For anyone who wants to understand the nature and scope of the horrors wrought by the Third Reich, there is no better place to start than with the evidence presented by U. S., French, British, and Russian prosecutors in the...
Famous Trials Legal Analysis of History's Greatest Courtroom Confrontations
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Seventy-five years ago this month, a black doctor named Ossian Sweet moved his family into a previously all-white neighborhood in Detroit. The next night a large crowd gathered in front of the Sweet home. Some in the crowd began...
Thirty-six years ago this month, as another Presidential election campaign was heating up, FBI investigators made a grissly discovery on an earthen dam site on The Old Jolly Farm near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Acting on an anonymous tip, the Bureau's...
Fifty years ago this month, shortly after eight o'clock in the morning on June 16, 1950, FBI agents arrived at the New York City apartment of thirty-two-year-old Julius Rosenberg. The agents wanted to question Rosenberg about information they had...
This month in 1933, Morgan County Solictor Wade Wright shouted a question to an all-white Alabama jury about to deliberate the fate of Haywood Patterson, one of nine black teenagers accused of raping two white women on a Southern...
Thirty-two years ago this month, nine helicopters carrying members of Charlie Company landed in a rice paddy just south of the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Four hours later, "My Lai was no more": its buildings were destroyed and its...
