PROCLAMATION 5897—NOV. 4, 1988 103 STAT. 2599 Proclamation 5896 of November 3, 1988 National Jukebox Week, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation For a century now, the jukebox has been a fixture of popular culture in our land. In restaurants, diners, and clubs across our country, juke- boxes have long provided patrons with music for dining and dancing. The jukebox is to many a symbol of good, clean fun. It is also an inex- pensive source of entertainment for young and old alike, and a treasury ' of memories for listeners of every generation. The centennial of the jukebox now gives all of us an excellent opportunity to celebrate its enduring place in American Ufe. The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 446, has designated the week of October 30 tlurough November 5, 1988, as "National Jukebox Week" and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this occasion. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week of October 30 throiigh November 5, 1988, as National Jukebox Week. I call upon the American people to celebrate this week with appropriate ceremonies and activi- ties. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this third day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two him- dred and thirteenth. RONALD REAGAN Proclamation 5897 of November 4, 1988 Week of Remembrance of Kristallnacht, 1988 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Fifty years ago, on the night of November 9-10, 1938, German Nazis committed a nationwide pogrom against Jewish people. By the next morning, scores of Jews were dead, hundreds were injured, and many synagogues, shops, and homes lay in ruins. This vicious attack became known around the globe as "Kristallnacht"—"crystal night" or "the night of broken glass"—born the mute evidence of shattered window glass it left in so many streets. Half a century later, we mourn every victim of this pogrom and we rededicate oiurselves to preventing repeti- tions of such brutality anywhere and everywhere. The world had been ignoring many warning signs in Germany and else- where of increasing anti-Semitism, disregard for human rights, and eu- genically motivated assaults on individual dignity and worth. Kristall- nacht surely should have alerted everyone that time had run out—^that the "peace in our time" proclaimed hopefully by British Prime Minister
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