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4 unusual facts about Franklin Prophecy


Franklin Prophecy

Beard, Charles A. “Exposing the Anti-Semitic Forgery about Franklin.” Jewish Frontier. New York, March 1935, pp.

Similar false antisemitic quotations have been attributed to George Washington and have been debunked.

The speech was purportedly transcribed by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but was unknown before its appearance in 1934 in the pages of William Dudley Pelley's Silver Legion pro-Nazi weekly magazine Liberation.

The setting for the purported speech is a dinner table discussion recorded by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney during the convention of the Continental Congress.



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