Meet John Adams
George Baker as John Adams
Tuesday, June 30 from 6:30 -7:30 pm
In-Person & on Zoom:
Registration is required to attend In-Person.
In “Meet John Adams – A Lively and Revolutionary Conversation with America’s Second President,” John Adams talks about his life and times in a humorous and inspiring performance and discusses, among many incidents in Adams’ life, the Boston Massacre Trial of 1770 where Adams defended 14 British soldiers charged with murder for firing into a mob of 500 Bostonians, killing six of them. This case was the first time in a Colonial court where the judge instructed the jury that you cannot convict unless you are convinced of the defendant’s guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
GEORGE BAKER has portrayed the character of President John Adams for more than fifteen years in a one-man show throughout the country at national conventions and venues such as Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, the Presidential Libraries of Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, and Harry S. Truman, the New-York Historical Society and was featured as John Adams on National Public Radio’s weekend program, Studio 360. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, George practices law in Connecticut when not on the road as John Adams.
Oliver Wolcott Library
160 South Street
Litchfield, CT 06759
6/30/26
