| audio,transcription,file_name | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0243.wav,"Had the Babylonians been apprised of what Cyrus was about, or had they noticed their danger, they would never have allowed the Persians to enter the city,",LJ028-0243.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0244.wav,"but would have destroyed them utterly; for they would have made fast all the street gates which gave upon the river,",LJ028-0244.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0245.wav,"and mounting upon the walls along both sides of the stream, would so have caught the enemy as it were in a trap.",LJ028-0245.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0246.wav,"But, as it was, the Persians came upon them by surprise and so took the city.",LJ028-0246.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0247.wav,"Owing to the vast size of the place, the inhabitants of the central parts (as the residents of Babylon declare),",LJ028-0247.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0248.wav,"long after the outer portions of the town were taken, knew nothing of what had chanced, but as they were engaged in a festival,",LJ028-0248.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0249.wav,continued dancing and reveling until they learned the capture but too certainly.,LJ028-0249.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0250.wav,"Such, then, were the circumstances of the first taking of Babylon.",LJ028-0250.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0251.wav,"When Cyrus took Babylon, little or no force was employed.",LJ028-0251.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0252.wav,"Only the King's son, Belshazzar, was killed.",LJ028-0252.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0253.wav,"The city was spared; the great walls were left standing; the daily sacrifices were continued in the temples, and Cyrus made his home in the royal palace.",LJ028-0253.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0254.wav,"The people, enjoying the greater freedom which Cyrus permitted them, were contented, and life in Babylon went on about as before.",LJ028-0254.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0255.wav,In 529 Cyrus died.,LJ028-0255.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0256.wav,"During the reigns of the two following Persian kings Babylon was slowly regaining its independence,",LJ028-0256.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0257.wav,"and in 521 Nebuchadnezzar III., a native Babylonian, was placed on the throne.",LJ028-0257.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0258.wav,Then the Babylonians secretly plotted to throw off the Persian yoke.,LJ028-0258.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0259.wav,"That same year, when Darius Hystaspes came to the Persian throne, the Babylonians openly rebelled.",LJ028-0259.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0260.wav,The following story from Herodotus tells the results:,LJ028-0260.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0261.wav,At last when the time came for rebelling openly they did as follows:,LJ028-0261.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0262.wav,"having first set apart their mothers, each man chose besides out of his whole household one woman whomsoever he pleased;",LJ028-0262.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0263.wav,"these alone were allowed to live, while all the rest were brought to one place and strangled.",LJ028-0263.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0264.wav,The women chosen were kept to make bread for the men; while the others were strangled that they might not consume the stores.,LJ028-0264.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0265.wav,"When tidings reached Darius of what had happened,",LJ028-0265.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0266.wav,he drew together all his power and began the war by marching straight upon Babylon and laying siege to the place.,LJ028-0266.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0267.wav,"The Babylonians, however, cared not a whit for his siege.",LJ028-0267.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0268.wav,"Mounting upon the battlements that crowned their walls, they insulted and jeered at Darius and his mighty host.",LJ028-0268.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0269.wav,"One even shouted to them and said, ""Why sit ye there, Persians? Why do ye not go back to your homes? Till mules foal ye will not take our city!""",LJ028-0269.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0270.wav,This was said by a Babylonian who thought that a mule would never foal.,LJ028-0270.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0271.wav,"Now when a year and seven months had passed, Darius and his army were quite wearied out, finding that they could not anyhow take the city.",LJ028-0271.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0272.wav,"All stratagems and all arts had been used, and yet the King could not prevail",LJ028-0272.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0273.wav,not even when he tried the means by which Cyrus had made himself master of the place.,LJ028-0273.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0274.wav,"The Babylonians were ever upon the watch, and he found no way of conquering them.",LJ028-0274.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0275.wav,"At last, in the twentieth month,",LJ028-0275.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0276.wav,"a marvelous thing happened to Zopyrus, son of the Megabyzus who was among the seven men that overthrew the Magus.",LJ028-0276.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0277.wav,One of his sumpter-mules gave birth to a foal.,LJ028-0277.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0278.wav,"Zopyrus, when they told him, not thinking that it could be true, went and saw the colt with his own eyes;",LJ028-0278.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0279.wav,"after which he commanded his servants to tell no one what had come to pass, while he himself pondered the matter.",LJ028-0279.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0280.wav,Calling to mind then the words of the Babylonian at the beginning of the siege:,LJ028-0280.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0281.wav,"Till mules foal ye shall not take our city, he thought, as he reflected on this speech, that Babylon might now be taken,",LJ028-0281.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0282.wav,"for it seemed to him that there was a divine providence in the man having used the phrase, and then his mule having foaled.",LJ028-0282.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0283.wav,"As soon therefore as he felt within himself that Babylon was fated to be taken, he went to Darius and asked him if he set a very high value on its conquest.",LJ028-0283.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0284.wav,"When he found that Darius did indeed value it highly, he considered further with himself how he might make the deed his own, and be the man to take Babylon.",LJ028-0284.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0285.wav,Noble exploits in Persia are ever highly honored and bring their authors to greatness.,LJ028-0285.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0286.wav,"He therefore reviewed all ways of bringing the city under,",LJ028-0286.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0287.wav,"but found none by which he could hope to prevail, unless he maimed himself and then went over to the enemy.",LJ028-0287.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0288.wav,"To do this seeming to him a light matter, he mutilated himself in a way that was utterly without remedy.",LJ028-0288.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0289.wav,"For he cut off his own nose and ears, and then, clipping his hair close and flogging himself with a scourge,",LJ028-0289.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0290.wav,he came in this plight before Darius.,LJ028-0290.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0291.wav,Wrath stirred within the King at the sight of a man of his lofty rank in such a condition;,LJ028-0291.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0292.wav,"leaping down from his throne he exclaimed aloud and asked Zopyrus who it was that had disfigured him, and what he had done to be so treated.",LJ028-0292.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0293.wav,"Zopyrus answered, ""There is not a man in the world, but thou, O King, that could reduce me to such a plight",LJ028-0293.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0294.wav,"no stranger's hands have wrought this work on me, but my own only.",LJ028-0294.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0295.wav,"I maimed myself because I could not endure that the Assyrians should laugh at the Persians. ""Wretched man,"" said Darius,",LJ028-0295.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0296.wav,"thou coverest the foulest deeds with the fairest possible name, when thou sayest thy maiming is to help our siege forward.",LJ028-0296.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0297.wav,"How will thy disfigurement, thou simpleton, induce the enemy to yield one day sooner?",LJ028-0297.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0298.wav,Surely thou hadst gone out of thy mind when thou didst so misuse thyself.,LJ028-0298.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0299.wav,"Had I told thee, rejoined the other, ""what I was bent on doing, thou wouldst not have suffered it;",LJ028-0299.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0300.wav,"as it is, I kept my own counsel, and so accomplished my plans.",LJ028-0300.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0301.wav,"Now, therefore, if there be no failure on thy part, we shall take Babylon.",LJ028-0301.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0302.wav,"I will desert to the enemy as I am, and when I get into their city I will tell them that it is by thee that I have been thus treated.",LJ028-0302.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0303.wav,"I think they will believe my words and entrust me with a command of troops. Thou, on thy part, must wait",LJ028-0303.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0304.wav,"till the tenth day after I am entered within the town, and then place near to the gates of Semiramis a detachment of thy army,",LJ028-0304.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0305.wav,"troops for whose loss thou wilt care little, a thousand men.",LJ028-0305.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0306.wav,"Wait, after that, seven days, and post me another detachment, two thousand strong, at the Nineveh gates;",LJ028-0306.