Courtroom battles often produce sensational scenes resulting in curious spectators and endless news coverage. From ancient to modern times, trials attract significant attention. This collection explores some of the most-fascinating.
Believing he has killed his father's servant, Dmitri Karamazov is relieved to learn that Gregory (Gregori) will live but stunned to learn his father h...
Father Karamazov's servant, Gregori - recovered from his head injury - testifies what he heard and saw the night that Father Karamazov died.
On the eve of the verdict, Dmitri expresses his belief he should be punished for how he has wronged people - even though he did not kill his father.
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Soon after the end of World War II, another conflict threatened to erupt in Europe.
The Catholic Church bans Nicolaus Copernicus's book on the 5th of March, 1616 (decades after his death). Why ban a book which Catholic Universities ha...
Mamie Till-Mobley tells the story of her son's death and the fight she had to mount in order to have her son's body returned to Chicago from Mississip...
During the murder trial, defense lawyers had argued - among other things - that the body was so deformed its remains could not be identified as Emmett...
During the trial of Roy Bryant and J.
With religious freedom came two important ideas: The state had no right to interfere with the church - and - Charles I was a tyrant.
During the days when the Federal Court had jurisdiction over Indian Territory, many people hanged on Ft. Smith's gallows. The National Park Service te...
In this video-clip from The Greatest Story Ever Told, based on Gospel narratives and a book (of the same name) by Fulton Oursler (1893-1952), Roman so...
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