The Boston Massacre

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

How an engraving by Paul Revere exaggerated the 1770 riot at Boston's Customs House into the Boston Massacre. Plus, the unsolved mystery of why flight TWA 800 crashed in 1996.

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Fri 3 Jan 199721:00

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Fri 3 Jan 199721:00
BBC Radio 4

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