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is a story about his death in 2003.

Get your Democracy Bond and help build a 50-state Democratic Party!

by RobertInWisconsin on Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 09:05:26 AM PST

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. . . Beyond the honors, though, are the many stories about Hunter.

One of the most famous was his 1951 Fourth of July story. The city editor told him to dream up a story for the holiday. As Hunter was leaving the newsroom, he saw a copy of the Declaration of Independence posted on the wall.

'I went by and saw it and thought, this is real revolutionary,' he recalled in a 2001 interview with reporter Mike Miller of The Capital Times. 'I wonder if I could get people to sign it now.'

So took the preamble to the Declaration, six of the 10 amendments that make up the Bill of Rights plus the 15th Amendment, typed them up in the form of a petition, and headed to Vilas Park to see if people would sign it.

This was at the height of the hysteria over McCarthy's allegations that Communists were everywhere. Of the 112 people Hunter talked to that day, only one would sign the petition. Twenty of those he asked ac"