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