Ken Burns reflects on his FOMO after watching Patrick Henry speech reenactment
Ken Burns has made a career telling America’s foundational stories from less-than-obvious points of view.
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Patrick Henry's speech inspired revolution. But we're still not sure what he said.
It took over 40 years after Patrick Henry had delivered the speech (and 18 years after he died) that a reconstruction of the speech was published.
