OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - US Senator James Lankford (R-OK) is marking America's 250th birthday by telling the story of our founding, honoring the sacrifices that built the nation, and reminding Oklahomans that the American experiment in freedom is still alive today.

Ahead of the semiquincentennial, Lankford launched a video series from the halls of the US Capitol, sharing the moments and people behind the Declaration of Independence. Lankford told the story of June 11, 1776, the day Thomas Jefferson sat down to write the Declaration, the life of John Peter Muhlenberg, the pastor who carried his faith from the pulpit into battle, and June 28, 1776, when Jefferson and the Committee of Five presented their draft to the Continental Congress. The series continues through the Fourth of July weekend with the story of Benjamin Franklin.

Lankford also recorded a video tribute celebrating America's freedom of faith, calling it a radical concept 250 years ago that no one thought would work, but one that Americans make work every day. Earlier this summer, he joined Americans from across the country at the Rededicate 250 prayer gathering on the National Mall. Last week, he penned a column in the Washington Examiner reflecting on 250 years of the Declaration's promise that all men are created equal and calling on the nation to extend that promise to the unborn.

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