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♪ I see a land
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♪ With liberty for all
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♪ Yet still I know, the
truth will rise and fall ♪
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♪ Ooh yeah, yeah
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♪ That's just the way it goes
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♪ A word now to the wise
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♪ The world was made to change
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♪ Each day is a surprise
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♪ I'm looking at life
through my own eyes ♪
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♪ I'm searching for
a hero to idolize ♪
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♪ Feeling the pain
as innocence dies ♪
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♪ I'm looking at life,
through my own eyes ♪
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♪ I take my heart into battle
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♪ Give that Freedom
Bell a rattle ♪
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♪ Get my independence on
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♪ Declare it on
the dotted line ♪
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♪ Let Philadelphia
freedom bring ♪
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♪ And patriotic voices sing
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♪ Red, white, and
blue, never give up ♪
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♪ You represent America
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♪ Hoping and praying
for a brighter day ♪
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♪ I listen to my
heart and I obey ♪
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♪ How can I see
it any other way ♪
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♪ I'm looking at life,
through my own eyes ♪
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(fireworks booming
and whistling)
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- [Announcer] Today
on Liberty's Kids...
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- [Henri] He called Dr. Franklin
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a fraud and a blowhard!
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- [Montgomery] Library,
philosophy, college, almanacks,
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all very amusing,
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but my money's no
longer worth anything.
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I'm tired of this war,
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and Ben Franklin, as
much as any other man,
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started us on this road to ruin!
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(melancholy horn music)
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- [Sarah] Dearest Mother,
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as my long journey ends
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and I approach Dr.
Franklin's Philadelphia,
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I grow increasingly uneasy.
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Though I believe deeply
that I am where I belong,
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the pain of so recently
leaving both you and Father is,
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I must admit, difficult to bear.
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(melancholy music)
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- [First Mate] Mind the rigging!
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- [Woman] We're finally home!
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- [Sarah] I'm
embarrassed to say it,
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but I feel ever so alone.
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(passengers chattering)
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(bell tolling)
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- Whoa!
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Hmmph!
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And what of my friends here?
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What will James, Moses,
and Henri think of me now?
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Probably that I'm a silly girl
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who keeps changing her mind
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about who she really is.
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Moses?
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(sighs)
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(chuckles) Oh!
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- [Moses] Slow down, James!
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- Prices are still
so high, Moses,
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I don't see how we can...
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Moses?
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- Sarah?
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- Uh, hi!
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- Sarah!
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(both laughing)
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Sarah, what, why?
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- Because I finally
realized something.
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I realized, I am an American.
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- Welcome home.
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(foot tapping)
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(dramatic music)
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- Well, it's about
time, isn't it?
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- James, I feel so wonderful,
even you can't ruin it.
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- What? Hey!
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- Aren't you glad to see me?
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(giggles sheepishly)
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(Sarah laughs)
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I have so much to
tell you about.
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John Paul Jones, and
England, and Mother,
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and Parliament, and
two ocean journeys
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with the worst food
I ever ate and hmm...
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Where's Henri?
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I thought that...
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- [Henri] That's it!
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- [Charles] Hey, stop it!
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- [Both] Ow, ow! (scuffling)
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- Take it back!
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- Never!
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- You are a liar!
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- Am not!
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- Are too!
- Stop it, both of you!
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- Sarah? (yelps)
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I got you now!
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- [Charles] Do not!
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- [Henri] Do!
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- [Charles] Put me down!
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I'm gonna tell my father!
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(boys grumbling and scrapping)
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- He called Dr. Franklin
a fraud and a blowhard.
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- Henri, he's just saying
that to make you angry.
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- I am not!
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- Well if he is, it's working!
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- Stop it! Now!
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Now, how did this start?
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- When Charles said bad
things about Dr. Franklin,
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I said "Take it, back or else!"
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He wouldn't, so I taught him
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a lesson he'll never forget.
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- Ha!
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- Doesn't Charles have the
right to his own opinion,
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even if you disagree with it?
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- Yes, but...
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- That's part of being free.
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Haven't you learned anything
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from Moses and Dr. Franklin?
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- I guess.
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- Then maybe you
should apologize
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for starting the fight.
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- I'm sorry I punched you first,
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but you're wrong
about Dr. Franklin.
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- I am not!
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- Stop shouting!
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Why do you think Dr. Franklin
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is a fraud and a blowhard?
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- I don't know.
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My dad told me.
