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The film, an adaptation of the Harper Lee novel of the same name, centers on the trial and conviction of an innocent black man in a deeply racist Southern town during the 1930s. Peck's Oscar-winning depiction of lawyer Atticus Finch has been widely heralded as a groundbreaking role that confronted systematic racism in the Jim Crow South.



The president made headlines last month when offering a personal reflection on the shooting death of Martin, an African-American teenager in Florida. Martin's shooter, George Zimmerman, has not been arrested in connection with the teenager's death, and critics have suggested race played a role in both the shooting and police department's reluctance to press charges.



Obama said the incident demanded all Americans to "do some soul searching."



“When I think about this boy, Ito adapt the Föttinger coupling to vehicle transmission in an attempt to mitigate the lurching Sinclair had experienced while riding on London buses during the 1920s Following Sinclair's discussions with the London General Omnibus Company begun in October 1926, and trials on an Associated Daimler bus chassis, Percy Martin of Daimler decided to apply the principle to the Daimler group's private cars.

During 1930 The Daimler Company of Coventry, England began to introduce a transmission system using a fluid coupling and Wilson self-changing gearbox for buses and their flagship cars. By 1933 the system was used in all new Daimler, Lanchester and BSA vehicles produced by the group from heavy commercial vehicles to small cars. It was soon extended to Daimler's military vehicles. These couplings are described as constructed