Family Theater: The Longest Hour

Transcram. Family Theater presents Loretta Young, Robert Stack, and Jean Lockhart. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents The Longest Hour, starring Robert Stack and Jean Lockhart.

To introduce the drama, here is your hostess, Loretta Young. Thank you. Thank you, Tony Loprano. A family theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives.

of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world. Family theatre urges you to pray, pray together as a family, and now to our transcribed drama, the longest hour, starring Jean Lockhart as Adam and Robert Stack as Jefferson.

It is the night of July 1, 1776, in a small, stubby anti-room of the Pennsylvania State House of Philadelphia, five weary men working by candlelight are gathered about a writing desk littered with crumpled sheets of paper. They're tired, they're nerves run edge, they're patients at the breaking point.

Gentlemen, let's be realistic about this. We are failing in our task. From now, Adams, we are having difficulties to be sure over there not in super rules. Mr. Franklin, I admire your skill as a diplomat, but this is a time for brutal truth, not diplomacy.

And what is the brutal truth, Mr. Adams? That this committee, which was formed to draft a declaration of independence, is not capable of doing so. I declared from the beginning, Jefferson, that such a document, if it's to be written at all, must be the product of a single intelligence.

And now I'm being proved right. I find small satisfaction in you being right, Mr. Adams. Right all wrong, we must have a declaration ready when the convention continues in the morning! And more than that, Sherman, it must be one upon which we five will stand or fall.