FRANCIS HOPKINSON'S FLAG

The history revisionists are at it again, but this time they appear to be on the right track. It has to do with Betsy Ross and the first U.S. flag. The story about how George Washington sketched out the flag and asked Ross to stitch it together probably isn't true at all.

Documents from that era show the credit for the design of the first flag goes to a fellow names Francis Hopkinson, who also designed the great seal of the United States. He wanted to be paid for his services -- in wine. He never got the wine, but he has, more than two centuries later, taken his rightful place in the country's history books.