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John Adams Part I:
Join Or Die.
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Lobsters for sale!
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Lobsters!
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Who'll buy?
Lobsters!
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Clean out my shit bucket, lobster!
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Who'll buy lobsters?
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Go back to england!
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Take that!
Hit 'em right in the head!
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We are people,
not an animal, lobster!
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That a girl.
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Come on,
you old fool.
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Get over here.
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Come here.
There we go.
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Look at that.
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Quite a big one.
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That must have hurt.
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You lost.
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I did.
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I could tell by
the set of your shoulders.
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My client alleged
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that his neighbor's horse
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had trampled his crops.
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And had it?
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Hard to say.
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There were no witnesses
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and the beast
refused to testify for some reason.
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Follow me!
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Father.
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Allow the child to breathe, John.
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There, can you breathe now?
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Did you go to the farm?
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Mr. Bass is sending a cord of wood.
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And there's a fence down
in the south field...
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It's a fire!
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Don't fire.
Do not fire, lads!
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Help me!
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Look at me. Yes?
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- Can you breathe?
- My son.
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Is this your boy?
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Murderers!
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Come away.
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- Come away, Sam!
- Shoot me too, Preston,
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- if you dare!
- Sam, come away!
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You'll suffer
the full penalty of the law!
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These people need to be tended to.
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These people need our help here, yes?
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What happened, father?
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- We looked, but we couldn't see...
- It's all over now.
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Just a little hubbub is all.
Nothing to worry about.
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Return to bed.
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Bed! Both of ya!
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British soldiers fired into
a crowd on state house square.
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God help us.
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I thought it might come to this.
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People were killed?
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I cannot say what number...
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One of them no more than a child,
from what I could see.
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I have no words for it, Abigail.
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"omnia gallia
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in tres partes divisa est."
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"all Gaul is divided unto three parts."
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Good.
Who do you think would divide Gaul?
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- John!
- Beggin'your pardon.
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Yes?
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- Mr. Adams, my name is forrest.
- What happened to you?
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It's nothing, sir.
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I'm known to be
a friend of the soldiers here.
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What is your business, sir?
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I'm here to ask you to help a man.
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Captain Preston.
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No one else will plead his case.
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Come in.
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I will get a basin
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- to dress those cuts.
- That's very kind.
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Thank you.
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Here. Sit.
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Sit.
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Can it harm to go
and see this soldier?
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How?
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Because you
will find a way to believe him.
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- He may be telling the truth.
- All your clients tell the truth.
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but your prospective client
is the most despised man in boston.
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By the time the news
of last night's events spread,
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I'm sure he will be the most
despised man in all of Massachusetts.
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It will be much talked of.
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Ambition.
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Counsel is the last thing
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an accused person should lack
in a free country, Abigail.
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- Then accept it.
- But will I be condemned for it?
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They will say
you are the crown's man.
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I care not for
malicious tongues on either side.
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These are the murderers.
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May god forgive them.
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And you too, sir.
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Captain Preston, you wish to engage
my services in your defense?
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They've all refused us, sir,
every man jack of them.
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They say you're a man of integrity,
Mr. Adams.
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Well, you may expect from me
no art of address,
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no sophistry
or prevarication in such a cause.
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Nothing more than fact,
evidence and the law will justify,
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Captain Preston.
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But before I can even consider
taking your case,
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I must hear
your account of what happened.
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My men came to the aid of a sentry
outside the customhouse.
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He was being abused by the crowd.
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They asked me to empty
their shit buckets.
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I told 'em to back off,
but they kept at it...
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Screaming at me,
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throwing things.
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Mr. Montgomery
called for the guard.
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I led them to the square,
we made formation facing the crowd,
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bayonets fixed,
muskets loaded.
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Look, I gave no order to fire, sir.
I swear.
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I was standing in front of the men.
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I was talking to a big fella.
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He had a club and...
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I think they call him palmes.
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Yet some of your soldiers did fire,
Captain Preston.
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As of this morning, five are dead...
Men and boys.
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My men acted in self-defense,
Mr. Adams,
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as god almighty is our judge.
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The hotheads have finally tasted blood.
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We cannot be surprised by it.
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The presence of the soldiers here
is much resented.
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Of course,
the people of Boston would be lining up
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to pay taxes
if they were represented in parliament.
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But the fact remains that they're not,
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and defiance
will not ensure their inclusion.
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Our other colonies understand this.
Why can't Boston?
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Do you speak as yourself here
or as the attorney general?
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The man and the office
are one in the same.
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The Governor is pleased
that you've taken on the Preston matter.
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I was not aware that the Governor
took any notice of me at all.
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You do not think it merited?
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Well...
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It is not for me to say.
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Surely, John,
you did not move your practice
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from the country
to go unnoticed in Boston.
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Please do not trouble
yourself with a rebuttal.
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I know you too well.
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You're a hero, boy.
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You haven't much of a case.
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Do I not?
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No Boston jury
will ever vote for acquittal.
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Thank you for your kind advice, Sam.
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This is not a time
for showing how clever you are, cousin.
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This is a time for choosing sides.
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I am for the law,
cousin is there another side?
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There are those who fight for our rights
as natural-born englishmen.
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and those that would strip us
of those rights!
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I do not have the luxury of your birth
or your purse, Sam,
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to spend my days fomenting dissension.
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I intend to prove
this colony is governed by law...
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Whatever you and your sons of liberty
may say on the matter!
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We're all sons of liberty here.
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The jury are all but certain
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to have judged this issue
before they hear a word of evidence.
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"Does the government of king George have
the right to tax the citizens of Boston
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when they are denied representation
in the Parliament in Westminster?"
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Charles, stay away from the fire!
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But this is not a trial about taxes
levied on Massachusetts.
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You would do well to acknowledge it.
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No, it is a trial about
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whether or not captain preston
ordered his men to fire on that crowd,
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and if that crowd
was a lawful assembly or a mob.
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Remove yourself, sir!
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Nabby!
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Charles, please.
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The resentment of Boston towards
the crown is irrelevant!
