1 00:03:31,090 --> 00:03:33,354 Hup! Hup! Hup! 2 00:03:33,393 --> 00:03:36,226 Lobsters for sale! Lobsters! 3 00:03:36,262 --> 00:03:38,730 Who'll buy? Lobsters! 4 00:03:38,765 --> 00:03:41,290 Clean out my shit bucket, lobster! 5 00:03:41,334 --> 00:03:43,564 Who'll buy lobsters? 6 00:03:43,603 --> 00:03:45,662 Hup! Hup! Hup! 7 00:03:45,705 --> 00:03:49,801 - Lobsters! Who'll buy? - Go back to England! 8 00:03:49,842 --> 00:03:52,072 Take that! 9 00:03:52,111 --> 00:03:54,045 Hit 'em right in the head! 10 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,878 We are people, not an animal, lobster! 11 00:03:59,118 --> 00:04:00,779 Thattagirl. 12 00:04:09,762 --> 00:04:12,560 Come on now. Come on, you old fool. 13 00:04:13,833 --> 00:04:15,528 Get over here. 14 00:04:15,568 --> 00:04:17,263 Come here. 15 00:04:17,303 --> 00:04:18,793 There we go. 16 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,307 Ah, look at that. 17 00:04:23,376 --> 00:04:25,139 Quite a big one, huh? 18 00:04:25,178 --> 00:04:26,805 That must have hurt. 19 00:04:41,761 --> 00:04:43,752 You lost. 20 00:04:46,065 --> 00:04:47,532 I did. 21 00:04:47,567 --> 00:04:49,694 I could tell 22 00:04:49,736 --> 00:04:51,203 by the set of your shoulders. 23 00:04:51,237 --> 00:04:52,932 My client alleged 24 00:04:52,972 --> 00:04:56,806 that his neighbor's horse 25 00:04:56,843 --> 00:04:58,606 had trampled his crops. 26 00:05:00,947 --> 00:05:02,437 And had it? 27 00:05:02,482 --> 00:05:04,848 Hard to say. 28 00:05:07,487 --> 00:05:09,455 There were no witnesses 29 00:05:10,490 --> 00:05:12,355 and the beast refused to testify 30 00:05:12,392 --> 00:05:14,053 for some reason. 31 00:05:34,013 --> 00:05:36,447 Hey, follow me! 32 00:05:53,166 --> 00:05:54,565 Father. 33 00:06:04,510 --> 00:06:06,535 Allow the child to breathe, John. 34 00:06:09,449 --> 00:06:11,508 There, can you breathe now? 35 00:06:13,086 --> 00:06:15,452 Did you go to the farm? 36 00:06:15,488 --> 00:06:17,979 Mr. Bass is sending a cord of wood. 37 00:06:18,024 --> 00:06:22,017 And there's a fence down in the south field... 38 00:06:22,061 --> 00:06:24,586 Fire! 39 00:06:26,833 --> 00:06:28,824 It's a fire! 40 00:06:37,110 --> 00:06:39,510 Where is it coming from? 41 00:06:42,115 --> 00:06:44,015 Mr. Adams! Mr. Adams! 42 00:06:44,050 --> 00:06:47,486 Coming coming coming coming! 43 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:49,420 Here we go. Here we... 44 00:06:49,455 --> 00:06:51,889 There we go. 45 00:06:51,924 --> 00:06:53,482 There we go. Off we go. 46 00:07:22,421 --> 00:07:24,218 Reload! 47 00:07:25,391 --> 00:07:28,519 Please help me! Help! 48 00:07:28,561 --> 00:07:31,155 Anyone, please! 49 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:36,168 Murderers! 50 00:07:40,173 --> 00:07:42,471 No! No! 51 00:07:56,856 --> 00:07:59,484 Don't fire. Do not fire, lads! 52 00:08:04,096 --> 00:08:06,064 - Come on! Come on! - Help me! 53 00:08:07,934 --> 00:08:10,368 Look at me. Yes? 54 00:08:10,403 --> 00:08:12,132 - Can you breathe? - My son. 55 00:08:12,171 --> 00:08:13,695 Is this your boy? 56 00:08:16,275 --> 00:08:18,368 Murderers! 57 00:08:20,046 --> 00:08:21,536 Come away. Come away, Sam! 58 00:08:21,581 --> 00:08:24,573 Shoot me too, Preston, if you dare! 59 00:08:24,617 --> 00:08:26,209 Sam, Sam, come away! 60 00:08:26,252 --> 00:08:29,449 You'll suffer the full penalty of the law! 61 00:08:29,488 --> 00:08:31,149 Sam! 62 00:08:31,190 --> 00:08:33,454 These people need to be tended to. 63 00:08:33,492 --> 00:08:36,086 These people need our help here, yes? 64 00:08:36,128 --> 00:08:37,755 Go! 65 00:08:56,249 --> 00:08:57,546 What happened, Father? 66 00:08:59,819 --> 00:09:02,686 - We looked, we couldn't see the fire. - It's all over now. 67 00:09:02,722 --> 00:09:04,189 Just a little hubbub is all. 68 00:09:04,223 --> 00:09:06,157 Nothing to worry about. 69 00:09:08,127 --> 00:09:10,220 Return to bed. 70 00:09:11,397 --> 00:09:13,194 Bed! Both of ya! 71 00:09:35,588 --> 00:09:38,523 British soldiers fired into a crowd 72 00:09:38,557 --> 00:09:40,855 on State House Square. 73 00:09:44,463 --> 00:09:46,795 God help us. 74 00:09:46,832 --> 00:09:48,424 I thought it might come to this. 75 00:09:51,137 --> 00:09:53,605 - People were killed? - Uh-huh. 76 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,138 I cannot say what number... 77 00:09:58,377 --> 00:10:00,174 one of them no more than a child, 78 00:10:00,212 --> 00:10:01,736 from what I could see. 79 00:10:02,948 --> 00:10:05,439 I have no words for it, Abigail. 80 00:10:13,392 --> 00:10:16,122 "Omnia Gallia 81 00:10:16,162 --> 00:10:18,096 in tres partes 82 00:10:18,130 --> 00:10:20,030 divisa est." 83 00:10:20,066 --> 00:10:22,159 "All Gaul is divided unto three parts." 84 00:10:22,201 --> 00:10:24,431 Good. Who do you think would divide Gaul? 85 00:10:35,981 --> 00:10:38,643 - John! - Beggin' your pardon. 86 00:10:38,684 --> 00:10:42,381 - Yes? - Mr. Adams, my name is Forrest. 87 00:10:42,421 --> 00:10:44,218 What happened to you? 88 00:10:44,256 --> 00:10:45,883 It's nothing, sir. 89 00:10:45,925 --> 00:10:48,223 I'm known to be a friend of the soldiers here. 90 00:10:50,429 --> 00:10:52,397 What is your business, sir? 91 00:10:54,033 --> 00:10:55,591 I'm here to ask you to help a man. 92 00:10:56,769 --> 00:10:58,498 Captain Preston. 93 00:10:59,538 --> 00:11:01,438 No one else will plead his case. 94 00:11:08,981 --> 00:11:10,471 Come in. 95 00:11:13,919 --> 00:11:17,218 I will get a basin to dress those cuts. 96 00:11:18,290 --> 00:11:20,884 That's very kind. Thank you. 97 00:11:20,926 --> 00:11:23,258 Here. Sit. 98 00:11:23,295 --> 00:11:24,785 Sit. 99 00:11:25,798 --> 00:11:27,163 Come, here. 100 00:11:44,984 --> 00:11:46,645 Can it harm to go and see this soldier? 101 00:11:46,685 --> 00:11:48,676 - Aya. - How? 102 00:11:48,721 --> 00:11:50,712 Because you will find a way to believe him. 103 00:11:50,756 --> 00:11:52,485 He may be telling the truth. 104 00:11:52,525 --> 00:11:54,857 All your clients tell the truth, John Adams, 105 00:11:54,894 --> 00:11:58,193 but your prospective client is the most despised man in Boston. 106 00:11:59,865 --> 00:12:01,856 By the time the news of last night's events spread, 107 00:12:01,901 --> 00:12:04,597 I have no doubt he will be the most despised man in all of Massachusetts. 108 00:12:07,072 --> 00:12:10,701 - It will be much talked of. - Ah. Ambition. 109 00:12:14,513 --> 00:12:16,071 Counsel is the last thing 110 00:12:16,115 --> 00:12:18,982 an accused person should lack in a free country, Abigail. 111 00:12:24,089 --> 00:12:26,080 Then accept it. 112 00:12:26,125 --> 00:12:27,649 But will I be condemned for it? 113 00:12:27,693 --> 00:12:29,456 They will say you are the Crown's man. 114 00:12:33,165 --> 00:12:35,531 I care not for malicious tongues on either side. 115 00:12:44,844 --> 00:12:46,402 These are the murderers. 116 00:12:47,746 --> 00:12:49,475 May God forgive them. 117 00:12:53,385 --> 00:12:55,114 And you too, sir. 118 00:13:03,529 --> 00:13:05,394 Captain Preston, 119 00:13:05,431 --> 00:13:07,729 you wish to engage my services in your defense? 