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.
How did the U.S. Supreme Court get the power of "judicial review?
Nine months after her husband (King Louis XVI) was executed, Marie Antoinette followed him to the guillotine.
Medgar Evers was fatally shot by Byron de la Beckwith.
Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was put on trial for murder, commencing November 14, 1881.
Queen Elizabeth II gave her grandson a new title - honoring the people of Northern Ireland - on the day William married Catherine Middleton (the Duche...
Enoch ("Nucky") L. Johnson - called Nucky Thompson in the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" - was known as a kind of "Robin Hood" when he was "The Boss" o...
During the Stalinist era, future-Nobel-Laureate Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in a forced labor camp.
Joan of Arc is condemned to death on May 30, 1431. Critics raved about this 1928 silent-film interpreting Joan of Arc, starring Maria Falconetti.
In this video-clip from The Greatest Story Ever Told, based on the Gospels and a book (of the same name) by Fulton Oursler (1893-1952), Pilate (the Ro...
In this clip - from "Terror!
After one year of tyranny, known as the "Reign of Terror," Maximilien Robespierre himself became a victim of the madness he had helped to create.
Robespierre dies, by guillotine, on July 28, 1794. During the French Revolution, he was known by his supporters as "The Incorruptible," but it was he ...
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