Yes, I got that too. Quote from the article:
"He [Martin Hofmann] was getting started on a huge scale when it all
fell part. He'd just started on America. The document he forged, The
Ode to a Freeman, was a hugely significant piece of American history -
it's not only the first document printed in America but it had great
political importance in a way of establishing America's spirit about
becoming a citizen and having the right to vote. There's a Declaration
of Independence that's supposedly out there that he forged at least
some of the signatures on. He just got away with it again and again so
I think the sky was the limit."
I was hoping some US petceters would know about this vital piece of
American History. The title "Ode to a Freeman" sounds like something
Heinlein would have penned!
Roger
On 12/30/05, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Roger I had no luck except 'ode to kathy freeman' have written to BBC
> -who knows perhaps it was a forgery itself of something that did not exist??
> P tittled P
>
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> Subject: "ode to a freeman"
>
> I was reading here:
>
> http://www23.thdo.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/man-who-forged-am
> erica.shtml
>
> and I saw a mention to the poem "ode to a freeman" and the google
> overlords failed me. I for one am extremely disappointed. However my
> curiousity is piqued. This being an historic document, the ode must be
> somewhere in the print-world?
>
> Roger
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