The Press on Trial: Crimes and Trials as Media Events

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface - The Opening Statement ix
• Acknowledgments xiii
• 1 - The Case of John Peter Zenger (1735) "A Monkey . . . About 4 Foot High" 1
• Notes 12
• 2 - The Case of the Boston Massacre (1770) "A . . . Melancholy Demonstration" 15
• Notes 23
• 3 - The Case of John Brown (1859) "John Brown Still Lives." 25
• Notes 34
• 4 - The Case of the Haymarket Riot (1886) "This is the Happiest Moment in My Life!" 37
• Notes 46
• 5 - The Case of Lizzie Borden (1893) "Elizabeth Borden Took an Ax" 49
• Notes 58
• 6 - The Case of Harry K. Thaw (1907) "You Have Ruined My Wife!" 63
• Notes 73
• 7 - The Case of the Chicago Black Sox (1921) "Say It Aint' So, Joe." 75
• Notes 83
• 8 - The Case of John Scopes (1925) "In the Beginning . . ." 85
• Notes 99
• 9 - The Case of the Scottsboro Boys (1931) "Bigots Whose Mouths Are Slits in Their Faces" 103
• Notes 115
• 10 - The Case of Bruno Hauptmann (1935) "The Greatest Story Since the Resurrection" 117
• Notes 128
• 11 - The Cases of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs (1949, 1951) "I Said, Would You Open Your Mouth . . . " 131
• Notes 145
• 12 - The Case of the Chicago Seven (1969) "'the Pigs Are Coming, the Pigs Are Coming'" 147
• Notes 156
• 13 - The Case of Charles Manson (1970) "Plump, White Rabbits" 159
• Notes 169
• 14 - The Case of Lieutenant William Calley (1970) "We Were All Kind of Crazed." 173
• Notes 186
• 15 - The Case of O. J. Simpson (1995) "No Closer to Greek Tragedy Than Oedipus Hertz" 189
• Notes 201
• Notes 202
• 16 - The Verdict 203
• Notes 208
• Selected Bibliography 209
• Index 217
• About the Editor and Contributors 225

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