The Leopold And
Loeb Trial:
Few trial transcripts are as likely to
bring tears to the eyes as that of the 1924 murder trial of
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold..
The Trial of Charles
I,
1649
The King. I would know by what power I am called hither. . .by
what Authority, I mean, lawful; there are many unlawful
Authorities in the world, Thieves and Robbers by the
highways...
The Eichmann Trial
Criminal Case No. 40/61. The Attorney General versus Adolf
Eichmann, the son of Adolf Karl Eichmann. On behalf of the
prosecution, Mr. Gideon Hausner, Attorney General, Dr. Ya'akov
Robinson, Assistant to the Attorney General, Mr. Gabriel Bach,
Mr. Ya'akov Baror, Mr. Zvi Terlo --Assistant State Attorneys;
the Accused in person and his Counsel, Dr. Robert Servatius...
The Trial Of
Louis XVI
Barere: On January 29, 1792, the Legislative Assembly issued a
decree against factious priests, which you suspended.
Louis: The constitution left me the right of sanctioning
decrees..
The Trials of Oscar
Wilde:
Old Bailey, the main courthouse in London, had never presented
a show quite like the three trials that captivated England and
much of the literary world in the spring of 1895
"Scottsboro
Trial"
Tom Robinson's trial bears striking parallels to the
"Scottsboro Trial," one of the most famous-or
infamous-court cases in American history.
The Trial of Orenthal
James Simpson
Although the 1995 criminal trial of O. J. Simpson for the
murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman has been
called "a great trash novel come to life...
Steunenberg's
assassination
The day after Steunenberg's assassination, a waitress at the
Saratoga Hotel in Caldwell reported that a guest, calling
himself Thomas Hogan, had "trembling hands"
In May, 1868
the
Senate came within a single vote of taking the unprecedented
step of removing a president from office. Although the
impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson was ostensibly...
The Chicago Seven Conspiracy
Trial
What did it all mean? Was the Chicago Seven Trial merely, as
one commentator suggested, "a monumental non-event"?
The execution of
38 Sioux
A framed photograph of the scene depicted on this homepage,
the execution of thirty-eight Sioux on December 26, 1862, used
to fascinate me when, as a...
Government controlled
rock music?
Rock Against Racism sponsored an annual concert in Central
Park. After the concert produced complaints about noise, and
after several...
Lieutenant William
Calley
The My Lai courts-martial are the stories of
two tragedies growing out of American involvement in Viet
Nam. One was the massacre by United States soldiers of as
many as 500 unarmed civilians-
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
& Nicola Sacco
On April 15 year 1920, a guard and a paymaster were killed
during a payroll hold-up outside a shoe factory near Boston,
the bandits escaped, but...
Schooner Amistad
The improbable voyage of the schooner Amistad, and the court
proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings that resulted from
that voyage, form one of the most significant stories ...
Big Bill
"War" is not too strong of a term to describe the state of affairs
existing between the Western Federation of Miners...
An Account of Events in
Salem
From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and
women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were
carted to ... |
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