![]() I recall reading Dumas Malone's multi-volume Jefferson biography where Jefferson wrote in his diary about how hard he worked on researching precedents and that all Patrick Henry did was bamboozle juries with bull. ![]() Thomas Jefferson whose forte was writing not speaking, trained as a lawyer as a young man. That aroused a lot of jealousy among his contemporaries. Henry was one of the leaders of the Virginia bar as well as a Delegate in the Virginia House of Burgesses, his summations to the jury were legendary. He was indeed the kind of spell binding orator whose words did move men. But in point of fact that's what he was in real life. ![]() One of the other reviewers mentioned that he thought Litel was old fashionedly flamboyant as Henry. ![]() This one is a competently made film which gives the essence of the real Patrick Henry. Give Me Liberty was the first of three short subjects in which character actor John Litel played the fiery Virginia bred founding father. ![]()
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