Fall Semester 2008
Syllabus
Professor Doug Linder
Classroom video
presentations
are indicated in brackets.
GRADING AND CLASS ASSIGNMENT FOR 2008
SYLLABUS
FOR SEMINAR IN PRE-TWENTIETH CENTURY FAMOUS TRIALS
SESSION 1
THE TRIAL OF BILL HAYWOOD (1907)
D.
Linder, Bill Haywood Trial Website; [Idaho Public Television, Assassination: Idaho's Trial of the Century]
SESSION 2
THE TRIAL OF LEO FRANK (1913)
D.
Linder, Leo Frank Trial Website; [HBO, The Murder of Mary Phagan]
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
TRIAL OF JOHN HINCKLEY (1982)
D.
Linder, The
Trial of John Hinckley; [Video: American Justice: Pleading Insane; The
Plot to Kill Ronald Reagan]
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]