Adams and Jefferson Died on the Same July 4th | The True Story of the Strangest Day in American History, Told for a Calm Night

On July 4th 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, five hundred miles apart, and this is the true story, told slowly and gently so you can fall asleep inside it. Best friends who built a nation together, enemies who did not speak for twelve years, and two old men who found each other again through one hundred and fifty eight letters, until the same impossible day carried them both home, reconciled and at peace.

This is a special Fourth of July Tale: one true story from history, told at the fireside, with nothing sudden in it. The story ends softly around the 48 minute mark and the summer night, crickets and warm breeze and a far off bell, continues until morning. Black screen friendly.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
0:49 The Same Impossible Day
4:03 Two Kinds of Weather
9:29 The Pen and the Voice
14:11 Paris, London, and a Borrowed Family
18:27 The Long Winter
23:35 The Matchmaker and the Dream
27:27 One Hundred and Fifty Eight Letters
31:50 The Fiftieth Summer
34:54 The Fourth
40:42 How the News Traveled
44:52 Drifting
48:27 The Summer Night Continues

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New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.

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Sources: David McCullough, John Adams; Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; The Adams Jefferson Letters, edited by Lester J. Cappon. Every scene comes from the letters the two men actually wrote or from the historians who spent their lives with them; where a famous line rests on family memory rather than paper, we say so out loud.

A real human voice with AI assistance, fully disclosed. No mid roll ads, ever, so nothing wakes you.

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