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Boston Massacre Response After reading and analyzing, “The Boston Massacre Trails” I feel like the movie left out some parts of the trial that I found interesting in the article. For example, John Adam’s assistant in the trial, Josiah Quincy, happened to be the younger brother of the trial’s prosecutor Samuel Quincy. Another interesting fact was that Samuel Quincy was a loyalist. However, he was prosecuting against the British soldiers. Overall, I do think that the movie did a great job depicting the Boston Massacre Trials. However, I also believe that the article as more detailed and had more interesting facts. John Adams was a rare individual who at first, wasn’t really a Loyalist or a Rebel. He believed in justice and the law. That’s why

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