Setting the Record Straight: Shot Heard 'Round the World'

April 19, 1775.

The events of this day, the start of the American Revolution, are essential to the history of Lexington and Concord.

Patch talked with three experts - Leslie Perrin Wilson of the Concord Public Library, Lou Sideris at Minuteman National Park and Paul O'Shaughnessy of the Lexington Historical Society - to set the record straight on what exactly happened on April 19, 1775.

These historians address the truth surrounding the "shot heard 'round the world," head-on, as well as the resulting rivalry between the two towns where the fight for American independence was born.