120 00:13:08,901 --> 00:13:11,199 They've all refused us, sir, 121 00:13:11,237 --> 00:13:13,171 every man jack of them. 122 00:13:17,910 --> 00:13:20,140 They say you're a man of integrity, Mr. Adams. 123 00:13:22,615 --> 00:13:26,051 Well, you may expect from me no art of address, 124 00:13:26,085 --> 00:13:29,612 no sophistry or prevarication in such a cause. 125 00:13:29,655 --> 00:13:31,247 Nothing more than fact, evidence 126 00:13:31,290 --> 00:13:34,259 and the law will justify, Captain Preston. 127 00:13:36,795 --> 00:13:39,764 But before I can even consider taking your case, 128 00:13:39,798 --> 00:13:41,493 I must hear your account of what happened. 129 00:13:43,936 --> 00:13:45,699 My men came to the aid of a sentry 130 00:13:45,738 --> 00:13:47,763 outside the customhouse. 131 00:13:47,806 --> 00:13:49,933 He was being abused by the crowd. 132 00:13:51,143 --> 00:13:53,134 They asked me to empty their shit buckets. 133 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,410 I told 'em to back off, but they kept at it... 134 00:13:59,451 --> 00:14:03,182 screaming at me, throwing things. 135 00:14:03,222 --> 00:14:05,782 Mr. Montgomery called for the guard. 136 00:14:05,824 --> 00:14:07,291 I led them to the square, 137 00:14:07,326 --> 00:14:09,021 we made formation facing the crowd, 138 00:14:09,061 --> 00:14:11,086 bayonets fixed, muskets loaded. 139 00:14:11,130 --> 00:14:14,691 Look, I gave no order to fire, sir. I swear. 140 00:14:14,733 --> 00:14:17,759 I was standing in front of the men. 141 00:14:17,803 --> 00:14:21,170 I was talking to a big fella. 142 00:14:22,308 --> 00:14:24,139 He had a club and... 143 00:14:24,176 --> 00:14:27,373 I think they call him Palmes. 144 00:14:27,413 --> 00:14:30,211 Yet some of your soldiers did fire, Captain Preston. 145 00:14:31,884 --> 00:14:33,613 As of this morning, five are dead... 146 00:14:33,652 --> 00:14:35,210 men and boys. 147 00:14:36,822 --> 00:14:40,053 My men acted in self-defense, Mr. Adams, 148 00:14:40,092 --> 00:14:42,026 as God Almighty is our judge. 149 00:14:47,099 --> 00:14:49,397 The hotheads have finally tasted blood. 150 00:14:51,870 --> 00:14:54,464 We cannot be surprised by it. 151 00:14:54,506 --> 00:14:58,374 The presence of the soldiers here is much resented. 152 00:14:58,410 --> 00:15:01,243 Of course, the people of Boston would be lining up 153 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,215 to pay taxes if they were represented in Parliament. 154 00:15:04,249 --> 00:15:05,841 But the fact remains that they're not, 155 00:15:05,884 --> 00:15:09,342 and defiance will not ensure their inclusion. 156 00:15:11,457 --> 00:15:13,891 Our other colonies understand this. Why can't Boston? 157 00:15:13,926 --> 00:15:16,656 Do you speak as yourself here or as the attorney general? 158 00:15:16,695 --> 00:15:19,095 The man and the office are one in the same. 159 00:15:24,269 --> 00:15:25,759 The governor is pleased 160 00:15:25,804 --> 00:15:27,465 that you've taken on the Preston matter. 161 00:15:29,174 --> 00:15:32,507 I was not aware that the governor took any notice of me at all. 162 00:15:32,544 --> 00:15:34,910 You do not think it merited? 163 00:15:36,482 --> 00:15:38,347 Ah, well... 164 00:15:40,953 --> 00:15:42,887 it is not for me to say. 165 00:15:42,921 --> 00:15:45,253 Well, surely, John, you did not move your practice 166 00:15:45,290 --> 00:15:48,259 from the country to go unnoticed in Boston. 167 00:15:48,293 --> 00:15:49,385 Jonathan... 168 00:15:49,428 --> 00:15:52,158 Please do not trouble yourself with a rebuttal. 169 00:15:52,197 --> 00:15:53,755 I know you too well. 170 00:16:09,314 --> 00:16:11,111 You're a hero, boy. 171 00:16:41,113 --> 00:16:42,705 You haven't much of a case, John. 172 00:16:43,916 --> 00:16:45,611 Do I not? 173 00:16:45,651 --> 00:16:47,642 No Boston jury will ever vote for acquittal. 174 00:16:47,686 --> 00:16:50,553 Thank you for your kind advice, Sam. 175 00:16:52,124 --> 00:16:54,752 This is not a time for showing how clever you are, cousin. 176 00:16:58,330 --> 00:17:00,298 This is a time for choosing sides. 177 00:17:02,901 --> 00:17:05,165 I am for the law, cousin. 178 00:17:05,204 --> 00:17:06,762 Is there another side? 179 00:17:07,906 --> 00:17:09,396 There are those who fight for our rights 180 00:17:09,441 --> 00:17:11,534 - as natural-born Englishmen. - Yeah! 181 00:17:11,577 --> 00:17:14,637 And those that would strip us of those rights! 182 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:16,705 I do not have the luxury 183 00:17:16,749 --> 00:17:18,808 of your birth or your purse, Sam, 184 00:17:18,851 --> 00:17:20,944 to spend my days fomenting dissension. 185 00:17:22,454 --> 00:17:24,786 I intend to prove this colony is governed by law... 186 00:17:24,823 --> 00:17:26,381 John. 187 00:17:26,425 --> 00:17:29,553 - Whatever you and your Sons of Liberty may say on the matter! 188 00:17:29,595 --> 00:17:31,187 John. 189 00:17:31,230 --> 00:17:32,993 We're all Sons of Liberty here. 190 00:17:33,031 --> 00:17:34,692 Hear hear. 191 00:17:38,937 --> 00:17:40,598 The jury are all but certain 192 00:17:40,639 --> 00:17:43,938 to have judged this issue before they hear a word of evidence. 193 00:17:43,976 --> 00:17:46,240 "Does the government of King George have the right 194 00:17:46,278 --> 00:17:47,939 to tax the citizens of Boston 195 00:17:47,980 --> 00:17:49,675 when they are denied representation 196 00:17:49,715 --> 00:17:51,580 in the Parliament in Westminster?" 197 00:17:51,617 --> 00:17:53,778 Charles, stay away from the fire! 198 00:17:55,454 --> 00:17:57,945 But this is not a trial about taxes levied on Massachusetts. 199 00:17:57,990 --> 00:18:00,151 You would do well to acknowledge it. 200 00:18:00,192 --> 00:18:03,719 No, it is a trial about whether or not Captain Preston 201 00:18:03,762 --> 00:18:05,957 ordered his men to fire on that crowd, 202 00:18:05,998 --> 00:18:09,661 and if that crowd was a lawful assembly or a mob. 203 00:18:10,903 --> 00:18:13,064 Remove yourself, sir! 204 00:18:14,973 --> 00:18:16,463 Nabby! 205 00:18:16,508 --> 00:18:18,169 Charles, please. 206 00:18:18,210 --> 00:18:20,644 The... the... the resentment of Boston 207 00:18:20,679 --> 00:18:22,203 towards the Crown is irrelevant! 208 00:18:22,247 --> 00:18:25,444 Do not ignore it. It must be said. 209 00:18:25,484 --> 00:18:27,975 Acknowledge it as a fact. 210 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:31,820 Do not comment. Do not sit in judgment of the jury's prejudice. 211 00:18:31,857 --> 00:18:35,156 Suggest that they must rise above it as you have done. 212 00:18:35,194 --> 00:18:37,822 You have a higher opinion of juries than I. 213 00:18:37,863 --> 00:18:41,128 You must persuade even more, 214 00:18:41,166 --> 00:18:43,600 and mask your impatience 215 00:18:43,635 --> 00:18:46,968 with those less intelligent than yourself. 216 00:18:47,005 --> 00:18:48,802 Good heaven. 217 00:18:48,841 --> 00:18:51,401 Is my demeanor in the court on trial now? 218 00:18:51,443 --> 00:18:54,139 I would not dream 219 00:18:54,179 --> 00:18:57,307 of telling you how to conduct yourself in court. 