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0307.wav,"then let twenty days pass, and at the end of that time station near the Chaldasan gates a body of four thousand.",LJ028-0307.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0308.wav,Let neither these nor the former troops be armed with any weapons but their swords those thou mayest leave them.,LJ028-0308.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0309.wav,"After the twenty days are over, bid thy whole army attack the city on every side, and put me two bodies of Persians,",LJ028-0309.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0310.wav,"one at the Belian, the other at the Cissian gates; for I expect that, on account of my successes,",LJ028-0310.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0311.wav,"the Babylonians will entrust everything, even the keys of their gates, to me. Then it will be for me and my Persians to do the rest.",LJ028-0311.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0312.wav,"Having left these instructions, Zopyrus fled towards the gates of the town, often looking back, to give himself the air of a deserter.",LJ028-0312.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0313.wav,"The men upon the towers, whose business it was to keep a lookout,",LJ028-0313.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0314.wav,"observing him, hastened down, and setting one of the gates slightly ajar, questioned him who he was, and on what errand he had come.",LJ028-0314.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0315.wav,"He replied that he was Zopyrus, and deserted to them from the Persians.",LJ028-0315.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0316.wav,"Then the doorkeepers, when they heard this, carried him at once before the Magistrates.",LJ028-0316.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0317.wav,"Introduced into their assembly, he began to bewail his misfortunes, telling them that",LJ028-0317.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0318.wav,"Darius had maltreated him in the way they could see, only because he had given advice that the siege should be raised, since there seemed no hope of taking the city.",LJ028-0318.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0319.wav,"And now, he went on to say, ""my coming to you, Babylonians,",LJ028-0319.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0320.wav,"will prove the greatest gain that you could possibly receive, while to Darius and the Persians it will be the severest loss.",LJ028-0320.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0321.wav,Verily he by whom I have been so mutilated shall not escape unpunished. And truly all the paths of his counsels are known to me.,LJ028-0321.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0322.wav,Thus did Zopyrus speak.,LJ028-0322.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0323.wav,"The Babylonians, seeing a Persian of such exalted rank in so grievous a plight, his nose and ears cut off,",LJ028-0323.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0324.wav,"his body red with marks of scourging and with blood, had no suspicion but that he spoke the truth, and was really come to be their friend and helper.",LJ028-0324.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0325.wav,"They were ready, therefore, to grant him anything he asked;",LJ028-0325.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0326.wav,"and on his suing for a command, they entrusted to him a body of troops with the help of which he proceeded to do as he had arranged with Darius.",LJ028-0326.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0327.wav,"On the tenth day after his flight he led out his detachment, and surrounding the thousand men,",LJ028-0327.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0328.wav,"whom Darius according to agreement had sent first, he fell upon them and slew them all.",LJ028-0328.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0329.wav,"Then the Babylonians, seeing that his deeds were as brave as his words, were beyond measure pleased, and set no bounds to their trust.",LJ028-0329.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0330.wav,"and when the next period agreed on had elapsed, again with a band of picked men he sallied forth, and slaughtered the two thousand.",LJ028-0330.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0331.wav,"After this second exploit, his praise was in all mouths.",LJ028-0331.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0332.wav,"Once more, however, he waited till the interval appointed had gone by, and then leading the troops to the place where the four thousand were,",LJ028-0332.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0333.wav,he put them also to the sword.,LJ028-0333.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0334.wav,This last victory gave him the finishing stroke to his power and made him all in all with the Babylonians:,LJ028-0334.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0335.wav,"accordingly they committed to him the command of their whole army, and put the keys of their city into his hands.",LJ028-0335.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0336.wav,"Darius now, still keeping to the plan agreed upon,",LJ028-0336.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0337.wav,"attacked the walls on every side, whereupon Zopyrus played out the remainder of his stratagem.",LJ028-0337.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0338.wav,"While the Babylonians, crowding to the walls, did their best to resist the Persian assault,",LJ028-0338.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0339.wav,"he threw open the Cissian and Belian gates, and admitted the enemy.",LJ028-0339.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0340.wav,Such of the Babylonians as witnessed the treachery took refuge in the temple of Jupiter Belus;,LJ028-0340.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0341.wav,"the rest who did not see it kept at their posts, till at last they too learned that they were betrayed.",LJ028-0341.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0342.wav,Thus was Babylon taken for the second time.,LJ028-0342.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0343.wav,"Darius having become master of the place, destroyed the wall, and tore down all the gates;",LJ028-0343.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0344.wav,for Cyrus had done neither the one nor the other when he took Babylon.,LJ028-0344.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0345.wav,"He then chose out near three thousand of the leading citizens and caused them to be crucified, while he allowed the remainder still to inhabit the city.",LJ028-0345.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0346.wav,"Further, wishing to prevent the race of the Babylonians from becoming extinct,",LJ028-0346.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0347.wav,he provided wives for them in the room of those whom (as I explained before) they strangled to save their stores.,LJ028-0347.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0348.wav,"These he levied from the nations bordering on Babylonia,",LJ028-0348.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0349.wav,"who were each required to send so large a number to Babylon, that in all there were collected no fewer than fifty thousand.",LJ028-0349.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0350.wav,It is from these women that the Babylonians of our times are sprung.,LJ028-0350.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0351.wav,"As for Zopyrus he was considered by Darius to have surpassed, in the greatness of his achievements, all other Persians,",LJ028-0351.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0352.wav,"whether of former or of later times, except only Cyrus with whom no person ever yet thought himself worthy to compare.",LJ028-0352.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0353.wav,"Darius, as the story goes, would often say that ""he had rather Zopyrus were unmaimed, than be master of twenty more Babylons.""",LJ028-0353.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0354.wav,And he honored Zopyrus greatly; year by year he presented him with all the gifts which are held in most esteem among the Persians;,LJ028-0354.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0355.wav,"he gave him likewise the government of Babylon for his life, free from tribute, and he also granted him many other favors.",LJ028-0355.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0356.wav,"How much truth there may be in this interesting tale of Herodotus, we may never know,",LJ028-0356.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0357.wav,yet we may be sure that Babylon was taken by Darius only by use of stratagem. Its walls were impregnable.,LJ028-0357.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0358.wav,"Cyrus had permitted them to stand, and as long as he made Babylon his home, the city was as strongly protected as ever.",LJ028-0358.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0359.wav,"Darius, who besieged the rebellious city twice, weakened it by destroying some of its walls.",LJ028-0359.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0360.wav,"During the reign of Xerxes again the city rebelled, and in 484 B.C. he captured it, and completely demolished its defenses.",LJ028-0360.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0361.wav,"Yet Babylon continued to live,",LJ028-0361.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0362.wav,"for history mentions the names of two of its later rulers. The palace of Nebuchadnezzar was occupied by Alexander the Great,",LJ028-0362.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0363.wav,"and there on June 13, 323 B.C., he met his death.",LJ028-0363.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0364.wav,"The city then fell to Seleucus,",LJ028-0364.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0365.wav,"one of Alexander's generals, who for a time made it his home, but he was a Greek and cared little for things Babylonian.",LJ028-0365.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0366.wav,"Therefore, to destroy the power of the old capital, he planned to build Seleucia on the Tigris about fifty miles to the east.",LJ028-0366.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0367.wav,"The priests of the temple of Bel, so a story tells us,",LJ028-0367.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0368.wav,"learned of his purpose, and when they were consulted as to the most favorable time for beginning the work upon the new city,",LJ028-0368.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0369.wav,they intentionally mentioned a most unfavorable hour.,LJ028-0369.