This Week on Dispatches: J. L. Bell on Truths and Myths of the Declaration of Independence

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August 10, 2019

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On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews author and historian J. L. Bell on the Declaration of Independence and which stories surrounding the document are probably true or probably not.

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This Week on Dispatches: J. L. Bell on Truths and Myths of the Declaration of Independence

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