Boston: Birthplace of Liberty

the the fb today july fourth marks an important occasion in the history of man's freedom on

this earth in commemoration of the occasion w r b r presents boston birthplace of liberty speaking greek week the feature presentation on this program is a documentary sound tour of boston's famous freedom for conceived repaired and produced by city diner to set the mood for our program here on the robert shaw chorale on the rca victor symphony orchestra with robert russell bennett's arrangement of two revolutionary war songs yankee doodle and chester it's be

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been james stover was the tenor soloist in that recorded performance of yankee doodle and chester to songs of the revolutionary war arranged by robert russell bennett robert shaw conducted his corral on the rca victor symphony orchestra and now sidney diamonds recorded sound tour of the freedom trail boston birthplace of liberty here's your narrator i there i'm bob watch a parade in boston is always a stimulating different than them and boston as many great it's like this one of the band member's students at a local high school looking train and thick and colorful uniforms strut slightly the peak of the

plan boston has another type of parade to parade which isn't worth the lives of each of us the parade of history in the birthplace of liberty austin sometimes called the hub of the universe boston is a city of course it was here that the first part of the revolution which it here the country's first public grounds were set aside the boston common the first public school to the first newspaper published and here in boston the world's first telephone call was made and the first ether operation before if you're a purist you'll probably visit boston's historic spots by bus starting in copley square mr paladino watch washington

no need do you know among his agency's boston common in taiwan and from a hermit the reverend william claxton sixteen thirty four and dedicated it to serve as a training field and as a place for the feeling of cattle once a year during national dairy week hauser again allowed to graze on the common and there are more informal the dim distant traffic in colonial days according to tradition pirates which isn't

quakers were hanged on the old el which was near the front and on the top of the common near the subway entrance the dignified park stricture peter banners masterpiece you know you are representing all american children sings america a simple i think the simple words we visit now the building in which the hidden america was first sung apart scripture street noises disappear as you step through the side door of the park street church and walk down a short set of steps into a small reception area this is the reverend james martin marched park street church was founded in at no nine by a group of people from the old south church in boston and immediately after they result to erect a meeting

house on the site of the pound gregory the spire of the park street church it's one of only two of the period which still stand today the arrest of fallen victim to hurricane or nor'easter is with rage up the east coast with inspire many feet above the congested street outside a large clock probably speaks to anoint our critic tom the sound is exactly the same as it was a century and a half ago when the clock was installed inside the rugged tested steve overhangs also a famous and equally durable bell its tone is friendly familiar as it echoes across boston common we have a bill that was cast in theory gino nine in

england was brought here for the purpose of being installed in this tower and day it tolls on a sunday morning in announcing the service of worship croxton church began to grow rapidly as the church began to crawl or as the church began to grow at her ministry of course became influential and only upon boston but also upon the entire world ultimately that one interesting sideline along the way during the war eighteen twelve in the crypt of parks picture of her with start that was used by the votes of the day and then consequently some people have dubbed this corner of brimstone corner just outside the picture window and the pastor study of arc street church the boston gregory buried there are many illustrious americans there are several of the signers of the declaration of

independence for example john hancock samuel adams in addition the parents of benjamin franklin's are buried here and someone who is familiar to many of the children of the land mother go this is also very clear he was mrs mary goes live close by the park street church recalled with pride the names samuel francis smith a theological student in him composer for from his band came to america when he composed this him and he gave it to his friend who was at the time organized here and we lol mice in and lol mason said it too familiar music and on july fourth weekend thirty one this was first sung in america and eventually found right here in parks triggered by a group of schoolchildren the animal rescue league was founded in a vest rhea park screech originating at night and there've been other contributions to american

heritage and culture was the marshall being aware of the historical background of this church and its place in the achievements of the past does this give you satisfaction if you preach it gives one a great deal of satisfaction to know that those who've gone before have been concerning to provide for us today a heritage that is worthy is also instructive to me because it reminds me that the things for which these people stood have been passed on to us today in terms of our responsibility we don't simply glory in this church of what has been done in the past rather we're in arrested and going in the present what needs to be done and thereby providing for those who come after us a great heritage we're mindful that we must meet today's challenge with the message for the day and we hope that those who come after us will be able to book with pride to us but that they

