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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"All men are created equal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they are endowed with the rights to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not so fast, Mr. Jefferson!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These words from the Declaration of Independence,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the facts behind them, are well known.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In June of 1776,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a littl more than a year after the war against England began
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the shots fired at Lexington and Concord,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to discuss American independence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After long debates, a resolution of independence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was approved on July 2, 1776.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America was free!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And men like John Adams thought we would celebrate that date forever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was two days later that the gentlemen in congress
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,largely written by Thomas Jefferson,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offering all the reasons why the country should be free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More than 235 years later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we celebrate that day as America's birthday.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there are some pieces of the story you may not know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, Thomas Jefferson gets the credit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for writing the declaration.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But five men had been given the job
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come up with a document explaining why
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America should be independent:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Robert Livingston,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roger Sherman,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Benjamin Franklin and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Adams were all named first.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was Adams who suggested
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the young, and little known, Thomas Jefferson join them.