Actor Kurt Russell Tours American Revolution Site Where Ancestor Died

WBZ NewsRadio's Mike Macklin reports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I think he was a badass dude, and I'm

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digging it.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Actor Kurt Russell reflects on his family's history at Arlington,
where the actor's eighth generation ancestor Jason Russell, battled British
troops retreating from Lexington and conquered on April ninth, seventeen
seventy five, the first day of the American Revolution.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Crazy, how familial things I've heard about him, and we're
reading about and we're you going to learn about. How
familiar that feels.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
It's just pretty wild.

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The house where Jason Russell was shot and bayoneted to
death on the doorstep is now a National Historic Site.
Three hundred years after the historic battle, here, Kurt Russell
got his first look at the family's homestead.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
This has never been anything in our family's history that
we have talked about or discussed or even knew about.
And finding out what you know we're finding out here
is just it's a bit of a shocker.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
And a lesson in the courage and conviction of the
generation that founded our nation in Arlington. Mike macleum wb
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