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Religions > Atheism |
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| Date: |
17 Feb 2005 09:16:19 AM |
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Re: BREAKING NEWS |
"Dave" <dland@mytrashmail.com> wrote:
:|And how is this "breaking news?" Care to elaborate on where you learned
:|the truth?
Madison ave 101 get people's attention, however it can also be thought of
as breaking news when something as ingrained in the American consciousness
was is shown to be a myth.
Where?
it began with a question and answer by someone from the First Federal
Congress Project Then a question posed to a scholar at the LOC and his
answer along with his recommendation for a specific book.
Cites from that book led to other sources, books a few online sources. At
various points along this journey primary source documentation was
discovered such as journals and newspapers of the day,
Bottom line is this.
There is no contemporary evidence to support that Washington ever spoke
those words.
The first time such report of him saying such appeared, it appeared in a
book that was written and published in the 1850s
The book was written by someone who had a factual reputation for playing
loose with facts etc in some of his writings
The story is suppose to have been toold to that author by a eye witness to
the events of that day. However, that eyewitness was only a couple weeks
beyond his 6th birthday at the time of the events and from his own account
was a block or more away from the location of the swearing in and had a
angle of sight that would not have permitted him to see anything really let
along hear what was being said in a day before mics, loudspeakers even
megaphones or horns.
In addtion,,first hand accounts from people either on the very balcony the
swearing in was talking place or directly across the street from the second
floor balcony on rook tops do not mention any suck words being spoken. No
journal entries of the day or newspaper reports report any such words being
spoken.
Anytime any mention of him saying "So help me God" is given in history
books or other such places and there is ever a cite given for that it is
that book mentioned above written and published in the 1850s. No other
cites is ever given. So that book is considered to be the source for the
story of him saying those words (usually no cite is ever given).
That gives a pretty good general summation of the actual evidence.
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