LVA Book Talk Series - Bruce Chadwick, "I Am Murdered" The Killing of George Wythe

Bruce Chadwick, I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation

October 29, 2009. A part of the Library of Virginias National Archives Month observance, historian Bruce Chadwick discusses his historical whodunit I Am Murdered, which relates the tale of the 1806 murder of George Wythe, one of the early nation's most celebrated jurists and public figures. Wythe was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He was also teacher and friend to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Marshall, and Henry Clay.

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