The Press on Trial: Crimes and Trials as Media Events
Lloyd E. Chiasson · 1997
Preface: Opening Statement Case of Peter Zenger (1735) A monkey...about 4 foot high by Gene Wiggins Case of the Boston Massacre (1770) A melancholy demonstration by Carol Sue Humphrey Case of Brown (1859) John Brown still lives! by Bernell Tripp Case of the Haymarket Riot (1886) This is the happiest moment of my life! by Kittrell Rushing Case of Lizzie Borden (1893) Elizabeth Borden took an ax by Donald Avery Case of Harry K. Thaw (1907) You have ruined my wife! by Janet S. Boyle Case of the Chicago Black Sox (1921) Say it ain't so Joe by Lloyd Chiasson Jr. Case of Scopes (1925) In the beginning... by Lloyd Chiasson Jr. Case of the Scottsboro Boys (1931) Bigots whose mouths are slits in their faces by Michael Maher Case of Bruno Hauptmann (1935) The greatest story since the Resurrection by Alfred N. Delahaye Cases of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs (1949, 1951) Would you open your mouth... by Joseph McKerns Case of Lieutenant William Calley (1970) We were all kind of crazed by James Stewart Case of the Chicago Seven (1969) The pigs are coming, the pigs are coming by Arthur Kaul Case of Charles Manson (1970) Plump ripe rabbits by Robert W. Dardenne Case of O. J. Simpson (1995) No closer to Greek tragedy than Oedipus Hertz by Paul Thaler Verdict by Michael Maher and Lloyd Chiasson Jr. Selected Bibliography Index