Written by the founder of the university of virginia, Thomas Jefferson. As you enter the gallery, you will see the key item in the collection, something that took mr. Smalls quite a few years before he had the chance to acquire it. This is one of 26 known copies of the very first printing of the declaration of independence printed on the evening of july 4, 1776, in philadelphia by printer john dunlap. It really is the key printing of American History. First printing of americas founding document. We are not quite sure how many copies were printed. Perhaps upwards of 400 sheets broadside. 26 survived, and interestingly enough, two of the 20s of two of the 26 copies are here. You can trace its ownership back to the early 19th century owned by a man named tobias leer, who was George Washingtons last personal secretary. The purpose of the dunlap broadside, printed on the evening of july or it was to disseminate the news as quickly as possible throughout the 13 colonies. So copies were sent
The Second World War and later on in his career as a secret service agent. He was responsible for transferring some of americas most priceless documents, declaration of independence, constitution, gettysburg address to fort knox in the aftermath of pearl harbor. So this date was to summer 26, 1941, the day after americas pearl harbor crisis. Mr. Lamb how did he get involved and why did they go to fort knox . Mr. Puleo the secret service gets involved when the library of Congress Needs help. He is kind of responsible for these documents and he wants the Top Law Enforcement Agency in the country at the time, the secret service to help him. Fort knox was chosen because it was americas most impenetrable location. It was the gold union depository, had been open several years prior with a lot of gold already transferred. And a so the secretary of the treasury gave permission to use a portion of the depository for these documents. Mr. Lamb which documents . Mr. Puleo the declaration of indepe
The Second World War and later on in his career as a secret service agent. He was responsible for transferring some of americas most priceless documents, declaration of independence, constitution, gettysburg address to fort knox in the aftermath of pearl harbor. So this date was to summer 26, 1941, the day after americas pearl harbor crisis. Mr. Lamb how did he get involved and why did they go to fort knox . Mr. Puleo the secret service gets involved when the library of Congress Needs help. He is kind of responsible for these documents and he wants the Top Law Enforcement Agency in the country at the time, the secret service to help him. Fort knox was chosen because it was americas most impenetrable location. It was the gold union depository, had been open several years prior with a lot of gold already transferred. And a so the secretary of the treasury gave permission to use a portion of the depository for these documents. Mr. Lamb which documents . Mr. Puleo the declaration of indepe
The Second World War and later on in his career as a secret service agent. He was responsible for transferring some of americas most priceless documents, declaration of independence, constitution, gettysburg address to fort knox in the aftermath of pearl harbor. So this date was to summer 26, 1941, the day after americas pearl harbor crisis. Mr. Lamb how did he get involved and why did they go to fort knox . Mr. Puleo the secret service gets involved when the library of Congress Needs help. He is kind of responsible for these documents and he wants the Top Law Enforcement Agency in the country at the time, the secret service to help him. Fort knox was chosen because it was americas most impenetrable location. It was the gold union depository, had been open several years prior with a lot of gold already transferred. And a so the secretary of the treasury gave permission to use a portion of the depository for these documents. Mr. Lamb which documents . Mr. Puleo the declaration of indepe
Press. I just did two delegation breakfast this morning before i came here. Over the last few days does a lot of work but there do with senator sanders team throughout the day just to coordinate and make sure that our floor programs are working together, we were coordinated on how to move forward on things. I think the next few days it will pivot a little more to focusing on planning for the next few days and that sort of thing. What has surprised you the most . Event interesting few days. What has surprised you the most about what has gone down . Whats been really great to watch is how these delegation teams have worked together collaboratively. That since i had this morning in the delegations i was in, people are charged up and ready to go. I think people were really inspired last but in particular i the story we told about all of the things that secretary clinton is done. I think president clinton did a brilliant job of putting the altogether but we heard last night from victims of