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John Brown’s Trial December 2, 1859. Assignment: You are a reporter of the New York Herald Newspaper. Your partner in this assignment is a reporter for the Charleston Review . You both have a 24 hour deadline to write up 200 word story that sums up John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry.
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John Brown’s TrialDecember 2, 1859 Assignment: You are a reporter of the New York Herald Newspaper. Your partner in this assignment is a reporter for the Charleston Review. You both have a 24 hour deadline to write up 200 word story that sums up John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry. List & describe the occurrences in the court room and be sure to point out the main ideas, and overarching issues that stood out for this reading. You must speak in 3rd person (No I, We, You, etc). Sentence starter (this will not count as a part of the 200 words): December 3rd, 1859 Yesterday, John Brown, the leader of the radical abolitionist movement stood trial for his part in the raid on Harper’s Ferry. An act that is surely to be remembered as an act against the state of Virginia and an attempt to bring down….