themselves or will recognize their responsibility for their own pay by the lessons of the past and we might think i mean hulu birddog you move up park street passed the state house designed by charles ball french and build on what was once john hancock's cow pasture but subtly very square swing around about to come on straight to king's chapel in the midst of a busy downtown boston standing out from the confusion like a beacon of tranquility and peace king's chapel a massive gray granite building it was constructed on the very edge of a burial ground within king's chapel in a

small office diverge or harold j hanks was lineage includes many virgins king's chapel was founded and sixteen at six and then they had their first seven down the old townhouse what your statehouse now stands and then and sixteen at eight they acquired economy or cemetery here and that became the first of the kitchen window sixteen at eight the church was enlarged and seventeen term then and seventeen forty nine king's chapel built around over the old wooden chair and one was finished the seventeenth it before your chickasaw not the one of the sections and there they did that because i suppose they might turn to the congregation is which is the only other religion in boston for two of your church down first they've had not just left and the army remains of the old chet second onion table to see in the front to cancel they'll it's given preliminary and sixty ninety six the lord's prayer tent commands the creek the paint on the canvas sixty ninety six in london england

and the poll that came out the old church dates back to seventeenth century even supposed to be the oldest any pope in united states on its original site still in constant use today nearly two hundred and seventy five years after the founding of king's chapel you don't have a regular congregation oh yes we do about five hundred five hundred members and regular services of them held almost regularly sense sixty eight are considerable number of hours of preaching at the fallen about the year's cemetery outside roll out the heat of the chechen led to him before they wrap the jackals both keep on that committee today causes of boston edison steve most people to wake up today become the chair to a coma he comes three miles on the streets of boston it wouldn't leak and the cemetery under current cost control the city was witness the delivery and why it got its name king's chapel we don't know given a fountain sixteen city and king's chapel building

connolly sixteen eighty six sixteen at eight and out they had married mary children the first white woman stepped up plymouth rock the landing the potent because the reason why should wear it out instead of plymouth is later on life you i don't want your son says what the bottom of the heart and windows the phone to give a red carpet laid out here don't know what the first carload of massachusetts robert chino the first command of the accountable artillery company which is the second oldest military organization in the world and if you have accomplished over the skeleton just under about this dad said before the given name is elizabeth pena says on the stone he'll it madill of the pain quite a sample painting at a fifty two years the path of life of the people and downstairs under king's chapel announced at about twenty four tunes about eight hundred p will break down there and on the belfry with labour party the onus on the way to two thousand four hundred and seventy five pounds made of bronze and so american intended after mabel paul revere

those grandsons wish that cost eighty three death back royalty you what kinds of problems are involved in maintaining a historical shrine like this mr haynes well we've only had changed one thing up in the attic cause we're the beans and then the highroad true but when you have a bug get into a once a month i took an addict and look around us on the saudis that political pulpit went way up and the scene has been used to see out of the victim like termites out of the bottom of the list that's the top and the survey found out that this was the second building in united states attack while but the danish bug that have to happen to the bug yeah good judgment on whether to engage a long distance to build fuel tank empower them luck about the chapel bell which was made by paul revere is dispel still sounded on sundays only answering of every service it feel about people like paul revere and the others of his period do you think of them as human beings or as just

dim historical figures now your names i think that they're still around this precious metal work world and now and then i think a lot of these old gentleman watching over me and left with your budget i feel that way anyway this is the sound of the bella king's chapel a bill made by paul revere label by the maker himself as his sweetest work and told by his request that his own king's chapel lots of different hearted statue erected in boston the familiar figure of benjamin franklin done by richard as green on one side a franklin space as in life is gay and smiling the other side sober and sedate on brumfiel street nearby the site of the old quarter bookstore thing as a literary center where longfellow emerson hawthorne homes harriet beecher stowe whittier and julia

ward howe browsed and converse and around the current teeming washington street yourself making house yourself meeting house where the outrage boston columnist spell the mass meetings which actually fire the revolution the old south meeting house a dignified red brick building topped by a noble steeple standing in pride against the backdrop of more recently constructed buildings but in its preservation ethically and philosophically as well as practically <unk> charles loring an architect by profession to me the maintenance of a group of voting on a one wheel oh you start associations is tremendously inspiring especially as it is a triumph for free speech under what circumstances was the old south meeting house a record well it was a meeting out another term is a little different from a church the church in those days and by the church of england

