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May 3, 1775: You Can’t Keep a Good Spy Down

May 3, 1775: You Can’t Keep a Good Spy Down

250 and Counting

May 3, 20252m 46s

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Cover art for May 3, 1775: detail of the Massachusetts Spy from that day.

More often than not, items that appear in the Bill of Rights derive directly from actions that the British took at one time or another in the past. Ban guns, will you? Here’s a nice Second Amendment. Ban free speech? Here’s your First Amendment.

And so on.

Today’s edition could be considered a Part Two to the events of April 16, when the Massachusetts Spy had to pack up shop and hightail it out of Boston down the road some forth miles to Worcester specifically so it could keep publishing. On this day, the Spy sprang back to life.

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