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Profile: Re-enactment of 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
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DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
07-11-2004
Profile: Re-enactment of 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Host: DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host:
On the shore of the Hudson River in Weehawken, New Jersey, descendants of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr re-enacted the duel that took place 200 years ago today. Hamilton, a Founding Father and the country's first secretary of the Treasury, was killed. Burr, a Revolutionary War hero and vice president to Thomas Jefferson, was politically ruined. Nancy Solomon sends us this report of the ...
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 "Sun Publications (IL)")
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ANDERS JOSEPH ECKERT AND CAITLIN MIRA ECKERT | NICHOLAS ROBERT JOHNSON AND COLLIN RUSSELL JOHNSON | TYLER GEORGE SLEVIN | ALEXANDER EVAN LEVINE | JACQUELINE JEAN CARDOT | MADISON GRACE FELL | ERIC GREGORY LUPERINI | TYLER JOSEF HUGHES | BRANDON JAMES MORROW | BRETT NICHOLAS MERRIMAN | AMY LYNN JENSEN | BRADFORD DANIEL WILLIAMS | JAMES PATRICK MCAVEENEY | DEVEN JOSEPH WILEY | ERIN MARIE HENIFF | KALLYN TAYLOR HARRIS | JACK THOMAS OLMSTEAD | ANTONIO CHARLES MILAZZO | VICKI ANN FARMER | MATTHEW HENRY KENNEDY | JAREN LEUNG ABBOTT | AUSTIN TROY SEATON | RYAN JACOB DILLAVOU | ELIZABETH LOUISE DEWEIRDT | ETHAN WILLIAM BAYER | CAROLINE EDIE WEISS | CHAD MICHAEL CASTILLA | SAMUEL ELLIS ANDERSON | RYAN JAMES DOBBS | AUDREY LAUREN TAYLOR | RYAN TIMOTHY WONS | MADISON MARIE SCHUTZ | ABIGAIL ELLEN VEDDER | WADE AVERY KYLE | BROOKE ELIZABETH GIBSON | KATHERINE ANNE VAN TASSLE | GABRIELLE KATHLEEN WIND | DAVID PAUL MIECHOWICKI | CHRISTIAN FREDERICK FISCHER | HANNAH KATHLEEN CLARK | ELIZABETH ROSE MCCARTHY
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR)
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