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Book The Historic Murder Trial of George Crawford

Download or read book The Historic Murder Trial of George Crawford written by David Bradley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Depression-era murder trial of George Crawford in Northern Virginia helped end the exclusion of African Americans from juries. Nearly forgotten today, the murders, ensuing manhunt, extradition battle and sensational trial enthralled the nation. Before it was over, the U.S. House of Representatives threatened to impeach a federal judge, the age-old states rights debate was renewed, and a rift nearly split the fledgling NAACP. In the end, the story's hero--Howard University Law School dean Charles Hamilton Houston--was the subject of public ridicule from critics who had little understanding of the inner workings of the case. This book puts the Crawford murder trial in its fullest context, side by side with relevant events of the time.

Book Murders  Mysteries and History of Crawford County  Pennsylvania 1800     1956

Download or read book Murders Mysteries and History of Crawford County Pennsylvania 1800 1956 written by Don Hilton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who doesnt love a good homicide? Murders, Mysteries and History pulls 150 years of forgotten crimes straight from the pages of yesterdays news and stirs them in a historical mix to produce a book like no other. Get the scoop on more than a hundred real-life murders and unsolved killings. Vics, suspects, perps. Judges and juries. Jails and penitentiaries. Hangings, electrocutions and nothing less than simply getting away with murder. Sometimes brutal, often haunting, always entertaining. Murders, Mysteries and History is the perfect reminder that the past was never a gentle place to live.

Book American Educational History Journal

Download or read book American Educational History Journal written by Shirley Marie McCarther and published by IAP. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communication between scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions, and backgrounds. Authors come from a variety of disciplines including political science, curriculum, history, philosophy, teacher education, and educational leadership. Acceptance for publication in AEHJ requires that each author present a well-articulated argument that deals substantively with questions of educational history. AEHJ will accept two types of original unpublished manuscripts not under consideration by any other journal or publisher, for review and potential publication. The first consists of papers that are presented each year at our annual meeting. The second type consists of general submission papers received throughout the year. General submission papers may be submitted at any time. They will not, however, undergo the review process until January when papers presented at the annual conference are also due for review and potential publication. For more information about the Organization of Educational Historians (OEH) and its annual conference, visit the OEH web site at the web address: www.edhistorians.org.

Book Trial of Harry Crawford Black for Killing Colonel W W  M Kaig  Jr

Download or read book Trial of Harry Crawford Black for Killing Colonel W W M Kaig Jr written by Harry Crawford Black and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wicked Western Slope

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. A. Brockett
  • Publisher : History Press Library Editions
  • Release : 2012-06
  • ISBN : 9781540206886
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Wicked Western Slope written by D. A. Brockett and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early promoters of Colorado s Western Slope would have had settlers believe the area was one of proper behavior and upstanding morality. But this was not the case. Hot tempers led to quick trigger fingers and Main Street shootouts. Drinking, gambling and thieving were popular pursuits, and law breaking of all kinds thrived in this wild land. From Charles Graham, whose jealous rampage in Grand Junction is still talked about today, and the mysterious Friday the thirteenth murder of Jeanette Morris to Abe C. Ong, the mischievous pioneer bootlegger of De Beque, and Riverside s Mrs. Barnes and her foul crime, History Sleuth D.A. Brockett reveals some of the most outrageous and remarkable crimes in Western Slope history."

Book The Trials of George Robert Fitzgerald  Esq   Timothy Brecknock  James Fulton   Et Al    For the Murder of Patrick Randal Macdonnell  and Charles Hips

Download or read book The Trials of George Robert Fitzgerald Esq Timothy Brecknock James Fulton Et Al For the Murder of Patrick Randal Macdonnell and Charles Hips written by George Robert Fitzgerald and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a record of the historic criminal trials of George Robert Fitzgerald, Timothy Brecknock, James Fulton, and others for the murder of Patrick Randal Macdonnell and Charles Hipson. It also covers the trial of John Gallagher and others for an assault on Fitzgerald. Drawing on contemporary sources and court transcripts, it provides a detailed account of these sensational cases and the legal system of the late 18th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The History of Legal Education in the United States

Download or read book The History of Legal Education in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Monmouth County  New Jersy  1664 1920

Download or read book History of Monmouth County New Jersy 1664 1920 written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book McGeorge Law Review

Download or read book McGeorge Law Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Am Murdered

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  • Author : Bruce Chadwick
  • Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 1620458829
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book I Am Murdered written by Bruce Chadwick and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state." —Publishers Weekly George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young protegé, Michael Brown, who were also writhing in distress. Hours later, when help arrived, Wythe was quick to tell anyone who would listen, "I am murdered." Over the next two weeks, as Wythe suffered a long and painful death, insults would be added to his mortal injury. I Am Murdered tells the bizarre true story of Wythe's death and the subsequent trial of his grandnephew and namesake, George Wythe Sweeney, for the crime—unquestionably the most sensational and talked-about court case of the era. Hinging on hit-and-miss forensics, the unreliability of medical autopsies, the prevalence of poisoning, race relations, slavery, and the law, Sweeney's trial serves as a window into early nineteenth-century America. Its particular focus is on Richmond, part elegant state capital and part chaotic boomtown riddled with vice, opportunism, and crime. As Wythe lay dying, his doctors insisted that he had not been poisoned, and Sweeney had the nerve to beg him for bail money. In I Am Murdered, this signer of the Declaration of Independence, mentor to Thomas Jefferson, and "Father of American Jurisprudence" finally gets the justice he deserved.

Book Railroaded

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  • Author : Phillip Crawford
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-05-11
  • ISBN : 9781718940383
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Railroaded written by Phillip Crawford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2005 19-year-old Brandon Woodruff was charged with murdering his parents in a rural northeast Texas town in the heart of the Bible belt. There was no direct evidence tying him to the gruesome crime -- no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no bloody prints -- but investigators were convinced the teen boy was living a double life who killed when his two worlds supposedly collided. Brandon was a horse wrangler and attending Abilene Christian Univeristy, and he also was a porn actor and dancing at Dallas gay clubs. There was no double life; just a boy coming out. At trial in March 2009 the prosecution took a coming out story, and turned Brandon into The Talented Mr. Ripley. Eight of the jurors believed "that being homosexual or gay is morally wrong," and the jury convicted him after deliberating only five hours. Brandon Woodruff was railroaded with a homophobic narrative, and is serving a life sentence without parole.

Book Representing the Race

Download or read book Representing the Race written by Kenneth W. Mack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles African American lawyers during the era of segregation and the civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the conflicts they felt between their identities as African Americans and their professional identities as lawyers.

Book Big Trouble

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  • Author : J. Anthony Lukas
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-07-17
  • ISBN : 1439128103
  • Pages : 884 pages

Download or read book Big Trouble written by J. Anthony Lukas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.