Boston Massacre Site

This guide to the Boston Massacre Site follows the night of March 5, 1770, when taunts and snowballs between a Boston mob and a jittery line of British troops turned to gunfire, killing five men including dockworker Crispus Attucks. It traces the trial that followed, when a young attorney named John Adams agreed to defend the soldiers no one else in town would touch, arguing that even British troops deserved a fair hearing. Look down at the star set into the cobblestone ring beneath your feet.