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The Thomas Jefferson Hour


The Thomas Jefferson Hour®, your weekly conversation with America’s third President is brought to you by The Dakota Institute of the Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, Makoché Recording and Prairie Public .

Thomas Jefferson is portrayed by humanities scholar Clay S. Jenkinson and hosted by David Swenson.

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Locally the show airs on Prairie Public (90.5 FM) Sundays at 11:00 am. The Jefferson Hour also airs on Public Radio across the country.

Humanities scholar and author, Clay S. Jenkinson, adopts the persona of Jefferson each week to comment on current events and answer questions you may have about Jefferson's thoughts on any and all topics. Clay has portrayed Thomas Jefferson for more than two decades. He is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities highest award, then called the Charles Frankel Award, for his humanities-based first person interpretation methodology.


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