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- I want to show you something.
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Look around, Charles.
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What do you see?
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- Junk?
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- See?
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- In a way, he's right, Henri.
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It used to be junk.
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- Until Dr. Franklin
got his hands on it.
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- Did you know Ben
Franklin is an inventor?
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- No...
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- Moses, play for him,
play for me, please?
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- Truce?
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- Fine!
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- Fine.
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- All right, then.
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(clinking and scraping)
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(glass hums)
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- How do you do that?
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- This is an invention
of Dr. Franklin's
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called the glass armonica.
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See how the different sized
glass bowls turn together
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as I rotate the crank?
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And when I touch the edge
of one of the bowls...
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(glass sings Yankie
Doodle melodically)
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- Oh!
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(clapping)
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Thank you kindly.
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- Moses, tell him about this.
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- Do you know what
this key did, Charles?
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- Uh, unlock the door
to the crown jewels?
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(Henri chuckles)
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- Not exactly, but it
opened another door,
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to a new world of electricity.
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(lightning crashes and zaps)
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It was in 1752, when Dr.
Franklin was 46 years old.
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(lightning crashes and zaps)
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(dramatic music)
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- [Ben] As soon as any
of the thunder clouds
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come over the kite,
the pointed wire
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will draw the electric
fire from them.
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When the rain has wet the twine,
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so that it can conduct
the electric fire freely,
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you will find it stream out
plentifully from the key
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on the approach of your knuckle.
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- He caught sparks, so what?
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- For one thing, in
case you don't believe
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Dr. Franklin is
a man of courage,
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the next man who tried
the same experiment died.
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And what a discovery
Dr. Franklin made!
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As we learn to
control those sparks,
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we'll be able to
use their energy.
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- To power boats!
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- Or drive carriages,
without horses!
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- Or even help to cook, Charles.
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Dr. Franklin tried it once.
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Like many scientific
experiments,
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it did not work out well.
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It was two days
before Christmas.
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Dr. Franklin was
hosting a dinner party.
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- [Woman] Demonstration
this evening.
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- [Man] Why, Dr. Franklin's
inventions are fascinating!
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- [Man] His whole theory!
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- [Man] Oh, yes!
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- [Man] I have a
Franklin stove, myself.
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(turkey gobbles)
(dinner guests chatter)
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- [Sarah] He did not like to see
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an animal suffer needlessly
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and hoped to use electricity
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to end its life painlessly.
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(turkey gobbles fearfully)
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- [Guests] Oh!
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- Dr. Franklin!
- Let me help you.
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- Oh my, are you all right?
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- Oh yes, perfectly fine.
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(turkey laughs)
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(all laughing)
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- I want to try that!
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- Yeah!
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- Absolutely not.
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Electricity can
be very dangerous.
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- James' parents died in a fire
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started by an electrical storm.
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- To prevent fire
started by lightning,
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Ben invented this.
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- A lightning rod.
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With Ben's new device
attached to the roof,
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the lightning bolt was attracted
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to the point of the rod.
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The electricity traveled
down a copper wire
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into the ground.
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Of course, in Ben's house,
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he sent the charge
through an apparatus
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that rang some small bells.
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In a large storm, the
bells could ring for hours.
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- I want to invent things
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like Dr. Franklin someday.
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- Me too!
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I wish I had a fancy
education like he did.
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- Fancy education?
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Let me tell you about
Ben's fancy education.
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(door slams open)
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- What kind of lies
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are you filling my
son's head with?
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(dramatic music)
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Come here, Charles.
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- They're not lies, sir.
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Would you like to
hear for yourself?
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- I insist on
hearing for myself,
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so I can be sure
to correct them.
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- Charles just told us
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Dr. Franklin had
a fancy education.
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- Wonder where the
kid heard that?
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- Sir, that is
simply not the case.
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Dr. Franklin grew up in Boston,
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directly across from
Old South Church
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in a home filled to bursting
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with 12 brothers and sisters.
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Ben was crushed to
learn his family
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could no longer afford
to send him to class.
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He was nine years old.
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- Like this, Father?
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- [Moses] His father
put him to work
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in the family business,
making candles.
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Ben spent the money he earned
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on his greatest love, books.
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Ben Franklin had no
fancy education, Charles.
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Ben Franklin taught himself.
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- Does your family borrow books
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from the Library Company
of Philadelphia, Charles?
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- Of course.
