DNA from the skull of a Revolutionary War soldier solves the case of 'America's oldest John Doe'

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For more than two centuries, the Revolutionary War soldier was unknown and unnoticed.

Now, thanks to happenstance and the wonders of DNA, he has a name, just in time for the 250th birthday of the nation he fought and died to create. (AP Video: Allen G. Breed and Jeffrey Collins)

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