Hamilton, Burr Descendants Re-Enact Duel

AP ^ | 7-11-04 | STEVE STRUNSKY

[hole_n_one]

Yet 90% of the cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny are no longer considered "PC".

[Indy Pendance]

Thanks for the photos. My thoughts exactly, re bugs bunny, how did this ever get the ok in our pc world?

[Jalapeno]

As I recall last week, there was a thread describing the event to take place, and the "Hamiltons" refuse to let the guy playing Hamilton lie flat on a nearby rock to be examined by his doctor after the shooting (this is how it actually occured), because it was not dignified....

[jocon307]

Thanks for the pictures. I will say that Alexander Hamilton had great ideas for the Jersey side of the Hudson, and they are finally coming to fruition. I do not want him taken off the currency for Reagan or for anyone. Other than the father of our country he's the most appropriate person to be on our $.

[Indy Pendance]

hole_n_one posted the pictures.

[sharktrager]

After Sunday's highly orchestrated event, Douglas Hamilton and Antonio Burr and their families headed to Hamilton Park where two new plaques honoring Burr and Hamilton were to be dedicated.

I love that they are pointing out that the event was "highly orchestrated".

Had they not told me I would have assumed that a descendant of Burr, and a descendant of Hamilton, who happened to be dressed in period costumes, and happened to be carrying replicas of dueling pistols, happened to end up at the same place on the 200th anniversary of the duel, one by rowboat, and, on a whim, decided to reenact the duel.

[Indy Pendance]

LOLOLOL! It was a burr of the moment thing.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Thanks for the pictures. I was watching on Fox News this morning, until somehow, just after the guns were cocked Fox lost the satellite signal.

I hate Fox News on the weekends.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"There was an animosity on the part of Alexander Hamilton toward Aaron Burr for which there was nothing in Aaron Burr's record that could be justified," Antonio Burr, a psychologist from New York, said Sunday.

Now that's funny.

[Indy Pendance]

Better than CNN on weekdays.... think of the alternatives.

[A Citizen Reporter]

I would never choose that alternative.

But it doesn't mean that Fox cannot be better. Their weekend line-up and programming really is bad.

[Indy Pendance]

You know, I rarely watch tv (except the history channel, they were excellent over the 4th btw), I get 99% of my news here, the other stuff is just passing by kind of information, or skimming the local paper.

[Incorrigible]

Click the pic

[A Citizen Reporter]

Well, I watch a lot of Fox News Channel.

I had a conversation with a friend tonight, who, prior to 911, watched CNN almost exclusively. He told me tonight, how horrid CNN had become, and he singled out Wolf Blitzer as one of the most biased reporters he had ever seen.

[megatherium]

I was fortunate to catch it on C-SPAN, which showed it without interruption or embellishment. A wonderful bit of history, nicely presented by the duel re-enactment organizers.

[Publius]

Burr was bald. This guy has hair.

[A Citizen Reporter]

You mean that's not a wig?

[luvbach1]

Glad nobody slipped real balls into the breeches.

[PoorMuttly]

Y'know, since we're on the subject, just to add some details to accepted history....and to set the record straight...

....Muttly's great, great, great, great.......grandfather was minding his own business back at the rowboat, "testing" the oarsman's mutton and cheese sandwich, just for safety's sake..when all of a sudden the ball from Hamilton's pistol knocked the thing right out of his mouth. He was so startled that he could hardly swallow what was left. Oh..and just to clear up a little matter while we're at it...my ancestor did not, contrary to popular opinion, accept a bribe from Burr to "water" Hamilton's powder.

So if it did happen...it was an honest mistake.