Was it murder? Why a US Navy hanging resonates nearly 200 years later

In 1842, The US brig Somers, commanded by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie was the site of what may have been the only planned mutiny in the US Navy's history. The repercussions of the Somers Affair had long felt effects, and inspired Herman Melville's Billy Budd.

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