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Speaker 1: Watertown historian Maryland Roach is trying to clear the names

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Speaker 1: of people convicted of witchcraft from before the Salem witch trials.

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Speaker 1: She and the Massachusetts witch Hunt Justice Project have found

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Speaker 1: eight people whose records they want to overturn.

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Speaker 2: As with Salem, the suspicions seemed to escalate when there's

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Speaker 2: some awful coincidence.

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Speaker 1: That meant neighbourly's suspicions after local animals got sick, were

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Speaker 1: a child dying. Most of the people accused were executed,

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Speaker 1: even though they maintained their innocence. Rouch said there was

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Speaker 1: a large outbreak of witchcraft accusations in England in the

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Speaker 1: mid sixteen hundreds, which she thinks influenced the more scattered

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Speaker 1: witchcraft trials in the colonies.

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Speaker 2: So there were how to advice on how you go

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Speaker 2: about finding if your neighbor's a witch or not.

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Speaker 1: Rooch is the only way to fully write history's wrongs

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Speaker 1: is for Beacon Hell to act.

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Speaker 2: But to get these people in Massachusetts cleared, you need

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Speaker 2: the Massachusetts government.

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Speaker 1: She's spoken out in favor of a bill that would

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Speaker 1: formally clear the names of those convicted more than three

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Speaker 1: hundred years later. Kyle Shaffle to be busy Boston's news

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Speaker 1: radio