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0370.wav,"The priests' deception was unavailing, and in 275 B.C., the inhabitants of Babylon were transported to Seleucia.",LJ028-0370.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0371.wav,"Then the world metropolis, stripped of most of its population, became a mere village.",LJ028-0371.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0372.wav,The poor of the surrounding country occupied its dismantled palaces.,LJ028-0372.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0373.wav,"The Hebrew exiles, whose ancestors Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem,",LJ028-0373.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0374.wav,"settled there, and finally the place was abandoned to the Arabs of the desert.",LJ028-0374.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0375.wav,"Slowly the few remaining walls fell, and were buried in their own ruins.",LJ028-0375.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0376.wav,"As the centuries passed the mounds into which the city had turned grew higher and higher with the ruins of the huts later built upon them,",LJ028-0376.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0377.wav,until at last the foundations of the temples and palaces were buried fully a hundred feet beneath the surface.,LJ028-0377.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0378.wav,"Even the shepherds ceased to graze their sheep there, and the wandering Arabs,",LJ028-0378.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0379.wav,"fearing the wild beasts and evil spirits which lurk among all old ruins, refused to pitch their tents there.",LJ028-0379.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0380.wav,The prophecy of the Hebrew Isaiah was fulfilled:,LJ028-0380.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0381.wav,Wild beasts of the desert shall lie there;,LJ028-0381.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0382.wav,"and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there,",LJ028-0382.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0383.wav,"and the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces.",LJ028-0383.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0384.wav,So Babylon was buried and forgotten.,LJ028-0384.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0385.wav,"It had become, as Dio Cassius said, ""Mounds and legends and ruins.""",LJ028-0385.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0386.wav,But the walls of the old city had not yet served their full purpose.,LJ028-0386.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0387.wav,"The Sassanian kings of Persia were fond of hunting, and Babylon, then overgrown with trees, was their game preserve.",LJ028-0387.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0388.wav,"The old walls were restored to a height sufficient to prevent the escape of the animals, and among the ruins the kings enjoyed their favorite sport.",LJ028-0388.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0389.wav,St. Jerome said:,LJ028-0389.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0390.wav,"I was informed by a certain Elamite brother, who came from those regions, and now leads the life of a monk at Jerusalem,",LJ028-0390.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0391.wav,"that there is a royal hunting ground at Babylon, and that wild game of every kind is contained within the circuit of its walls.",LJ028-0391.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0392.wav,"The statement of St. Jerome is confirmed by the following passage from Zosimus, a Greek writer of the fifth century A.D.:",LJ028-0392.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0393.wav,"As the Emperor Julian was marching forward through Babylonia,",LJ028-0393.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0394.wav,"he passed other unimportant fortresses, and came at last to a walled enclosure, which the natives pointed out as a royal hunting ground.",LJ028-0394.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0395.wav,"It was a low rampart, enclosing a wide space planted with trees of every sort, in which all kinds of beasts were shut up;",LJ028-0395.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0396.wav,"they were supplied with food by keepers, and gave the king the opportunity of hunting whenever he felt inclined.",LJ028-0396.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0397.wav,"When Julian saw this, he caused a large part of the wall to be overthrown, and as the beasts escaped they were shot down by his soldiers.",LJ028-0397.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0398.wav,The walls of Babylon were destined to serve still another purpose.,LJ028-0398.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0399.wav,"The spread of Mohammedanism caused new cities to be built, and Babylon was the quarry for their building material.",LJ028-0399.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0400.wav,The walls of Babylon were transformed into the sacred cities of Kerbela and Nejef.,LJ028-0400.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0401.wav,"In the eleventh century, on the site of the southern part of Babylon, the city of Hillah was built.",LJ028-0401.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0402.wav,"Hillah might be called a child of Babylon, for it is almost entirely constructed with Nebuchadnezzar's bricks.",LJ028-0402.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0403.wav,The walls of the houses are built of them.,LJ028-0403.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0404.wav,"The courtyards and streets are paved with them, and as you walk about the city the name of Nebuchadnezzar everywhere meets your eye.",LJ028-0404.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0405.wav,Many of the ten thousand people living in Hillah still gain their livelihood by digging the bricks from the ruins to sell to the modern builders.,LJ028-0405.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0406.wav,The great irrigating dams across the Euphrates are constructed entirely of them.,LJ028-0406.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0407.wav,"The people of Hillah, too, are a survival of Babylonian times.",LJ028-0407.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0408.wav,Some are Arabs of the same tribes which used to roam the desert in Nebuchadnezzar's days. Some are the children of the Hebrew exiles of old.,LJ028-0408.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0409.wav,"Some, calling themselves Christians, are the descendants of Babylonians, perhaps of Nebuchadnezzar himself.",LJ028-0409.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0410.wav,"There among the ruins they still live in the same kind of houses,",LJ028-0410.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0411.wav,"dressing the same, eating the same food as did their ancestors when Nebuchadnezzar built the walls of Babylon.",LJ028-0411.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0412.wav,"Among the first of the modern travelers to describe the ruins of Babylon was Anthony Shirley, an Englishman who visited Mesopotamia in 1599.",LJ028-0412.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0413.wav,In his quaint way he says:,LJ028-0413.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0414.wav,"All the ground on which Babylon was spread is left now desolate; nothing standing in that Peninsula between the Euphrates and the Tigris,",LJ028-0414.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0415.wav,"but only part, and that a small part, of the great tower, which God hath suffered to stand",LJ028-0415.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0416.wav,"(if man may speak so confidently of His great impenetrable counsels), for an eternal Testimony of His great work in the confusion of Man's pride,",LJ028-0416.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0417.wav,and that Arke of Nebuchadnezzar for as perpetual a memory of his great idolatry and condigne punishment.,LJ028-0417.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0418.wav,"About that same time Pietro della Valle, an Italian, visited Babylon,",LJ028-0418.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0419.wav,"and digging from the wall an inscribed square brick bearing the name of Nebuchadnezzar, he took it to Rome where it may still be seen.",LJ028-0419.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0420.wav,That was the first object taken from Babylon to Europe;,LJ028-0420.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0421.wav,it was the beginning of the great collections of Babylonian antiquities in the museums of the Western world.,LJ028-0421.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0422.wav,Among the later visitors to Babylon was the great Niebuhr.,LJ028-0422.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0423.wav,"In 1812, James Claudius Rich, the British Resident at Baghdad, made the first complete examination of the ruins.",LJ028-0423.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0424.wav,"Porter, Layard, and Rawlinson followed him, but the real scientific exploration of Babylon and its walls",LJ028-0424.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0425.wav,"was begun by the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft, in 1889, and continued till the summer of 1915.",LJ028-0425.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0426.wav,"For fifteen years Dr. Koldewey and his assistants, with a force of two hundred native workmen, have labored there winter and summer.",LJ028-0426.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0427.wav,"The enormous amount of debris which buried the palaces and temples and walls of Nebuchadnezzar's city, in places to the depth of a hundred feet,",LJ028-0427.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0428.wav,"has been removed, and the surrounding city walls have been traced.",LJ028-0428.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0429.wav,"The excavations have shown that Babylon, as the ancients told us, was nearly square.",LJ028-0429.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0430.wav,"The Euphrates flowed through it, but the greater part of the city was on the eastern shore.",LJ028-0430.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0431.wav,"The city walls, of which the ancients were so proud, appear here and there like low ridges far out on the plain;",LJ028-0431.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0432.wav,other parts of them have disappeared entirely.,LJ028-0432.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0433.wav,"In the northern part of the enclosure to the east of the river,",LJ028-0433.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0434.wav,"the large high mound, which resembles a mountain from a distance, still bears the ancient name Babel.",LJ028-0434.