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Do not ignore it.
It must be said.
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Acknowledge it as a fact.
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Do not comment and sit in
judgment of the jury's prejudice.
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Suggest that they must rise
above it as you have done.
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You have
a higher opinion of juries than I.
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You must persuade even more,
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and mask your impatience with
those less intelligent than yourself.
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Good heaven. Is my demeanor
in the court on trial now?
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I would not dream of telling you
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how to conduct yourself in court.
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Would you not?
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I heard Captain Preston plain as day.
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"damn your bloods!" he said.
"you won't treat me this way."
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And how would you describe
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the behavior of these
young lads
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just before the soldiers fired?
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Throwing snowballs.
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Snowballs!
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A terrifying prospect
for armed soldiers... Snowballs!
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They didn't like it, sir.
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Chilly on the skin and all.
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Mr. Adams.
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Mr. Goddard,
when you arrived in the square,
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you had ample opportunity
to observe the crowd.
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I did, sir.
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And were any of them carrying
anything apart from snowballs?
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Let me see.
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I don't recall, sir.
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Were any of these men carrying clubs?
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- They were, sir.
- Indeed?
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A lawful assembly.
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Not a riot, a lawful assembly
in which people were carrying clubs.
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To make certain nothing
unlawful occurred, perhaps?
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The men are rope makers, sir.
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As any true Boston man would know,
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the clubs they were carrying
are for beating out rope.
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For beating out rope, indeed?
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But could they not also be used
for beating out men's brains?
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There was no riot!
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Any man who suggests
there was is lying!
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Order!
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Mr. Goddard,
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where exactly were you
standing when you say
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you heard the officer in the dock,
Captain Preston, give the order to fire?
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Close enough to have touched him, sir.
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- And where was he standing?
- He stood behind his men, sir.
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I see, I see.
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Behind his men?
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I will ask the jury
to take note of that.
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Mr. Holmes...
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Would you please describe
the events you witnessed
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on the night of march the 5th?
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I...
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saw some boys near the sentry...
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At the customhouse door.
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And what were they doing, these boys?
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Making a noise. Shouting...
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At the sentry?
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I suppose.
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Were they doing anything else?
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What were they doing?
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Throwing ice, sir,
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and oyster shells.
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And did this harassment continue?
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with the arrival of Captain Preston
and his men?
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Yes.
It did.
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Did you yourself pick up everything
you could find and throw it at them?
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Yes, sir.
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How many people
were there about, Mr. Holmes?
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Near 200 boys
and men before it was over.
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200 boys and men.
Good heavens.
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And as you say, they were throwing ice
and oyster shells.
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Were they throwing anything else?
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Did they throw their clubs, Mr. Holmes?
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As you say, this crowd,
they were making a great hullabaloo?
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- Yes.
- They were shouting?
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What were they shouting to the soldiers?
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Just before the soldiers
started shooting...
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... I heard the people say...
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What did you hear them say?
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Please, Mr. Holmes.
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What did you hear them say?
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"Fire,
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"damn you. fire!"
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"Fire!
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"Fire!
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"Fire, damn you!
Fire!"
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Now, did you take
this to be the cry of "fire"
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or bidding these soldiers to fire?
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They meant
for the soldiers to shoot, sir.
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You say that this crowd actually
dared the soldiers to fire?
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That they did.
262
00:24:57,340 --> 00:24:59,249
God help me, they did.
263
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Thank you, sir.
264
00:25:51,688 --> 00:25:52,790
Mr. Palmes?
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Mr. Palmes.
266
00:25:56,514 --> 00:25:59,017
I know that
you spoke to Captain Preston.
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I simply want you to say
what you saw that evening.
268
00:26:10,134 --> 00:26:11,705
If british soldiers fired
269
00:26:12,068 --> 00:26:14,564
on a defenseless crowd
without provocation
270
00:26:14,684 --> 00:26:17,486
I will be the first to want
to see them hanged for it.
271
00:26:20,052 --> 00:26:21,797
But suppose they are innocent.
272
00:26:22,535 --> 00:26:25,502
I do not wish to see
innocent men die in my name.
273
00:26:25,805 --> 00:26:26,692
Do you?
274
00:26:35,788 --> 00:26:37,780
I wish to point out that
275
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my next witness does not appear
in support of either party.
276
00:26:42,141 --> 00:26:43,782
The court calls.
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00:26:44,848 --> 00:26:46,149
Richard palmes.
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00:26:47,707 --> 00:26:49,958
To come forth and be heard!
279
00:27:21,427 --> 00:27:22,525
Mr. Palmes,
280
00:27:23,521 --> 00:27:25,850
Captain Preston has told me...
281
00:27:27,051 --> 00:27:30,772
That you were standing next to him
just before the fatal moment.
282
00:27:32,477 --> 00:27:33,312
I was.
283
00:27:33,752 --> 00:27:36,429
So close, in fact, that your coat
284
00:27:37,361 --> 00:27:39,826
was scorched with musket fire.
285
00:27:42,226 --> 00:27:45,766
Did you have occasion
to exchange words with the accused?
286
00:27:46,504 --> 00:27:47,394
I did.
287
00:27:48,332 --> 00:27:49,711
What did you say to him?
288
00:27:51,822 --> 00:27:53,193
I asked him
289
00:27:54,277 --> 00:27:58,798
if he had intention to
order his men to fire on the crowd.
290
00:27:59,572 --> 00:28:01,848
And what did Captain Preston reply?
291
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:03,358
He said...
292
00:28:04,427 --> 00:28:06,805
As he was standing in front of them...
293
00:28:07,719 --> 00:28:09,856
He would be foolish to do so.
294
00:28:11,096 --> 00:28:15,291
So you are prepared to swear
he was standing in front of his men...
295
00:28:16,250 --> 00:28:21,058
Not behind them
as Mr. Goddard told us?
296
00:28:27,418 --> 00:28:28,539
Mr Palmes.
297
00:28:31,204 --> 00:28:33,630
And when did you hear
the command to fire?
