Clarke Peters
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Clarke Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
There's a hundred of them, maybe more.
They erect a sign.
It simply says, import.
An indignant neighbor named Ebenezer Richardson attempts to knock the pole to the ground.
He drives a horse and cart straight at it.
But it won't budge.
The crowd turns.
They harass Richardson, who runs to the safety of his house.
Insults are hurled, then sticks and stones.
The windows of Richardson's house are smashed.
Through a shattered pane of glass, Richardson pokes the barrel of a gun.
He fires off a shot.
And in doing so, it's Christopher Sider, an 11-year-old boy.
A protest over unfair taxation has spiraled to this, the death of a child on the streets he called home.
But there are no British soldiers involved in this tragedy.
This is American versus American, the first shot of a civil war that will become a global conflict.
and the first casualty of a revolution that, even now, almost nobody can see coming.
Next time on Founding Fathers, An American Dream, Boston is rocked, unrest grows,
An exchange of insults snowballs into a bloody clash between locals and redcoats.
A young lawyer named John Adams steps up to do the least popular job in the city, defending British soldiers accused of perpetrating a massacre.
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