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- Ben Franklin founded it,
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along with the American
Philosophical Society,
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the Union Fire Company,
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the College of Philadelphia,
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and the Pennsylvania Hospital.
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- Charles, have you
ever had the misfortune
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to be sick or injured?
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- Never, the boy's
strong, like his father.
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- You're both lucky.
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And if you lived in the days
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before Dr. Franklin
founded that hospital,
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being healthy would have
made you even luckier.
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Many poor, ill,
and insane people
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were reduced to wandering
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the streets of Philadelphia.
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It was a terrible situation.
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(coughing)
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(gentle music)
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Now, in the
Pennsylvania Hospital,
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there's a place for the sick.
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Just as importantly,
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people started learning
how to be doctors.
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This awful war
gave them a chance
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to learn firsthand
about the human body.
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(melancholy music)
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(patients moaning)
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Seeking to ease the
terrible suffering,
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they've taken to
the battlefields.
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There, they've been confronted
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with every injury and
sickness you could imagine,
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and then some.
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Thanks to our doctors'
newfound experience,
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people are being
cured of illnesses
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and healed from injuries
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in ways that were
never possible before.
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- Mr. Montgomery,
did you ever read
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Dr. Franklin's Poor
Richard's Almanack?
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- Hmm...
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- [James] Dr. Franklin
published the first edition
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of Poor Richard's Almanack
when he was 26 years old.
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It contained all the
usual weather reports,
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recipes, and predictions.
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What set it apart were
the lively writing
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and witty sayings.
303
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- [Ben] A penny saved
is a penny earned.
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There are no gains
without pains.
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A learned blockhead
is a greater blockhead
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than an ignorant one.
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He that lies down with dogs
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shall rise up with fleas.
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- Library, philosophy,
college, almanacks,
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all very amusing, but my money's
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no longer worth anything.
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I'm tired of this war,
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and Ben Franklin, as
much as any other man,
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started us on this road to ruin.
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- Mr. Montgomery, you
have to understand
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where Dr. Franklin's
deep commitment
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to freedom comes from.
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He wrote, "In 1770,
my brother James
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returned from England..."
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- [Ben] With a press and letters
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to set up his
business in Boston.
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I signed indentures when
I was but 12 years old
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to serve as an apprentice
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for the next nine
years of my life.
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- Presenting this week's issue
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of the New-England Courant!
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(clapping)
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Featuring the latest column by
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Mrs. Silence Dogood.
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Listen!
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"I reflected in my mind
on the extreme folly
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"of those parents who,
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"blind to their
children's dullness
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"and insensible of the
solidity of their skulls,
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"will need send them to
the Temple of Learning,"
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by which she meant
Harvard College, ha-ha-ha!
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Isn't that hilarious?
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- It's very funny, all right.
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- I'd love to know who this
sharp-tongued lady really is.
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- James, I am Mrs.
Silence Dogood.
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I've been writing that column
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and slipping it under the door
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in the middle of the night,
344
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watching everyone
laugh at my words
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but never being able to
take credit for them.
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Do you know how that feels?
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00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:17,304
(paper tearing)
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00:18:20,891 --> 00:18:22,976
- [Moses] James grew
increasingly abusive
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with his 17 year old brother.
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- Aren't you finished yet?
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I don't want to
be here all night.
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- I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying.
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00:18:33,821 --> 00:18:34,863
(fabric tears)
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(letters clatter)
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- You idiot!
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You did that on purpose!
357
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- It was an accident.
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- I don't believe you,
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and I've had enough
of your disrespect!
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- [Moses] Dr. Franklin
left soon after.
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- He never forgot his brother's
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harsh and tyrannical
treatment, Mr. Montgomery.
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That's where Dr. Franklin got
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"that aversion to
arbitrary power
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"which that has stuck to
me through my whole life."
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- It's also one of the reasons
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he's taken such a strong
stand against slavery.
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- Slavery is the economic
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foundation of our
southern states,
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and many of us in the North
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have made our profits
from slave labor, too.
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With all respect, sir,
whoever freed you,
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made a mistake.
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That said, I admit you
do make solid points
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about Benjamin Franklin.
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- You are entitled
to your opinion
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00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:41,054
about slavery, sir,
though by what you say,
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you would deny me mine.
379
00:19:44,057 --> 00:19:44,892
- Where's Charles?
380
00:19:44,892 --> 00:19:46,059
Where's my son?
381
00:19:46,059 --> 00:19:47,060
- And where's Henri?
