Within a few days of the shootings, young Henry Pelham… had produced an emotional drawing depicting with gross inaccuracy the events… Revere obtained the Pelham and immediately engraved, printed and sold it-all without permission or attribution. In fact, the witnesses unanimously recollected that the muskets banged almost at will.
Preston stood in front of the soldiers * did not command a volley.

– The Boston Massacre by Hiller B. Zobel