Tributes, protest mark 250th anniversary of Boston Massacre

WDHD - AP ^ | 3/5/2020

[Borges]

Solemn ceremonies and a protest marked the 250th anniversary Thursday of the massacre in Boston that helped spark the Revolutionary War.

A wreath was laid at the grave of the five victims of the fateful conflict, and colonial re-enactors fired their muskets in salute during a morning tribute organized by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The event is the first of a number expected to take place across the country in the coming years to mark the anniversary of the war for independence.

In the afternoon, black and Native American activists staged a “death procession” from the massacre site to Faneuil Hall to protest “persistent racism” in Boston and elsewhere. Protesters renewed calls for the hall to be renamed in honor of Crispus Attucks, a man of African American and Native American descent who was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre.

[proxy_user]

John Adams was the lead defense counsel for the British soldiers who opened fire, and got most of them off with relatively light penalties.

[wetgundog]

They were all acquitted.

[VanDeKoik]

Yeah....it was a railroad job on those soldiers.

An event worth remembering. But it isnt as it was presented.

[EC Washington]

Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis - the High School in the movie “Hoosiers” that lost to Hickory.

[abb]

Thanks for noting this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

The Part I took in Defence of Cptn. Preston and the Soldiers, procured me Anxiety, and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I ever rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the Verdict of the Jury was exactly right. This however is no Reason why the Town should not call the Action of that Night a Massacre, nor is it any Argument in favour of the Governor or Minister, who caused them to be sent here. But it is the strongest Proofs of the Danger of Standing Armies. — John Adams, on the third anniversary of the massacre[58]