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Women's Murder Club volume 16
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English
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Lindsay Boxer is learning to love again. After the picture-perfect world she shared with her husband, Joe, and their beautiful young daughter shattered under the weight of Joe's double life, Lindsay is determined to put the pieces back together. But before she can welcome Joe back with open arms, their beloved hometown of San Francisco faces a threat unlike any the city -- or the country -- has ever seen. A wave of possibly unnatural heart attacks...
2) Under oath
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English
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The "code of silence" remains sacred in Charlestown, one of the most historic yet insular neighborhoods of Boston. Gangster Billy Malone stand accused of killing Trevor Shea, a suspected FBI informant, with a potent dose of heroin.
Prosecutor Annie Fitzgerald must crack the infamous code of silence and battle seasoned criminal defense attorney Buddy Clancy, who unleashes reasonable doubt with his penetrating cross-examinations.
The trial explodes...
3) Cruising for conspirators: how a New Orleans DA prosecuted the Kennedy assassination as a sex crime
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English
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"New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967 set off a chain of events that culminated in the only prosecution even undertaken in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Most accounts debate whether a New Orleans-based assassination conspiracy existed. In Cruising for Conspirators, historian Alecia Long shifts to the focus to sexuality, revealing how long-held beliefs about the criminal culpability of homosexuals...
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Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The true story of the explosive trial that resulted, when seven leaders of the Vietnam antiwar movement, along with the Chairman of the Black Panthers, were charged with conspiracy to incite the devastating riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It is one of the highest profile criminal court cases in US history.
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Other Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British member of Parliament and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets to the world. As a member of Parliament and leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, Jeremy Thorpe's bad behavior snuck under the radar for years. Police and politicians alike colluded to protect one of their own. At the start of the 1970s, Thorpe was the...
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"n the fall of 1969 eight prominent anti-Vietnam War activists were put on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One of the eight, Black Panther cofounder Bobby Seale, was literally bound and gagged in court by order of the judge, Julius Hoffman, and his case was separated from that of the others. The activists, who included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden, and their attorneys, William Kunstler...
10) The case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: the history of America's most controversial espionage trial
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Charles River Editors
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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English
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New Press
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
Description
"Michael Moore mocks George Bush and Al Franken ridicules Rush Limbaugh, but the mixing of play and politics today is polite and respectful compared to the carnival of contempt known as the Chicago Eight trial. Opening at the end of 1969, the trial brought Yippies, antiwar activists, and Black Panthers to face conspiracy charges arising from the massive protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The defendants openly lampooned the proceedings,...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release this fall of the film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and the most entertaining, trial in recent American history. In the fall of 1969, eight prominent anti-Vietnam War activists were put on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. This audiobook...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century." Their case became an international sensation, inspiring petitions, letters of support, newspaper editorials, and protests in countries around the world. Nevertheless, the Rosenbergs were executed after years of appeals, making them the only civilians...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Academy and Emmy Award-winning writer-director Aaron Sorkin's brilliant screenplay for his hit film The Trial of the Chicago 7--the first of his movie screenplays every published"--from back cover.
"In 1969-1970 the Nixon Administration put eight antiwar activists on trial for riots that took place at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One, Bobby Seale, was separated from the rest after the judge ordered him bound and gagged in...
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Series
American culture volume 6
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
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