: 14362 days
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/noble/morrison/morrison.htm
Morrison Cemetery
Morrison, Noble County, Oklahoma
LAST NAME BURGESS
FIRST MI Joseph Wayne
BORN 09 Apr 1946
DIED 04 Aug 1985
I have examined the USS Lassen DDG-82 before because I recognize the year 1982 as when I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. I believe Lt. Lassen was chosen specifically as the namesake for DDG-82 because he is connected somehow to my first Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War. I believe he extracted me from extremely hostile territory on a day I also earned the Medal of Honor.
I have also noted that the USS Lassen DDG-82 was the 4th ship of the 3rd sub-class of the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers. I think it was the 4th ship because 1982 was my 4th and final year at the Academy. My thoughts suggest that it was in the 3rd sub-class because I graduated from Princeton University and University of Oxford before graduating the U.S. Naval Academy.
The USS Lassen DDG-82 was commissioned 33 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, after 6/28/1998.
They probably would have created a 33-34 clue for this ship but those ships are all commissioned on Saturdays, according to information on the internet, so that is a constraint of the precision of the symbolism. I believe this clue, though, is a valid clue to associate my identity with the USS Lassen DDG-82.
From 6/28/1998 to 4/21/2001 is: 33 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
3-3-3-3
http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg82.htm
USS Lassen (DDG 82)
Commissioned: April 21, 2001
