Experience the American dream with today’s Patriot of the Past interview. I’m your host, John Gillespie.
It’s February 24, 1761. I’m in a Boston, Massachusetts, court with lawyer James Otis Jr.
JG: “Mr. Otis, what are you so stirred up about?”
JO: “Mr. Gillespie, it is the British lack of respect for colonial rights. The King has his soldiers searching our homes and businesses without proper warrants. It is the worst instrument of arbitrary power and destruction of liberty! It must stop!”
John Adams later wrote, “The child of independence was born in that old council chamber by James Otis’ demand for search warrants.”
Read more about James Otis.
John and Jan Gillespie are the founders of the Rawhide Boys’ Ranch; they have fostered 351 teenagers and wrote the book Our 351 Sons; they have also assisted numerous churches in developing youth programs and expanding their total church ministries. After running for U.S. Senate, John founded 1776 American Dream, which exists to demonstrate the vision of our founding fathers and help our generation of youth passionately embrace those values.