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0435.wav,"Arabs, searching for bricks, have burrowed their way down deep into it, revealing massive walls and arches.",LJ028-0435.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0436.wav,The Germans maintain that it is the ruin of the Tower of Babel.,LJ028-0436.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0437.wav,"Here, it has been suggested, were the famous hanging gardens which some ancient authors included among the Seven Wonders of the World.",LJ028-0437.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0438.wav,"However, it is possible that the hanging gardens existed only in the imagination of the Greek writers,",LJ028-0438.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0439.wav,for none of the many building inscriptions from Nebuchadnezzar mentions them.,LJ028-0439.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0440.wav,"Possibly along the terraces of the walls, or upon the stages of some lofty temple tower,",LJ028-0440.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0441.wav,"trees and overhanging vines were planted, and thus the travelers' tales arose.",LJ028-0441.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0442.wav,"At a distance of about two miles to the south of Babel is the larger and lower mound called the Kasr, or the Fortress,",LJ028-0442.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0443.wav,because great masses of masonry used to project from its surface.,LJ028-0443.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0444.wav,Deep down in the mound the Germans discovered the palace of Nebuchadnezzar with its hundreds of small chambers and its huge surrounding walls.,LJ028-0444.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0445.wav,"The mound still farther south is called Amran, because upon its summit stands the tomb of a Mohammedan saint of that name.",LJ028-0445.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0446.wav,"There lie the ruins of the famous temple of Esagil, sacred to Marduk.",LJ028-0446.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0447.wav,"Upon the little mound Jumjuma farther on, an Arab village has long stood.",LJ028-0447.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0448.wav,"All of the ancient writers agree in saying that Babylon was surrounded with both inner and outer walls, and the ruins confirm their statements.",LJ028-0448.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0449.wav,"Parts of the walls of Nineveh are still standing to the height of one hundred and twenty-five feet,",LJ028-0449.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0450.wav,but the walls of Babylon have so long been used to supply bricks to the builders of the neighboring cities that only their bases remain.,LJ028-0450.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0451.wav,"In places even the bases have disappeared, and their moats have long been filled with the drifting sand.",LJ028-0451.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0452.wav,"The outer wall bore the name of Nimitti-Bel. Its direction was northeast and southwest, forming a triangle with the river.",LJ028-0452.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0453.wav,"The northeastern section may now be traced for a distance of less than three miles, and the southwestern ""for more than a mile,",LJ028-0453.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0454.wav,but both sections originally reached the river.,LJ028-0454.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0455.wav,It seems that the circuit of the outer wall was about eleven miles.,LJ028-0455.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0456.wav,The small portions of it which have been excavated suffice to show its construction.,LJ028-0456.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0457.wav,"The moat, ten feet deep, and of a width no longer known, ran close to its base. The wall was double.",LJ028-0457.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0458.wav,"Its outer part was about twenty-four feet in thickness, and its foundations, as Nebuchadnezzar said, were carried down to the water level.",LJ028-0458.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0459.wav,"Its bricks, measuring about thirteen inches square and three inches in thickness, were burned and stamped with the usual short inscription:",LJ028-0459.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0460.wav,"Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, the restorer of the temples Esagil and Ezida,",LJ028-0460.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0461.wav,"the first-born son of Nabopolassar, King of Babylon.",LJ028-0461.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0462.wav,They were laid in bitumen.,LJ028-0462.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0463.wav,"The inner part of the wall was constructed of unburned bricks, and at a distance of about thirty-six feet from the outer part.",LJ028-0463.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0464.wav,"The intervening space, which was filled with dirt probably to the upper inner edge of the outer part,",LJ028-0464.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0465.wav,served as an elevated road where several chariots might have been driven abreast.,LJ028-0465.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0466.wav,"This inner part was about twenty-four feet wide, and at intervals of about one hundred and forty feet it was surmounted with towers.",LJ028-0466.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0467.wav,"The entire width of the outer defense, not including the moat, was therefore about eighty-two feet;",LJ028-0467.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0468.wav,"its height was probably more than double its width, but that may never be determined.",LJ028-0468.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0469.wav,"The inner wall of Babylon was called Imgur-Bel, and like the outer wall, it was double.",LJ028-0469.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0470.wav,"Time has dealt even less kindly with it, for it may be traced only for the distance of about a mile along its eastern side.",LJ028-0470.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0471.wav,"Nebuchadnezzar says that he built it of burned bricks, but only sun-dried bricks laid in mud now appear.",LJ028-0471.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0472.wav,"Its outer part, about twelve feet in width, was protected with towers at intervals of sixty-five feet.",LJ028-0472.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0473.wav,"A space of about twenty-three feet separated it from its inner part, which was about twenty feet in width.",LJ028-0473.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0474.wav,It too was surmounted with towers.,LJ028-0474.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0475.wav,No traces of its moat have appeared.,LJ028-0475.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0476.wav,The entire width of this inner defense was about fifty-five feet; its height is uncertain.,LJ028-0476.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0477.wav,To protect the sun-dried bricks of the inner wall from the winter rains,LJ028-0477.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0478.wav,"there were drains of large burned bricks, some of which bore the following long inscription:",LJ028-0478.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0479.wav,"Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,",LJ028-0479.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0480.wav,"the exalted prince, the protector of Esagil and Ezida, son of Nabopolassar, King of Babylon, am I.",LJ028-0480.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0481.wav,"Nabopolassar, the father, my begetter, built Imgur-Bel, the great wall of Babylon,",LJ028-0481.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0482.wav,"but I, the devout petitioner, the worshipper of the gods, built the moat, and made its wall of burned brick and bitumen mountain high.",LJ028-0482.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0483.wav,"O Marduk, great god, look joyfully upon the precious work of my hands. Be thou my protector.",LJ028-0483.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0484.wav,Grant me as a gift a life of distant days.,LJ028-0484.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0485.wav,"The outer and inner defenses of Babylon were so strong and so high that no enemy could hope to take them,",LJ028-0485.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0486.wav,yet the palace of Nebuchadnezzar was protected by a third defense far stronger.,LJ028-0486.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0487.wav,"Fortunately its walls have suffered less from the hands of the brick hunters, and the German excavators have been able to reconstruct their plan.",LJ028-0487.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0488.wav,They may best be described by means of the accompanying diagram representing a cross section.,LJ028-0488.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0489.wav,Had the enemy of Babylon succeeded in breaking through the outer and inner defenses of the city the royal palace would have still been far from his reach.,LJ028-0489.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0490.wav,"He would have had to cross a deep moat, to scale a wall of burned bricks about twenty feet in thickness and perhaps three times as high,",LJ028-0490.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0491.wav,"then a second wall still higher, a third and fourth and a fifth, each stronger and higher than the others,",LJ028-0491.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0492.wav,"and surmounted with towers, and then finally a sixth wall",LJ028-0492.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0493.wav,"whose summit reached into the sky as far, perhaps, as the tallest of the modern buildings.",LJ028-0493.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0494.wav,Between the several sections were wide spaces where foot soldiers and charioteers might fight.,LJ028-0494.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0495.wav,"It must have been an imposing sight to one standing without to have seen the walls, one after another,",LJ028-0495.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0496.wav,"rising higher and higher, like a great terraced, turreted mountain.",LJ028-0496.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0497.wav,"We do not know their height, for the statements of the ancient writers disagree.",LJ028-0497.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0498.wav,Herodotus says that it was three hundred and thirty-five feet;,LJ028-0498.