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World War II veteran celebrates 100th birthday Wesley Farnsworth © Wesley Farnsworth World War II veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin, poses for a photo during a 100th birthday celebration held in his honor April 23 in Xenia, Ohio. Martin served as a paratrooper assigned to 101st Airborne Division, 506th Infantry Regiment, G Company, out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO/WESLEY FARNSWORTH What do the construction of the Empire State Building, Prohibition, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, World War II, Vietnam, the first man in space and Sept. 1...

Success! See you in your inbox. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… From the moment the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened, it was clearly the go-to venue for the Smithsonian’s jazz initiatives. Even more than many of its jazz events, though, NMAAHC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations and The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons seem made for each other. The iconic bassist’s work honors King alongside Rosa...