298
00:28:37,866 --> 00:28:40,457
After the first shot
299
00:28:41,336 --> 00:28:42,414
went off.
300
00:28:46,813 --> 00:28:49,778
And did these words
come from behind his men?
301
00:28:52,122 --> 00:28:53,563
I think they did.
302
00:28:55,057 --> 00:28:59,030
Could you swear that Captain Preston
did not shout that command?
303
00:29:02,877 --> 00:29:03,967
I could not.
304
00:29:14,471 --> 00:29:16,006
Very good, Mr. Palmes.
305
00:29:17,931 --> 00:29:20,294
Captain preston, you have heard
the words of Richard Palmes.
306
00:29:20,414 --> 00:29:24,066
Do you agree that you were standing
not behind, but in front of your men?
307
00:29:24,186 --> 00:29:25,310
I do, sir.
308
00:29:25,873 --> 00:29:26,705
Order!
309
00:29:29,664 --> 00:29:33,231
It was while I was speaking with him
the first shot was fired, sir.
310
00:29:33,486 --> 00:29:36,357
- Without your giving orders?
- Indeed, sir.
311
00:29:37,230 --> 00:29:40,523
If I may recall to the court
the words of Richard Palmes.
312
00:29:41,103 --> 00:29:43,594
I asked him "and when did you hear
the command to fire?"
313
00:29:43,714 --> 00:29:44,985
and he answered
314
00:29:45,782 --> 00:29:48,044
"after the first shot went off."
315
00:29:50,768 --> 00:29:52,042
Which man fired, Captain?
316
00:29:52,378 --> 00:29:55,401
Young Mont...
Private Montgomery, sir.
317
00:29:56,151 --> 00:29:58,272
And what caused
this man to fire, Captain?
318
00:29:59,121 --> 00:30:01,949
He received a severe blow
with a club, sir.
319
00:30:07,321 --> 00:30:09,225
He fell to the ground
320
00:30:09,598 --> 00:30:11,356
and his musket discharged.
321
00:30:12,610 --> 00:30:16,137
After that happened,
more clubs, bats...
322
00:30:19,979 --> 00:30:20,840
Order!
323
00:30:21,890 --> 00:30:22,844
Order!
324
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,593
Planks rained down on my men!
325
00:30:26,316 --> 00:30:28,777
I was telling them not to fire, sir!
326
00:30:29,866 --> 00:30:30,666
Order!
327
00:30:30,949 --> 00:30:32,304
But some voices
328
00:30:33,149 --> 00:30:34,849
were urging them to fire.
329
00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:37,058
"Fire!
330
00:30:41,128 --> 00:30:43,301
"Shoot me if you dare."
331
00:30:44,210 --> 00:30:45,412
They were, sir.
332
00:30:45,815 --> 00:30:47,843
Where did these voices
come from, Captain?
333
00:30:47,963 --> 00:30:50,267
>From the alley behind my men, sir.
334
00:30:50,524 --> 00:30:52,394
Voices from a crowd saying...
335
00:30:52,555 --> 00:30:56,398
Shouting "damn your bloods!
Why don't you shoot fire?"
336
00:31:00,066 --> 00:31:04,004
kindly recall for the court
the evidence of Robert Goddard.
337
00:31:05,785 --> 00:31:08,292
"I heard
the voice of Captain Preston say
338
00:31:08,586 --> 00:31:10,086
"Damn your bloods!"
339
00:31:10,613 --> 00:31:13,180
"and then he gave the order to fire."
340
00:31:16,305 --> 00:31:17,290
Be still.
341
00:31:18,004 --> 00:31:21,848
- Allow me to finish.
- Well?
342
00:31:22,282 --> 00:31:24,626
John, how can I answer
if you'll not let me finish?
343
00:31:29,582 --> 00:31:31,574
- You did not like it.
- I did not say that.
344
00:31:31,694 --> 00:31:33,145
You did not have to.
345
00:31:35,290 --> 00:31:37,230
It is a fine summary for the defense.
346
00:31:37,506 --> 00:31:39,533
There is...
Is much to admire.
347
00:31:39,653 --> 00:31:42,123
It is, perhaps, at times...
348
00:31:44,443 --> 00:31:45,243
Yes?
349
00:31:48,403 --> 00:31:51,494
John, there's not a person in oston
who doubts your education.
350
00:31:52,391 --> 00:31:54,711
Your command of language...
351
00:31:54,831 --> 00:31:57,091
Dear. You are charming me, abigail.
352
00:31:57,211 --> 00:31:58,720
You never charm me
353
00:32:00,208 --> 00:32:02,672
unless what you're about
to say is cutting.
354
00:32:08,710 --> 00:32:09,647
Vanity.
355
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:11,890
Vain?
356
00:32:12,269 --> 00:32:16,288
You have overburdened your argument
with ostentatious erudition.
357
00:32:18,368 --> 00:32:21,191
You do not need to quote
great men to show you are one.
358
00:32:28,426 --> 00:32:33,328
My purpose is to show
that certain principles are eternal.
359
00:32:35,365 --> 00:32:39,730
And that men of great minds have...
Why are you laughing?
360
00:32:39,850 --> 00:32:43,797
Through the ages agreed
on certain basic principles.
361
00:32:44,557 --> 00:32:46,432
A noble purpose, no doubt.
362
00:32:47,756 --> 00:32:49,872
But some of the jury might think
363
00:32:50,505 --> 00:32:52,749
that you want to prove
the brilliance of the speaker
364
00:32:52,869 --> 00:32:55,809
rather than the truth
of the case he is arguing.
365
00:32:59,989 --> 00:33:03,271
Perhaps in certain passages,
a more direct line...
366
00:33:04,243 --> 00:33:06,423
Might be an improvement.
367
00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:12,909
I can see
that I am to have no sleep tonight.
368
00:33:45,541 --> 00:33:47,738
Would you have me
lose all the quotations?
369
00:34:00,493 --> 00:34:03,126
What species of homicide is this?
