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A Tribute to Nikola Tesla on Capitol Hill

Serbian Unity Congress

April 14, 2006

WASHINGTON – Writer and film producer Robert Uth will be one of the key note speakers for the second annual Serb Day on the Hill. Robert Uth is a documentary film producer and writer. One of the leading experts on the life of Nikola Tesla, Robert Uth and his wife, Simonida, have spent years researching and documenting this great Serb American. Serb Americans from all over the country will gather on June 26 – 27, 2006 in Washington to participate in the commemoration of 150 years of Nikola Tesla and Vidovdan. Robert is also co-author of “Tesla: Master of Lightning” with Margaret Cheney and produced a documentary on Tesla which will be presented on Capitol Hill.

For more information on Serb Day on the Hill 2006 click here.

More on the writer/film producer Robert Uth:

http://www.telluridetechfestival.com/2005/Honorees_Uth.html

www.pbs.org/tesla/prodo/po_webcredits.html
www.tfcbooks.com/mall/more/255tmol.htm
www.pbs.org/tesla

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882516/

Comments from our readers

Subject: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla on Capitol Hill

Liz Milanovich 2006-04-15

Re: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla on Capitol Hill

It's geat that SUC will be honoring Nikola Tesla in Washington. Perhaps SUC is aware that the Croats are also claiming rights to Nikola Tesla (see link below), and apparently are organizing a tribute to Tesla. And, the Serbs over in the homeland are now scrambling to do likewise. It's a well known fact that Tesla was a Serb, but leave it to the Croats to 're-invent' him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060330/lf_afp/croatiaserbiaus_060330155106

Subject: Nikola Tesla	Srba Topalski e_wtrade@yahoo.com 2006-04-15
Postovana Gospodo, Neznam koliko vam je poznato film u kome se govori o experimentima Nikole Tesle je uzavrsnoj fazi snimanja. Nikolu Teslu ce igrati David Bowie. U ostlim ulogama ce biti Hugh Jackman Scarlett johansson Michael Caine Hugh Jackman i Nas zet Christian Bale(Batman). Director is Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins).

Subject: Tesla & A.M. News Shows

Sanda Savich alexasavich@yahoo.com 2006-04-17

I think SUC should notify the Today Show and other morning news shows about the 150th anniversary and Serb Days and see if they won't cover our ethnic concerns, our activities on the Hill, and our heroes. Every other ethnic group receives sympathetic coverage, but the moment one of our heroes deserves an occasion of publicity, it doesn't happen! This way we also preclude the Croatians from reinventing him. Did Tesla ever claim he was Croatian? Did he not always identify himself as a Serb? I would be curious to find documentation provided by him as to his ethnic background.

Subject: Nikola Tesla

Dawnell Lewis dawnell@comcast.net 2006-04-17

Nikola Tesla was born in Austro-Hungary. He as we know was Serbian ethnically, but like many (like my grandparents) was born in Lika, Croatia, Austro-Hungary at that time. Unfortunately about 12-15 years ago on Jeopardy, the question of Nikola Tesla's nationality was asked. The answer was
Croatian. My father who met him in the 1920's went ballistic, wrote Jeopardy a protest letter. When they responded they stressed that they did not ask his ethnicity, but his nationality.

Subject: A comment	Velibor Cakarevic veliborc@hotmail.com 2006-04-18
After reading these comments I just have to add something. Truth and justice is not something that is 'given' to you. Truth and justice is something that you fight for! Nikola Tesla was a Serb that is the fact. I can claim that I am from Mars and there are really some people out there that would believe me! I am not joking! SUC is doing a fantastic job!

Subject: Tesla

Savo Subotich ssubotich@ameritech.net 2006-04-25

Nikola Tesla NEVER said he is Croatian, yet always said he came from the current Croatian city of Lika, which at the time of his birth in 1856, was a part of Austro-Hungary. His father Milutin was a Serbian Orhtodox Priest at the Serbian Orthodox Church near his birth house in Lika. This house and Church have been since destroyed by the same people that are trying to claim him as their own....go figure.