#1293 4th of July
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Coming up this week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, we speak to President Thomas Jefferson about the Declaration of Independence. Everybody knows that he wrote it in the summer of 1776 and that it became the most famous document in American history, but this week we asked, "What about the other signers of the Declaration?"
We asked President Jefferson if he would be so kind as to read the Declaration of Independence to us, and he did.
We talked about how it was set in type, one letter after the next almost with a tweezers, through the night by a man named Dunlap on the fourth of July. His broadsides are now worth upwards of eight million dollars, and they were just the Twitter feed of the time. We asked Mr. Jefferson about some of the signers of the Declaration. "We either hang together or we hang separately," Benjamin Franklin famously said. Benjamin Harrison, who was obese, said to Elbridge Gerry: I'm going to hang a lot more quickly than you will, son. Join us for all that and more, and a happy fourth of July from the Thomas Jefferson Hour.
We asked President Jefferson if he would be so kind as to read the Declaration of Independence to us, and he did.
We talked about how it was set in type, one letter after the next almost with a tweezers, through the night by a man named Dunlap on the fourth of July. His broadsides are now worth upwards of eight million dollars, and they were just the Twitter feed of the time. We asked Mr. Jefferson about some of the signers of the Declaration. "We either hang together or we hang separately," Benjamin Franklin famously said. Benjamin Harrison, who was obese, said to Elbridge Gerry: I'm going to hang a lot more quickly than you will, son. Join us for all that and more, and a happy fourth of July from the Thomas Jefferson Hour.
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"Mythology begins to creep in, and as historians we like to question some of that."
— Clay S. Jenkinson
This week on our annual 4th of July show, Thomas Jefferson reads the Declaration of Independence in it’s entirety and speaks about one of his favorite holidays.
— Clay S. Jenkinson
This week on our annual 4th of July show, Thomas Jefferson reads the Declaration of Independence in it’s entirety and speaks about one of his favorite holidays.
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The Thomas Jefferson Hour is a weekly radio program dedicated to the search for truth in the tradition of Thomas
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Nationally acclaimed humanities scholar and award-winning first-person interpreter of Thomas Jefferson, Clay S. Jenkinson, portrays Jefferson on the program, and he answers listener questions while in the persona of our third president.
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