Where exactly did the bodies fall?? 💥 BOSTON MASSACRE  

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that's the worst I've ever heard.

I'm from Rhode Island...WHAT ACCENT???

I’m sure we all do at this point.

Sounds a little more Rhode Island to me

I know the site very well, I went to high school in Boston and we had American History for two years .when I was a sophomore Mr. Gilbert to the site to explain what occurred. Katie’s video was a lot more informative. I am 77 years old now, but my first job as a newly minted architect was about a block away from the site and state street ,as it is called now,, was my subway stop. Many times I wondered what I would have don if a mob threaten me. I think I would have most likely fired at the crowd. Glad I never had that experience.

I'm from Rhode Island...WHAT ACCENT???

Careful about the accent. Even lighthearted comments or compliments trigger responses for months!😅

I don't hear what you're addressing, I guess.🙂

"Our Revolution". Two questions. 1.Were you there? and 2.Were your ancestors even on the American continent in the 1770's?

Very interesting family history, thanks for sharing!

My ancestors served the width and depth of the Colonial Army. From my cousin Lieutenant General George Washington to privates. From Breed's/Bunker Hill, Monmouth, Valley Forge, and on to Yorktown. One relative turned his coat though Benedict Arnold. I have relatives who signed the Declaration of Independence including Hancock, the Adam's, and Thomas Jefferson to name a few.

We remember Revere mostly because of the work of his grandson.

Yes, and most people forget that Revere’s greatest contribution to the revolution was wheeled the effort to place copper sheathing on the continental navy ship’s hulls. His Lexington alarm ride is way overhyped, thanks to the poem. And Revere’s career as a continental army officer was an unmitigated disaster, as evidenced by the guilty verdict at his court martial. Revere had friends in high places and eventually had the guilty verdict overturned, but his performance at the Penobscot battle was terrible. It all adds up to an interesting character. Charles

Brown Beauty, Samuel Larkin's horse, a Narragansett Pacer.

I was mostly kidding but am highly impressed. Where did come up with that nugget of information ? I used to ask people that just to be a wise guy, and nobody could tell me. Bravo !@@Ponkapoag

@@wrp3621 Thru DNA, horse DNA, lol. I had a series of discussions about 15 years ago about the Narragansett Pacer breed and the possibility of testing old horse hair plaster to see if it might be used to discover Pacer DNA and to see if the plaster DNA would match modern wild horses in the Bahamas ? Anyway doing research on the Pacers lead me to Brown Beauty and Sam Larkin.

It certainly was.

Exactly how do you know that the people who live west of the Cascades Mountain Ranges are "commies" (Communists)? Are you an undercover agent for the FBI or the CIA? Did you investigate these people? Do you have concrete proof that they're what you say they are? Did they show you their Communist Party membership cards? Do they have pictures of Karl Marx, or V.I. Lenin, or Josef Stalin, or Gus Hall (the late head of the American Communist Party) in their homes? Did they at least tell you that they were a bunch of "commies," unaware that you were spying on them? Or did you just assume that they're Communists because they said or did something that offended or contradicted your conservative viewpoint? For example, did they suggest that unfettered capitalism by greedy, corrupt corporations were contributing to the economic problems of our society by concentrating the majority of the wealth of this country in the hands of the rich and powerful few? Did they say it's unfair for the majority of the citizens to pay the bulk of the nation's taxes while the rich folks pay little or no taxes at all, because they always find clever loopholes in the tax code that helps them avoid paying as much as the rest of the people? Did they tell you that they believe that the rich should be taxed more, or that it was unjust for conservative Republican politicians to give generous tax breaks to the rich, but never to the poor or the increasingly vanishing middle class? Do they complain that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer? Do they believe that the government should occasionally take a hand in caring for the less fortunate, or in doing something about the environment, or about climate change or global warming, or about systemic racism? Or perhaps you think they're "commies" because they belong to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY INSTEAD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? Or maybe it's because they voted for Joe Biden instead of Donald Trump, or because they don't like how the G.O.P. has been taken over by right-wing maniacs like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, Gregg Abbott, Glen Youngkin, Ron DeSantis, and the like, or how they've become more and more authoritarian-minded, how they're trampling over our personal freedom, banning books about subjects they don't feel comfortable with (racial issues, women's rights, gay rights, etc), putting restrictions on who should or shouldn't be allowed to vote, banning special medical treatments for gays and/or transgenders, trying to revoke the civil rights laws, threatening to punish anyone who doesn't go along with their plans (like the way Trump is talking about "setting aside" the Constitution, imprisoning or executing his opponents and critics, sending the army to gun down foreign refugees, even if they have their children with them, etc, if he wins the November, 2024, election), or how the Republicans (who believe in these crazy right-wing conspiracy theories like QAnon and Pizzagate) are basically turning the United States of America from a free country to U.S.-style FASCISM? Is that why you think they're all Communists? If so, then you're just as much a paranoid right-winger as Senator Joseph McCarthy, Congressman Martin Dies, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, or ADOLF HITLER! Remember that years ago, many liberal/leftist political movements were originally considered "subversive" by the professional hatemongers and reactionaries of their day. These movements included the abolitionist campaign against slavery, the Organized Labor movement, the women's rights crusade, the protests against McCarthyism and the blacklist, the environmental campaign, the anti-war movement of the 1960s and '70s, the protests against nuclear power and atomic war, the Civil Rights movement (its opponents carried signs saying things like "RACE-MIXING IS COMMUNISM!"), etc, etc. I think you are (like McCarthy and his ilk) confusing dissent with disloyalty, not to mention equating liberalism and progressivism to Communism. You should do some studying and research about the basic differences between all those.