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0499.wav,Ctesias mentions three hundred feet; probably they were not far from the truth.,LJ028-0499.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0500.wav,The ruins reach the height of about forty feet.,LJ028-0500.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0501.wav,Nor were the walls about the palace a great mass of dull brick masonry.,LJ028-0501.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0502.wav,"The Ishtar gateway leading to the palace was encased with beautiful blue glazed bricks,",LJ028-0502.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0503.wav,"and decorated here and there with large reliefs representing bulls and lions and dragons,",LJ028-0503.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0504.wav,designed in colors of white and blue and yellow and black.,LJ028-0504.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0505.wav,It seems that the bricks of the reliefs were molded and glazed separately and so accurately that when built into the wall they fitted perfectly.,LJ028-0505.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0506.wav,A modern artist would have difficulty in doing such accurate work.,LJ028-0506.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0507.wav,"Some of these decorations, the most valuable objects found in the ruins of the great city, still remain in their places on the walls;",LJ028-0507.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0508.wav,others have been taken to the Berlin Museum.,LJ028-0508.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0509.wav,"Nebuchadnezzar speaks of great bronze gates and of images of bronze, but none have been discovered.",LJ028-0509.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0510.wav,Probably their metal was far too valuable for the enemy to leave behind.,LJ028-0510.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0511.wav,"Should you walk along the shore of the Euphrates at Babylon, you would still see the embankments which Nebuchadnezzar constructed of bricks bearing his name,",LJ028-0511.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0512.wav,"but the river walls have disappeared, and the buttresses of the bridges have been torn or washed away.",LJ028-0512.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0513.wav,"Should you cross the river to search for the western inner wall, you would find but a small fragment of it.",LJ028-0513.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0514.wav,The great outer wall seems to have disappeared completely beneath the desert surface.,LJ028-0514.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0515.wav,"Such were the walls of Babylon,",LJ028-0515.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0516.wav,"the strongest, the thickest, the loftiest, the most intricate, perhaps the most beautiful that ever protected a city,",LJ028-0516.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0517.wav,walls which no ancient army was ever able to take by storm.,LJ028-0517.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0518.wav,"It is not strange, then, that they were included among the Seven Wonders of the World,",LJ028-0518.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ028-0519.wav,"or that the Babylonian soldier stood confidently upon their summit, and jeering at the Persian army encamped below, shouted:",LJ028-0519.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0001.wav,Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. The Warren Commission Report. By The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.,LJ029-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0002.wav,Chapter 2. The Assassination: Part 1.,LJ029-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0003.wav,"This chapter describes President Kennedy's trip to Dallas, from its origin through its tragic conclusion.",LJ029-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0004.wav,"The narrative of these events is based largely on the recollections of the participants,",LJ029-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0005.wav,although in many instances documentary or other evidence has also been used by the Commission.,LJ029-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0006.wav,"Beginning with the advance plans and Secret Service preparations for the trip,",LJ029-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0007.wav,"this chapter reviews the motorcade through Dallas, the fleeting moments of the assassination,",LJ029-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0008.wav,"the activities at Parkland Memorial Hospital, and the return of the Presidential party to Washington.",LJ029-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0009.wav,"An evaluation of the procedures employed to safeguard the President, with recommendations for improving these procedures, appears in Chapter 8 of the report.",LJ029-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0010.wav,Planning the Texas Trip,LJ029-0010.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0011.wav,President Kennedy's visit to Texas in November 1963 had been under consideration for almost a year before it occurred.,LJ029-0011.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0012.wav,He had made only a few brief visits to the State since the 1960 Presidential campaign and in 1962 he began to consider a formal visit.,LJ029-0012.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0013.wav,"During 1963, the reasons for making the trip became more persuasive.",LJ029-0013.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0014.wav,"As a political leader, the President wished to resolve the factional controversy within the Democratic Party in Texas before the election of 1964.",LJ029-0014.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0015.wav,The party itself saw an opportunity to raise funds by having the President speak at a political dinner eventually planned for Austin.,LJ029-0015.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0016.wav,"As Chief of State, the President always welcomed the opportunity to learn, firsthand, about the problems which concerned the American people.",LJ029-0016.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0017.wav,"Moreover, he looked forward to the public appearances which he personally enjoyed. The basic decision on the November trip to Texas was made at a meeting of President Kennedy,",LJ029-0017.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0018.wav,"Vice President Johnson, and Governor Connally on June 5th, 1963, at the Cortez Hotel in El Paso, Texas.",LJ029-0018.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0019.wav,"The President had spoken earlier that day at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.",LJ029-0019.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0020.wav,and had stopped in El Paso to discuss the proposed visit and other matters with the Vice President and the Governor.,LJ029-0020.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0021.wav,The three agreed that the President would come to Texas in late November 1963.,LJ029-0021.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0022.wav,"The original plan called for the President to spend only 1 day in the State, making whirlwind visits to Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston.",LJ029-0022.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0023.wav,"In September, the White House decided to permit further visits by the President and extended the trip to run from the afternoon of November 21",LJ029-0023.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0024.wav,"through the evening of Friday, November 22.",LJ029-0024.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0025.wav,"When Governor Connally called at the White House on October 4 to discuss the details of the visit,",LJ029-0025.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0026.wav,it was agreed that the planning of events in Texas would be left largely to the Governor.,LJ029-0026.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0027.wav,"At the White House, Kenneth O'Donnell, special assistant to the President, acted as coordinator for the trip.",LJ029-0027.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0028.wav,"Everyone agreed that, if there was sufficient time, a motorcade through downtown Dallas would be the best way for the people to see their President.",LJ029-0028.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0029.wav,"When the trip was planned for only 1 day, Governor Connally had opposed the motorcade because there was not enough time. The Governor stated, however, that, quote,",LJ029-0029.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0030.wav,"once we got San Antonio moved from Friday to Thursday afternoon, where that was his initial stop in Texas,",LJ029-0030.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0031.wav,"then we had the time, and I withdrew my objections to a motorcade. End quote.",LJ029-0031.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0032.wav,"According to O'Donnell, quote, we had a motorcade wherever we went, end quote.",LJ029-0032.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0033.wav,particularly in large cities where the purpose was to let the President be seen by as many people as possible.,LJ029-0033.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0034.wav,"In his experience, quote, it would be automatic, end quote, for the Secret Service to arrange a route which would, within the time allotted,",LJ029-0034.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0035.wav,"bring the President, quote, through an area which exposes him to the greatest number of people, end quote.",LJ029-0035.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0036.wav,Advance Preparations for the Dallas Trip,LJ029-0036.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0037.wav,Advance preparations for President Kennedy's visit to Dallas were primarily the responsibility of two Secret Service agents:,LJ029-0037.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0038.wav,"Special Agent Winston G. Lawson, a member of the White House detail who acted as the advance agent, and Forrest V. Sorrels,",LJ029-0038.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0039.wav,special agent in charge of the Dallas office. Both agents were advised of the trip on November 4.,LJ029-0039.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0040.wav,"Lawson received a tentative schedule of the Texas trip on November 8 from Roy H. Kellerman, assistant special agent in charge of the White House detail,",LJ029-0040.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0041.wav,who was the Secret Service official responsible for the entire Texas journey.,LJ029-0041.