BOB EDWARDS: (Reading) When in the course of human events... INSKEEP: Since 1988, NPR staff members have read aloud the document that proclaimed the start of the United States. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

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Today, we are updating an NPR Independence Day tradition, the reading of the Declaration of Independence. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) BOB EDWARDS: (Reading) When in the course of human ...