New witch hunt film blames Rev. Parris

A new film playing at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site describes the Rev. Samuel Parris as the key figure in the 1692 hysteria. The film, based on the latest research, produced by the Essex National Heritage Commission, plays four times a day.

Read this account of the film, and the historians behind it, from Religion News Service, published in the Washington Post.

Here is the link to the NPS.