Stamp Act Rebellion

The capital city of the colony of Virginia. And this is the better, the better morning of November 1st, 1765, when they the Stamp Act is to go into effect. But here before the House of Burgers, this is a speeding crowd determined that the acts shall not go into effect.

These angry colonists are safe to face with the loaded moships of Governor Foucault's militia, going up across the square. The guards are quite as determined as the protesting crowd and ready for anything. The people have been waiting here since dawn now for the arrival of George Mercer, the new tax collector sent from England by King George III.

With orders to enforce the stamp act, no matter how be him and play the colonists or test, whether he'll be able to do so in the face of the angry mood of the colonists remains to be seen.

Anything is possible. George Mercer is a native of Virginia and was once regarded as a neighbor and friend. But he arrives today. The American Parliament Challenge. People of Williamsburg enact the prologue to the American Revolution, a decade before the shop that was heard round the world.

CBS takes you back 185 years to the morning when the colonists rose up against the stand back, the symbol of British autocracy and parliamentary dictation. All things are, as they were then, except for one thing, with all the modern facilities of radio present and CBS Newsmen reporting from the scene.

You are there. You are there is based on historical facts and quotations. And now? November 3, 765. The green before the Capitol in William III took bring an often violent resistance to the stand facts throughout the American Parliament.