220 00:18:57,349 --> 00:18:58,873 Would you not? 221 00:19:02,454 --> 00:19:04,854 I heard Captain Preston 222 00:19:04,890 --> 00:19:06,858 plain as day. 223 00:19:06,892 --> 00:19:09,190 "Damn your bloods!" He said. 224 00:19:09,228 --> 00:19:11,355 "You won't treat me this way." 225 00:19:11,396 --> 00:19:14,388 Then he told the soldiers to fire. 226 00:19:18,804 --> 00:19:21,932 And how would you describe the behavior 227 00:19:21,974 --> 00:19:25,171 of these young lads 228 00:19:25,210 --> 00:19:26,802 just before the soldiers fired? 229 00:19:27,846 --> 00:19:29,905 Throwing snowballs. 230 00:19:32,084 --> 00:19:34,575 Ah! Snowballs! 231 00:19:34,620 --> 00:19:37,054 Well, a terrifying prospect 232 00:19:37,089 --> 00:19:39,319 for armed soldiers... snowballs! 233 00:19:40,993 --> 00:19:44,224 Oh, they didn't like it, sir. Chilly on the skin and all. 234 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,631 Mr. Adams. 235 00:19:58,043 --> 00:20:00,034 Mr. Goddard, 236 00:20:00,078 --> 00:20:01,602 when you arrived in the square, 237 00:20:01,647 --> 00:20:04,309 you had ample opportunity to observe the crowd, huh? 238 00:20:04,349 --> 00:20:05,816 I did, sir. 239 00:20:05,851 --> 00:20:08,820 Mmm. And were any of them carrying anything 240 00:20:08,854 --> 00:20:11,846 apart from snowballs? 241 00:20:12,891 --> 00:20:14,791 Well, let me see. 242 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:22,858 I don't recall, sir. 243 00:20:24,803 --> 00:20:27,670 Were any of these men carrying clubs? 244 00:20:27,706 --> 00:20:30,231 - They were, sir. - Indeed? 245 00:20:30,275 --> 00:20:33,711 A lawful assembly. Not a riot, a lawful assembly 246 00:20:33,745 --> 00:20:35,838 in which people were carrying clubs. 247 00:20:37,950 --> 00:20:39,884 To make certain nothing unlawful occurred, perhaps? 248 00:20:42,154 --> 00:20:44,179 The men are rope makers, sir. 249 00:20:44,222 --> 00:20:46,918 As any true Boston man would know, 250 00:20:46,959 --> 00:20:49,655 the clubs they were carrying are for beating out rope. 251 00:20:55,233 --> 00:20:56,928 For beating out rope, 252 00:20:56,969 --> 00:20:58,766 indeed? 253 00:20:58,804 --> 00:21:00,328 But could they not also be used 254 00:21:00,372 --> 00:21:01,964 for beating out men's brains? 255 00:21:02,007 --> 00:21:03,702 No! 256 00:21:03,742 --> 00:21:07,439 There was no riot! Any man who suggests there was is lying! 257 00:21:07,479 --> 00:21:10,277 Order! 258 00:21:26,932 --> 00:21:29,264 Uh, Mr. Goddard, 259 00:21:29,301 --> 00:21:31,235 where exactly were you standing 260 00:21:31,269 --> 00:21:33,601 when you say you heard the officer in the dock, Captain Preston, 261 00:21:33,638 --> 00:21:35,503 give the order to fire? 262 00:21:35,540 --> 00:21:37,201 Close enough to have touched him, sir. 263 00:21:37,242 --> 00:21:40,439 Mmm. And where was he standing? 264 00:21:40,479 --> 00:21:42,538 He stood behind his men, sir. 265 00:21:44,816 --> 00:21:46,340 I see, I see. 266 00:21:48,053 --> 00:21:49,714 Behind his men? 267 00:21:51,156 --> 00:21:53,249 I will ask the jury to take note of that. 268 00:21:59,331 --> 00:22:00,821 Mr. Holmes... 269 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,964 would you please describe the events you witnessed 270 00:22:05,003 --> 00:22:07,062 on the night of March the 5th? 271 00:22:09,107 --> 00:22:13,407 I saw some boys near the sentry... 272 00:22:14,579 --> 00:22:16,069 at the customhouse door. 273 00:22:17,516 --> 00:22:20,076 And what were they doing, these boys? 274 00:22:21,319 --> 00:22:23,514 - Making a noise. - Shouting... 275 00:22:23,555 --> 00:22:25,614 at the sentry? 276 00:22:25,657 --> 00:22:28,558 I suppose. 277 00:22:28,593 --> 00:22:30,993 Were they doing anything else? 278 00:22:34,466 --> 00:22:35,956 What were they doing? 279 00:22:38,203 --> 00:22:40,296 Throwing ice, sir, 280 00:22:40,338 --> 00:22:42,397 and oyster shells. 281 00:22:42,441 --> 00:22:45,308 And did this harassment 282 00:22:45,343 --> 00:22:48,437 continue with the arrival of Captain Preston and his men? 283 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,004 Yes. 284 00:22:50,048 --> 00:22:51,845 It did. 285 00:22:53,518 --> 00:22:56,578 Did you yourself pick up everything you could find 286 00:22:56,621 --> 00:22:57,815 and throw it at them? 287 00:22:59,791 --> 00:23:02,817 Yes, sir. 288 00:23:06,832 --> 00:23:08,925 How many people were there about, Mr. Holmes? 289 00:23:10,102 --> 00:23:13,230 Near 200 boys and men before it was over. 290 00:23:13,271 --> 00:23:15,603 200 boys and men. Good heavens. 291 00:23:16,675 --> 00:23:18,734 And as you say, 292 00:23:18,777 --> 00:23:21,371 they were all throwing ice and oyster shells. 293 00:23:24,649 --> 00:23:26,708 Were they throwing anything else? 294 00:23:36,661 --> 00:23:39,186 Did they throw their clubs, Mr. Holmes? 295 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:51,065 As you say, this crowd, 296 00:23:51,109 --> 00:23:53,304 they were making a great hullabaloo, huh? 297 00:23:53,345 --> 00:23:54,903 - Yes. - They were shouting? 298 00:23:54,946 --> 00:23:57,005 - Yes. - Mmm. What were they shouting 299 00:23:57,048 --> 00:23:58,208 to the soldiers? 300 00:23:58,250 --> 00:24:01,583 Just before the soldiers started shooting... 301 00:24:04,923 --> 00:24:06,481 Yes? 302 00:24:08,293 --> 00:24:10,124 ...I heard the people say... 303 00:24:12,397 --> 00:24:14,024 What did you hear them say? 304 00:24:20,138 --> 00:24:22,163 Please, Mr. Holmes. 305 00:24:24,776 --> 00:24:26,403 What did you hear them say? 306 00:24:30,215 --> 00:24:33,810 "Fire, damn you. Fire!" 307 00:24:33,852 --> 00:24:37,913 "Fire! Fire! Fire, damn you! 308 00:24:37,956 --> 00:24:39,548 Fire!" 309 00:24:41,026 --> 00:24:44,291 Now, did you take this to be the cry of "Fire" 310 00:24:44,329 --> 00:24:46,058 or bidding these soldiers to fire? 311 00:24:46,097 --> 00:24:48,429 No, they meant for the soldiers to shoot, sir. 312 00:24:48,466 --> 00:24:50,559 You say that this crowd 313 00:24:50,602 --> 00:24:52,968 actually dared the soldiers to fire? 314 00:24:55,674 --> 00:24:58,040 That they did. 315 00:24:58,076 --> 00:25:00,135 God help me, they did. 316 00:25:07,586 --> 00:25:09,713 Thank you, sir. 317 00:25:51,963 --> 00:25:54,193 Mr. Palmes? 318 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,566 Mr. Palmes. 319 00:25:57,602 --> 00:25:59,934 I know that you spoke to Captain Preston. 320 00:26:02,274 --> 00:26:06,142 I simply want you to say what you saw that evening. 321 00:26:11,182 --> 00:26:12,911 If British soldiers fired 322 00:26:12,951 --> 00:26:15,579 on a defenseless crowd without provocation 323 00:26:15,620 --> 00:26:17,679 I will be the first to want to see them hanged for it. 324 00:26:20,292 --> 00:26:22,317 But suppose they are innocent. 325 00:26:23,728 --> 00:26:26,356 I do not wish to see innocent men die in my name. 326 00:26:26,398 --> 00:26:28,628 Do you? 327 00:26:36,808 --> 00:26:38,571 I wish to point out 328 00:26:38,610 --> 00:26:40,134 that my next witness 329 00:26:40,178 --> 00:26:42,703 does not appear in support of either party. 330 00:26:42,747 --> 00:26:44,510 The court calls... 331 00:26:45,984 --> 00:26:48,578 - Richard Palmes. - Richard Palmes... 332 00:26:48,620 --> 00:26:51,487 to come forth and be heard! 333 00:26:53,224 --> 00:26:54,953 Richard Palmes! 