Fall Semester 2009
Syllabus
Professor Doug Linder
Classroom video
presentations
are indicated in brackets.
GRADING AND CLASS ASSIGNMENT FOR 2009
SYLLABUS
FOR SEMINAR IN PRE-TWENTIETH CENTURY FAMOUS TRIALS
SESSION 1
THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACY
TRIAL (1865)
D.
Linder, Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial Website; [History
Channel, The Lincoln Assassination]
SESSION 2
THE HARRY THAW TRIALS (1907-08)
D.
Linder, The Thaw (Stanford White Murder) Trials Website; [American
Experience, Murder of the Century]
SESSION 3
THE TRIAL OF LEOPOLD AND LOEB (1924)
SESSION 4
SESSION 5
THE TRIALS OF "THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS" (1931, 1933)
SESSION 6
HAUPTMANN (LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING) TRIAL (1935)
SESSION 7
THE NUREMBERG TRIALS (1946-48)
D.
Linder, The Nuremberg Trials Website; [Video: TNT, Nuremberg; Judgment
at
Nuremberg]
SESSION 8
THE SAM SHEPPARD TRIALS (1954 & 1966)
D. Linder, The Sam Sheppard Trials Website; [Nova, The Killer's Trail: The Story of Sam Sheppard; American Justice: The Sam Sheppard Story ]
SESSION 9
THE "MISSISSIPPI BURNING' (U.S. V. PRICE ET AL.) TRIAL (1967)
SESSION 11
THE
MY LAI COURTS MARTIAL (1970)
D.
Linder, The
My Lai Courts Martial; [Video: Court
TV: The Greatest Trials of All Time: Lt. Calley and My Lai]
SESSION 12
THE McMARTIN PRESCHOOL TRIAL (1987-90)
THE TRIAL OF O. J. SIMPSON (1995)
D. Linder, The Trial of O. J. Simpson; [Court TV, Excerpts from the Simpson Trial]