When an unruly crowd of angry colonists attacked a small platoon of British soldiers in 1770, five Bostonians were killed and several others wounded. John Adams, a then-34-year-old lawyer who would eventually become the second president of the United States, took on a bold and unpopular defense of the soldiers and orchestrated their trials in a way that defied conventional thinking. To better understand the historical context of the Boston Massacre, what actually went down, the aftermath of the tragedy, and the surprising takeaway trial lawyers should have after hearing John Adams’ closing arguments, Attorney J. Craig Williams invites you to bundle up and relive the astounding altercation that’s still talked about to this day.
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SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR VOICE ACTORS:
Scott Well as John Adams
Alan Chudnow as Samuel Quincy
Skyler C. as Josiah Quincy
Alan Parsons as Captain Thomas Preston
Robert Mattson as Samuel Adams
Dan Ring as Daniel Calef
Patrick Correia as Richard Palmes
Kate Kenney Nutting as the female witness
Neil Harvey as the British Soldier
Brian Driesen as Benjamin Lee
Andrew Clark as Thomas Handaside Peck
Robert "Terry" Terelak as Ebenerzer Bridgham
Jud Pierce as Dr. John Jeffries
Christopher Rogers as John Hogdson
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