Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But then in 1771, he's declared lunatic.
L-U-N-A-T-I-C-K.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
Which is some sort of category of mental state at the time.
Yorktown, the British surrender.
And it's 1783.
And we're en route to signing the Treaty of Paris and become a country again.
So somewhere in that year, John Hancock decides to have a big party.
You know, he is John Hancock.
And he invites everybody.
It's a big party.
And somebody, I think it's Hancock, comes up with the idea that, you know, we should invite James Otis.
Because, you know, he was there at the beginning, right?
This is right at the time when people realize...
You know, books are going to be written about them now.
Statues are going to be carved.
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