382
00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:55,861
(boys laughing)
(playful music)
383
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- [Rider] Look out,
I can't control him!
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(horse whinnies)
385
00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,828
(all gasp)
386
00:20:04,828 --> 00:20:07,581
(dramatic music)
387
00:20:14,338 --> 00:20:15,672
- [Sarah] Henri!
388
00:20:18,550 --> 00:20:21,678
- Sarah, I almost
didn't get to hear you
389
00:20:21,678 --> 00:20:23,138
tell me about your trip.
390
00:20:26,433 --> 00:20:28,518
(Moses groans)
391
00:20:28,518 --> 00:20:29,311
Moses...
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- Thank you. sir.
393
00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:38,612
I am glad you are a free man.
394
00:20:38,612 --> 00:20:41,615
- You are welcome,
and I hope someday
395
00:20:41,615 --> 00:20:43,659
you will say that
to an African man
396
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who did not just save
the life of your son.
397
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(dramatic music)
398
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- [Ben] Dearest James,
Sarah, and Henri,
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I know you wish
you could see me,
400
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but as you can't, I will
describe myself to you.
401
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Figure me in your mind
as jolly as formerly,
402
00:21:14,147 --> 00:21:17,317
and as strong and hearty,
only a few years older.
403
00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:20,654
Very plainly dressed,
404
00:21:20,654 --> 00:21:22,823
wearing my thin,
gray, straight hair
405
00:21:22,823 --> 00:21:26,326
that peeps out from
under my fine fur cap.
406
00:21:26,326 --> 00:21:27,661
Think how this must appear
407
00:21:27,661 --> 00:21:29,746
among the powdered
heads of Paris.
408
00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:32,040
Still, they mob me.
409
00:21:37,754 --> 00:21:42,009
(courtesans laughing
and chatting)
410
00:21:47,139 --> 00:21:49,975
- On behalf of the British crown
411
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I would be most--
412
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- Good evening.
413
00:21:53,103 --> 00:21:53,937
(gasps)
414
00:21:53,937 --> 00:21:54,855
- I don't believe it!
415
00:21:54,855 --> 00:21:56,356
(speaking in foreign language)
416
00:21:56,356 --> 00:21:58,400
(speaking in foreign language)
417
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,778
(woman titters)
418
00:22:01,778 --> 00:22:03,196
- Comte de Vergennes,
419
00:22:03,196 --> 00:22:05,198
Ben Franklin at your service.
420
00:22:05,198 --> 00:22:08,035
- Dr. Franklin, what a surprise.
421
00:22:08,035 --> 00:22:10,370
Welcome to Versailles.
422
00:22:10,370 --> 00:22:13,040
- A man of my years is happy
to be welcomed anywhere.
423
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,209
(courtesans laughing)
424
00:22:19,129 --> 00:22:20,422
But I tell you this.
425
00:22:20,422 --> 00:22:22,049
There have been unknown people,
426
00:22:22,049 --> 00:22:24,092
as great as any of
the most famous.
427
00:22:25,927 --> 00:22:27,512
However, my dear friends,
428
00:22:27,512 --> 00:22:28,972
if you would not be forgotten
429
00:22:28,972 --> 00:22:31,058
as soon as you're
dead and rotten,
430
00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:33,018
either write things
worth reading,
431
00:22:33,018 --> 00:22:35,020
or do things worth writing.
432
00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:37,647
And children, I'm quite
certain that you shall.
433
00:22:38,940 --> 00:22:41,485
(bright music)
434
00:22:45,113 --> 00:22:48,158
♪ Looking at life
through my own eyes ♪
435
00:22:48,158 --> 00:22:51,536
♪ Searching for a
hero to idolize ♪
436
00:22:51,536 --> 00:22:54,956
♪ Feeling the pain
as innocence dies ♪
437
00:22:54,956 --> 00:22:58,293
♪ Looking at life
with my own eyes ♪
438
00:22:58,293 --> 00:23:00,087
♪ I take my heart into battle
439
00:23:00,087 --> 00:23:01,755
♪ Give that Freedom
Bell a rattle ♪
440
00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:03,507
♪ Get my independence on
441
00:23:03,507 --> 00:23:05,258
♪ Declaring on the dotted line
442
00:23:05,258 --> 00:23:06,968
♪ Red, white, and
blue, never give up ♪
443
00:23:06,968 --> 00:23:10,305
♪ You represent America
444
00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:14,267
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