i'm eighteen hours and clyde some of the protestant offshoots from the church of england and the building that they are in seventeen sixty eight and i've been there so you can see longer than they united states existing law longer uses a church the meeting house was operated as a museum and even placed by the old self association this continues an impressive career a career intimately involved in the events of american history well if that's the most dramatic was the boston tea party they're the colonists objected to the tax imposed on the tee and there are great tea drinking community i mean they all realized well you might call it or they're at a lot of the men dressed up as indians to disguise themselves we need to know about the vote to the tea

ships and through the great city of odd as a protest against attacks a number of articles of interest are on display with an old south perhaps the most unique specimen as a letter from the george washington bridge into a dentist in boston where drawings of the way that dennis hadn't made for his false teeth which were wrong i'm going to the way that four state should've been made so i was on a feeling that no one had this fighting goes through the frame of other lawyers for steven the name of joseph warren has mentioned frequently in any discussion of early boston a public spirited citizens and the doctor he helped to provide leadership prior to the american revolution what in your opinion restoring was warrens of standing characteristic it showed deliberate power endures of ontario is a warren of his friends and neighbors realize the implications of their revolutionary activities i'm sure that a

day they'll corporations and i know that if you start a revolution against mccain as they said that again one convention that we don't hang together well and so they knew that vision of life or death for them given the video or give me death we find ourselves in another moment of crisis in history a moment in which the role of the american people and nation includes leadership what kind of a message comes out of old south meeting house units perpetuity to us to day freedom and courage freedom of your conscience of years ago and courage to face the dangers involved in doing it can we respond to the need of the hour and we find here a gold solve meeting house part of the coverage we required to sustain our freedoms i'm sure were robbers they got there the question my mind or the coverage of course you were hardcover most commonsense solution but

certainly the tradition and heritage is here to be noted by anyone perceptive enough to see and here's this free speech coverage moment a harsh but forgot when when you walk through also is the spirit and the feeling still are what what do you sense i can almost ship operated by the men and women and sodas and in the rioters days gone by so the time you devote won't solve on a volunteer basis is not time wasted i'm pure and historical spots like this are worth preserving oh that must be respected the background and coaches when read the level of our great great grandparents did as well like dan wheeler stages as good as they were a quick visit to the old state house formally a british

barracks it was built in seventeen thirteen and later used by generals how clinton and gauge for conferences before the battle of bunker hill and of course in seventeen seventy six the declaration of independence was read from the balcony to the cheering crowds on the street below a street now marked by a circle of cobblestones and the pavement it commemorates the site of the boston massacre makes the annual all the cradle of liberty where some of the earliest and most intensive town meeting seeking complete freedom or how the turmoil of boston market districts around spaniel how widely known as the cradle of liberty you enter the hallway but didn't they and you become aware of the melodic message of westminster chimes which are played every hour it is

superintendent of faneuil hall mr campbell where there's fennell hall fit into history or just before stockroom curriculum the solution i use as a family peter fadel was a highly successful boston merchant who felt the boston should have a market house in july seventeen forty therefore he made an offer to build out of his own pocket for market donating it to the town the accidently build hall over the stalls of the market is one of the most prominent roles in world history i wanted to take to build for oil wealth or seventeen forty and was completed and seventeen forty two but in seventy six the one that was destroyed by fiat we start the building began to acquire historical significance it became the center of revolutionary movements of boston in the colony was used by british officers as a playhouse during the siege of boston throughout the years hundreds of thousands of words of praise and protest and final hole

all yes certain host's eu have been meeting to lead up to the boston tea party including the first meeting and of postage and from him i went up to your stall meeting goes on there washington was here before and after the revolution even today powell hall continues its tradition the home plate for freedom of speech and expression during world war two various groups recorded material here for a short waiting to underground groups and you're oppressed people behind the iron curtain today hear messages directly from his cradle everything outside mr campbell's office at the top of a steep stairways you look up at the wall and you see we're looking up into the whole notion that big rush to hang the bay but webster haynes debate painting is the largest framed painting in america sixteen by thirty feet were seen as the united states senate than eighteen thirty and of course the stage what

pr stages of operative for paul and i've been that way since the conflict in the phrase cradle of liberty originated with john adams was later used by daniel webster around the walls portraits also warned knox commodore prebble governor kaine have strong edward everett and other notables of the past vital also was the headquarters of the ancient an honorable artillery company founded and sixteen thirty seven what else is there to see here mr campbell well after you visit the nomination of me i like to suggest before you leave us look up above their job will and see our thing was well ok the grasshopper weather vane has been quietly sitting on top of funnel watching the progress of boston and the events of the day ever since the seventeen hundreds of the weather vane and the building were designed to last no longer the congested north end of boston assured distance away from the boston

