Contributor
Chiasson, Lloyd, 1947-
Imprint:Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Descriptionxi, 227 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:The case of John Peter Zenger (1835): "A monkey ... about 4 foot high" / Gene Wiggins -- The case of the Boston Massacre (1770): "A ... melancholy demonstration" / Carol Sue Humphrey -- The case of John Brown (1859): "John Brown still lives" / Bernell Tripp -- The case of the Haymarket Riot (1886): "This is the happiest moment of my life!" / Kittrell Rushing -- The case of Lizzie Borden (1893)" "Elizabeth Borden took an ax" / Donald R. Avery -- The case of Harry K. Thaw (1907): "You have ruined my wife!" / Janet S. Boyle -- The case of the Chicago Black Sox (1921): "Say it ain't so, Joe" / Lloyd Chiasson Jr. -- The case of John Scopes (1925): "In the beginning...." / Lloyd Chiasson Jr. -- The case of the Scottsboro Boys (1931): "Bigots whose mouths are slits in their faces" / Michael Maher -- The case of Bruno Hauptmann (1935): "The greatest story since the resurrection" / Alfred N. Delahaye -- The case of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs(1949, 1951): "I said, would you open your mouth..." / Joseph McKerns -- The case of the Chicago Seven (1969): "The pigs are coming, the pigs are coming" / Arthur J. Kaul -- The case of Charles Manson (1970): "Plump, white rabbits" / Robert Dardenne -- The case of Lieutenant William Calley (1970): "We were all kind of crazed" / James Stewart -- The case of O.J. Simpson (1995): "No closer to Greek tragedy than Oedipus Hertz" / Paul Thaler -- The verdict / Michael Maher, Lloyd Chiasson Jr.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
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