370
00:34:03,935 --> 00:34:08,301
Here, in law, such a thing as
voluntary manslaughter?
371
00:34:10,322 --> 00:34:12,218
No, a person cannot justify killing
372
00:34:12,512 --> 00:34:15,758
if he can by any means
make his escape.
373
00:34:16,455 --> 00:34:18,861
****
374
00:34:18,981 --> 00:34:21,125
Is guilty of malice aforethought.
375
00:34:21,377 --> 00:34:24,898
And malice was very much
on these prisoners' minds.
376
00:34:25,727 --> 00:34:29,114
By the very act of loading
their muskets with powder and ball,
377
00:34:29,234 --> 00:34:30,572
they have proved this.
378
00:34:30,692 --> 00:34:33,209
They stand
condemned by their own actions.
379
00:34:37,987 --> 00:34:41,209
I ask that you heed
the words of the indictment,
380
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,574
that the accused, not having
the fear of god before therir eyes,
381
00:34:46,011 --> 00:34:50,019
but being moved by the instigation
of their own wicked hearts,
382
00:34:50,451 --> 00:34:53,604
did perpetrate nothing less than murder.
383
00:34:54,547 --> 00:34:57,180
You must pronounce them guilty!
384
00:35:16,791 --> 00:35:19,008
I am for the prisoners at the bar.
385
00:35:21,082 --> 00:35:24,945
In the words
of the Marquis of Beccaria...
386
00:35:26,411 --> 00:35:29,737
"if by supporting the rights of mankind
387
00:35:30,219 --> 00:35:34,961
"I shall save from the agonies of death
one unfortunate victim of tyranny,
388
00:35:35,356 --> 00:35:37,371
"or of ignorance equally fatal...
389
00:35:39,058 --> 00:35:41,613
"His blessings
will be sufficient consolation to me
390
00:35:41,733 --> 00:35:44,214
"for the contempt of all mankind."
391
00:35:46,714 --> 00:35:49,285
When people
are taxed without representation,
392
00:35:49,614 --> 00:35:52,233
they are sometimes to feel abused.
393
00:35:53,443 --> 00:35:55,704
And sometimes they may even rebel.
394
00:35:56,366 --> 00:35:58,741
But we must take care,
395
00:35:59,393 --> 00:36:03,942
lest
borne away by a torrent of passion
396
00:36:04,862 --> 00:36:06,948
we make shipwreck of conscience.
397
00:36:10,386 --> 00:36:12,423
The prisoners must be judged solely
398
00:36:12,543 --> 00:36:16,818
upon the evidence produced against them
in court and by nothing else.
399
00:36:17,305 --> 00:36:20,555
And the evidence we have heard
speaks plainly enough, gentlemen.
400
00:36:22,983 --> 00:36:25,854
A sentry's post is his castle!
401
00:36:26,469 --> 00:36:30,205
And to attack it, by english law,
is an illegal act.
402
00:36:31,316 --> 00:36:35,146
Soldiers so assaulted
may defend themselves to the death.
403
00:36:36,072 --> 00:36:38,099
The people are crying,
404
00:36:39,019 --> 00:36:42,019
"kill them! Kill them!
Knock them down!"
405
00:36:42,828 --> 00:36:46,091
and they're heaving sharp cutting ice,
406
00:36:46,677 --> 00:36:49,115
oyster shells, clubs.
407
00:36:51,927 --> 00:36:53,296
What are they to do,
408
00:36:53,865 --> 00:36:57,533
behave like stoic philosophers
lost in apathy?
409
00:37:00,381 --> 00:37:02,157
Disregard these uniforms.
410
00:37:04,173 --> 00:37:06,791
Consider the men who wear them.
411
00:37:07,576 --> 00:37:10,237
Consider yourselves in such a situation
412
00:37:10,357 --> 00:37:14,578
and judge if a reasonable man
would not fear for his life.
413
00:37:26,945 --> 00:37:30,149
Facts are stubborn things.
414
00:37:33,674 --> 00:37:36,650
See, whatever our wishes,
our inclinations...
415
00:37:37,389 --> 00:37:39,228
Or the dictums of our passions...
416
00:37:40,265 --> 00:37:43,638
They cannot alter the state
of facts and evidence.
417
00:37:46,446 --> 00:37:50,402
You see, the law on the one hand
is inexorable to
418
00:37:50,522 --> 00:37:53,510
the cries and lamentations
of the prisoners.
419
00:37:53,630 --> 00:37:55,997
But on the other hand, it is dea
420
00:37:56,279 --> 00:38:00,269
deaf as an adder
to the clamors of the populace.
421
00:38:03,604 --> 00:38:05,701
Gentlemen of the jury,
422
00:38:06,076 --> 00:38:09,678
I submit to your candor
and justice...
423
00:38:12,604 --> 00:38:14,245
The prisoners and their cause.
424
00:38:21,828 --> 00:38:23,453
All those trees we planted...
425
00:38:23,573 --> 00:38:26,931
Keep them well pruned.
They should fetch a shilling each.
426
00:38:28,598 --> 00:38:33,001
And maybe we should try flax instead of
corn this year in the north pasture.
427
00:38:45,012 --> 00:38:48,246
- The jury's back already, sir.
- Thank you.
428
00:38:50,962 --> 00:38:52,999
An ill omen for our side.
429
00:38:53,598 --> 00:38:54,398
Go.
430
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,967
Don't leave
those lying all about, Charles.
431
00:39:28,433 --> 00:39:29,283
Here.
432
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:36,704
Well done.
433
00:39:46,402 --> 00:39:49,180
On the charge of murder...
434
00:39:51,225 --> 00:39:54,057
We the jury find the accused,
435
00:39:54,561 --> 00:39:56,330
Captain Thomas Preston,
436
00:39:57,777 --> 00:39:58,750
not guilty.