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It was Paul Revere. She provided the answer at the end.

@@williamrobinson827 Yeah, but she said to write down your guess at the start of the video.

Massacre? To quote, "Three people killed by accident, and against orders. By the negligent discharge of one musket, from eight soldiers being stoned, beaten with clubs, and verbally abused by an unruly mob. For which the soldiers, including their officer, were tried for murder. Two were convicted of manslaughter and the rest were acquitted. All in all it was a very unpleasant business, but hardly a massacre."

@@sandgrownun66 I guess not much has changed in 250 years. Look at Fox News, CNN, & MSNBC. Sam Adams, the Sons of Liberty-Massacre vs. the Loyalists "A Fair Account of the Late Unhappy Disturbance in Boston." Kind of like the issue across the River with the Universite President losing her job. One side had one story, the other another story. You just to make fair and balanced and you all know where I stand..... Down with the British! Up with the Rebels!

Thank you so much! 🍀

This was a tragic accident, due to provocation. NOT a "massacre".

@@sandgrownun66 I cant agree that it was an 'accident' not when there were many instances of confrontation between soldiers and civilians long before that particular evening...i dont believe it was the intention of the Soldiers to shoot anyone. I agree it wasnt a 'massacre' but at the time it was the perception of the public that British Soldiers had attacked and butchered civilians. I wouldnt think that the public really cared about the facts..the 'massacre' was yet another provocation by the British Military Authority.

"Bloody Massacre at King Street" was the actual titled drawing by P.Revere. Deliberately worded to incite more to the cause against King.

Well, he obviously changed his politics as time went on.

@@sandgrownun66 I don't see that at all. He subscribed to principles of due process that required that defendants receive competent representation. There's nothing inconsistent with that and supporting revolt against Great Britain, which he believed were violating all sorts of prinicples of justice. Surely you're not suggesting only lawyers who agree with or support the defendants or what they are alleged to have done should represent the defendants? Well, maybe you do. Seems so many these days DGAF about justice and just want to see their political opponents prosecuted no matter what.

@@ClockCutter I wasn't referring to legal matters. Rather political views. The accused were tried for murd3r, some were found guilty, and punished as prescribed by law. Of course, those in the mob, who provoked the incident. Obviously suffered no penalty for their actions. As for using the justice system to interfere with the political and electoral process. This should not be allowed to occur. The events going on in the US, with the weaponization of the justice system, against a political opponent, is a travesty.

I liked the particularly dark picture because it gives a sense of the snow lighting up white due to the firing - my sense is that it wasn’t recently-fallen snow, that it was likely packed down and well-trodden.

@@KatieTurnerGetty That makes sense. As long as they didn't say "Hither comes the snow." 😀

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First guess is usually right. Definitely true here.

It was Paul Revere. She provided the answer at the end.

As her relative, I assure you we were born and raised in Boston.

Paul Revere. She answered at the end..