334 00:27:22,554 --> 00:27:24,647 Mr. Palmes, 335 00:27:24,689 --> 00:27:26,350 Captain Preston has told me... 336 00:27:28,126 --> 00:27:29,787 that you were standing next to him 337 00:27:29,828 --> 00:27:31,489 just before the fatal moment. 338 00:27:33,565 --> 00:27:34,862 I was. 339 00:27:34,899 --> 00:27:38,300 So close, in fact, that your coat 340 00:27:38,336 --> 00:27:40,702 was scorched with musket fire. 341 00:27:43,241 --> 00:27:45,937 Did you have occasion to exchange words with the accused? 342 00:27:47,645 --> 00:27:49,169 I did. 343 00:27:49,214 --> 00:27:51,682 What did you say to him? 344 00:27:52,917 --> 00:27:56,353 I asked him if he had intention 345 00:27:56,388 --> 00:27:59,915 to order his men to fire on the crowd. 346 00:27:59,958 --> 00:28:02,722 And what did Captain Preston reply? 347 00:28:02,761 --> 00:28:04,592 He said... 348 00:28:05,697 --> 00:28:07,597 as he was standing in front of them... 349 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,768 he would be foolish to do so. 350 00:28:12,170 --> 00:28:13,762 So you are prepared to swear 351 00:28:13,805 --> 00:28:16,137 he was standing in front of his men... 352 00:28:17,509 --> 00:28:19,670 not behind them 353 00:28:19,711 --> 00:28:23,169 as Mr. Goddard told us? 354 00:28:28,486 --> 00:28:29,976 Mr. Palmes... 355 00:28:31,956 --> 00:28:34,516 and when did you hear the command to fire? 356 00:28:39,130 --> 00:28:43,931 After the first shot went off. 357 00:28:47,172 --> 00:28:50,141 And did these words come from behind his men? 358 00:28:53,211 --> 00:28:54,735 I think they did. 359 00:28:56,147 --> 00:28:57,774 Could you swear 360 00:28:57,816 --> 00:28:59,943 that Captain Preston did not shout that command? 361 00:29:03,888 --> 00:29:05,378 I could not. 362 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:16,890 Very good, Mr. Palmes. 363 00:29:19,170 --> 00:29:21,604 Captain Preston, you have heard the words of Richard Palmes. 364 00:29:21,639 --> 00:29:23,664 Do you agree that you were standing not behind, 365 00:29:23,708 --> 00:29:25,175 but in front of your men? 366 00:29:25,210 --> 00:29:26,677 I do, sir. 367 00:29:26,711 --> 00:29:28,338 Order! 368 00:29:30,715 --> 00:29:32,410 It was while I was speaking with him 369 00:29:32,450 --> 00:29:34,475 the first shot was fired, sir. 370 00:29:34,519 --> 00:29:36,146 Without your giving orders? 371 00:29:36,187 --> 00:29:37,984 Indeed, sir. 372 00:29:38,022 --> 00:29:42,152 If I may recall to the court the words of Richard Palmes. 373 00:29:42,193 --> 00:29:44,525 I asked him "And when did you hear the command to fire?" 374 00:29:44,562 --> 00:29:46,689 And he answered 375 00:29:46,731 --> 00:29:49,063 "After the first shot went off." 376 00:29:51,803 --> 00:29:53,668 Which man fired, Captain? 377 00:29:53,705 --> 00:29:56,105 Young Mont... Private Montgomery, sir. 378 00:29:57,275 --> 00:29:59,038 And what caused this man to fire, Captain? 379 00:30:00,211 --> 00:30:03,510 He received a severe blow with a club, sir. 380 00:30:08,386 --> 00:30:12,117 He fell to the ground and his musket discharged. 381 00:30:13,691 --> 00:30:17,457 After that happened, more clubs, bats... 382 00:30:17,495 --> 00:30:19,429 Order! 383 00:30:20,732 --> 00:30:23,496 Order! Order! 384 00:30:23,535 --> 00:30:26,333 - Planks rained down on my men! 385 00:30:27,539 --> 00:30:29,905 I was telling them not to fire, sir! 386 00:30:29,941 --> 00:30:31,670 Order! 387 00:30:31,709 --> 00:30:33,734 But some voices 388 00:30:33,778 --> 00:30:36,246 were urging them to fire. 389 00:30:37,282 --> 00:30:39,614 "Fire! Fire! 390 00:30:39,651 --> 00:30:41,983 Fire! 391 00:30:42,020 --> 00:30:44,250 Shoot me if you dare." 392 00:30:45,290 --> 00:30:46,985 They were, sir. 393 00:30:47,025 --> 00:30:48,856 Where did these voices come from, Captain? 394 00:30:48,893 --> 00:30:51,123 From the alley behind my men, sir. 395 00:30:51,162 --> 00:30:53,255 Voices from a crowd saying... 396 00:30:53,298 --> 00:30:55,698 Shouting "Damn your bloods! 397 00:30:55,733 --> 00:30:57,291 Why don't you open fire?" 398 00:31:01,339 --> 00:31:02,863 Kindly recall for the court 399 00:31:02,907 --> 00:31:05,375 the evidence of Robert Goddard. 400 00:31:06,844 --> 00:31:09,540 "I heard the voice of Captain Preston say 401 00:31:09,581 --> 00:31:11,549 'Damn your bloods! ' 402 00:31:11,583 --> 00:31:13,778 And then he gave the order to fire." 403 00:31:17,288 --> 00:31:19,586 Be still. Allow me to finish. 404 00:31:22,327 --> 00:31:24,318 - Well? - John, how can I answer 405 00:31:24,362 --> 00:31:25,590 if you'll not let me finish? 406 00:31:30,668 --> 00:31:32,727 - You did not like it. - I did not say that. 407 00:31:32,770 --> 00:31:35,830 Oh, you did not have to. 408 00:31:35,873 --> 00:31:38,137 It is a fine summary for the defense. 409 00:31:38,176 --> 00:31:40,371 There is... is much to admire. 410 00:31:40,411 --> 00:31:42,641 It is, perhaps, at times... 411 00:31:44,215 --> 00:31:46,445 Yes? 412 00:31:47,819 --> 00:31:49,286 John, 413 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,448 there's not a person in Boston who doubts your education. 414 00:31:53,658 --> 00:31:56,593 - Your command of language... - Oh, dear. 415 00:31:56,628 --> 00:31:58,186 You are charming me, Abigail. 416 00:31:58,229 --> 00:32:00,754 You never charm me 417 00:32:00,798 --> 00:32:02,891 unless what you're about to say is cutting. 418 00:32:06,204 --> 00:32:08,331 John... 419 00:32:09,374 --> 00:32:12,810 - vanity. - Vain? 420 00:32:12,844 --> 00:32:15,312 You have overburdened your argument 421 00:32:15,346 --> 00:32:17,280 with ostentatious erudition. 422 00:32:19,317 --> 00:32:22,115 You do not need to quote great men to show you are one. 423 00:32:29,427 --> 00:32:31,361 My purpose is to show 424 00:32:31,396 --> 00:32:33,421 that certain principles 425 00:32:33,464 --> 00:32:35,125 are eternal. 426 00:32:36,167 --> 00:32:39,659 And that men of great minds have... 427 00:32:39,704 --> 00:32:41,228 - why are you laughing? 428 00:32:41,272 --> 00:32:44,708 - Through the ages agreed on certain basic principles. 429 00:32:44,742 --> 00:32:47,040 A noble purpose, no doubt. 430 00:32:48,613 --> 00:32:51,241 But some of the jury might think 431 00:32:51,282 --> 00:32:53,807 that you want to prove the brilliance of the speaker 432 00:32:53,851 --> 00:32:56,752 rather than the truth of the case he is arguing. 433 00:33:00,725 --> 00:33:02,556 Well, perhaps in certain passages, 434 00:33:02,593 --> 00:33:04,185 a more direct line... 435 00:33:05,263 --> 00:33:06,992 might be an improvement. 436 00:33:10,935 --> 00:33:13,199 Well, I can see that I am to have no sleep tonight. 437 00:33:15,339 --> 00:33:18,103 Hmm. Hmm. 438 00:33:46,704 --> 00:33:48,365 Would you have me lose all the quotations? 439 00:33:48,406 --> 00:33:50,033 John. 440 00:34:01,619 --> 00:34:04,782 What species of homicide is this? 441 00:34:04,822 --> 00:34:06,517 Is there, in law, such a thing 442 00:34:06,557 --> 00:34:09,321 as voluntary manslaughter? 443 00:34:11,195 --> 00:34:14,130 No, a person cannot justify killing if he can 444 00:34:14,165 --> 00:34:16,599 by any means make his escape. 445 00:34:17,635 --> 00:34:19,865 He that commits a cruel act voluntarily 446 00:34:19,904 --> 00:34:22,202 is guilty of malice aforethought. 