J. Neil Schulman on the North Bridge in Concord, 1993
Photo of J. Neil Schulman standing on Concord Bridge holding his James Madison Award

J. Neil Schulman on the old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, in Fall, 1993, holding his James Madison Award from the Second Amendment Foundation. On April 19, 1775, government troops, under orders to confiscate militia arms, were confronted by armed Massachusetts citizens on the North Bridge. The Massachusetts citizens fired on the government troops in the first armed confrontation of the American Revolution, called "the shot heard 'round the world" in the poem, "Concord Hymn," by Ralph Waldo Emerson.



Second Amendment Foundation James Madison Award to J. Neil Schulman for his LA Times Op-Ed, If Gun Laws Works, Why Are We Afraid?

Close in on the James Madison Award.



Close up on plaque: Here on the 19 of April 1775 was made the first forcible resistance to British aggression On the opposite bank stood the American militia and on this spot the first of the Enemy fell in the War of that Revolution which gave Indepenence to these United States In gratitude to GOD and In the love of Freedom this Monument was erected AD 1836

A plaque nearby the bridge tells the story of the confrontation.



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