waterfront to the paul revere house what the winding alleys streets stop at nineteen north square at the oldest house in boston probably built in the sixteenth seventies hear paul revere lived find a place for about a thousand dollars part cash part mortgage from this elsie presumably left for the boston tea party and seventeen seventy three disguised as an indian and he was living here with his family when he set out on his historic rival lexington in april seventeen seventy five walked up to the door grasp the old fashioned ring knocker and asked for admission we did i think the larger question you're greeted by custodians guard corps some

within a guide here for almost twenty five years step from the hallway into the first floor front row know the wide find boards on the floor the colonial buildings and furnishings the lead a diamond windows as <unk> course and for more details about the house yellow corset at an english tutor type of one of the most dominant in the streets are allowed you can see a line that that's typical tudor tight trousers and of course as you enter the front door coming out the street you walk into a large living which has fire lodge fireplace with a dutch oven and a large <unk> for playing possum pandora the fireplace and his forties in the colonial period when to grieve you're actually live in the house he owned a house and sending sediment leaking under the court i think some of that time during the revolution he was forced to leave on a couple of danger to his own way and i'll always found wasted and out you at the watertown and local only children were there every year family while a clamour sixteen at each family

right white girls viable and that incidentally only had five surviving young liberal icon step five you have to be almost eighty four year old himself the majority of the children were raised in this house i was with just a living room and a kitchen in the first forty two bedrooms on the second well the war i think they set or ten and warner's house often when we think about historical figures like paul revere we forgot that they were really human beings also well here we have a man who by his own hard work not only became a clever craftsman and a highly successful businessman but a man raised all in everything for his patriotism and try to emerge he's mixed up and everything at that to deal with government are dormant colonial period was largely instrumental and ratification because to see and it usually lot of persuasion on john williams

oh yeah and i don't have a vision of the past that he hob knobbed along a big politicians yet many facets of his life personality and background this memory fear even though on a different things is something david bowie in a faulty quite a number of things as you stand here in the living room of the paul revere house you listen to the same sounds which were familiar to this great patriot when he too stood in this spot the opening and closing of the door between the living room and kitchen and overhead filtering through the low status to the creaking of footsteps as they moved across the floor is by war heroes into the bus

again and move way through the heavy traffic this time headed for the waterfront moments later get your first glimpse of a grand old fighting ship still commission but out of action the us for the constitution old ironsides thank you wow no no you know

before leaving old ironsides smartly bunker hill monument bus driver daryl hall and again you want to talk to you you know you're welcome

no money no money no no really wrong mr holland colorfully described the battle a battle in which the british lost nearly fifty percent of their attacking point three americans about twenty five percent either the public in the famous words don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes the clash between the americans and the british have been flowed as did that it was a furious conflict and toward the end it was on hand to hand no no

you know borrowing money there are other places of historical interest to visit and boston cop still bearing ground where starting in sixteen sixty the columnist began to place their debt the boston still brought from england about seventeen hundred used for the grinding of paint that harrison gray otis house boston's best example of a late eighteenth century mansion problems steps which led to that historic and magnificent as veda pierce sergeant the tour is complete but the tour is not complete you must return now to boston not on a weekday but on sunday return to attend one of the regular services at the old north church walks slowly across all reveal

more past cyrus dow and sequestering statue revere listeners to subdue didn't really sunbathe traffic merges into another person as you approach your reverence people here is placid reaction against the sky lot slower torture one of the most famous in american history and listen to the royal pianos made in seventeen forty four innings even after two years in no no

our mind how shall be called a house of prayer for all people said the text from isaiah and the first sermon was preached inside this remarkably well preserved building here is the oldest existing church out of this incident construction has begun and seventeen twenty fourteen located close to the harbor to use boston fostered in the old north church and wanted to see patterns among its original they and the other commissioners will force of building a perfect proportions sense of that person or a dr meyer its own home whether the main entrance to richer as the organist art appraiser in the argument

which he plays had its origin in one building seventeen fifty nine by thomas johnston of boston that was one of the first oregon spilled in the united states and some of the pipes visible on the front of the case are the original pipes still functioning move through the short the street and into the church itself make your way quietly to a seat in one of the hive box she is sitting like meditation and wait for the service to begin yeah tell victims assistance and commence the surface