437
00:40:21,632 --> 00:40:24,173
On the charge of murder,
438
00:40:24,334 --> 00:40:26,078
we the jury find the accused:
439
00:40:26,198 --> 00:40:28,499
John Carroll, James Hartigan,
440
00:40:28,991 --> 00:40:31,675
Matthew Kilroy, William Mccauley,
441
00:40:32,179 --> 00:40:34,652
Hugh Montgomery, William Warren,
442
00:40:35,209 --> 00:40:37,793
William Wemms and Hugh White...
443
00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:42,500
Not guilty.
444
00:41:03,247 --> 00:41:06,090
There being further business
before the court
445
00:41:06,877 --> 00:41:08,276
I hereby declare
446
00:41:09,428 --> 00:41:11,226
this session adjourned!
447
00:41:15,256 --> 00:41:16,767
God save the King!
448
00:41:17,101 --> 00:41:18,893
God save the King!
449
00:41:19,181 --> 00:41:21,202
- God save your King!
- Move.
450
00:41:23,223 --> 00:41:24,167
Bastard.
451
00:41:34,009 --> 00:41:36,078
- Well well, gentlemen.
- Thank you, sir.
452
00:41:40,868 --> 00:41:42,585
Please take this, sir.
453
00:41:43,261 --> 00:41:45,463
It isn't much,
but it's from the lot of us...
454
00:41:46,101 --> 00:41:49,143
Now if I were you, I'd confine myself
to barracks for a good while, yeah?
455
00:41:51,070 --> 00:41:53,013
What about yourself, Mr. Adams?
456
00:41:53,133 --> 00:41:56,307
You really think you're gonna be safe
from this rabble?
457
00:42:03,478 --> 00:42:05,879
No, you forget, Captain Preston,
458
00:42:06,303 --> 00:42:09,807
you have just been acquitted by
a jury of New England men.
459
00:42:10,826 --> 00:42:13,157
Massachusetts is my country, sir.
460
00:42:14,616 --> 00:42:16,243
- With me, lads.
- Thank you, sir.
461
00:42:48,323 --> 00:42:50,569
I have done it, Mrs. Adams.
462
00:42:57,639 --> 00:43:01,025
There will be no living
with you at all now, I suppose.
463
00:43:05,535 --> 00:43:08,874
Children, congratulate your father.
464
00:43:09,524 --> 00:43:12,699
- Congratulations, father.
- Thank you.
465
00:43:13,543 --> 00:43:15,371
- Charles, fetch my pipe.
- Yes, sir.
466
00:43:15,491 --> 00:43:17,176
- Nabby, tea.
- Yes, father.
467
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:18,680
Johnny,
468
00:43:19,427 --> 00:43:22,327
come here and help me with my boots.
469
00:43:22,447 --> 00:43:24,353
- Yes, father.
- There we are.
470
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:28,904
Harder!
471
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,057
There we go.
472
00:43:38,017 --> 00:43:42,905
Whatever the cost to your practice,
your defense of Captain Preston
473
00:43:43,025 --> 00:43:45,875
has earned you a reputation
for impartiality.
474
00:43:47,052 --> 00:43:50,450
If you were now to speak out in
opposition to the crown,
475
00:43:50,907 --> 00:43:53,758
it would lend gravity to our cause.
476
00:43:53,919 --> 00:43:55,930
I know you share our sympathies, cousin.
477
00:43:57,857 --> 00:44:01,308
Why not stand for election on
the Massachusetts council?
478
00:44:04,210 --> 00:44:06,188
I have no talent for politics.
479
00:44:06,832 --> 00:44:09,523
I am by nature
far too independent-minded.
480
00:44:11,268 --> 00:44:12,267
And besides,
481
00:44:12,839 --> 00:44:16,447
I hardly think that my name will add
luster to your cause at this time.
482
00:44:17,034 --> 00:44:19,992
Half my clients
have left me since the trial.
483
00:44:21,278 --> 00:44:23,890
I have already served one term
on the Massachusetts council
484
00:44:24,010 --> 00:44:26,475
and it made me ill with work,
485
00:44:27,201 --> 00:44:31,135
work which made it almost impossible
for me to attend to my practice.
486
00:44:31,358 --> 00:44:33,380
I have no desire to serve again.
487
00:44:33,540 --> 00:44:35,803
I thank you for your offer, gentlemen...
488
00:44:39,066 --> 00:44:42,505
But my family must take precedence.
489
00:44:44,969 --> 00:44:47,353
Many in Boston
are unable to make their living.
490
00:44:48,764 --> 00:44:50,815
The crown's policies
are reducing them to poverty.
491
00:44:51,074 --> 00:44:53,067
- You exaggerate, sir.
- We are required...
492
00:44:54,061 --> 00:44:55,737
We are required to import british goods
493
00:44:55,857 --> 00:44:57,775
and then expected to pay
for the privilege.
494
00:44:57,895 --> 00:45:00,098
They've taxed our paper, our glass,
495
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,821
the lead in our paint...
even our playing cards and dice.
496
00:45:04,941 --> 00:45:07,248
All such taxes, I remind you, repealed.
497
00:45:07,408 --> 00:45:10,239
Repealed because we've spoken out
against them.
498
00:45:11,433 --> 00:45:13,295
And we'll continue to do so.
499
00:45:14,527 --> 00:45:17,132
without your support it would seem.
500
00:45:26,028 --> 00:45:28,114
I cannot oblige you, gentlemen.
501
00:45:31,802 --> 00:45:32,681
I'm sorry.
502
00:45:37,181 --> 00:45:40,936
The office of advocate general
in the court of admiralty
503
00:45:41,056 --> 00:45:43,868
- has become vacant.
- Is that so?
504
00:45:47,476 --> 00:45:49,957
I have spoken about you
to the Governor.
505
00:45:51,329 --> 00:45:54,323
We were both of the opinion
that you would be...
506
00:45:54,955 --> 00:45:56,338
the ideal candidate.
507
00:45:57,392 --> 00:45:58,962
I'm flattered.
508
00:46:03,130 --> 00:46:06,189
A recommendation
has been agreed to by the King.
509
00:46:07,261 --> 00:46:08,976
The appointment is yours, John,
510
00:46:10,321 --> 00:46:14,315
and brings with it the powers and
privileges attached to the King's name.
