Liberty Bell, Wiltbank's heirs claim it. ... This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

The bell shown in the image is the Freedom Bell – a replica of the Liberty Bell, not the original. There is no credible evidence that protesters damaged the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia in any way.

Almost 200 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Kern County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution stating, “The Liberty Bell will stand as a freedom shrine which ...