Few people know the real story of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” or that the massive flag that inspires it still exists.
Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Jennifer Jones, a curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, about the history of the banner.
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