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Ask CNN: How Did the Red Cross Get Started?

Aired November 08, 2001 - 07:46   ET

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SUE KERYITSKY: Hi, my name is Sue Keryitsky. I'm from Levittown, Pennsylvania, and my question is, how did the Red Cross get started?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The American Red Cross was founded by Miss Clara Barton, the angel of the battlefield when in 1881, she created the organization here in Washington, D.C. and then became signatures to a treaty the Geneva Conventions in 1882.

The conventions themselves were established in 1864 as a result of the work of (INAUDIBLE). (INAUDIBLE) came across a battlefield where there were 40,000 men dead and dying. He returned to the small community near by and got the residents to come out and help in whatever way they could.

The experience so moved to him that he returned to Geneva and he inspired the creation of the International Red Cross Committee. May 8th is World Red Cross Day. It's the birth date of (INAUDIBLE). This is a very special birthday because it's the centennial celebration of being in the first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

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