447 00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:24,435 And malice was very much 448 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:26,670 on these prisoners' minds. 449 00:34:26,711 --> 00:34:28,702 By the very act of loading their muskets 450 00:34:28,746 --> 00:34:31,271 with powder and ball, they have proved this. 451 00:34:31,315 --> 00:34:34,284 They stand condemned by their own actions. 452 00:34:34,318 --> 00:34:37,446 Hear hear. Yes. Yes. 453 00:34:37,488 --> 00:34:38,955 Order! 454 00:34:38,990 --> 00:34:42,050 I ask that you heed the words of the indictment, 455 00:34:42,093 --> 00:34:43,993 that the accused, 456 00:34:44,028 --> 00:34:46,963 not having the fear of God before their eyes, 457 00:34:46,998 --> 00:34:48,795 but being moved by the instigation 458 00:34:48,833 --> 00:34:51,165 of their own wicked hearts, 459 00:34:51,202 --> 00:34:55,002 did perpetrate nothing less than murder. 460 00:34:55,039 --> 00:34:58,099 You must pronounce them guilty! 461 00:34:58,142 --> 00:35:01,908 Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! 462 00:35:02,914 --> 00:35:04,814 Order! 463 00:35:17,929 --> 00:35:19,794 I am for the prisoners at the bar. 464 00:35:22,366 --> 00:35:25,665 In the words of the Marquis of Beccaria... 465 00:35:27,471 --> 00:35:31,100 "If by supporting the rights of mankind 466 00:35:31,142 --> 00:35:33,201 I shall save from the agonies of death 467 00:35:33,244 --> 00:35:36,304 one unfortunate victim of tyranny, 468 00:35:36,347 --> 00:35:38,178 or of ignorance equally fatal... 469 00:35:40,084 --> 00:35:42,575 His blessings will be sufficient consolation to me 470 00:35:42,620 --> 00:35:44,611 for the contempt of all mankind." 471 00:35:47,091 --> 00:35:50,390 When people are taxed without representation, 472 00:35:50,428 --> 00:35:52,623 they are sometimes to feel abused. 473 00:35:54,465 --> 00:35:57,229 And sometimes they may even rebel. 474 00:35:57,268 --> 00:36:02,205 But we must take care, lest 475 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:05,573 borne away by a torrent of passion 476 00:36:05,610 --> 00:36:08,010 we make shipwreck of conscience. 477 00:36:11,282 --> 00:36:13,079 The prisoners must be judged 478 00:36:13,117 --> 00:36:16,177 solely upon the evidence produced against them in court 479 00:36:16,220 --> 00:36:18,245 and by nothing else. 480 00:36:18,289 --> 00:36:19,881 And the evidence we have heard 481 00:36:19,924 --> 00:36:21,448 speaks plainly enough, gentlemen. 482 00:36:24,095 --> 00:36:27,292 A sentry's post is his castle! 483 00:36:27,331 --> 00:36:29,595 And to attack it, by English law, 484 00:36:29,634 --> 00:36:32,228 is an illegal act. 485 00:36:32,270 --> 00:36:35,137 Soldiers so assaulted may defend themselves 486 00:36:35,172 --> 00:36:36,969 to the death. 487 00:36:37,008 --> 00:36:39,374 The people are crying, 488 00:36:39,410 --> 00:36:41,469 "Kill them! Kill them! 489 00:36:41,512 --> 00:36:43,707 Knock them down!" 490 00:36:43,748 --> 00:36:47,650 And they're heaving sharp cutting ice, 491 00:36:47,685 --> 00:36:50,620 oyster shells, clubs. 492 00:36:52,924 --> 00:36:54,789 What are they to do, 493 00:36:54,825 --> 00:36:58,090 behave like stoic philosophers lost in apathy? 494 00:37:01,332 --> 00:37:03,892 Disregard these uniforms. 495 00:37:05,236 --> 00:37:07,329 Consider the men who wear them. 496 00:37:08,539 --> 00:37:11,406 Consider yourselves in such a situation 497 00:37:11,442 --> 00:37:13,239 and judge if a reasonable man 498 00:37:13,277 --> 00:37:15,745 would not fear for his life. 499 00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:30,787 Facts are stubborn things. 500 00:37:34,565 --> 00:37:37,090 See, whatever our wishes, our inclinations... 501 00:37:38,336 --> 00:37:39,928 or the dictums of our passions... 502 00:37:41,272 --> 00:37:44,537 they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. 503 00:37:46,978 --> 00:37:49,503 You see, the law on the one hand 504 00:37:49,547 --> 00:37:51,174 is inexorable 505 00:37:51,215 --> 00:37:54,343 to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners. 506 00:37:54,385 --> 00:37:55,943 But on the other hand, 507 00:37:55,987 --> 00:37:59,252 it is deaf, deaf as an adder 508 00:37:59,290 --> 00:38:01,190 to the clamors of the populace. 509 00:38:04,628 --> 00:38:06,596 Gentlemen of the jury, 510 00:38:06,630 --> 00:38:09,622 I submit to your candor 511 00:38:09,667 --> 00:38:11,498 and justice... 512 00:38:13,471 --> 00:38:15,098 the prisoners and their cause. 513 00:38:22,780 --> 00:38:24,475 All those trees we planted... 514 00:38:24,515 --> 00:38:27,279 keep them well pruned. They should fetch a shilling each. 515 00:38:29,487 --> 00:38:32,388 And perhaps we should try flax instead of corn this year 516 00:38:32,423 --> 00:38:34,152 in the north pasture. 517 00:38:45,970 --> 00:38:48,768 - The jury's back already, sir. - Thank you. 518 00:38:52,143 --> 00:38:54,475 An ill omen for our side. 519 00:38:54,512 --> 00:38:56,070 Go. 520 00:39:01,786 --> 00:39:03,879 Don't leave those lying all about, Charles. 521 00:39:29,180 --> 00:39:31,114 Here. 522 00:39:36,487 --> 00:39:37,977 Well done. 523 00:39:47,465 --> 00:39:50,093 On the charge of murder... 524 00:39:52,236 --> 00:39:55,364 we the jury find the accused, 525 00:39:55,406 --> 00:39:59,365 Captain Thomas Preston, not guilty. 526 00:40:02,179 --> 00:40:03,908 Order! 527 00:40:12,423 --> 00:40:14,118 - Hang them! - Order! 528 00:40:14,158 --> 00:40:15,648 Hang them! 529 00:40:22,867 --> 00:40:25,097 On the charge of murder, 530 00:40:25,136 --> 00:40:28,264 we the jury find the accused: John Carroll, 531 00:40:28,305 --> 00:40:30,000 James Hartigan, 532 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,100 Matthew Kilroy, William McCauley, 533 00:40:33,144 --> 00:40:34,702 Hugh Montgomery, 534 00:40:34,745 --> 00:40:36,235 William Warren, 535 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:37,804 William Wemms 536 00:40:37,848 --> 00:40:40,339 and Hugh White... 537 00:40:42,286 --> 00:40:44,311 not guilty. 538 00:40:54,165 --> 00:40:55,655 Order! 539 00:41:04,041 --> 00:41:07,010 There being further business before the court 540 00:41:07,044 --> 00:41:09,205 I hereby declare 541 00:41:09,246 --> 00:41:12,704 this session adjourned! 542 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:17,717 God save the king! 543 00:41:17,755 --> 00:41:20,952 God save the king! 544 00:41:20,991 --> 00:41:24,017 - God save your king! - Move. 545 00:41:24,061 --> 00:41:25,494 Bastard. 546 00:41:35,039 --> 00:41:37,007 - Well well, gentlemen. - Thank you, sir. 547 00:41:37,041 --> 00:41:39,271 Captain Preston. 548 00:41:40,344 --> 00:41:43,472 - Mr. Adams. - Please take this, sir. 549 00:41:43,514 --> 00:41:46,381 It isn't much, but it's from the lot of us... 550 00:41:46,417 --> 00:41:49,011 Now if I were you, I'd confine myself to barracks 551 00:41:49,053 --> 00:41:51,749 for a good while, yeah? 552 00:41:51,789 --> 00:41:53,984 What about yourself, Mr. Adams? 553 00:41:54,024 --> 00:41:56,492 You really think you're gonna be safe from this rabble? 