1776
09/11/1972
2h 21m

Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams charge Thomas Jefferson with the task of writing a statement announcing the new country's emancipation from British rule.
Cast


William Daniels
John Adams


Howard Da Silva
Dr. Benjamin Franklin


Ken Howard
Thomas Jefferson


Blythe Danner
Martha Jefferson
Donald Madden
John Dickinson (PA)


John Cullum
Edward Rutledge (SC)


David Ford
Congressional President John Hancock (MA)
Ron Holgate
Richard Henry Lee (VA)
Emory Bass
James Wilson (PA)


Virginia Vestoff
Abigail Adams


William Hansen
Caesar Rodney (DE)


Roy Poole
Stephen Hopkins (RI)


Ray Middleton
Col. Thomas McKean (DE)


Stephen Nathan
Courier
Ralston Hill
Charles Thomson


William Duell
Andrew McNair


James Noble
Rev. John Witherspoon (NJ)


Howard Caine
Lewis Morris (NY)


Peter Forster
Oliver Wolcott (CT)


John Myhers
Robert Livingston
Daniel Keyes
Dr. Josiah Bartlett (NH)


Rex Robbins
Roger Sherman (CT)
Leo Leydon
George Read (DE)
Charles Rule
Joseph Hewes (NC)
Patrick Hines
Samuel Chase (MD)
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