it looks forward to a deal the tablets there contain the lord's prayer the ten commandments and the apostles the players so as not to distract from the city's bright chandelier is like that for the first time and christmas day seventeen twenty four students are narrow the service continues in much the same

for me nudes continuously since seventeen twenty three for the first and second lessons from the bible the apostles' creed the prayers the set another guinness all the vigor prepares for his sermon of the day is it the vicar speaks from the wind blast pulpit elevated high above the pews sort of all including those seated in the gallery and see and hear the sermon continues

right right say that the vicars slowly respect and with dignity a sense the surface clearly called the floor level then he officiated the offertory which assumed complete the closing prayer is for in the johnston

ordered the choir in the bowls blend together the bakery cites the benediction it is as we don't know it for the old north church leader now refresh my answers inspired by the knowledge that similar services here of them attended by many generations of americans of recent immigration as well as a line what began with a beautiful courtyards and

gardens outside the church through a side door and into a study where the vicar of old north the reverend howard peek out a way to our job as the vicar of all north for several years these friendly soft spoken as you undoubtedly know this church so ugly question that we have seventeen hundred and twenty three it tells a story of the people on to something lovely and they have labored for some twenty years to build a church is you know say it the church also tells another story and also tells the story of the skills of the artisans of colonial america the church's after the design of sir christopher and four and when he designed churches of this nature it was deeply anxious to get light into the building in a year if you're not we have a clear glass windows and kept clean so we still care and ceo saw it into a community rain was anxious to get the light arrows was out of iran

was anxious to get the election because the church was doing what the church should have been doing encouraging people to learn to read and in a chance to see the lord's prayer the ten commandments and the creek in the language of the people people come to the old north church not only from the immediate community of boston's north end but from every state in the union and many foreign countries they come toward north because because these churches loyal liberty buried in the tomb beneath the church are such patriots as major john pickens who led the royal marines in their march to lexington and concord and was fatally wounded in the battle of bunker hill here lies also sonny wool nicholson the great naval heroin first commander of the british constitution old ironsides the name of paul revere is also interlaced with a history of old nora he came to worship in the church with those who was a member of this church a story about

life is that one has only a boy a fifteen years of age became the seven of his friends because something very exciting it come to this church to fit the spirit of bells in north american continent and when seven of his friends they started of bell ring as beale and we still ring of those every sunday morning before a service of worship the bells at old north are still running the same way paul revere used to having hard on the rope attached reached out back in the car now for a moment in your mind's eye you see these ropes in the hands of us soil in perspiring fifteen year old boy a goldsmith apprentice from the inside of the tower standing beside the bells you hear as paul revere his friends or the mechanical movement of the belgians themselves and they tackle the song drifting in mr al

al al now back to vicar how this hour also was to have significance in the life of paul revere for another reason the reason which showed self years later in april seventeen seventy five and when you think of a family into near seventeen seventy hard to my mind becomes not only reveal her body the young section of this church actually the janitor of this church robert noonan who was given the task of waging within the walls of this church as to how the british were coming on that fateful evening listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of paul revere bus from paul revere and others like an old north church became immortal and what lessons from which we can learn today here it be a lot you sense the struggle that

man went through in order to gain those two precious words liberty and freedom liberty and freedom live words in this church and another word synonymous the word struggle that weren't destroyed was not something of the house alone but it is of the president and liberty and freedom will never be maintained and continued most people are willing to struggle to see that it is always weird to see that liberty and freedom are always with us that's the challenge of those american patriots was published and build old north and who fought for the symbol of liberty which is boston patriots was douglas the first three primaries school in america patriots who ran for public office willingly and without selfish motives or as they look through these clear glass windows and siding community they responded

with action action invented an inevitable parade of history of which teaches at an air are you for the documentary

boston birthplace of liberty it was conceived prepared and produced by sydney diamond and narrated by bob walsh the recording in editing engineers were dennis oppenheim and james limits and now our national anthem it's b it's b the peak ms

boorstin it's b and is that is the on a race a painting it's

b it's been the point it's been it's been it's big this

is big the power has been it's b the robert shaw corolla and rca victor symphony orchestra with the star spangled banner this recorded performance of our national anthem rings to a close our program commemorating the events that took place on july fourth seventeen seventy six the documentary boston birthplace of liberty was presented through the courtesy of the producer sydney diamond and creative associates incorporated

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