... and justice for all

Years ago, when I tried to enlist the services of the great defender of the underdog, Clarence Darrow, against a free speech prosecution of some midwestern radicals, he refused,...

Aiken and Clampitt were two young attorneys who volunteered their services in Mary Eugenia’s behalf. Neither had had much experience in criminal trials and they were only too ha...

At this juncture, the defense introduced two letters which it claimed would satisfactorily explain Mrs. Surratt’s April 14th trip to Surrattsville. The first was signed by Georg...

He told a fantastic story. Frank had come to him early on the morning of April 26th and said: “I want you to watch for me like you have been doing the rest of the Saturdays.” Ac...

This wasn’t the first time that Swanson had used Mooney’s name in vain. Three years earlier, when the linemen of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company in neighboring Contra Costa C...

McDonald was followed on the stand by Frank C. Oxman, a cattle dealer from Durkee, Oregon, who had replaced the syphilitic, wife-beating Crowley as a corroborative witness. It s...

On February 13th, Charlotte La Posee gave the defense attorneys an affidavit in which she swore that she had seen Oxman watching the parade near the entrance to the Phelan Build...

As Parmenter and Berardelli walked up Pearl Street toward Factory No. 2, they had been followed by Roy E. Gould, a razor sharpening paste peddler, who hoped to sell his product...

The man whom Lewis Pelser had seen shoot Berardelli had been wearing a “dark green pair of pants and an army shirt, tucked up.” He would not swear that Sacco was the gunman but...

Sacco confirmed Vanzetti’s testimony that both men had told falsehoods because they were afraid that they had been arrested for their radical activities. Since the police had no...

Rappelyea didn’t waste any time. As soon as Scopes had consented to be his guinea pig, he headed for the sheriff’s office where he swore out a warrant for the young teacher’s ar...

After the furor had died down, Arthur Garfield Hays finished reading the statements which had been prepared by the scientists and clergymen Darrow had brought to Dayton, and who...

Both women told Latham that “we have been mistreated” but Broadway, who was only a few feet away, said, “I did not hear Victoria Price make no complaint, either to me or to anyo...

A few minutes after eleven o’clock on the morning of Tuesday, August 3, 1948, a portly little man walked slowly to the front of the Ways and Means Committee Room in which the Ho...

Later that evening, Hiss called Nixon and told him that his wife had arrived in town and would be available as originally scheduled. The next morning, the Hisses, accompanied by...

After a Miss Eunice A. Lincoln, Assistant Secretary of State Francis Sayre’s private secretary, had identified four of the Baltimore memos as being in the defendant’s handwritin...

Early on the evening of Wednesday, September 5, 1945, Igor Gouzenko, an obscure twenty-six-year-old cipher clerk in the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, walked into the editorial offi...

In September, Greenglass arrived in New York on furlough. He stayed at his mother’s apartment on Sheriff Street where Rosenberg visited him the next morning. Greenglass told him...

Toward the end of May, David had telephoned Rosenberg and pleaded with him to come over to his apartment. He told Julius, whom he usually called Julie, that he was “in a terribl...

McCarthy didn’t get around to Lamont’s citation for contempt until the following July. In between, he had found bigger game. On January 30th, Major Irving Peress, an army dentis...

As soon as Rundquist returned to his office, he put in a call to William J. Butler, a former staff counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, who had specialized in corporat...

Mr. Justice Stewart was the only member of the court to voice a dissent. “I think the Court has misapplied a great constitutional principle,” he declared. “I cannot see how an o...