511
00:46:15,172 --> 00:46:16,825
Congratulations, John.
512
00:46:21,883 --> 00:46:23,282
It's no secret, John
513
00:46:23,889 --> 00:46:26,336
that your practice
has fallen off since the trial.
514
00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:31,916
For the most part, that is the case.
515
00:46:32,272 --> 00:46:35,272
This would be an entree to the most
profitable business in the colony.
516
00:46:42,116 --> 00:46:43,886
What do you say, my friend?
517
00:46:52,824 --> 00:46:54,313
You do not speak, John.
518
00:46:56,638 --> 00:46:58,372
qui tacet consentire
519
00:47:02,990 --> 00:47:06,766
Mrs. Adams means to say
that her husband's silence suggests
520
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,148
that he is willing to have his name
put forward to King George.
521
00:47:31,486 --> 00:47:33,524
My father was a shoemaker.
522
00:47:37,637 --> 00:47:39,854
My mother could not read.
523
00:47:42,179 --> 00:47:45,447
and I have been singled out
for preferment by the King of England.
524
00:47:53,041 --> 00:47:54,549
I am for the law...
525
00:47:57,613 --> 00:48:00,675
and yet, in whom
is the power of that law vested?
526
00:48:02,384 --> 00:48:03,458
The King.
527
00:48:06,997 --> 00:48:08,655
I am for the law...
528
00:48:10,834 --> 00:48:13,166
And yet who can give me preferment?
529
00:48:15,463 --> 00:48:16,974
The King of England.
530
00:48:23,664 --> 00:48:28,517
To be the King's man,
and all that it would carry with it.
531
00:48:38,202 --> 00:48:40,662
So what is it
Mr. Hancock requires of me?
532
00:48:40,782 --> 00:48:42,362
He would like your advice.
533
00:48:42,482 --> 00:48:44,705
If he is in need of legal advice,
I will speak to him.
534
00:48:44,825 --> 00:48:47,051
but if this is yet again
an exercise to win me over...
535
00:48:47,308 --> 00:48:48,714
John, this is business, John.
536
00:48:49,933 --> 00:48:52,209
The Dartmouth, the Eleanor, the Beaver,
537
00:48:52,329 --> 00:48:55,309
just in, their holds full of tea.
538
00:48:55,764 --> 00:48:59,104
All british ships. the King demands
that their cargo be unloaded,
539
00:48:59,367 --> 00:49:02,672
cargo on which we, the citizens
of Boston, must pay a new tax.
540
00:49:04,078 --> 00:49:06,761
You will not land this cargo,
gentlemen!
541
00:49:07,013 --> 00:49:08,935
This is legitimate cargo,
542
00:49:09,055 --> 00:49:12,951
tea from the east india company
that you are bound by law to unload.
543
00:49:13,112 --> 00:49:14,933
What's legitimate about it, friend?
544
00:49:15,053 --> 00:49:17,587
No other tea
is allowed in Boston harbor!
545
00:49:17,820 --> 00:49:20,750
Either we drink the King's foul brew
or nothing at all.
546
00:49:21,101 --> 00:49:24,630
- And who may you be, sir?
- John Hancock, ship owner.
547
00:49:25,127 --> 00:49:28,717
- Not John Hancock, smuggler?
- watch your words, sir!
548
00:49:29,195 --> 00:49:32,054
I'm an honest man
being strangled by monopoly!
549
00:49:32,214 --> 00:49:34,582
- Shame on you, sir!
- Shame on you!
550
00:49:37,855 --> 00:49:39,077
Shame on you!
551
00:49:39,471 --> 00:49:40,413
Shame on you!
552
00:49:44,883 --> 00:49:45,683
Sam!
553
00:49:45,894 --> 00:49:48,278
Teach him a lesson!
tar the bastard!
554
00:49:50,607 --> 00:49:51,516
No, Sam.
555
00:50:01,493 --> 00:50:02,960
For the love of god, Sam!
556
00:50:12,105 --> 00:50:14,471
This is barbarism!
Barbarism!
557
00:51:34,967 --> 00:51:36,261
Do you approve of this?
558
00:51:36,947 --> 00:51:39,291
People are hurt when they fight
for what is rightfully theirs!
559
00:51:39,411 --> 00:51:42,835
Do you approve
of brutal and illegal acts
560
00:51:43,127 --> 00:51:45,482
to enforce a political principle, Sam?
561
00:51:46,554 --> 00:51:48,300
Answer me that, can you?
562
00:52:12,093 --> 00:52:15,155
I am afraid of
where this may lead us...
563
00:52:18,067 --> 00:52:20,837
if we do not chart
our course carefully...
564
00:52:21,854 --> 00:52:22,827
together.
565
00:52:24,380 --> 00:52:28,294
This colony
does not dictate to Parliament,
566
00:52:29,267 --> 00:52:30,263
nor to the King.
567
00:52:31,406 --> 00:52:34,792
if the Crown decides tea is to be taxed,
it will be taxed.
568
00:52:36,357 --> 00:52:38,198
Would you have the Empire bankrupted?
569
00:52:39,257 --> 00:52:42,000
The war we fought
to expand our territory,
570
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,484
to protect our borders from the Indians
571
00:52:44,604 --> 00:52:46,759
and their French allies,
it was a costly affair.
572
00:52:46,879 --> 00:52:49,304
I'm not here to debate
the necessity of taxes,
573
00:52:49,424 --> 00:52:51,253
but the manner in which
they are imposed.
574
00:52:51,413 --> 00:52:53,922
Massachusetts
must shoulder its share of the burden.
575
00:52:55,187 --> 00:52:57,768
and be treated as second-class citizens?
576
00:52:57,888 --> 00:53:00,455
Without the rights and liberties
of natural-born englishmen...
577
00:53:00,754 --> 00:53:03,932
Liberty in this colony
has often carried a taint of anarchy.
578
00:53:08,361 --> 00:53:10,273
My offer still stands, John.