554 00:42:04,501 --> 00:42:07,197 No, you forget, Captain Preston, 555 00:42:07,238 --> 00:42:09,706 you have just been acquitted by a jury of New England men. 556 00:42:11,909 --> 00:42:14,275 Massachusetts is my country, sir. 557 00:42:15,713 --> 00:42:19,444 - With me, lads. - Thank you, sir. 558 00:42:45,342 --> 00:42:47,367 Well... 559 00:42:49,413 --> 00:42:51,506 I have done it, Mrs. Adams. 560 00:42:54,918 --> 00:42:57,648 Oh! 561 00:42:57,688 --> 00:43:02,182 Oh! There will be no living with you at all now, I suppose. 562 00:43:06,664 --> 00:43:09,326 Children, congratulate your father. 563 00:43:10,534 --> 00:43:12,399 - Congratulations. - Congratulations, Father. 564 00:43:12,436 --> 00:43:14,097 Well, thank you. Thank you. 565 00:43:14,138 --> 00:43:16,129 - Charles, fetch my pipe. - Yes, sir. 566 00:43:16,173 --> 00:43:17,663 - Nabby, tea. - Yes, Father. 567 00:43:18,942 --> 00:43:22,002 Johnny, come here 568 00:43:22,046 --> 00:43:24,173 - and help me with my boots. - Yes, Father. 569 00:43:24,214 --> 00:43:26,182 - There we are. - Oh, John. 570 00:43:28,585 --> 00:43:30,382 Harder! 571 00:43:31,655 --> 00:43:33,782 There we go. 572 00:43:39,196 --> 00:43:41,630 Whatever the cost to your practice, 573 00:43:41,665 --> 00:43:43,860 your defense of Captain Preston 574 00:43:43,901 --> 00:43:46,836 has earned you a reputation for impartiality. 575 00:43:48,339 --> 00:43:51,672 If you were now to speak out in opposition to the Crown, 576 00:43:51,709 --> 00:43:53,540 it would lend gravity to our cause. 577 00:43:54,712 --> 00:43:56,646 I know you share our sympathies, cousin. 578 00:43:58,215 --> 00:44:01,412 Why not stand for election on the Massachusetts Council? 579 00:44:05,322 --> 00:44:07,586 I have no talent for politics. 580 00:44:07,624 --> 00:44:10,457 I am by nature far too independent-minded. 581 00:44:12,062 --> 00:44:15,122 And besides, I hardly think that my name 582 00:44:15,165 --> 00:44:18,032 will add luster to your cause at this time. 583 00:44:18,068 --> 00:44:20,901 Half my clients have left me since the trial. 584 00:44:20,938 --> 00:44:23,463 - John. - I have already served one term 585 00:44:23,507 --> 00:44:25,099 on the Massachusetts Council 586 00:44:25,142 --> 00:44:27,940 and it made me ill with work, 587 00:44:27,978 --> 00:44:30,674 work which made it almost impossible for me 588 00:44:30,714 --> 00:44:32,238 to attend to my practice. 589 00:44:32,282 --> 00:44:34,273 Well, I have no desire to serve again. 590 00:44:34,318 --> 00:44:36,912 I thank you for your offer, gentlemen... 591 00:44:40,090 --> 00:44:43,150 but my family must take precedence. 592 00:44:45,996 --> 00:44:48,294 Many in Boston are unable to make their living. 593 00:44:49,566 --> 00:44:51,727 The Crown's policies are reducing them to poverty. 594 00:44:51,769 --> 00:44:53,964 - No, you exaggerate, sir. - We are required... 595 00:44:54,004 --> 00:44:56,939 - Mr. Paine... ...are required to import British goods 596 00:44:56,974 --> 00:44:58,532 and then expected to pay for the privilege. 597 00:44:58,575 --> 00:45:00,907 They've taxed our paper, our glass, 598 00:45:00,944 --> 00:45:03,276 the lead in our paint... 599 00:45:04,314 --> 00:45:05,838 even our playing cards and dice. 600 00:45:05,883 --> 00:45:08,147 All such taxes, I remind you, repealed. 601 00:45:08,185 --> 00:45:10,176 Repealed because we've spoken out against them. 602 00:45:11,955 --> 00:45:14,253 And we'll continue to do so. 603 00:45:15,626 --> 00:45:18,094 Without your support it would seem. 604 00:45:27,004 --> 00:45:28,494 I cannot oblige you, gentlemen. 605 00:45:32,743 --> 00:45:34,370 I'm sorry. 606 00:45:37,648 --> 00:45:40,674 The office of Advocate General 607 00:45:40,717 --> 00:45:42,651 in the Court of Admiralty has become vacant. 608 00:45:44,021 --> 00:45:45,750 Is that so? Huh. 609 00:45:48,459 --> 00:45:51,087 I have spoken about you to the governor. 610 00:45:52,362 --> 00:45:54,353 We were both of the opinion that you would be... 611 00:45:55,799 --> 00:45:57,289 the ideal candidate. 612 00:45:58,435 --> 00:46:00,562 Well, I'm flattered. 613 00:46:04,141 --> 00:46:07,269 A recommendation has been agreed to by the king. 614 00:46:08,312 --> 00:46:11,304 The appointment is yours, John, 615 00:46:11,348 --> 00:46:12,975 and brings with it the powers and privileges 616 00:46:13,016 --> 00:46:15,712 attached to the king's name. 617 00:46:15,752 --> 00:46:17,982 Congratulations, John. 618 00:46:22,292 --> 00:46:24,157 Well, it's no secret, John, 619 00:46:24,194 --> 00:46:26,822 that your practice has fallen off since the trial. 620 00:46:30,067 --> 00:46:32,797 Well, for the most part, that is the case. 621 00:46:32,836 --> 00:46:36,602 This would be an entree to the most profitable business in the colony. 622 00:46:41,345 --> 00:46:44,803 What do you say, my friend? 623 00:46:53,657 --> 00:46:55,215 You do not speak, John. 624 00:46:57,661 --> 00:47:00,095 Qui tacet consentire? 625 00:47:04,201 --> 00:47:06,294 Mrs. Adams means to say that her husband's silence 626 00:47:06,336 --> 00:47:08,964 suggests that he is willing 627 00:47:09,006 --> 00:47:11,531 to have his name put forward to King George. 628 00:47:32,629 --> 00:47:34,756 My father was a shoemaker. 629 00:47:38,902 --> 00:47:40,870 My mother could not read. 630 00:47:43,206 --> 00:47:44,730 And I have been singled out 631 00:47:44,775 --> 00:47:46,402 for preferment by the King of England. 632 00:47:54,418 --> 00:47:56,386 I am for the law... 633 00:47:58,622 --> 00:48:01,113 and yet, in whom is the power of that law vested? 634 00:48:03,427 --> 00:48:05,292 The king. 635 00:48:08,065 --> 00:48:10,090 I am for the law... 636 00:48:11,868 --> 00:48:13,927 and yet who can give me preferment? 637 00:48:16,540 --> 00:48:18,405 The King of England. 638 00:48:24,481 --> 00:48:26,972 Ah, to be the king's man, 639 00:48:27,017 --> 00:48:29,042 and all that it would carry with it. 640 00:48:39,696 --> 00:48:41,493 So what is it Mr. Hancock requires of me? 641 00:48:41,531 --> 00:48:43,055 He would like your advice. 642 00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:46,001 Well, if he is in need of legal advice, I will speak to him. 643 00:48:46,036 --> 00:48:48,004 But if this is yet again an exercise to win me over... 644 00:48:48,038 --> 00:48:49,596 John, this is business, John. 645 00:48:50,741 --> 00:48:53,266 The Dartmouth, The Eleanor, The Beaver, 646 00:48:53,310 --> 00:48:56,302 just in, their holds full of tea. 647 00:48:56,346 --> 00:49:00,043 All British ships. The king demands that their cargo be unloaded, 648 00:49:00,083 --> 00:49:02,608 cargo on which we, the citizens of Boston, 649 00:49:02,653 --> 00:49:05,087 must pay a new tax. 650 00:49:05,122 --> 00:49:07,852 You will not land this cargo, gentlemen! 651 00:49:07,891 --> 00:49:11,327 This is legitimate cargo, tea from the East India Company 652 00:49:11,361 --> 00:49:14,091 that you are bound by law to unload. 653 00:49:14,131 --> 00:49:16,258 What's legitimate about it, friend? 654 00:49:16,299 --> 00:49:18,358 No other tea is allowed in Boston Harbor! 655 00:49:18,402 --> 00:49:21,166 Either we drink the king's foul brew or nothing at all. 656 00:49:21,204 --> 00:49:23,729 And who may you be, sir? 657 00:49:23,774 --> 00:49:25,571 John Hancock, ship owner. 658 00:49:25,609 --> 00:49:28,203 Not John Hancock, smuggler? 