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0042.wav,"As advance agent working closely with Sorrels, Lawson had responsibility for arranging the timetable for the President's visit to Dallas",LJ029-0042.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0043.wav,"and coordinating local activities with the White House staff, the organizations directly concerned with the visit, and local law enforcement officials.",LJ029-0043.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0044.wav,"Lawson's most important responsibilities were to take preventive action against anyone in Dallas considered a threat to the President,",LJ029-0044.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0045.wav,"to select the luncheon site and motorcade route, and to plan security measures for the luncheon and the motorcade.",LJ029-0045.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0046.wav,Preventive Intelligence Activities. The Protective Research Section (PRS) of the Secret Service,LJ029-0046.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0047.wav,maintains records of people who have threatened the President or so conducted themselves as to be deemed a potential danger to him.,LJ029-0047.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0048.wav,"On November 8, 1963,",LJ029-0048.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0049.wav,"after undertaking the responsibility for advance preparations for the visit to Dallas, Agent Lawson went to the PRS offices in Washington.",LJ029-0049.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0050.wav,A check of the geographic indexes there revealed no listing for any individual deemed to be a potential danger to the President,LJ029-0050.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0051.wav,in the territory of the Secret Service regional office which includes Dallas and Fort Worth.,LJ029-0051.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0052.wav,"To supplement the PRS files, the Secret Service depends largely on local police departments and local offices of other Federal agencies",LJ029-0052.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0053.wav,which advise it of potential threats immediately before the visit of the President to their community.,LJ029-0053.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0054.wav,Upon his arrival in Dallas on November 12,LJ029-0054.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0055.wav,Lawson conferred with the local police and the local office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation about potential dangers to the President.,LJ029-0055.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0056.wav,"Although there was no mention in PRS files of the demonstration in Dallas against Ambassador Adlai Stevenson on October 24th,",LJ029-0056.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0057.wav,"1963, Lawson inquired about the incident and obtained through the local police photographs of some of the persons involved.",LJ029-0057.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0058.wav,"On November 22 a Secret Service agent stood at the entrance to the Trade Mart, where the President was scheduled to speak, with copies of these photographs.",LJ029-0058.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0059.wav,Dallas detectives in the lobby of the Trade Mart and in the luncheon area also had copies of these photographs.,LJ029-0059.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0060.wav,A number of people who resembled some of those in the photographs were placed under surveillance at the Trade Mart.,LJ029-0060.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0061.wav,The FBI office in Dallas gave the local Secret Service representatives the name of a possibly dangerous individual in the Dallas area who was investigated.,LJ029-0061.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0062.wav,"It also advised the Secret Service of the circulation on November 21 of a handbill sharply critical of President Kennedy,",LJ029-0062.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0063.wav,discussed in chapter 6 of this report.,LJ029-0063.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0064.wav,"Shortly before, the Dallas police had reported to the Secret Service that the handbill had appeared on the streets of Dallas.",LJ029-0064.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0065.wav,Neither the Dallas police nor the FBI had yet learned the source of the handbill.,LJ029-0065.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0066.wav,"No one else was identified to the Secret Service through local inquiry as potentially dangerous,",LJ029-0066.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0067.wav,"nor did PRS develop any additional information between November 12, when Lawson left Washington, and November 22.",LJ029-0067.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0068.wav,"The adequacy of the intelligence system maintained by the Secret Service at the time of the assassination,",LJ029-0068.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0069.wav,"including a detailed description of the available data on Lee Harvey Oswald and the reasons why his name had not been furnished to the Secret Service,",LJ029-0069.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0070.wav,is discussed in chapter 8.,LJ029-0070.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0071.wav,An important purpose of the President's visit to Dallas was to speak at a luncheon given by business and civic leaders.,LJ029-0071.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0072.wav,The White House staff informed the Secret Service,LJ029-0072.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0073.wav,that the President would arrive and depart from Dallas' Love Field; that a motorcade through the downtown area of Dallas to the luncheon site should be arranged;,LJ029-0073.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0074.wav,and that following the luncheon the President would return to the airport by the most direct route.,LJ029-0074.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0075.wav,"Accordingly, it was important to determine the luncheon site as quickly as possible, so that security could be established at the site and the motorcade route selected.",LJ029-0075.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0076.wav,"On November 4, Gerald A. Behn, agent in charge of the White House detail, asked Sorrels to examine three potential sites for the luncheon.",LJ029-0076.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0077.wav,"One building, Market Hall, was unavailable for November 22.",LJ029-0077.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0078.wav,"The second, the Women's Building at the State Fair Grounds,",LJ029-0078.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0079.wav,"was a one-story building with few entrances and easy to make secure, but it lacked necessary food-handling facilities",LJ029-0079.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0080.wav,"and had certain unattractive features, including a low ceiling with exposed conduits and beams.",LJ029-0080.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0081.wav,"The third possibility, the Trade Mart, a handsome new building with all the necessary facilities, presented security problems. It had numerous entrances,",LJ029-0081.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0082.wav,"several tiers of balconies surrounding the central court where the luncheon would be held, and several catwalks crossing the court at each level.",LJ029-0082.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0083.wav,"On November 4, Sorrels told Behn he believed security difficulties at the Trade Mart could be overcome by special precautions.",LJ029-0083.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0084.wav,Lawson also evaluated the security hazards at the Trade Mart on November 13.,LJ029-0084.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0085.wav,Kenneth O'Donnell made the final decision to hold the luncheon at the Trade Mart; Behn so notified Lawson on November 14.,LJ029-0085.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0086.wav,"Once the Trade Mart had been selected, Sorrels and Lawson worked out detailed arrangements for security at the building.",LJ029-0086.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0087.wav,"In addition to the preventive measures already mentioned, they provided for controlling access to the building, closing off and policing areas around it,",LJ029-0087.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0088.wav,securing the roof and insuring the presence of numerous police officers inside and around the building.,LJ029-0088.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0089.wav,"Ultimately more than 200 law enforcement officers, mainly Dallas police but including 8 Secret Service agents,",LJ029-0089.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0090.wav,were deployed in and around the Trade Mart.,LJ029-0090.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0091.wav,The Motorcade Route.,LJ029-0091.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0092.wav,"On November 8, when Lawson was briefed on the itinerary for the trip to Dallas,",LJ029-0092.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0093.wav,he was told that 45 minutes had been allotted for a motorcade procession from Love Field to the luncheon site.,LJ029-0093.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0094.wav,"Lawson was not specifically instructed to select the parade route, but he understood that this was one of his functions.",LJ029-0094.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0095.wav,"Even before the Trade Mart had been definitely selected, Lawson and Sorrels began to consider the best motorcade route from Love Field to the Trade Mart.",LJ029-0095.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0096.wav,"On November 14, Lawson and Sorrels attended a meeting at Love Field",LJ029-0096.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0097.wav,and on their return to Dallas drove over the route which Sorrels believed best suited for the proposed motorcade.,LJ029-0097.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0098.wav,"This route, eventually selected for the motorcade from the airport to the Trade Mart, measured 10 miles and could be driven easily within the allotted 45 minutes.",LJ029-0098.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0099.wav,"From Love Field the route passed through a portion of suburban Dallas,",LJ029-0099.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0100.wav,through the downtown area along Main Street and then to the Trade Mart via Stemmons Freeway.,LJ029-0100.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0101.wav,"For the President's return to Love Field following the luncheon, the agents selected the most direct route, which was approximately 4 miles.",LJ029-0101.