579
00:53:13,114 --> 00:53:16,225
The Crown has a high opinion of you.
So do I.
580
00:53:24,729 --> 00:53:28,813
The Crown is misguided,
but it is not despotic.
581
00:53:29,211 --> 00:53:31,250
I firmly believe that.
582
00:53:31,707 --> 00:53:33,277
Your cousin does not.
583
00:53:33,921 --> 00:53:36,923
nor his many friends.
They have cause.
584
00:53:37,788 --> 00:53:40,079
it seems my cousin and his friends
585
00:53:40,199 --> 00:53:43,759
intend to take the government
of this colony into their own hands.
586
00:53:51,241 --> 00:53:53,999
People are in need
of strong governance.
587
00:53:57,636 --> 00:53:58,620
Restraint.
588
00:54:00,788 --> 00:54:04,431
Most men are weak
and evil and vicious.
589
00:54:26,629 --> 00:54:31,311
"Whereas dangerous insurrections
have been fomented in the town of Boston
590
00:54:31,665 --> 00:54:34,189
"to the utter subversion
of his Majesty's government
591
00:54:34,966 --> 00:54:37,836
"and the utter destruction
of the public peace,
592
00:54:38,603 --> 00:54:41,168
"be it enacted that no goods
or merchandise
593
00:54:41,288 --> 00:54:45,615
"whatever be transported to
or brought from any other colony
594
00:54:45,830 --> 00:54:46,868
"or country."
595
00:54:48,365 --> 00:54:51,748
"Be it enacted for
the suppression of riots, tumults,
596
00:54:52,108 --> 00:54:57,018
"all disturbers of the King's peace are
to be transported to England for trial."
597
00:54:59,207 --> 00:55:03,260
"Any british soldier or officer
charged with a capital crime
598
00:55:05,005 --> 00:55:07,293
"will, in like manner,
be transported out of the colony
599
00:55:07,413 --> 00:55:10,098
"to receive a fair hearing."
600
00:55:12,086 --> 00:55:14,080
"Be it enacted
that for better regulating
601
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:15,993
"the Government of Massachusetts,
602
00:55:16,113 --> 00:55:19,605
"the present council
is to be immediately disbanded."
603
00:55:20,168 --> 00:55:22,230
"Be it enacted that Royal Army officers
604
00:55:22,350 --> 00:55:25,570
"are authorized to quarter
their troops among the citizenry.
605
00:55:26,279 --> 00:55:29,185
"General Thomas Gage
is hereby dispatched
606
00:55:29,619 --> 00:55:33,087
"with four of our regiments
to compel compliance
607
00:55:33,207 --> 00:55:34,833
"with all these measures."
608
00:55:35,614 --> 00:55:37,711
Gage's ships will close up the bay
609
00:55:37,993 --> 00:55:40,659
and cut us off
from the rest of the country.
610
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,420
Boston must suffer martyrdom.
611
00:55:47,446 --> 00:55:50,223
Our principal consolation
is that it dies a noble death.
612
00:55:51,131 --> 00:55:53,286
Our people will not stand idly by.
613
00:55:54,411 --> 00:55:56,646
They have weapons
and they know how to use them.
614
00:55:57,075 --> 00:55:59,055
Against the british Empire?
615
00:56:10,268 --> 00:56:12,298
A congress
will be meeting in Philadelphia
616
00:56:12,418 --> 00:56:15,607
to determine
how to recover our rights and liberties.
617
00:56:16,121 --> 00:56:19,143
I have nominated you
to represent Massachusetts.
618
00:56:20,638 --> 00:56:22,278
We're sending five men.
619
00:56:22,864 --> 00:56:24,633
You should be among them.
620
00:56:25,794 --> 00:56:29,098
Does this congress
have any legal authority?
621
00:56:31,758 --> 00:56:35,018
Since all assemblies have been outlawed,
I cannot imagine that it does.
622
00:56:36,737 --> 00:56:40,147
I repeat, does this congress
have any legal authority?
623
00:56:47,919 --> 00:56:48,973
Tosspots.
624
00:56:51,973 --> 00:56:55,260
Massachusetts
is in a state of open rebellion...
625
00:56:55,380 --> 00:56:57,202
The abuse of customs officers,
626
00:56:57,322 --> 00:57:00,630
342 chests of tea
spilled into the harbor by
627
00:57:01,027 --> 00:57:03,066
vandals masquerading as indians.
628
00:57:03,405 --> 00:57:05,655
The time for gentleness has passed.
629
00:57:11,435 --> 00:57:15,595
These acts strip us of our rights,
Jonathan, our rights...
630
00:57:18,747 --> 00:57:20,814
The power of self government,
631
00:57:21,854 --> 00:57:25,048
the replacement
of court officers loyal to the Crown...
632
00:57:25,770 --> 00:57:27,696
The position that you yourself
offered me.
633
00:57:27,857 --> 00:57:30,307
- Which you refused.
- I would no doubt be ineligible
634
00:57:30,427 --> 00:57:32,722
for now as I am not a loyal tory.
635
00:57:35,453 --> 00:57:38,777
The Crown believes that the courts
of Massachusetts are hopelessly biased.
636
00:57:38,897 --> 00:57:41,543
They can no longer be trusted
to deliver justice.
637
00:57:43,243 --> 00:57:44,099
I see.
638
00:57:46,331 --> 00:57:49,217
Did Captain Preston
and his soldiers not receive justice?
639
00:57:51,423 --> 00:57:54,549
I staked my reputation
and the security of my family
640
00:57:54,669 --> 00:57:56,725
on a case
that will now be tried in England
641
00:57:57,209 --> 00:57:59,019
because he is an english officer?
642
00:58:01,378 --> 00:58:05,995
Are we considered too young,
too unprincipled to understand justice?
643
00:58:06,979 --> 00:58:08,526
the Crown has ruled, John.
644
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,076
The only reasonable course left
is obedience.
645
00:58:12,196 --> 00:58:16,295
and you would do well to remember
that and act accordingly, old friend.
