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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Pull out some books, pull this thing out.
And this is the pamphlet that James Otis wrote.
And this is an original copy.
It's a 1764 edition of the pamphlet that made him famous.
My first thought, of course, is I should steal this.
And I'm thinking that in the most virtuous way.
They don't know what they have.
They don't appreciate it.
It's rotting into dust back there behind these books.
I know what it is.
It's the Magna Carta of America.
I know what I'm holding in my hand.
Wouldn't it just sit back there and turn into dust over the next hundred years if I don't save it?
And then the light timer cut off and I was plunged into darkness.
Matching the darkness of your soul.
Exactly.
So, of course, I crab walked out of there, took the elevator to the ground floor and up to the sixth floor into the bright light of the rare books division and handed it to the curator.
And I told her, this jewel of the American Revolution has been rotting away in the stacks.
And I hope that they will take it and preserve it.
And that's where it is today.
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