You Are There - 1776 - Philadelphia, July 4, 1776

July 4, 1776 — Philadelphia. The Continental Congress gathers in Independence Hall to take the most daring step in America’s history: the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. In this episode of You Are There, Edward R. Murrow and the CBS News team bring you into that room on the day freedom was declared. Hear the debates, the doubts, and the final resolve as the delegates put their names to a document that would change the world. With the immediacy of breaking news, this broadcast re-creates the drama of men pledging “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” for liberty’s cause. Experience the theatre of the mind at its best — the moment the United States was born.