Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, just one hour and fifty-three minutes to acquit twenty-three out of twenty-five colored citizens charged with participation in "racial disorders" last February. It was a triumph for social justice, and a heartening indication of reconstruction by Southerners themselves. But in the mechanics of courtroom procedure, in the attitudes of both participant and spectator, and in the very conduct of the case, the incident revealed once again the weakness of jurisprudence below the Mason-Dixon: that before the bar two loyalties exist--one to justice, and another, even stronger, to an almost feudal social system...
Hermann Göring was first. Slimmed down, limply clad in a grey suit that once fitted him snugly, he strode into the courtroom at Nürnberg, flanked by two white-helmeted military policemen. He stood erect under the glaring lights, fixed headphones to his ears. British Presiding Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence looked sternly down on the No. 2 Nazi and pronounced sentence: death by hanging...
...salesman who had risen to become Foreign Minister to Adolf Hitler, stood before the bar, adjusted headphones with shaking hands, listened. Again the sentence: death. Ribbentrop (whose von turned out to be a social-climbing affectation) quivered, seemed about to fall. The M.P.'s helped him from the courtroom...
After 284 days, five million words, a 15,000-page record, 300,000 affidavits, 3,000 original documents, and the oral testimony of 200 witnesses, the Nürnberg war crimes trial drew to an end. The courtroom was almost gay. French Associate Judge Robert Falco drew funny pictures which he passed from the bench down to his wife. In the dock, Builder Albert Speer was playing a game: he drew sketch after sketch of a new house for Banker Hjalmar Schacht (who rejected each version because the bathrooms were in the wrong place...
...Pappy left the courtroom Lucy's lawyer came up to return his "fraternity pin"-his blue-ribboned Navy Cross. Lucy no longer has her three-carat engagement ring Pappy gave her. "I hocked it to pay his bills," she explained...