AMERICA’S 250TH — A GUEST ESSAY BY WALTER ISAACSON When Thomas Jefferson finished a first draft of what was to become the Declaration of Independence, he sent it to Benjamin Franklin on the morning of Friday, June 21, 1776.

AMERICA’S 250TH — A GUEST ESSAY BY WALTER ISAACSON When Thomas Jefferson finished a first draft of what was to become the Declaration of Independence, he sent it to Benjamin Franklin on the morning of Friday, June 21, 1776.