Prologue: The Constitution, Hill Cumorah Pageant 1987
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Title
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Prologue: The Constitution, Hill Cumorah Pageant 1987
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Description
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This pamphlet is Jerry Argetsinger's copy of the revised prologue script for the 1987 Hill Cumorah Pageant, dated April 20, 1987. Harold Hansen wrote the script, although no author is listed on the cover. The pamphlet consists of five 8.5x11-inch single-sided pages, bound with a staple in the upper left corner. The cover page features a computer-designed illustration of a rolled-up parchment document bisected by a quill pen.
Instead of beginning immediately with stories from the Book of Mormon, the 1987 Pageant began with a prologue celebrating the U.S. Constitution Bicentennial. Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution featured in the script include (in order) James Madison, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. Daniel Webster and Joseph Smith also appear. The stage directions indicate tentative plans to feature a recording of Ezra Taft Benson, who was the current President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Note: Two PDF scans of the script processed with optical character recognition (OCR) are provided here. The first is the unaltered text. The second is annotated, transcribing words that the scanner did not convert into machine-readable text.
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Contributor
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Daniel Gorman Jr.
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Creator
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Harold Hansen
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Date
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1987-04-20
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Format
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Document
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Identifier
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Constitution_Prologue_Hill_Cumorah_Pageant_1987-04-20.pdf
Constitution_Prologue_Hill_Cumorah_Pageant_1987-04-20_Annotated.pdf
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Language
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English
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Rights
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Courtesy of the Jerry and Gail Argetsinger Collection
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Source
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Jerry and Gail Argetsinger Collection
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Subject
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U.S. Constitution Bicentennial
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Original Format
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Document