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0102.wav,"After the selection of the Trade Mart as the luncheon site,",LJ029-0102.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0103.wav,"Lawson and Sorrels met with Dallas Chief of Police Jesse E. Curry, Assistant Chief Charles Batchelor,",LJ029-0103.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0104.wav,"Deputy Chief N. T. Fisher, and several other command officers to discuss details of the motorcade and possible routes.",LJ029-0104.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0105.wav,The route was further reviewed by Lawson and Sorrels with Assistant Chief Batchelor and members of the local host committee on November 15.,LJ029-0105.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0106.wav,The police officials agreed that the route recommended by Sorrels was the proper one and did not express a belief that any other route might be better.,LJ029-0106.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0107.wav,"On November 18,",LJ029-0107.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0108.wav,"Sorrels and Lawson drove over the selected route with Batchelor and other police officers, verifying that it could be traversed within 45 minutes.",LJ029-0108.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0109.wav,Representatives of the local host committee and the White House staff were advised by the Secret Service of the actual route on the afternoon of November 18.,LJ029-0109.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0110.wav,The route impressed the agents as a natural and desirable one.,LJ029-0110.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0111.wav,"Sorrels, who had participated in Presidential protection assignments in Dallas since a visit by President Franklin D. Roosevelt",LJ029-0111.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0112.wav,"in 1936, as testified that the traditional parade route in Dallas was along Main Street, since the tall buildings along the street",LJ029-0112.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0113.wav,gave more people an opportunity to participate.,LJ029-0113.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0114.wav,"The route chosen from the airport to Main Street was the normal one, except where Harwood Street was selected as the means of access to Main Street",LJ029-0114.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0115.wav,"in preference to a short stretch of the Central Expressway, which presented a minor safety hazard",LJ029-0115.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0116.wav,and could not accommodate spectators as conveniently as Harwood Street.,LJ029-0116.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0117.wav,"According to Lawson, the chosen route seemed to be the best.",LJ029-0117.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0118.wav,"It afforded us wide streets most of the way, because of the buses that were in the motorcade.",LJ029-0118.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0119.wav,It afforded us a chance to have alternative routes if something happened on the motorcade route. It was the type of suburban area a good part of the way,LJ029-0119.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0120.wav,"where the crowds would be able to be controlled for a great distance, and we figured that the largest crowds would be downtown, which they were,",LJ029-0120.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0121.wav,and that the wide streets that we would use downtown would be of sufficient width to keep the public out of our way.,LJ029-0121.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0122.wav,"Elm Street, parallel to Main Street and one block north,",LJ029-0122.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0123.wav,was not used for the main portion of the downtown part of the motorcade because Main Street offered better vantage points for spectators.,LJ029-0123.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0124.wav,"To reach the Trade Mart from Main Street the agents decided to use the Stemmons Freeway (Route No. 77), the most direct route.",LJ029-0124.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0125.wav,The only practical way for westbound traffic on Main Street,LJ029-0125.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0126.wav,"to reach the northbound lanes of the Stemmons Freeway is via Elm Street, which Route No. 77 traffic is instructed to follow in this part of the city.",LJ029-0126.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0127.wav,"Elm Street was to be reached from Main by turning right at Houston,",LJ029-0127.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0128.wav,going one block north and then turning left onto Elm.,LJ029-0128.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0129.wav,"On this last portion of the journey, only 5 minutes from the Trade Mart,",LJ029-0129.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0130.wav,the President's motorcade would pass the Texas School Book Depository Building on the northwest corner of Houston and Elm Streets.,LJ029-0130.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0131.wav,"The building overlooks Dealey Plaza, an attractively landscaped triangle of 3 acres.",LJ029-0131.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0132.wav,"From Houston Street, which forms the base of the triangle, three streets -- Commerce, Main, and Elm --",LJ029-0132.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0133.wav,"trisect the plaza, converging at the apex of the triangle to form a triple underpass beneath a multiple railroad bridge",LJ029-0133.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0134.wav,almost 500 feet from Houston Street.,LJ029-0134.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0135.wav,"Elm Street, the northernmost of the three, after intersecting Houston curves in a southwesterly arc",LJ029-0135.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0136.wav,"through the underpass and leads into an access road,",LJ029-0136.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0137.wav,which branches off to the right and is used by traffic going to the Stemmons Freeway and the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike.,LJ029-0137.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0138.wav,The Elm Street approach to the Stemmons Freeway is necessary,LJ029-0138.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0139.wav,in order to avoid the traffic hazards which would otherwise exist if right turns were permitted from both Main and Elm into the freeway.,LJ029-0139.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0140.wav,"To create this traffic pattern, a concrete barrier between Main and Elm Streets presents an obstacle to a right turn",LJ029-0140.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0141.wav,from Main across Elm to the access road to Stemmons Freeway and the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike.,LJ029-0141.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0142.wav,This concrete barrier extends far enough beyond the access road to make it impracticable for vehicles to turn right from Main directly to the access road.,LJ029-0142.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0143.wav,A sign located on this barrier instructs Main Street traffic not to make any turns.,LJ029-0143.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0144.wav,"In conformity with these arrangements, traffic proceeding west on Main is directed to turn right at Houston",LJ029-0144.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0145.wav,"in order to reach the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike, which has the same access road from Elm Street as does the Stemmons Freeway.",LJ029-0145.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0146.wav,The planning for the motorcade also included advance preparations for security arrangements along the route.,LJ029-0146.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0147.wav,Sorrels and Lawson reviewed the route in cooperation with Assistant Chief Bachelor and other Dallas police officials who took notes on the requirements,LJ029-0147.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0148.wav,"for controlling the crowds and traffic, watching the overpasses, and providing motorcycle escort.",LJ029-0148.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0149.wav,"To control traffic, arrangements were made for the deployment of foot patrolmen and motorcycle police at various positions along the route.",LJ029-0149.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0150.wav,Police were assigned to each overpass on the route and instructed to keep them clear of unauthorized persons.,LJ029-0150.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0151.wav,No arrangements were made for police or building custodians,LJ029-0151.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0152.wav,to inspect buildings along the motorcade route since the Secret Service did not normally request or make such a check.,LJ029-0152.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0153.wav,"Under standard procedures, the responsibility for watching the windows of buildings was shared by local police stationed along the route",LJ029-0153.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0154.wav,and Secret Service agents riding in the motorcade.,LJ029-0154.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0155.wav,"As the date for the President's visit approached,",LJ029-0155.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0156.wav,the two Dallas newspapers carried several reports of his motorcade route.,LJ029-0156.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0157.wav,"The selection of the Trade Mart as the possible site for the luncheon first appeared in the Dallas Times-Herald on November 15, 1963.",LJ029-0157.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0158.wav,"The following day, the newspaper reported that the Presidential party",LJ029-0158.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0159.wav,"quote, apparently will loop through the downtown area, probably on Main Street, en route from Dallas Love Field, end quote.",LJ029-0159.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0160.wav,"on its way to the Trade Mart. On November 19, the Times-Herald afternoon paper detailed the precise route:",LJ029-0160.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0161.wav,"From the airport, the President's party will proceed to Mockingbird Lane to Lemmon and then to Turtle Creek, turning south to Cedar Springs.",LJ029-0161.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0162.wav,The motorcade will then pass through downtown on Harwood,LJ029-0162.