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Guaranteed Human.

This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories,

the show where America is the star and the American people.

Little has been known about one of the most important figures in early American history,

Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, yet after his death, his life and legend

faded. Here to tell the story is Jeffrey McKenna,

author of Saving Dr. Warren, a true patriot.

Let's take a listen.

Dr. Joseph Warren was involved so early in the struggle for our freedoms that at that point it was just the fact that these colonists

had come over at great sacrifice to be here on the American continent

and that they had come here specifically for freedoms, religious freedoms.

And so Dr. Joseph Warren was adamant that those freedoms could not be encroached on

and that they needed to be respected and that they just needed to be treated like English citizens.

And that was the big issue is that the crown was not treating them equal to English citizens.

And Dr. Warren was in the forefront of saying, that's not what our forefathers came over here for.

And they sacrificed a lot to come over here

and to build what we have.

And we cannot allow that to just be taken away.

And so that was why he was so adamant

in getting in the early, early stages

of the American Revolution.

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