659 00:49:28,245 --> 00:49:30,509 Watch your words, sir! 660 00:49:30,547 --> 00:49:33,015 I'm an honest man being strangled by monopoly! 661 00:49:33,050 --> 00:49:34,711 Shame on you, sir! 662 00:49:34,751 --> 00:49:36,218 Shame on you! 663 00:49:36,253 --> 00:49:38,221 Shame! Shame! 664 00:49:39,289 --> 00:49:40,984 Shame on you! Shame on you! 665 00:49:41,024 --> 00:49:44,516 Shame on you! 666 00:49:44,561 --> 00:49:46,688 - Shame on you! - Sam! 667 00:49:46,730 --> 00:49:49,221 Teach him a lesson! Tar the bastard! 668 00:49:49,266 --> 00:49:51,393 Tar him! Tar him! 669 00:49:51,435 --> 00:49:53,528 No, Sam. 670 00:50:02,312 --> 00:50:03,939 For the love of God, Sam! 671 00:50:13,256 --> 00:50:15,451 This is barbarism! Barbarism! 672 00:50:20,630 --> 00:50:23,121 Tar him! Tar him! 673 00:50:32,976 --> 00:50:34,341 John. 674 00:50:46,389 --> 00:50:49,517 Tar him! Tar him! Tar him! 675 00:51:15,452 --> 00:51:17,283 Feather him! 676 00:51:35,939 --> 00:51:37,839 Do you approve of this? 677 00:51:37,874 --> 00:51:39,364 People are hurt when they fight 678 00:51:39,409 --> 00:51:41,639 - for what is rightfully theirs! - Do you approve 679 00:51:41,678 --> 00:51:43,873 of brutal and illegal acts 680 00:51:43,914 --> 00:51:46,405 to enforce a political principle, Sam? 681 00:51:47,517 --> 00:51:49,951 Answer me that, can you? 682 00:52:11,675 --> 00:52:14,166 I am afraid 683 00:52:14,211 --> 00:52:15,769 of where this may lead us... 684 00:52:19,149 --> 00:52:21,515 if we do not chart our course carefully... 685 00:52:22,686 --> 00:52:25,211 together. 686 00:52:25,255 --> 00:52:27,450 This colony does not 687 00:52:27,490 --> 00:52:30,323 dictate to Parliament, John, 688 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,726 nor to the king. 689 00:52:32,762 --> 00:52:36,129 If the Crown decides tea is to be taxed, it will be taxed. 690 00:52:37,334 --> 00:52:39,199 Well, would you have the empire bankrupted? 691 00:52:40,303 --> 00:52:42,828 The war we fought to expand our territory, 692 00:52:42,873 --> 00:52:45,273 to protect our borders from the Indians 693 00:52:45,308 --> 00:52:47,538 and their French allies, it was a costly affair. 694 00:52:47,577 --> 00:52:50,239 I'm not here to debate the necessity of taxes, Jonathan, 695 00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,214 but the manner in which they are imposed. 696 00:52:52,249 --> 00:52:54,911 Massachusetts must shoulder its share of the burden. 697 00:52:56,286 --> 00:52:58,914 And be treated as second-class citizens? 698 00:52:58,955 --> 00:53:01,185 Without the rights and liberties of natural-born Englishmen... 699 00:53:01,224 --> 00:53:02,782 Oh, liberty in this colony 700 00:53:02,826 --> 00:53:04,919 has often carried a taint of anarchy. 701 00:53:09,099 --> 00:53:12,227 My offer still stands, John. 702 00:53:14,070 --> 00:53:16,504 The Crown has a high opinion of you. 703 00:53:16,539 --> 00:53:18,131 So do I. 704 00:53:25,682 --> 00:53:28,412 The Crown is misguided, 705 00:53:28,451 --> 00:53:29,975 but it is not despotic. 706 00:53:30,020 --> 00:53:31,647 I firmly believe that. 707 00:53:32,856 --> 00:53:34,949 Your cousin does not. 708 00:53:34,991 --> 00:53:36,583 Nor his many friends. 709 00:53:36,626 --> 00:53:38,753 They have cause. 710 00:53:38,795 --> 00:53:41,059 It seems my cousin and his friends 711 00:53:41,097 --> 00:53:43,497 intend to take the government of this colony 712 00:53:43,533 --> 00:53:45,125 into their own hands. 713 00:53:52,342 --> 00:53:55,869 People are in need of strong governance, Abigail... 714 00:53:58,748 --> 00:54:00,579 restraint. 715 00:54:01,952 --> 00:54:03,442 Most men are weak 716 00:54:03,486 --> 00:54:05,283 and evil and vicious. 717 00:54:27,877 --> 00:54:30,277 "Whereas dangerous insurrections 718 00:54:30,313 --> 00:54:32,247 have been fomented in the town of Boston 719 00:54:32,282 --> 00:54:35,115 to the utter subversion of His Majesty's government 720 00:54:35,151 --> 00:54:39,349 and the utter destruction of the public peace, 721 00:54:39,389 --> 00:54:43,291 be it enacted that no goods or merchandise whatever 722 00:54:43,326 --> 00:54:45,294 be transported to or brought from 723 00:54:45,328 --> 00:54:47,819 any other colony or country." 724 00:54:49,699 --> 00:54:52,691 "Be it enacted for the suppression of riots, tumults, 725 00:54:52,736 --> 00:54:54,966 all disturbers of the King's peace 726 00:54:55,005 --> 00:54:56,700 are to be transported to England 727 00:54:56,740 --> 00:54:58,298 for trial." 728 00:55:00,043 --> 00:55:03,103 "Any British soldier or officer charged 729 00:55:03,146 --> 00:55:05,808 with a capital crime 730 00:55:05,849 --> 00:55:08,647 will, in like manner, be transported out of the colony 731 00:55:08,685 --> 00:55:11,483 to receive a fair hearing. 732 00:55:13,289 --> 00:55:15,189 Be it enacted that for better regulating 733 00:55:15,225 --> 00:55:16,988 the government of Massachusetts, 734 00:55:17,027 --> 00:55:20,861 the present council is to be immediately disbanded. 735 00:55:20,897 --> 00:55:23,229 Be it enacted that Royal Army officers 736 00:55:23,266 --> 00:55:25,700 are authorized to quarter their troops 737 00:55:25,735 --> 00:55:27,965 among the citizenry. 738 00:55:28,004 --> 00:55:30,564 General Thomas Gage is hereby dispatched 739 00:55:30,607 --> 00:55:34,270 with four of our regiments to compel compliance 740 00:55:34,310 --> 00:55:35,777 with all these measures." 741 00:55:35,812 --> 00:55:38,679 Gage's ships will close up the bay 742 00:55:38,715 --> 00:55:40,615 and cut us off from the rest of the country. 743 00:55:45,488 --> 00:55:47,046 Boston must suffer martyrdom. 744 00:55:48,491 --> 00:55:51,153 Our principal consolation is that it dies a noble death. 745 00:55:52,295 --> 00:55:54,195 Our people will not stand idly by. 746 00:55:55,598 --> 00:55:57,589 They have weapons and they know how to use them. 747 00:55:57,634 --> 00:55:59,534 Against the British Empire? 748 00:56:11,448 --> 00:56:13,279 A congress will be meeting in Philadelphia 749 00:56:13,316 --> 00:56:15,614 to determine how to recover our rights and liberties. 750 00:56:17,220 --> 00:56:19,984 I have nominated you to represent Massachusetts. 751 00:56:21,191 --> 00:56:23,921 We're sending five men. 752 00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,791 You should be among them. 753 00:56:27,030 --> 00:56:30,397 Does this congress have any legal authority? 754 00:56:32,735 --> 00:56:34,327 Since all assemblies have been outlawed, 755 00:56:34,370 --> 00:56:35,962 I cannot imagine that it does. 756 00:56:36,005 --> 00:56:38,599 Sam, I repeat, 757 00:56:38,641 --> 00:56:40,939 does this congress have any legal authority? 758 00:56:48,918 --> 00:56:50,510 Tosspots. 759 00:56:53,323 --> 00:56:56,190 Massachusetts is in a state of open rebellion... 760 00:56:56,226 --> 00:56:58,421 the abuse of customs officers, 761 00:56:58,461 --> 00:57:00,258 342 chests of tea 762 00:57:00,296 --> 00:57:03,697 spilled into the harbor by vandals masquerading as Indians. 763 00:57:03,733 --> 00:57:06,201 The time for gentleness has passed. 764 00:57:11,941 --> 00:57:15,274 These acts strip us of our rights, Jonathan, 765 00:57:15,311 --> 00:57:17,074 our rights... 