In the film it never mentions Josiah Quincy and in the film, the trial begins immediately after the Boston massacre, rather than seven months later. Also in the film all the men were acquitted but in the actual account two of the men were guilty of manslaughter. John Adams was a brave man for taking on that trial and while its impossible to speculate why he defended those men it is fair to say that he did it out of honor and he won a fair trial “The Part I took in Defense of Cptn. Preston and the Soldiers, procured me Anxiety, and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I ever rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those
