After killing Hamilton, Burr fled New York, evaded murder charges, and then became embroiled in a plot to carve out his own country on America's southern border — possibly Florida, northern Mexico, or the Deep South. He was tried for treason, acquitted for lack of evidence, and then expelled from both Britain and France.
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In death, Hamilton's financial mismanagement became painfully clear: he left approximately $50,000 in debt — millions in today's terms — with a mortgage on the Grange that Eliza could not repay. His friends quietly bought the property and sold it back to her at half price. Eliza co-founded the Orphan Asylum Society of New York and lived until 1854, aged 97, never remarrying and entirely devoted to preserving Alexander's memory. Burr's fate was grimmer. Hamilton's allies immediately began spinning the narrative against him — falsely claiming he was celebrating in taverns while Eliza wept — and Burr fled to Georgia to escape the outrage. Charged with murder in both New York and New Jersey, he was never tried: the witnesses had all faced the wrong way or hidden behind umbrellas. He returned to Washington to finish his term as Vice President — Tom notes the Dick Cheney parallel — before his political career finally imploded. [1] — Dominic Sandbrook "Hamilton's debt: ~$50,000 at death: Hamilton died leaving his family approximately $50,000 in debt — a figure worth millions of dollars tod…" 1:08:17 [2] — Dominic Sandbrook "Eliza Hamilton lived to 97, outlived husband by 50+ years: Hamilton's wife Eliza never remarried and devoted herself to her husband's memor…" 1:09:15
Eliza Hamilton never remarried and spent 50 years devoted to her husband's memory. Hamilton's friends bought the Grange and sold it back to her at half price. She co-founded the Orphan Asylum Society of New York and died aged 97 — having outlived Alexander by more than half a century.
Hamilton's wife Eliza never remarried and devoted herself to her husband's memory, dying aged 97 — outliving Alexander Hamilton by just over 50 years.
Alexander Hamilton has appeared on the US $10 bill since 1929, and a 2015 Treasury plan to replace him with a woman was reversed after Hamilton the Musical became a cultural phenomenon.
Factories that replaced coal engines with electric ones in the early 1900s got only 6% efficiency gains. Those that redesigned their entire factory around electricity got a 3x productivity improvement. Swapping AI tools into your existing structure will give you 6%. Rebuilding around AI will give you 10x.
Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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