newspapers to continue its coverage. but very much was the atmosphere like to the printers on the verge of war and just after war starts? >> well, all of these -- massachusetts at printers in boston and in a couple of the port towns to the north, salem. and when the war started it was, i think there were leaks from the british government that were telling the general and the roh government to start cracking down. the printers, the most radical printers, they got there press is out of boston just a few days in early april 1775. snuck out around the same time. isiah thomas back of the ...