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0163.wav,"and then west on Main, turning back to Elm at Houston and then out Stemmons Freeway to the Trade Mart.",LJ029-0163.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0164.wav,"Also on November 19, the Morning News reported that the President's motorcade would travel from Love Field along specified streets, then",LJ029-0164.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0165.wav,"Harwood to Main, Main to Houston, Houston to Elm, Elm under the Triple Underpass to Stemmons Freeway, and on to the Trade Mart.",LJ029-0165.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0166.wav,"On November 20 a front page story reported that the streets on which the Presidential motorcade would travel included ""Main and Stemmons Freeway.""",LJ029-0166.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0167.wav,"On the morning of the President's arrival,",LJ029-0167.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0168.wav,"the Morning News noted that the motorcade would travel through downtown Dallas onto the Stemmons Freeway, and reported that, quote, the motorcade will move slowly",LJ029-0168.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0169.wav,so that crowds can get a good view of President Kennedy and his wife.,LJ029-0169.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0170.wav,Dallas Before the Visit,LJ029-0170.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0171.wav,The President's intention to pay a visit to Texas in the fall of 1963 aroused interest throughout the State.,LJ029-0171.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0172.wav,"The two Dallas newspapers provided their readers with a steady stream of information and speculation about the trip,",LJ029-0172.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0173.wav,"beginning on September 13, when the Times-Herald announced in a front page article that President Kennedy was planning a brief 1-day tour of four Texas cities",LJ029-0173.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0174.wav,"Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston",LJ029-0174.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0175.wav,"Both Dallas papers cited White House sources on September 26 as confirming the President's intention to visit Texas on November 21 and 22,",LJ029-0175.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0176.wav,with Dallas scheduled as one of the stops.,LJ029-0176.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0177.wav,"Articles, editorials, and letters to the editor in the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times-Herald after September 13",LJ029-0177.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0178.wav,reflected the feeling in the community toward the forthcoming Presidential visit.,LJ029-0178.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0179.wav,"Although there were critical editorials and letters to the editors, the news stories reflected the desire of Dallas officials to welcome the President with dignity and courtesy.",LJ029-0179.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0180.wav,An editorial in the Times-Herald of September 17,LJ029-0180.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0181.wav,"called on the people of Dallas to be ""congenial hosts"" even though ""Dallas didn't vote for Mr. Kennedy in 1960,",LJ029-0181.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0182.wav,may not endorse him in '64.,LJ029-0182.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0183.wav,On October 3 the Dallas Morning News quoted U.S. Representative Joe Pool's hope,LJ029-0183.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0184.wav,"that President Kennedy would receive a ""good welcome"" and would not face demonstrations like those encountered",LJ029-0184.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0185.wav,by Vice President Johnson during the 1960 campaign.,LJ029-0185.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0186.wav,"Increased concern about the President's visit was aroused by the incident involving the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai E. Stevenson.",LJ029-0186.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0187.wav,"On the evening of October 24, 1963, after addressing a meeting in Dallas,",LJ029-0187.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0188.wav,"Stevenson was jeered, jostled, and spat upon by hostile demonstrators outside the Dallas Memorial Auditorium Theater.",LJ029-0188.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0189.wav,"The local, national, and international reaction to this incident evoked from Dallas officials and newspapers strong condemnations of the demonstrators.",LJ029-0189.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0190.wav,Mayor Earle Cabell called on the city to redeem itself during President Kennedy's visit.,LJ029-0190.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0191.wav,"He asserted that Dallas had shed its reputation of the twenties as the, quote, Southwest hate capital of Dixie, end quote",LJ029-0191.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0192.wav,On October 26 the press reported Chief of Police Curry's plans,LJ029-0192.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0193.wav,to call in 100 extra off-duty officers to help protect President Kennedy.,LJ029-0193.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0194.wav,Any thought that the President might cancel his visit to Dallas was ended,LJ029-0194.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0195.wav,"when Governor Connally confirmed on November 8 that the President would come to Texas on November 21 and 22,",LJ029-0195.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0196.wav,"and that he would visit San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, and Austin.",LJ029-0196.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0197.wav,"During November the Dallas papers reported frequently on the plans for protecting the President, stressing the thoroughness of the preparations.",LJ029-0197.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0198.wav,They conveyed the pleas of Dallas leaders that citizens not demonstrate or create disturbances during the President's visit.,LJ029-0198.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0199.wav,On November 18 the Dallas City Council adopted a new city ordinance prohibiting interference with attendance at lawful assemblies.,LJ029-0199.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0200.wav,Two days before the President's arrival Chief Curry warned that the Dallas police would not permit improper conduct during the President's visit.,LJ029-0200.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0201.wav,"Meanwhile, on November 17",LJ029-0201.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0202.wav,"the president of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce referred to the city's reputation for being the friendliest town in America and asserted that citizens would, quote,",LJ029-0202.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0203.wav,"greet the President of the United States with the warmth and pride that keep the Dallas spirit famous the world over, end quote,",LJ029-0203.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0204.wav,"Two days later, a local Republican leader called for a ""civilized nonpartisan"" welcome",LJ029-0204.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0205.wav,"for President Kennedy, stating that ""in many respects Dallas County has isolated itself from the main stream of life in the world in this decade.",LJ029-0205.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0206.wav,Another reaction to the impending visit -- hostile to the President -- came to a head shortly before his arrival.,LJ029-0206.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0207.wav,On November 21 there appeared on the streets of Dallas the anonymous handbill mentioned above.,LJ029-0207.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0208.wav,"It was fashioned after the ""wanted"" circulars issued by law enforcement agencies.",LJ029-0208.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0209.wav,"Beneath two photographs of President Kennedy, one full- face and one profile, appeared the caption, quote, Wanted for Treason,",LJ029-0209.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0210.wav,"end quote, followed by a scurrilous bill of particulars that constituted a vilification of the President.",LJ029-0210.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0211.wav,"And on the morning of the President's arrival, there appeared in the Morning News a full, black-bordered advertisement headed:",LJ029-0211.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0212.wav,"Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas, sponsored by the American Fact-finding Committee, which the sponsor later testified was an ad hoc committee",LJ029-0212.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ029-0213.wav,"quote, formed strictly for the purpose of having a name to put in the paper, end quote,",LJ029-0213.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0001.wav,Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. The Warren Commission Report. By The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.,LJ030-0001.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0002.wav,Chapter 2. The Assassination: Part 2.,LJ030-0002.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0003.wav,Visits to Other Texas Cities,LJ030-0003.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0004.wav,The trip to Texas began with the departure of President and Mrs. Kennedy from the White House,LJ030-0004.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0005.wav,"by helicopter at 10:45 A.M., Eastern Standard Time, on November 21, 1963, for Andrews Air Force Base.",LJ030-0005.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0006.wav,"They took off in the Presidential plane, Air Force One, at 11 a.m., arriving at San Antonio at 1:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.",LJ030-0006.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0007.wav,"They were greeted by Vice President Johnson and Governor Connally, who joined the Presidential party in a motorcade through San Antonio.",LJ030-0007.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0008.wav,"During the afternoon, President Kennedy dedicated the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base.",LJ030-0008.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0009.wav,"Late in the afternoon he flew to Houston where he rode through the city in a motorcade,",LJ030-0009.wav | |
| /kaggle/input/ljspeech-dataset/LJSpeech-1.1/wavs/LJ030-0010.wav,"spoke at the Rice University Stadium, and attended a dinner in honor of U.S. Representative Albert Thomas.",LJ030-0010.wav | |