("Yankee Doodle") - [Narrator] How did Paul Revere use the Boston Massacre to gain support for the revolution?

(gentle string music) It's 1770, tensions are high between the British soldiers and the Patriots.

But it comes to a head on the evening of March 5.

Crowds of workers and sailors are attacking British soldiers with snowballs and rocks, (crowd yelling) when a single shot rings out.

(gun cracking) British rifles fire, (guns cracking) and five civilians, including the former enslaved dock worker Crispus Attucks, are killed or wounded.

Three weeks later, Paul Revere debuts "The Bloody Massacre in King Street," a work of highly effective war propaganda.

In an America that was on the fence about declaring liberation, depicting the day's events as a barbaric, bloody attack of innocents helped bring Americans over to the revolutionary cause.

(gentle string music fades out)