766 00:57:19,883 --> 00:57:21,783 the power of self government, 767 00:57:21,818 --> 00:57:26,551 the replacement of court officers loyal to the Crown... 768 00:57:26,589 --> 00:57:28,648 the position that you yourself offered me. 769 00:57:28,691 --> 00:57:29,715 Which you refused. 770 00:57:29,759 --> 00:57:32,159 Which I would no doubt be ineligible for now 771 00:57:32,195 --> 00:57:35,096 as I am not a loyal Tory. 772 00:57:36,466 --> 00:57:38,934 The Crown believes that the courts of Massachusetts 773 00:57:38,968 --> 00:57:40,333 are hopelessly biased. 774 00:57:40,370 --> 00:57:42,600 They can no longer be trusted to deliver justice. 775 00:57:44,407 --> 00:57:45,897 I see. 776 00:57:47,443 --> 00:57:50,276 Did Captain Preston and his soldiers not receive justice? 777 00:57:52,482 --> 00:57:55,815 I staked my reputation and the security of my family 778 00:57:55,852 --> 00:57:57,752 on a case that will now be tried in England 779 00:57:57,787 --> 00:58:00,051 because he is an English officer? 780 00:58:02,659 --> 00:58:04,183 Are we considered too young, 781 00:58:04,227 --> 00:58:07,219 too unprincipled to understand justice? 782 00:58:07,263 --> 00:58:10,130 The Crown has ruled, John. 783 00:58:10,166 --> 00:58:13,431 The only reasonable course left is obedience. 784 00:58:13,469 --> 00:58:16,131 And you would do well to remember that 785 00:58:16,172 --> 00:58:18,003 and act accordingly, old friend. 786 00:58:26,349 --> 00:58:28,249 Good day, old friend. 787 00:59:36,052 --> 00:59:39,215 From our Committee of Correspondence in Virginia, 788 00:59:39,255 --> 00:59:41,314 we hear that the House of Burgesses 789 00:59:41,357 --> 00:59:43,587 has selected deputies to join 790 00:59:43,626 --> 00:59:45,651 the great Continental Congress. 791 00:59:49,299 --> 00:59:52,132 We have heard tonight from our own representatives to Congress 792 00:59:52,168 --> 00:59:54,398 convening in Philadelphia... 793 00:59:54,437 --> 00:59:56,769 Mr. John Hancock... 794 00:59:57,874 --> 00:59:59,637 Mr. Robert Treat Paine 795 00:59:59,676 --> 01:00:01,337 and Mr. Elbridge Gerry. 796 01:00:02,979 --> 01:00:05,413 I give you now a new delegate 797 01:00:05,448 --> 01:00:06,972 from Massachusetts... 798 01:00:08,117 --> 01:00:11,484 a man whose prudence 799 01:00:11,521 --> 01:00:14,251 and probity are well known to you all... 800 01:00:16,793 --> 01:00:18,784 Mr. John Adams! 801 01:00:42,518 --> 01:00:45,385 - Let it be known... - Speak up! 802 01:00:56,399 --> 01:00:58,731 Let it be known 803 01:00:58,768 --> 01:01:00,326 that British liberties 804 01:01:00,370 --> 01:01:03,237 are not the grants of princes or parliaments... 805 01:01:05,141 --> 01:01:07,006 that many of our rights 806 01:01:07,043 --> 01:01:08,806 are inherent and essential... 807 01:01:11,314 --> 01:01:14,511 agreed on as maxims and established as preliminaries 808 01:01:14,550 --> 01:01:17,041 even before Parliament existed. 809 01:01:21,424 --> 01:01:23,619 We have a right to them, 810 01:01:23,659 --> 01:01:25,718 derived from our Maker. 811 01:01:30,767 --> 01:01:32,701 Our forefathers have earned 812 01:01:32,735 --> 01:01:34,259 and bought liberty for us 813 01:01:34,303 --> 01:01:35,861 at the expense of their ease, 814 01:01:35,905 --> 01:01:37,770 their estates, their pleasures 815 01:01:37,807 --> 01:01:39,502 and their blood. 816 01:01:40,877 --> 01:01:43,869 Liberty is not built on the doctrine that a few nobles 817 01:01:43,913 --> 01:01:46,905 have a right to inherit the earth. No! 818 01:01:46,949 --> 01:01:49,918 No! 819 01:01:49,952 --> 01:01:52,648 It stands on this principle: 820 01:01:52,688 --> 01:01:56,215 That the meanest and lowest of the people are, 821 01:01:56,259 --> 01:01:57,954 by the unalterable, 822 01:01:57,994 --> 01:02:00,588 indefeasible laws of God and nature, 823 01:02:00,630 --> 01:02:03,394 as well entitled to the benefit of the air to breathe, 824 01:02:03,433 --> 01:02:05,230 light to see, food to eat 825 01:02:05,268 --> 01:02:08,362 and clothes to wear as the nobles or the king. 826 01:02:10,873 --> 01:02:12,773 That is liberty... 827 01:02:14,043 --> 01:02:17,911 and liberty will reign in America! 828 01:02:40,770 --> 01:02:43,295 They have chosen their delegate well, John. 829 01:02:43,339 --> 01:02:44,806 Have they? 830 01:02:44,841 --> 01:02:47,036 To argue against the Crown, 831 01:02:47,076 --> 01:02:48,771 the Commons, the Lords... 832 01:02:48,811 --> 01:02:51,279 - John... - No, we New England men 833 01:02:51,314 --> 01:02:53,544 are not fit for the times, Abigail. 834 01:02:53,583 --> 01:02:57,280 What have we seen of the world beyond Boston? 835 01:02:57,320 --> 01:02:59,345 What have we seen? 836 01:03:01,224 --> 01:03:03,556 I fear we not know what we do, Abigail. 837 01:03:05,828 --> 01:03:08,626 When men know not what to do, John, 838 01:03:08,664 --> 01:03:11,155 they ought not to do they know not what. 839 01:03:54,577 --> 01:03:56,101 I want you to keep your head 840 01:03:56,145 --> 01:03:58,613 and look after your mother and your brother and your sister. 841 01:03:58,648 --> 01:04:00,946 Charles, put those things back! 842 01:04:00,983 --> 01:04:03,042 Are these britches suitably dignified 843 01:04:03,085 --> 01:04:04,552 for a delegate of the great 844 01:04:04,587 --> 01:04:06,646 Continental Congress of America? 845 01:04:06,689 --> 01:04:09,351 A delegate's britches are one of his most important tools. 846 01:04:09,392 --> 01:04:10,859 Why is that? 847 01:04:10,893 --> 01:04:13,327 Because the art of politics is the art of applying 848 01:04:13,362 --> 01:04:15,557 the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair. 849 01:04:20,836 --> 01:04:22,861 It's the procession! 850 01:04:36,018 --> 01:04:38,851 All a gift from the Sons of Liberty! 851 01:04:42,058 --> 01:04:43,753 God help us. 852 01:04:43,793 --> 01:04:45,988 My old horse will suit me just fine, Sam. 853 01:04:46,028 --> 01:04:48,519 A plain horse for plain John Adams. 854 01:04:52,068 --> 01:04:53,933 Well, come on, John! 855 01:04:57,807 --> 01:05:00,241 And if it is a girl, 856 01:05:00,276 --> 01:05:02,710 we will name her Elizabeth, 857 01:05:02,745 --> 01:05:04,269 after your mother. 858 01:05:04,313 --> 01:05:06,042 - Your favorite waistcoat. - No no no, it's okay... 859 01:05:06,082 --> 01:05:07,982 - No, I have not packed it. - It's nothing. 860 01:05:09,685 --> 01:05:12,017 Will you be safe? 861 01:05:12,054 --> 01:05:13,681 We will go to the farm. We will be fine. 862 01:05:13,723 --> 01:05:15,918 Good. 863 01:05:15,958 --> 01:05:17,516 Won't let anyone steal the place, John. 864 01:05:18,661 --> 01:05:20,561 Been in your family since Charles II. 865 01:05:29,605 --> 01:05:32,233 - Go. Go. - Yeah. 866 01:05:32,274 --> 01:05:34,105 Go. 867 01:05:46,155 --> 01:05:47,850 Forgive me, Abigail. 868 01:05:48,891 --> 01:05:50,950 For what, John? 869 01:05:53,763 --> 01:05:55,287 Goodbye, you little pumpkins. 870 01:05:56,332 --> 01:05:58,163 John, you remember what I said. 871 01:06:03,139 --> 01:06:06,131 - To Philadelphia! - Philadelphia! 872 01:06:09,345 --> 01:06:10,812 To Congress! 873 01:06:19,321 --> 01:06:21,289 Look sharp, boys! Look sharp! 874 01:07:09,271 --> 01:07:10,863 Scum 875 01:07:23,853 --> 01:07:25,411 In.