The Burr - Hamilton Duel

John Deley speaking from a hidden clap to rocks just below the famous dueling grounds on the heights of Wehock in New Jersey, directly across the Hudson River from New York City. On this morning of July 11th 1804, a small boat is making its way from the New York side of the river towards this point.

The boat is about 200 yards away and five men are aboard. It's a very clear, sunny morning. Visibility is excellent and I can say without doubt that one of the men in that boat is the vice president of the United States, Mr. Aaron Burr.

Although in itself there is nothing extraordinary and the fact that Mr. Burr is on a boat crossing the Hudson River this morning, yet the event... July 11th, 18th, 4th, we are in New Jersey. You are there.

Aaron Burr, on his way to the dueling grounds that we hawking New Jersey. CBS takes you back 144 years to the climactic moment in the lifetime conflict between two of the most famous men in American history. All things are as they were then, except for one thing. When CBS is there...

You are there. You are there, produced and directed by Robert Luicheon, is based on authentic historical facts and quotations. And now... July 11, 184. The dueling grounds that we all can do, Jersey, and John Sailing.

sure on this morning of July 11, 1804, means we believe that Mr. Burr is coming to this famous dueling ground to fight the leader of the Federalist Party and this nation's first Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Alexander Hamilton. You will naturally ask how CBS comes by this intelligence, since there has been absolutely no indication that a duel between Colonel Burr and General