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Source: PBS
Historians in the News
10-7-14

Ken Burns's surprising discovery about his Revolutionary War ancestor

Documentary filmmaker and patriotic American Ken Burns discovers an incredibly surprising fact about his Revolutionary War-era ancestors -- they were loyalists, devoted to the Union Jack!

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