Versions
- June Draft: (Committee of Five: Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Livingston, Sherman)
- “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable”
- July 4: Dunlap Broadside (John Dunlap)
- 1,300+ words but not one was “democracy”
- July 8: Public readings begin
- Jones did not read “merciless Indian savages”
- August 2: Engrossed copy (Timothy Matlack)
- Dickinson did not sign
“1776” (Broadway 1969 // Hollywood 1972)