Ben Franklin's world.

The podcast dedicated to helping you,

learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.

And I'm your host Liz Kovart.

Crispus Attics, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, Patrick Carr.

These are the names of the five men who died from the wounds they received in the shootings on Boston's King Street on the night of March 5, 1770.

Great Caldwell and Attics died instantly. on the night of March 5, 1770.

Great Caldwell in Attics died instantly,

while Maverick and Carr died within the days and weeks

after the incident.

Now, of these five victims,

the evidence points to Crispus Attix is falling first. And of all the victims,

Crispus Attix is the name that we can recall most, that is, if we can recall any of the names of the

massacres victims.

But why is that?

At the outset of our investigation of the Boston Massacre,

we said we'd study the massacre,

the larger context it occurred in,

and its memory and legacy.

And it's in part thanks to Crispus Attics

that the massacre has held such a lasting place

in American memory.

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