01945cam a2200409 i 4500 484786664 TxGeo 20210205120000.0 200401s2020||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2020014442 9781432882563 hbk. 1432882562 hbk. TxGeo rda Abrams, Dan. John Adams under fire [large print] : the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial / Dan Abrams and David Fisher. Large print edition. Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2020. 469 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index. "The Boston Massacre has often been called the first shots of the American Revolution. As John Adams would later remember, 'On that night the formation of American independence was born.' Yet when the British soldiers faced trial, the young lawyer Adams was determined that they receive a fair one. He volunteered to represent them, keeping the peace in a powder keg of a colony, and in the process created some of the foundations of what would become United States law"--Dust jacket flap. 20210217. Adams, John 1735-1826. Boston Massacre, 1770. Trials (Murder) Massachusetts Boston. Boston (Mass) Trials, litigation, etc. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes. True crime stories. Large type books. Fisher, David, 1946- QS5