What is not truthful about this image?

By Ari Karchmer

By Nathan Bermel

What is not truthful about this image?

False: There is a man behind the line of soldiers holding a sword. He appears to be saying “Fire!”

True: The man, Captain Preston, actually said, “Hold your fire!”

Don’t Fire!

What is not truthful about this image?

False: The British soldiers are in a line.

True: The soldiers were not in a line. It was chaos, not organized.

LOOK HERE!LOOK HERE!

What is not truthful about this image?

False: As evident by the smoke there was a lot of continuous fire.

True: There were only a few panicked shots.

Too many shots!

What is not truthful about this image?

False: The colonists were innocent.

True: The colonists threw snowballs, rocks, and called the British names.

What is not truthful about this image?A lot of things arenot truthful aboutthis image. It is all swayed to the colonists point of view. For that reason it is good propaganda.