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Founding Fathers:

Who Were They

and What Happened to Them?

PBS    4 July 2012

Founding Fathers: Who Were They and What Happened to Them?

Video        PBS NewsHour        4 July 2012

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUUfTYodZA

Founding fathers

John Adams,

Benjamin Franklin,

Alexander Hamilton,

 John Jay,

Thomas Jefferson,

James Madison,

George Washington...

Declaration of Independence

“life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

July 4, 1776

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs 

https://www.pbs.org/video/pbs-newshour-
founding-fathers-who-were-they-and-what-happened-to-them/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/
travel/john-jay-paris-abigail-slavery.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/
opinion/our-feuding-founding-fathers.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/
opinion/did-a-fear-of-slave-revolts-drive-american-independence.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/
opinion/campaign-stops/the-man-the-founders-feared.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/
opinion/david-brooks-the-american-idea-and-todays-gop.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUUfTYodZA - July 4, 2012

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/04/
156258435/founding-fathers-defined-freedom-differently

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6529440 - Nov. 23, 2006

John Adams

the second president of the United States

and one of the prime movers

behind the Revolution and independence (...)

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/
books/books-of-the-times-rediscovering-john-adams-the-founder-time-forgot.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/22/
books/books-of-the-times-rediscovering-john-adams-the-founder-time-forgot.html

Benjamin Franklin

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/03/
books/books-of-the-times-the-founder-of-healthy-wealthy-wise-inc.html

Alexander Hamilton

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/
arts/design/the-many-faces-of-alexander-hamilton.html

John Jay

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/
travel/john-jay-paris-abigail-slavery.html

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