646
00:58:25,223 --> 00:58:27,005
Good day, old friend.
647
00:59:34,938 --> 00:59:38,201
>From our committee
of correspondence in Virginia,
648
00:59:38,361 --> 00:59:40,412
we hear that the house of burgesses
649
00:59:40,572 --> 00:59:42,242
has selected deputies to join
650
00:59:42,362 --> 00:59:44,624
the great continental congress.
651
00:59:48,007 --> 00:59:51,131
We have heard tonight
from our own representatives to congress
652
00:59:51,619 --> 00:59:53,383
convening in Philadelphia...
653
00:59:54,142 --> 00:59:55,689
Mr. John Hancock...
654
00:59:56,649 --> 01:00:00,645
Mr. Robert treat Paine
and Mr. Elbridge Gerry.
655
01:00:01,729 --> 01:00:05,508
I give you now a new delegate
from Massachusetts...
656
01:00:06,817 --> 01:00:09,407
a man whose prudence
657
01:00:10,350 --> 01:00:13,467
and probity are well known to you all...
658
01:00:15,646 --> 01:00:17,791
Mr. John Adams!
659
01:00:41,384 --> 01:00:44,142
- let it be known...
- Speak up!
660
01:00:55,953 --> 01:00:57,455
Let it be known
661
01:00:57,924 --> 01:01:02,202
that british liberties are not
the grants of princes or parliaments...
662
01:01:04,047 --> 01:01:08,107
that many of our rights
are inherent and essential...
663
01:01:10,202 --> 01:01:13,605
agreed on as maxims
and established as preliminaries
664
01:01:13,725 --> 01:01:16,007
even before parliament existed.
665
01:01:20,271 --> 01:01:24,275
We have a right to them,
derived from our maker.
666
01:01:29,517 --> 01:01:31,431
Our forefathers have earned
667
01:01:31,551 --> 01:01:34,590
and bought liberty
for us at the expense of their ease,
668
01:01:34,710 --> 01:01:37,525
their estates,
their pleasures and their blood.
669
01:01:39,724 --> 01:01:41,462
Liberty is not built
on the doctrine that
670
01:01:41,582 --> 01:01:44,680
a few nobles
have a right to inherit the earth.
671
01:01:49,075 --> 01:01:51,442
It stands on this principle:
672
01:01:51,562 --> 01:01:54,648
that the meanest and lowest
of the people are,
673
01:01:55,388 --> 01:01:58,746
by the unalterable,
indefeasible laws of god
674
01:01:58,866 --> 01:02:02,387
and nature, as well entitled to
the benefit of the air to breathe,
675
01:02:02,507 --> 01:02:07,159
light to see, food to eat and clothes
to wear as the nobles or the King.
676
01:02:09,771 --> 01:02:11,015
That is liberty...
677
01:02:12,859 --> 01:02:16,087
and liberty will reign in America!
678
01:02:39,592 --> 01:02:42,259
they have chosen
their delegate well, John.
679
01:02:42,379 --> 01:02:43,492
Have they?
680
01:02:44,149 --> 01:02:47,637
To argue against the Crown,
the commons, the lords...
681
01:02:47,925 --> 01:02:51,729
No, we New England men
are not fit for the times,
682
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,686
What have we seen
of the world beyond Boston?
683
01:02:56,226 --> 01:02:57,976
What have we seen?
684
01:03:00,224 --> 01:03:02,185
I fear we not know what we do,
685
01:03:04,715 --> 01:03:07,169
When men know not what to do,
686
01:03:07,633 --> 01:03:10,451
they ought not to do
they know not what.
687
01:03:53,418 --> 01:03:55,799
I want you to keep your head
and look after your mother
688
01:03:55,919 --> 01:03:57,496
and your brother and your sister.
689
01:03:57,616 --> 01:03:59,736
Charles, put those things back!
690
01:03:59,856 --> 01:04:02,022
Are these britches suitably dignified
691
01:04:02,142 --> 01:04:04,798
for a delegate of the great continental
congress of America?
692
01:04:05,677 --> 01:04:08,296
A delegate's britches
are one of his most important tools.
693
01:04:08,416 --> 01:04:09,527
Why is that?
694
01:04:09,855 --> 01:04:12,251
Because the art of politics
is the art of applying
695
01:04:12,371 --> 01:04:14,822
the seat of the britches
to the seat of the chair.
696
01:04:19,679 --> 01:04:20,827
It's the procession!
697
01:04:34,915 --> 01:04:37,557
All a gift from the sons of liberty!
698
01:04:40,928 --> 01:04:42,158
God help us.
699
01:04:42,694 --> 01:04:44,966
My old horse
will suit me just fine, Sam.
700
01:04:45,474 --> 01:04:47,716
A plain horse for plain John Adams.
701
01:04:50,892 --> 01:04:52,489
Well, come on, John!
702
01:04:56,635 --> 01:05:00,341
and if it is a girl,
we will name her Elizabeth,
703
01:05:01,459 --> 01:05:04,174
- after your mother.
- Your favorite waistcoat.
704
01:05:04,890 --> 01:05:07,308
- I have not packed it.
- It's nothing.
705
01:05:08,729 --> 01:05:10,155
Will you be safe?
706
01:05:11,259 --> 01:05:13,895
We will go to the farm.
We will be fine.
707
01:05:14,987 --> 01:05:17,231
Won't let anyone steal the place.
708
01:05:17,477 --> 01:05:19,500
Been in your family since Charles II.
709
01:05:28,608 --> 01:05:29,357
Go.
710
01:05:45,029 --> 01:05:46,517
Forgive me, Abigail.
711
01:05:47,926 --> 01:05:49,197
For what, John?
712
01:05:52,917 --> 01:05:54,890
Goodbye, you little pumpkins.
713
01:05:56,029 --> 01:05:58,113
John, you remember what I said.
714
01:06:02,246 --> 01:06:03,503
To Philadelphia!
715
01:06:08,279 --> 01:06:09,369
To congress!
716
01:07:23,173 --> 01:07:23,973
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9999
00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00
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