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SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL MARKS 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC ASSEMBLY WITH SEARCH FOR LOST FOUNDING FATHER IN AMERICA’S HIDDEN STORIES: MYSTERY AT JAMESTOWN

SPECIAL INSTALLMENT OF GROUNDBREAKING SERIES WHICH PREVIOUSLY REVEALED THAT RENOWNED GENERAL CASIMIR PULASKI WAS INTERSEX PREMIERES MONDAY, JULY 29 AT 8 PM ET/PT    NEW YORK – June 20, 2019 – Jamestown, the first successful English settlement in the Americas, is best known for the legend of John Smith and Pocahontas, but now archaeologists are on the hunt for a pioneering and controversial forgotten founding father. On July 30, 1619, Sir George Yeardley presided over the first democratic assembly in English-speaking America. Just a few weeks later, he purchased the first captive Africans ...