Boston Massacre

Boston Massacre was big news across the Atlantic

By adamg - 6/21/20 - 10:05 am

J.L. Bell recounts the reaction in London when news arrived there 250 years ago today of the Boston Massacre.

The teenager who said he was forced to shoot a gun at protesters during the Boston Massacre

By adamg - 3/5/20 - 9:51 am

Obituary for Patrick Carr, one of the men shot dead in the Boston Massacre

Obituary for Patrick Carr, shot dead in the Boston Massacre (from the Library of Congress).

Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, outside what is now the Old State House. J.L. Bell discusses the deadly brawl from a different perspective, that of a French servant who testified he fired towards the crowd from the second floor of the Boston customhouse, where his master, Edward Manwaring, worked:

[O]ne of them a tall man, pulled me up stairs, and said to me, you must fire, the tall man gave me a gun, and said to me "if you don’t fire I'll kill you."