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Hello and welcome to yesterday today, the offshoot podcast of Dark Historys.

My name's Ben, and this episode is for the 6th of July, 2025.

So naturally, being the 6th of July, there's no real place we can start, apart from the fact that it's, you know, the Fourth July weekend, Independence Day, Declaration Independence in America.

It was printed across all the papers, as you might have expected.

Interestingly, back then, this was obviously 1776.

There wasn't a great deal of editorialising in the newspapers.

Most papers, especially on the British side, were more or less just straight excerpts from letters that were just printed verbatim, basically.

There wasn't a great, like I say, a great deal of editorialising. There was one or two here and there. There was a few sort of periodicals that were a little bit more editorial in their

sort of presentation, but generally speaking, it was just verbatim news. And that's largely what we

saw here with the Declaration of Independence in the American papers. It more or less was just

printed verbatim.

And in fact, that was kind of the point.

That was a, it was to disseminate it, you know, across the states.

So, so, so many papers just literally printed, like, straight up a page and a half of the speech that was given in Congress.

And, you know, it's a great speech, legendary.

There's some really iconic lines in it.

But I thought it would be more interesting to dig into, say,

some of the lesser sort of spoken about things,

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